Case sensitivity can be used to advantage, especially if the locale specifies sorting all uppercase before any lowercase. Give directories uppercase names, regular files lowercase names, and ls puts directories first. Or give important files uppercase names, and they're listed first.
Anything that allows certain files to stand out in a listing of several hundreds of files helps, and case sensitivity does just that.
This was not always so. In the late 1950s, 60% of gasoline taxes went to roads, and the rest was siphoned off by the government (The Law and the Profits, Parkinson, 1960). The proper level of gasoline taxes is to pay for the expenses that the users of gasoline cause, i.e. road building, road maintenance, and some allowance for an (honestly determined and used) fund to pay for and minimize the damage caused by the pollution that using gasoline causes. No more, no less.
Pedestrians and cyclists don't cause significant wear, and in some cases the maintenance of sidewalks falls on the owner of the property on which the sidewalk sits, which is not a bad plan. Horses are so rare that in most cases the nuisance they cause by taking up road space is overwhelmed by the value of the aesthetic pleasure that passers-by experience seeing them.
The "problem" of "free riders" has always existed. In a free environment, it is seldom a problem. WalMart doesn't complain if I come in out of the rain (paying customers are subsidizing the roof over my head), but if I tried to live there they'd throw me out, and rightly so. In either case, no problem.
You confuse property by right with property by government fiat.
A person acquires property by right either by honest agreement with its previous owner (purchase or trade or gift) or by creating that property. To create property, a person works on something he owns to make it different (and presumably better), or works on something that is ownerless to make it better. In the classical literature on the subject, this is referred to as "mixing his labor with the land."
The valid functions of government are the protection of life and property from human-caused damage and theft (and those are its only valid functions, but that's a different argument.) Because paying for what you get and getting what you pay for is fundamental to justice (gifts excepted), and the failure of those conditions indicative of injustice, taxes should be user fees for government services. Thus, property taxes are the just fee the government requires for protecting your property, and a head tax (capitation, poll tax) is the just fee the government should charge for protecting your life. All other taxes are unjust because they are fees charged for something the government either does not or should not provide. By and large, those other taxes are also damaging because they punish virtue (income tax being the prime example, punishing the virtue of productivity.)
You would do better not to libel Ayn Rand; such obvious and easily refuted lies show both your bias and lack of honesty.
The SO2 and trees are relevant because they are another article by the same person. While it is possible for some truth to be found in a forest of lies, it's not a good place to go looking for it.
That said, there were a lot of errors made by those who proclaimed that acid rain was a serious problem. In addition, there was plenty of reason to reduce sulphur emissions beyond the fact that SO2 forms suphurous acid: SO2 is a poison by itself, as is H2S in sufficient concentration.
I doubt that your hypothesis of mere thermal energy preventing separation by weight is correct. It's likely that an isolated column of air would separate by weight. As long is there isn't macroscopic circulation to stir the air (wind, jet stream, etc.), there can be stratification by temperature such that freezing occurs in a valley but not half way up an adjacent hill. There have been cases of people dying by asphyxiation when a volcanic vent produced a lot of CO2, which settled down to a nearby lake, driving up the oxygen away from the ground. People near the lake were SOL due to separation of atmospheric gasses by density.
Buy some dry ice and dump it into a tub of water, and watch where the (denser) fog goes.
It isn't all one-sided. Against the possible, but not certain, claim that any level of carbon in the air is too high, are the obvious benefits of the processes that result in "carbon" emissions, namely transportation and electricity. If you send the nation into poverty to clean the air, people who are starving aren't going to thank you. If the nation's electricity production is halved, oldsters dieing from heat stroke in Florida have been abused more than any nursing home could ever manage.
Don't sneer at money. It's what I trade large parts of my life for, it's what I exert much of my effort for, as an intermediate step in accomplishing my life's goals. When you attack money, you attack me.
In big software projects one developer could easily have several manpages and several source files all open at the same time, and need to see them all simultaneously. More pixels is always better. With wall mounts, monitors need not consume desk space.
First, 2560x2048 is equivalent to four 1280x1024 monitors. The absence of borders breaking up the image makes it worth the 25% per pixel increment, if in fact it were only 25%. Second, the newegg 30" monitors are all 2560x1600, not 2560x2048. The cheapest is out of stock and the one actually available is $1220. (Newegg sometimes uses dropshipping, so "out of stock" probably means "out of production, never to return.")
Multiple monitors usually mean video cards that are outrageously priced for the performance they deliver.
That's why we need measurement units that are easy to understand. Small atoms are about one Angstrom, 10^-10 meter. The next convenient unit is a hair's diameter, about 25*10^-6 meter (1 American mil).
Henceforth, the units for linear small measurements in the popular press should be Angstroms and hairs.
If by current mode you mean that it requires, like a tunnel diode, current to be running at all times to maintain a logic state, that is indeed a strong disincentive for many uses.
There's rarely any advantage to spending $100 more if your baseline is a $500 processor. If your baseline is $100, a $200 dollar CPU can be significant. Spending more than $100 on RAM is a waste for most people.
The problem with matched impedances (for analog interconnect cables, not speaker cables) is that the system becomes more vulnerable to RFI. Keep the driving and transmission line impedances low; in most audio situations it's more important than matching and easier to achieve.
I really hated my 9th grade science teacher. To her, the most important part of our science fair project was how pretty we made it. Rot in hell, Mrs. Kapela.
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Theodor Seuss Geisel has something to say about that.
Case sensitivity can be used to advantage, especially if the locale specifies sorting all uppercase before any lowercase. Give directories uppercase names, regular files lowercase names, and ls puts directories first. Or give important files uppercase names, and they're listed first.
Anything that allows certain files to stand out in a listing of several hundreds of files helps, and case sensitivity does just that.
Boeing wants to operate in South Carolina. Unions, acting through the federal government, are trying to prevent that.
This was not always so. In the late 1950s, 60% of gasoline taxes went to roads, and the rest was siphoned off by the government (The Law and the Profits, Parkinson, 1960). The proper level of gasoline taxes is to pay for the expenses that the users of gasoline cause, i.e. road building, road maintenance, and some allowance for an (honestly determined and used) fund to pay for and minimize the damage caused by the pollution that using gasoline causes. No more, no less.
Pedestrians and cyclists don't cause significant wear, and in some cases the maintenance of sidewalks falls on the owner of the property on which the sidewalk sits, which is not a bad plan. Horses are so rare that in most cases the nuisance they cause by taking up road space is overwhelmed by the value of the aesthetic pleasure that passers-by experience seeing them.
The "problem" of "free riders" has always existed. In a free environment, it is seldom a problem. WalMart doesn't complain if I come in out of the rain (paying customers are subsidizing the roof over my head), but if I tried to live there they'd throw me out, and rightly so. In either case, no problem.
Do you not understand that "forced to" and "are willing" are mutually exclusive?
You confuse property by right with property by government fiat.
A person acquires property by right either by honest agreement with its previous owner (purchase or trade or gift) or by creating that property. To create property, a person works on something he owns to make it different (and presumably better), or works on something that is ownerless to make it better. In the classical literature on the subject, this is referred to as "mixing his labor with the land."
The valid functions of government are the protection of life and property from human-caused damage and theft (and those are its only valid functions, but that's a different argument.) Because paying for what you get and getting what you pay for is fundamental to justice (gifts excepted), and the failure of those conditions indicative of injustice, taxes should be user fees for government services. Thus, property taxes are the just fee the government requires for protecting your property, and a head tax (capitation, poll tax) is the just fee the government should charge for protecting your life. All other taxes are unjust because they are fees charged for something the government either does not or should not provide. By and large, those other taxes are also damaging because they punish virtue (income tax being the prime example, punishing the virtue of productivity.)
You would do better not to libel Ayn Rand; such obvious and easily refuted lies show both your bias and lack of honesty.
If the middle class becomes eroded, then the tyrants have already won and piddly issues like public transportation are unimportant.
The SO2 and trees are relevant because they are another article by the same person. While it is possible for some truth to be found in a forest of lies, it's not a good place to go looking for it.
That said, there were a lot of errors made by those who proclaimed that acid rain was a serious problem. In addition, there was plenty of reason to reduce sulphur emissions beyond the fact that SO2 forms suphurous acid: SO2 is a poison by itself, as is H2S in sufficient concentration.
I tried to read your post, but your grammar and spelling made in unintelligible.
I doubt that your hypothesis of mere thermal energy preventing separation by weight is correct. It's likely that an isolated column of air would separate by weight. As long is there isn't macroscopic circulation to stir the air (wind, jet stream, etc.), there can be stratification by temperature such that freezing occurs in a valley but not half way up an adjacent hill. There have been cases of people dying by asphyxiation when a volcanic vent produced a lot of CO2, which settled down to a nearby lake, driving up the oxygen away from the ground. People near the lake were SOL due to separation of atmospheric gasses by density.
Buy some dry ice and dump it into a tub of water, and watch where the (denser) fog goes.
It isn't all one-sided. Against the possible, but not certain, claim that any level of carbon in the air is too high, are the obvious benefits of the processes that result in "carbon" emissions, namely transportation and electricity. If you send the nation into poverty to clean the air, people who are starving aren't going to thank you. If the nation's electricity production is halved, oldsters dieing from heat stroke in Florida have been abused more than any nursing home could ever manage.
Don't sneer at money. It's what I trade large parts of my life for, it's what I exert much of my effort for, as an intermediate step in accomplishing my life's goals. When you attack money, you attack me.
I was ready to use Chromium until I read the terms of use. Essentially, the user loses control of his computer.
Does anyone remember what PRAVDA means?
In big software projects one developer could easily have several manpages and several source files all open at the same time, and need to see them all simultaneously. More pixels is always better. With wall mounts, monitors need not consume desk space.
First, 2560x2048 is equivalent to four 1280x1024 monitors. The absence of borders breaking up the image makes it worth the 25% per pixel increment, if in fact it were only 25%. Second, the newegg 30" monitors are all 2560x1600, not 2560x2048. The cheapest is out of stock and the one actually available is $1220. (Newegg sometimes uses dropshipping, so "out of stock" probably means "out of production, never to return.")
Multiple monitors usually mean video cards that are outrageously priced for the performance they deliver.
That's why we need measurement units that are easy to understand. Small atoms are about one Angstrom, 10^-10 meter. The next convenient unit is a hair's diameter, about 25*10^-6 meter (1 American mil).
Henceforth, the units for linear small measurements in the popular press should be Angstroms and hairs.
Wrong! Centum means 100. That's why percent means "per 100".
If by current mode you mean that it requires, like a tunnel diode, current to be running at all times to maintain a logic state, that is indeed a strong disincentive for many uses.
Sucrose is, in non-technical terms, a dual sugar. It is a combination of two simple sugars, fructose and glucose.
Fly a transpolar route above water the whole way. No problem with permissions. Just that little detail about no light over one pole or the other...
I've seen a stream from a radio station max out 1 core of a Core i7-870. A 5-year old CPU would be unable to handle anything else.
There's rarely any advantage to spending $100 more if your baseline is a $500 processor. If your baseline is $100, a $200 dollar CPU can be significant. Spending more than $100 on RAM is a waste for most people.
The problem with matched impedances (for analog interconnect cables, not speaker cables) is that the system becomes more vulnerable to RFI. Keep the driving and transmission line impedances low; in most audio situations it's more important than matching and easier to achieve.
I really hated my 9th grade science teacher. To her, the most important part of our science fair project was how pretty we made it. Rot in hell, Mrs. Kapela.
That's called foreign aid, one of the most expensive blunders we've made over the last century.