The wealthy are already heavily taxed, and much of that tax money goes to the poor to remove the poor's incentive to work. As this increases it gets worse. Your hypothesis that "social reform" (theft) "improves the life of the poor" was disproven in the Roman Empire and is being disproven again. But you don't care about the facts, you just want to assuage your self-induced guilt.
In the end economic systems are just ways of distributing resources
This is a typically leftist and obviously wrong viewpoint, regarding wealth as a fixed quantity, a "resource". There is very little of value that is not given its value by man changing it, from harvesting wheat to creating a car or a computer. Production makes wealth, production is made by human effort, and to the extent that you take a man's production or the money that results from his production, you are treating him as a slave.
The connector need not be ridiculously large if the system is properly designed. Power is turned off until conductors are clamped together hard. High amperage live connections would cause sparks, wear out the contacts quickly, and spot-welding would be a risk.
When every penny counts, induction charging is a poor choice. Some of the field is always going to leak, and there are going to be losses in the coil windings and cores. A heavy pickup coil in the vehicle is also not optimum.
Stopping a bullet with your skin is nice, but the shock wave is still going to do a lot of damage. A bullet to the skull will produce a hail of bone fragments.
GMO is not even a hypothetical problem if you're not eating it.
The Amish are thriving. Protected by the military and technological strengths and by the freedoms of the United States, their industriousness, relative lack of modern perversions, and high birth rate expands their population and wealth. There are lessons to be learned here, and the country could benefit greatly by learning them.
The claimed damage of "Global Climate Change" was evaluated at almost half of all externalities. Given the impossibility of evaluating that cost, let alone GCC's existence, the whole report must be considered worthless.
Sports. I want to see the pitcher, the catcher, and the stitches on the baseball, all at the same time. 4k will provide a resolution of about 0.18 inch over that 60 feet. Almost good enough.
4000 x 2000 x 24 fps x 3600 sec/hr x 2 hr x 3 colors = 4.2 Tbytes, uncompressed. That's about $180 worth of hard drive per uncompressed 2 hour movie. Assuming a conservative 30:1 compression ratio, $1000 of hard drives will store 166 movies.
The marketing guys chose the bigger number so that they couldn't be upstaged. If they didn't do it, somebody at another company would have, and they'd look inferior by comparison.
Presumably, the ultimate goal of visual entertainment is to provide a scene indistinguishable from reality. Without moving his head, a person with perfect vision can resolve pixels roughly 1/7000th of his horizontal field of vision and 1/4000th of the vertical. So, as long as you don't need to see behind you, 7000x4000 is close to perfection. The current 4000x2160 is a step toward that goal appropriate to currently practical technology.
The problem is with sin( near pi ). Range reduction subtracts pi, and the value of pi doesn't have enough bits in the Intel fsin instruction. In gaming, nothing is going to rotate pi radians between updates, so this deficiency won't show up in gaming applications where incremental rotates are used.
Fedora is GPL purist and stays away from any hint of proprietary solutions and possible copyright violations. That not only means no DVD video "out of the box", but also additional repositories must be used.
For example, automatic update screws up a config file necessary for the GUI to work, and screws it up so badly that the system crashes. systemd starts part of the graphical services before login (at least that's my impression, I could be wrong.) This was never a problem with sysvinit.
With sysvinit, it's easy to start at runlevel 3 always, then type startx to get the GUI.
Modern Intel chips have documentation that is not available outside Intel. Consider things like registers for testing in the factory, circuits for disabling defective cores or defective cache memories, etc..
While we're at it, all undergraduates should only be allowed to submit programs on punch cards, and have to wait 3 days to see if their program compiled and ran. And walk to class barefoot in the snow.
With an optical microscope you could actually look at a Z80 die, see the transistors (all 8500 of them) and conductors, and write up a schematic of the chip. Considered a trade secret or not, the Z80 is known and completely defined. Nonetheless, it's possible that you're right and contracts may prevent him from talking about stuff that's no longer secret.
Z80:
8 bit register adds, 4 clocks (equivalent to 2 6502 clocks)
16 bit register adds, 11 clocks, with carry, 15 clocks.
The slowest instructions (23 clocks) are obscure instructions like swap register with memory, or indirect indexed addressing. These were limited by the number of memory accesses needed.
I've built hardware and done a lot of assembly level programming on both the Z80 and 6502. There is simply no substantial speed difference between them for the level of technology available in any particular year.
Most Z80 code was written to be compatible with the 8080. As a result, the second register set wasn't used. Floating point math using the second register set for temporary variables made possible a substantial speedup.
If the 6502 and Z80 waveforms for various instructions are examined, it quickly becomes apparent that the Z80 effectively divided its clock by 2 before using it. This is why, for the technology available in any particular year, they had comparable performance but the Z80 used twice as many clock cycles.
The 6502 was a tremendously clever design for making effective use of a small number of transistors. The Z80, striving to be a superset of the 8080, was also a clever and powerful design for its time.
An increase of germination speed by 50% is a decrease in germination time by 33%. In your effort to denigrate their efforts and results, you display not only a sour attitude but poor math skills.
Although the names would be nice, even if they were put first they would soon be forgotten. I mean no denigration of the girls involved, but for an article like this the primary interest is the technology, followed by the nation and gender of the inventors. Those are the things that will be remembered, the names are just noise for the general reader.
What's more important: the cotton gin or the name Eli Whitney?
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This is a typically leftist and obviously wrong viewpoint, regarding wealth as a fixed quantity, a "resource". There is very little of value that is not given its value by man changing it, from harvesting wheat to creating a car or a computer. Production makes wealth, production is made by human effort, and to the extent that you take a man's production or the money that results from his production, you are treating him as a slave.
The connector need not be ridiculously large if the system is properly designed. Power is turned off until conductors are clamped together hard. High amperage live connections would cause sparks, wear out the contacts quickly, and spot-welding would be a risk.
When every penny counts, induction charging is a poor choice. Some of the field is always going to leak, and there are going to be losses in the coil windings and cores. A heavy pickup coil in the vehicle is also not optimum.
Power companies don't like rapidly changing loads. It makes voltage regulation difficult, and requires a larger on-line power margin.
Stopping a bullet with your skin is nice, but the shock wave is still going to do a lot of damage. A bullet to the skull will produce a hail of bone fragments.
GMO is not even a hypothetical problem if you're not eating it.
The Amish are thriving. Protected by the military and technological strengths and by the freedoms of the United States, their industriousness, relative lack of modern perversions, and high birth rate expands their population and wealth. There are lessons to be learned here, and the country could benefit greatly by learning them.
The claimed damage of "Global Climate Change" was evaluated at almost half of all externalities. Given the impossibility of evaluating that cost, let alone GCC's existence, the whole report must be considered worthless.
Sports. I want to see the pitcher, the catcher, and the stitches on the baseball, all at the same time. 4k will provide a resolution of about 0.18 inch over that 60 feet. Almost good enough.
4000 x 2000 x 24 fps x 3600 sec/hr x 2 hr x 3 colors = 4.2 Tbytes, uncompressed. That's about $180 worth of hard drive per uncompressed 2 hour movie. Assuming a conservative 30:1 compression ratio, $1000 of hard drives will store 166 movies.
The marketing guys chose the bigger number so that they couldn't be upstaged. If they didn't do it, somebody at another company would have, and they'd look inferior by comparison.
Presumably, the ultimate goal of visual entertainment is to provide a scene indistinguishable from reality. Without moving his head, a person with perfect vision can resolve pixels roughly 1/7000th of his horizontal field of vision and 1/4000th of the vertical. So, as long as you don't need to see behind you, 7000x4000 is close to perfection. The current 4000x2160 is a step toward that goal appropriate to currently practical technology.
The problem is with sin( near pi ). Range reduction subtracts pi, and the value of pi doesn't have enough bits in the Intel fsin instruction. In gaming, nothing is going to rotate pi radians between updates, so this deficiency won't show up in gaming applications where incremental rotates are used.
Intel has superior process technology, which results in lower power dissipation. At $0.12/kWh 1 watt difference is $1 a year.
Fedora is GPL purist and stays away from any hint of proprietary solutions and possible copyright violations. That not only means no DVD video "out of the box", but also additional repositories must be used.
For example, automatic update screws up a config file necessary for the GUI to work, and screws it up so badly that the system crashes. systemd starts part of the graphical services before login (at least that's my impression, I could be wrong.) This was never a problem with sysvinit.
With sysvinit, it's easy to start at runlevel 3 always, then type startx to get the GUI.
Whoosh. Think again. We orbit it, at a distance of about 90 million miles.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
Modern Intel chips have documentation that is not available outside Intel. Consider things like registers for testing in the factory, circuits for disabling defective cores or defective cache memories, etc..
Also in the WordStar executable was the ASCII text: "Nosy, aren't you?", a message to those disassembling the program.
While we're at it, all undergraduates should only be allowed to submit programs on punch cards, and have to wait 3 days to see if their program compiled and ran. And walk to class barefoot in the snow.
With an optical microscope you could actually look at a Z80 die, see the transistors (all 8500 of them) and conductors, and write up a schematic of the chip. Considered a trade secret or not, the Z80 is known and completely defined. Nonetheless, it's possible that you're right and contracts may prevent him from talking about stuff that's no longer secret.
Z80:
8 bit register adds, 4 clocks (equivalent to 2 6502 clocks)
16 bit register adds, 11 clocks, with carry, 15 clocks.
The slowest instructions (23 clocks) are obscure instructions like swap register with memory, or indirect indexed addressing. These were limited by the number of memory accesses needed.
I've built hardware and done a lot of assembly level programming on both the Z80 and 6502. There is simply no substantial speed difference between them for the level of technology available in any particular year.
Most Z80 code was written to be compatible with the 8080. As a result, the second register set wasn't used. Floating point math using the second register set for temporary variables made possible a substantial speedup.
If the 6502 and Z80 waveforms for various instructions are examined, it quickly becomes apparent that the Z80 effectively divided its clock by 2 before using it. This is why, for the technology available in any particular year, they had comparable performance but the Z80 used twice as many clock cycles.
The 6502 was a tremendously clever design for making effective use of a small number of transistors. The Z80, striving to be a superset of the 8080, was also a clever and powerful design for its time.
An increase of germination speed by 50% is a decrease in germination time by 33%. In your effort to denigrate their efforts and results, you display not only a sour attitude but poor math skills.
Although the names would be nice, even if they were put first they would soon be forgotten. I mean no denigration of the girls involved, but for an article like this the primary interest is the technology, followed by the nation and gender of the inventors. Those are the things that will be remembered, the names are just noise for the general reader.
What's more important: the cotton gin or the name Eli Whitney?