When you buy fonts, the higher-quality ones will be in OpenType format with CFF outlines, which is basically TrueType with Type 1 outlines.
True, I was kind of expecting a correction on that one, but I couldn't be bothered to look up the terms. I was hoping the correction would be gentle, and I wasn't disappointed. Thank you!
Apparently wind turbines cause bats to die from a variation of the bends
Note that this is generally only a problem for migratory bats. The solution is to not locate wind farms on bat migration paths. Same solution as for birds.
The real problem is that it is not physically possible to move large amounts of power over long distances. We use high voltage transmission to help (138kV to 765kV), but you still have impedance.
So go DC for long lines. With DC you get to decide exactly how much power gets transported on which line and when.
No-one's ever said that the power grid can't handle it.
Actually people have said for 20 years in Denmark that wind turbines would make the power grid break down. So far that hasn't happened, but the grid expansion hasn't been for free either. I guess it's like the Y2k problem: because it was made a big deal, it turned out not to be.
What do they do at the end of 100MW DC transmission lines.
They have a 100MW inverter. You could do it with a motor and a generator, but power electronics do it better.
Storing 100MW production for a few hours is not a technical problem. It's just too expensive to be worth it, right now. Now if you could get people to pay for the batteries by embedding them into some other product... Cars maybe?
I produce 1000 bushels of apples at point Z. The best price for them is half way across the country and point X. No infrastucture exists for moving the apples, so if I want to maximize my profits, I make it.
Assume it isn't you who produce the apples, but someone else. If you make one apple-mover capable of 900 apples, you can make a fortune that way. If someone else moves in to make another apple-mover capable of 900 apples, there is excess capacity, and price will go close to zero, both companies go bankrupt, someone buys both companies and reopens just one apple-mover. Since that is rather stupid, noone will actually make the second apple-mover, and there will be constant demand higher than capacity and a monopoly.
The CA energy crisis was caused by power market manipulation.
If the power grid had been stronger, other actors in the market could have bought power from non-Enron-controlled plants. The invisible hand would have forced Enron to behave.
What makes you believe that locomotives and ships need hugely varying output? Also, coal-powered locomotives and ships tended to be inefficient steam engines. You can't really compare those to a modern turbine design.
All of those cities are heavily dependent on the desert ecosystem, which is very fragile.
I'm one of those ignorant people who has only been to a desert once, so bear with me. How is, say, Southern California dependent on the desert ecosystem? Food isn't grown there, the water isn't from there (AFAIK)... The desert could bury the cities in sand I guess, but is there anything else that it could do to hurt the cities?
PV is useless for large scale operations and always will be.
It's the only choice in areas with clouds.
Anyway, PV production is increasing rapidly, but demand is still increasing faster, leading to incredible profits in that industry. Once production catches up with demand, prices will get closer to the cost of production, and PV will look much better in comparison to other technologies.
I always found truetype fonts sucked period, and the adobe type1 fonts seemed to render better, especially when printed.
From a technical viewpoint, today, there is very little to distinguish the formats. TrueType only does quadratic Bezier curves where Type 1 does cubic, but it is trivial to interpolate cubic curves with quadratic ones, at a slight cost in code size.
When you buy fonts, the higher-quality fonts tend to be in the Type 1 format, but that is for historical reasons.
Right, cause noone who already has copyright to "protect" their work has ever tried for DRM in addition... Oh wait, that would be almost all the uses for DRM so far.
Luckily governments across the world have realized the need for basic research. They have provided universities and other public research institutions with practically unlimited funds, without making demands that the research must lead to products or patents.
Due to these happy circumstances, there is no longer a need for the private sector to do basic research. It can focus on what it does best: Turning theoretical results into practical products.
Possibly. You are certainly allowed to believe that 8 cells shortly after conception is the same as a human being you can communicate with, apart from age.
If that is ageism, I am completely comfortable with being ageist.
Holy crap! You actually admit that you are for allowing babies to be killed by their parents because it is inconvenient for them to have a child.!
Well, that is the essence of abortion. The difference is the definition of "baby".
Can you kill any child who is less than a year old?
My definition is that you can kill any child which is less than 12 weeks old, with age 0 defined as conception (not birth). Only if the mother requests it, of course. If there are good medical reasons, I can agree with 18 weeks. The limit is always going to be a bit arbitrary (unless you put it at zero), but I would prefer if legislation was made stricter than it currently is where I live.
By that definition of infanticide, yes probably. Eventually sperm + egg will be viable outside the womb, right from the start. If the definition of an infant is a human offspring capable of surviving outside the womb, well then abortion is infanticide. That doesn't stop me from supporting abortion rights. Or infanticide rights, if you prefer.
I think we can all agree that electing a President that has already started down the slippery slope of saying its ok to let babies die by denying them medical care would be a really bad idea.
The real cover up is that the buildings weren't code to begin with, or rather David Rockefeller etc bent building codes to get them built.
Indeed. The person involved in 9/11 that I'd prefer most to see behind bars is the one who approved the choice of plaster for walls of the staircases. Whoever he is, he has at least hundreds of lives on his conscience.
The way human brains solve Sudoku doesn't necessarily use clever logic and elegant methods. Of course it is brute force.
Nothing is brute force about the way the brain solves Sudoku. You would have to be seriously autistic to be able to do even the simplest brute force of a Sudoku in your head.
Computers, on the other hand, can easily solve a 9x9 Sudoku by brute force.
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When you buy fonts, the higher-quality ones will be in OpenType format with CFF outlines, which is basically TrueType with Type 1 outlines.
True, I was kind of expecting a correction on that one, but I couldn't be bothered to look up the terms. I was hoping the correction would be gentle, and I wasn't disappointed. Thank you!
Apparently wind turbines cause bats to die from a variation of the bends
Note that this is generally only a problem for migratory bats. The solution is to not locate wind farms on bat migration paths. Same solution as for birds.
The real problem is that it is not physically possible to move large amounts of power over long distances. We use high voltage transmission to help (138kV to 765kV), but you still have impedance.
So go DC for long lines. With DC you get to decide exactly how much power gets transported on which line and when.
No-one's ever said that the power grid can't handle it.
Actually people have said for 20 years in Denmark that wind turbines would make the power grid break down. So far that hasn't happened, but the grid expansion hasn't been for free either. I guess it's like the Y2k problem: because it was made a big deal, it turned out not to be.
What do they do at the end of 100MW DC transmission lines.
They have a 100MW inverter. You could do it with a motor and a generator, but power electronics do it better.
Storing 100MW production for a few hours is not a technical problem. It's just too expensive to be worth it, right now. Now if you could get people to pay for the batteries by embedding them into some other product... Cars maybe?
I produce 1000 bushels of apples at point Z. The best price for them is half way across the country and point X. No infrastucture exists for moving the apples, so if I want to maximize my profits, I make it.
Assume it isn't you who produce the apples, but someone else. If you make one apple-mover capable of 900 apples, you can make a fortune that way. If someone else moves in to make another apple-mover capable of 900 apples, there is excess capacity, and price will go close to zero, both companies go bankrupt, someone buys both companies and reopens just one apple-mover. Since that is rather stupid, noone will actually make the second apple-mover, and there will be constant demand higher than capacity and a monopoly.
So, how do you feel about brown-outs?
The CA energy crisis was caused by power market manipulation.
If the power grid had been stronger, other actors in the market could have bought power from non-Enron-controlled plants. The invisible hand would have forced Enron to behave.
What makes you believe that locomotives and ships need hugely varying output? Also, coal-powered locomotives and ships tended to be inefficient steam engines. You can't really compare those to a modern turbine design.
All of those cities are heavily dependent on the desert ecosystem, which is very fragile.
I'm one of those ignorant people who has only been to a desert once, so bear with me. How is, say, Southern California dependent on the desert ecosystem? Food isn't grown there, the water isn't from there (AFAIK)... The desert could bury the cities in sand I guess, but is there anything else that it could do to hurt the cities?
PV is useless for large scale operations and always will be.
It's the only choice in areas with clouds.
Anyway, PV production is increasing rapidly, but demand is still increasing faster, leading to incredible profits in that industry. Once production catches up with demand, prices will get closer to the cost of production, and PV will look much better in comparison to other technologies.
I always found truetype fonts sucked period, and the adobe type1 fonts seemed to render better, especially when printed.
From a technical viewpoint, today, there is very little to distinguish the formats. TrueType only does quadratic Bezier curves where Type 1 does cubic, but it is trivial to interpolate cubic curves with quadratic ones, at a slight cost in code size.
When you buy fonts, the higher-quality fonts tend to be in the Type 1 format, but that is for historical reasons.
That's why they're so eager to cling to DRM.
Right, cause noone who already has copyright to "protect" their work has ever tried for DRM in addition... Oh wait, that would be almost all the uses for DRM so far.
Luckily governments across the world have realized the need for basic research. They have provided universities and other public research institutions with practically unlimited funds, without making demands that the research must lead to products or patents.
Due to these happy circumstances, there is no longer a need for the private sector to do basic research. It can focus on what it does best: Turning theoretical results into practical products.
I must admit that I had never heard of her. I have read the Wikipedia article about her now, and she seems to have been an admirable person.
I have no reason to throw her anywhere.
Possibly. You are certainly allowed to believe that 8 cells shortly after conception is the same as a human being you can communicate with, apart from age.
If that is ageism, I am completely comfortable with being ageist.
Holy crap! You actually admit that you are for allowing babies to be killed by their parents because it is inconvenient for them to have a child.!
Well, that is the essence of abortion. The difference is the definition of "baby".
Can you kill any child who is less than a year old?
My definition is that you can kill any child which is less than 12 weeks old, with age 0 defined as conception (not birth). Only if the mother requests it, of course. If there are good medical reasons, I can agree with 18 weeks. The limit is always going to be a bit arbitrary (unless you put it at zero), but I would prefer if legislation was made stricter than it currently is where I live.
By that definition of infanticide, yes probably. Eventually sperm + egg will be viable outside the womb, right from the start. If the definition of an infant is a human offspring capable of surviving outside the womb, well then abortion is infanticide. That doesn't stop me from supporting abortion rights. Or infanticide rights, if you prefer.
I think we can all agree that electing a President that has already started down the slippery slope of saying its ok to let babies die by denying them medical care would be a really bad idea.
No, we can't all agree that.
The real cover up is that the buildings weren't code to begin with, or rather David Rockefeller etc bent building codes to get them built.
Indeed. The person involved in 9/11 that I'd prefer most to see behind bars is the one who approved the choice of plaster for walls of the staircases. Whoever he is, he has at least hundreds of lives on his conscience.
Gravity is 32.1ft/s
Please ask for your school money back.
That assumes they can randomize enough not to simply try the same solutions over and over.
There's no need to randomize. Just pick 1 the first time, 2 the second...
Now you're splitting hairs here.
Not at all. Sudoku for humans is mostly about pattern matching. Discovering new patterns and then learning to apply them is the fun part.
For puzzle generators that rely on brute-force for their solvers, this "only one solution" requirement is difficult to enforce.
It shouldn't be. They can just keep solving and see if they find more solutions.
The way human brains solve Sudoku doesn't necessarily use clever logic and elegant methods. Of course it is brute force.
Nothing is brute force about the way the brain solves Sudoku. You would have to be seriously autistic to be able to do even the simplest brute force of a Sudoku in your head.
Computers, on the other hand, can easily solve a 9x9 Sudoku by brute force.
There's a reason the game is best played with a pencil
You're missing half the point of Sudokus if you play them with a pencil.