You can use the ClearType Tuner to find a happy medium. I have dealt with this problem (I have a landscape monitor on the left, portrait on the right) by running the tuner on the portrait monitor. What works there also works pretty well on the landscape monitor. I haven't even forced it as close to color-agnostic as it'll go, I think I still have two "levels" of sub-pixel addressing on (out of six) and it really doesn't hurt the portrait monitor. I will notice a slight color fringe around long, vertical letters if I stare at them really hard (that is, if I want to see it), but otherwise it works just fine. Being able to use sub-pixel addressing on one monitor and standard anti-aliasing on the other would be better, but since that's not an option, this compromise does work.
As a side benefit, it is much more difficult to discern where sub-pixel addressing starts to fall apart because of colored text and/or backgrounds.
I'm not arguing that the state should own everything and that private ownership should be abolished, but there are things that are best cared for by society as a whole - the state is only one of several possible candidates to represent society's interests.
This makes your desire socialism rather than communism. Socialism is maligned by much of the popular media here as well, on the (quite correct) belief that the huddled masses don't understand it and will do as they are told by their betters, but that doesn't make it the same thing. What reigns currently is more akin to "national socialism", corporations in bed with and eventually owning the government.
Problem: when companies buy off the shelf, they get something NOW. As soon as they spend the money, they get a product. If they invest, they get a product... when? Next week? Next month? Next year? This is why most places don't develop, they just buy and stack. It costs more most of the time, but you always get SOMETHING.
I do rotate a monitor (2048x1152 rather than 1080p), and there is another problem you aren't accounting for: the vertical "sweet spot" of TN panels is much smaller than the horizontal sweet spot. This means that in Landscape mode, the separation between your eyes doesn't matter much, but in Portrait mode, it can become quite significant. The result is that the display looks different to each eye, which can be a very disorienting effect. The only position where this more or less goes away is dead on axis, where the angular difference of each eye matches. The color shift is still different, but at least the brightness and contrast roughly align.This can be quite troublesome though, as I'm talking about a head shift of an inch in either direction making the display go from dead sharp to flickering rapidly between single-eye images. I don't know about you, but I don't sit that still.
Make this such an onerous burden that the ISPs are forced to either withdraw their support, or just censor everything that is flagged without checking it. To do this, report everything that is remotely political as "extremist" and "radicalizing". When the politicians themselves are the targets of their bad law, they just might take a hint.
Defense contractors have been leasing parts of Moffett for ages, there's nothing new about this. Google probably wants a nice, big, pre-paved space to test their driverless cars.
Phobos is in a similar situation despite having a prograde orbit: it's low enough that it orbits faster than Mars rotates (appearing from the surface to cross the sky in the opposite direction as Deimos), so the tidal drag that is pulling the more distant and slower-orbiting Deimos into an even higher orbit is pulling Phobos into a lower one.
In other words, Phobos orbits below the level of an areosynchronous orbit and outruns its own tidal bulge, which means this tidal bulge pulls back on it. (I just wanted an excuse to use the word "areosynchronous".)
Bach was promoting well temperament, NOT equal temperament. Well temperament was much closer to equal than the meantone that preceded it, closing up the wolf interval Eb to G# and making all keys playable. It did not make them all equal. Keys far distant from C were still more discordant than F-C-G-D.
It's also true that while it's possible to formulate an equal temperament in terms of beats per second between fifths, this depends on having a uniform starting pitch (like our modern A=440), which ALSO did not exist in those days. "A" could be anywhere from 390 to 460+, depending on which town you went to. (Anywhere from a whole tone flat to a semitone sharp.) A tuning regime using beats cannot survive such variances.
Equal temperament didn't become prominent until late in the 19th century. Well temperaments for keyboards were still the standard, and instruments not limited to fixed pitches (including voices) still have a tendency to drift toward 5-limit Just Intonation, even when playing with equal-tempered accompaniment. Barbershop quartets even use 7-limit JI. Solo lines and melodies not doubled by fixed-pitch instruments tend toward Pythagorean (which is really 3-limit JI) -- which I suspect is also what the birds are doing.
I would guess these birds would use Pythagorean or Just Intonation, not a well temperament. Even meantone is significantly bent from the natural harmonic series in order to close up the thirds in the keys close to C, and well temperaments come even later and are much closer to equal temperament than is meantone.
Birds probably don't worry about modulation on a twelve-note keyboard. There's no reason they need to be consistent even if they do transpose. A doesn't always have to be 440.
He was right about the first half of his prediction (twice over, in fact). He was wrong about the second. It only forced a hiatus of a few years, it didn't end anything except perhaps the boondoggle of compromises that was the shuttle program in the first place.
First, anything the 1% wants to do that involves passing money around between them, rather than picking the pockets of everyone else, is their business. That's not to say we should let them externalize costs onto us -- if parts of it are falling on populated areas, that's not cool. If hydrazine is getting into the water table, or even poisoning an unmonitored (but still important) patch of ocean, that's not cool either. But billionaires spending money for a chance so see the edge of space? Fuck it, let them.
Also, what is acceptable risk to you, isn't to everyone else. Anyone who flies an "experimental craft" is at a substantially greater risk of dying than the average person. So long as the risk is theirs, again, let them. They know the risks, and do it anyhow. Some of them are old and have a bucket list, and don't think the risk is all that substantial in light of the fact that they're mortal regardless.
Lining Branson's pockets isn't my idea of a good time, but it's not my decision whether others want to.
Someone of Native American descent once told me, "only white men could think you can make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off one end and sewing it to the other."
These days, the data comes from high-energy interactions, and often involves highly improbable events. If you don't already know what to look for, you will have to slow down and analyze every event. If you do know what to look for, you can dial up the frequency of events tremendously, paying close attention only to the ones that surprise you in some way. This cuts observation times from well beyond human lifespans, to a matter of a year or two. It makes them practical.
While I have also never seen a lady plumber or cable installer, the latter would be because I don't deal with cable installers. On the mechanic point though, I've known two. One of them I would trust (to be competent, not talking about malice), the other I would not. While that's a small sample size, that's about the same ratio of "trust or not" that I'd allocate to male mechanics.
Male social workers do exist. It's just that they seem to end up isolated from the actual work and sucked up into the bureaucracy, so you wouldn't see them.
Add me to the list of those using this configuration in a home setting, unless you need to exclude me for actually having three monitors -- one is a TV that is usually off or being used for other purposes. (Having both AGP and integrated graphics active at the same time is... interesting. I get lots of odd behavior out of it.)
There is a new Family Video attached to a pizza place in my town... They recently started delivering movies when you order pizza.
I have to admit that this is actually brilliant, except for the fact that you still have to return the videos. That too could account for some of the cars in the parking lot.
You survived The Big One. Great! You reported yourself safe. Even better! Too bad the ensuing tsunami got you, and nobody thought to go looking for you.
Or an aftershock.
Or a fire from a broken gas line.
Or a shortage of water and/or food.
You're not fine until you can get on with your life.
Not true. There is a California version of almost everything, because the emissions equipment requirements in California are stricter than the national requirements. It would be perfectly legal to supply California-legal cars to the other 49 states, but the extra equipment costs extra, weighs extra, and typically eats about 5 HP.
It would also be horribly intrusive/impractical to make an increasing consumption tax, they would need to keep track of everything you buy.
Not necessarily. If you got tax-exemption vouchers every year, you'd "spend" them along with your money. No voucher? Pay the tax. Insufficient vouchers? Pay tax on part of the cost.
This isn't the first time Belkin has implemented a hare-brained feature, only to have it cause backlash when it induces catastrophic failures across the world. I stopped buying anything with their name on it (except the occasional cable) over a decade ago, over this little feature.
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You can use the ClearType Tuner to find a happy medium. I have dealt with this problem (I have a landscape monitor on the left, portrait on the right) by running the tuner on the portrait monitor. What works there also works pretty well on the landscape monitor. I haven't even forced it as close to color-agnostic as it'll go, I think I still have two "levels" of sub-pixel addressing on (out of six) and it really doesn't hurt the portrait monitor. I will notice a slight color fringe around long, vertical letters if I stare at them really hard (that is, if I want to see it), but otherwise it works just fine. Being able to use sub-pixel addressing on one monitor and standard anti-aliasing on the other would be better, but since that's not an option, this compromise does work.
As a side benefit, it is much more difficult to discern where sub-pixel addressing starts to fall apart because of colored text and/or backgrounds.
"national socialism"
You mean fascism?
That's what I was getting at, yes, just using a deliberately deceptive term I thought would be immediately recognized.
I'm not arguing that the state should own everything and that private ownership should be abolished, but there are things that are best cared for by society as a whole - the state is only one of several possible candidates to represent society's interests.
This makes your desire socialism rather than communism. Socialism is maligned by much of the popular media here as well, on the (quite correct) belief that the huddled masses don't understand it and will do as they are told by their betters, but that doesn't make it the same thing. What reigns currently is more akin to "national socialism", corporations in bed with and eventually owning the government.
Problem: when companies buy off the shelf, they get something NOW. As soon as they spend the money, they get a product. If they invest, they get a product... when? Next week? Next month? Next year? This is why most places don't develop, they just buy and stack. It costs more most of the time, but you always get SOMETHING.
I do rotate a monitor (2048x1152 rather than 1080p), and there is another problem you aren't accounting for: the vertical "sweet spot" of TN panels is much smaller than the horizontal sweet spot. This means that in Landscape mode, the separation between your eyes doesn't matter much, but in Portrait mode, it can become quite significant. The result is that the display looks different to each eye, which can be a very disorienting effect. The only position where this more or less goes away is dead on axis, where the angular difference of each eye matches. The color shift is still different, but at least the brightness and contrast roughly align.This can be quite troublesome though, as I'm talking about a head shift of an inch in either direction making the display go from dead sharp to flickering rapidly between single-eye images. I don't know about you, but I don't sit that still.
Make this such an onerous burden that the ISPs are forced to either withdraw their support, or just censor everything that is flagged without checking it. To do this, report everything that is remotely political as "extremist" and "radicalizing". When the politicians themselves are the targets of their bad law, they just might take a hint.
Defense contractors have been leasing parts of Moffett for ages, there's nothing new about this. Google probably wants a nice, big, pre-paved space to test their driverless cars.
Phobos is in a similar situation despite having a prograde orbit: it's low enough that it orbits faster than Mars rotates (appearing from the surface to cross the sky in the opposite direction as Deimos), so the tidal drag that is pulling the more distant and slower-orbiting Deimos into an even higher orbit is pulling Phobos into a lower one.
In other words, Phobos orbits below the level of an areosynchronous orbit and outruns its own tidal bulge, which means this tidal bulge pulls back on it. (I just wanted an excuse to use the word "areosynchronous".)
Bach was promoting well temperament, NOT equal temperament. Well temperament was much closer to equal than the meantone that preceded it, closing up the wolf interval Eb to G# and making all keys playable. It did not make them all equal. Keys far distant from C were still more discordant than F-C-G-D.
It's also true that while it's possible to formulate an equal temperament in terms of beats per second between fifths, this depends on having a uniform starting pitch (like our modern A=440), which ALSO did not exist in those days. "A" could be anywhere from 390 to 460+, depending on which town you went to. (Anywhere from a whole tone flat to a semitone sharp.) A tuning regime using beats cannot survive such variances.
Equal temperament didn't become prominent until late in the 19th century. Well temperaments for keyboards were still the standard, and instruments not limited to fixed pitches (including voices) still have a tendency to drift toward 5-limit Just Intonation, even when playing with equal-tempered accompaniment. Barbershop quartets even use 7-limit JI. Solo lines and melodies not doubled by fixed-pitch instruments tend toward Pythagorean (which is really 3-limit JI) -- which I suspect is also what the birds are doing.
I would guess these birds would use Pythagorean or Just Intonation, not a well temperament. Even meantone is significantly bent from the natural harmonic series in order to close up the thirds in the keys close to C, and well temperaments come even later and are much closer to equal temperament than is meantone.
Birds probably don't worry about modulation on a twelve-note keyboard. There's no reason they need to be consistent even if they do transpose. A doesn't always have to be 440.
He was right about the first half of his prediction (twice over, in fact). He was wrong about the second. It only forced a hiatus of a few years, it didn't end anything except perhaps the boondoggle of compromises that was the shuttle program in the first place.
First, anything the 1% wants to do that involves passing money around between them, rather than picking the pockets of everyone else, is their business. That's not to say we should let them externalize costs onto us -- if parts of it are falling on populated areas, that's not cool. If hydrazine is getting into the water table, or even poisoning an unmonitored (but still important) patch of ocean, that's not cool either. But billionaires spending money for a chance so see the edge of space? Fuck it, let them.
Also, what is acceptable risk to you, isn't to everyone else. Anyone who flies an "experimental craft" is at a substantially greater risk of dying than the average person. So long as the risk is theirs, again, let them. They know the risks, and do it anyhow. Some of them are old and have a bucket list, and don't think the risk is all that substantial in light of the fact that they're mortal regardless.
Lining Branson's pockets isn't my idea of a good time, but it's not my decision whether others want to.
Fuck Pennies!
No no no, you've got it all wrong. Ass pennies.
Someone of Native American descent once told me, "only white men could think you can make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off one end and sewing it to the other."
Sounds like a perfect description of DST to me.
These days, the data comes from high-energy interactions, and often involves highly improbable events. If you don't already know what to look for, you will have to slow down and analyze every event. If you do know what to look for, you can dial up the frequency of events tremendously, paying close attention only to the ones that surprise you in some way. This cuts observation times from well beyond human lifespans, to a matter of a year or two. It makes them practical.
Job postings are evidence, moron.
However, I think in at least some cases, the active recruiting of women and minorities is not just about meeting quotas, but about busting up cliques.
While I have also never seen a lady plumber or cable installer, the latter would be because I don't deal with cable installers. On the mechanic point though, I've known two. One of them I would trust (to be competent, not talking about malice), the other I would not. While that's a small sample size, that's about the same ratio of "trust or not" that I'd allocate to male mechanics.
Male social workers do exist. It's just that they seem to end up isolated from the actual work and sucked up into the bureaucracy, so you wouldn't see them.
Add me to the list of those using this configuration in a home setting, unless you need to exclude me for actually having three monitors -- one is a TV that is usually off or being used for other purposes. (Having both AGP and integrated graphics active at the same time is... interesting. I get lots of odd behavior out of it.)
There is a new Family Video attached to a pizza place in my town... They recently started delivering movies when you order pizza.
I have to admit that this is actually brilliant, except for the fact that you still have to return the videos. That too could account for some of the cars in the parking lot.
Disasters don't always strike independently.
You survived The Big One. Great! You reported yourself safe. Even better! Too bad the ensuing tsunami got you, and nobody thought to go looking for you.
Or an aftershock.
Or a fire from a broken gas line.
Or a shortage of water and/or food.
You're not fine until you can get on with your life.
Not true. There is a California version of almost everything, because the emissions equipment requirements in California are stricter than the national requirements. It would be perfectly legal to supply California-legal cars to the other 49 states, but the extra equipment costs extra, weighs extra, and typically eats about 5 HP.
It would also be horribly intrusive/impractical to make an increasing consumption tax, they would need to keep track of everything you buy.
Not necessarily. If you got tax-exemption vouchers every year, you'd "spend" them along with your money. No voucher? Pay the tax. Insufficient vouchers? Pay tax on part of the cost.
It's not often that there is too much information packed into a /. headline, but this is one.
Thing is, "PeTA Is Not Happy" would not be news. They're never happy.
Dolphin to Orca: Hey man, you need to get checked out. It looks like you blew a seal.
Orca to Dolphin: Nope, it's just ice cream.
This isn't the first time Belkin has implemented a hare-brained feature, only to have it cause backlash when it induces catastrophic failures across the world. I stopped buying anything with their name on it (except the occasional cable) over a decade ago, over this little feature.