You want to use multitouch on a touchscreen... I don't think you can do that by emulating a mouse. Windows 10 does support multitouch on my laptop, pretty sure it doesn't do that by pretending it's a mouse.
As far as I know, all the engines that legitimately meet the emissions standards post-process the exhaust, e.g. Mercedes and Cummins engines. As far as I know, the Mazda Skyactive-D engine is still not approved for US sale. Volkswagen tried to cheap out by NOT using an exhaust filter system, which adds significant cost to each car. We have proof that the standards CAN be met, but it still isn't easy to do so, or we'd have a lot more diesel options available in the US market. I'd like to see a Mercedes diesel hybrid using electric motors to drive all 4 wheels while charging the system with constant speed turbo diesel generator, but I guess they don't see a big enough market to develop such a system.
Does the phase "no resale value" mean anything to you? That's what's really upsetting to all the people that bought Volkswagen diesels; nobody will buy them for any amount of money now, and they are worthless as trade-ins. Sure, if you're planning on keeping that 3.0 liter diesel forever, go ahead and buy one while you still can.
I second the "don't fail anyone for check engine light" notion. My Honda Civic Hybrid battery had problems, meaning my hybrid was getting about the same fuel economy and emissions as a non-hybrid... but of course the Oregon DEQ automatically flunked my emissions test because "the computer says you have an engine problem!" No, I have a _battery_ problem, that doesn't affect the engine at all!
The allowed NOx levels being much lower in the US than most other countries makes an argument for the EPA regulations being unreasonable, and probably devised to protect domestic manufacturers of gasoline-powered engines. That being said, cheating to get around the unreasonable regulations should still be punished by an amount far in excess of what they could possibly have gained by cheating.
Yeah, the great thing about theaters is that it is always exactly 20 minutes of previews, so that the ticket sellers don't even blink when you show up 19 minutes after the posted movie start time and ask for a ticket to see that movie... although they will remind you, "better hurry, the actual movie is starting soon!"
How does the operating system tell whether or not a torrent contains copyrighted material? How does it now whether or not you have paid the license fee for an MP3? How about if I check out a CD or DVD from the library and rip it using 3rd party software, how does Windows tell I haven't paid for it?
In my day both men and women had bell bottoms,hiking boots, and long hair, so you had to ask them to turn around so that you could tell whether they were male or female... and sometimes even then you couldn't tell!
Porn teaches an unrealistic view of reality... just like all other fiction. It also trains people to become sexually aroused by unusual stimuli, so one should probably be careful what kind of porn one watches. On the bright side, several orgasms a week are good for one's health, even if you have them alone (not sure about the sobbing uncontrollably afterwards, but maybe that's just me.)
Even the "1 in 5" is misleading, because the survey defined "sexual assault" as any sexual touch without previous consent. That makes me a rapist, because once at a nightclub I kissed a womanI was dancing with without asking her first. (She didn't object, but personally I think she was just trolling for drugs in the first place.) It also make me a _victim_ of rape, because I've had a women in a nightclub touch my butt while walking behind me... think about it.
Virginity was valued because there are huge costs involved in raising a child, so the people paying those costs had a positive incentive to try to make sure they were doing so to propagate their own DNA, not someone else's! Much of human behavior is instinctual and easily explained as attempting to maximize propagation of one's own DNA (or the DNA of one's tribe).
5. Tinkering and do-it-yourself culture???
Quite the opposite, there is a huge trend in encouraging the "maker" movement, people building things for themselves. In many ways it is a reaction to both mass production and to the runaway protectionism that has gone on for decades, i.e. "No, we can't let kids play around with tools, it's too dangerous! Here, have a Barbie and a Hot Wheels to play with!" The other 5 are wrong as well, but I'll leave it to others to repudiate those unsubstantiated claims.
Millennials are using as much as we did 30 years ago! We've also got a lot worse STDs than we had 30 years ago, so being more cautious about is sex a rational response to the current environment.
Running multiple GTX 1080's in parallel sounds like a damn silly idea to me... but yeah, several people with more money than brains is almost certainly going to try it. You make valid points in that the power supply and heat dissipation of the GPU has now become a bigger problem than that of the CPU, and that there are a lot of other things that GPUs would be good for, if only we had software that could utilize them fully.
8k video is pretty much the Monster Cables equivalent in video resolution world -- difference is not perceivable by humans, but hay, it's a bigger number and costs a lot more!
4K is the point of diminishing returns for video, because it's right at the limit of human perception. Greater than 4K is still useful for still photographs that you are planning on blowing up into larger images, so more than 16Megapixels may still be useful for digital cameras.
Individual pixels are perceivable when the whole screen is in your field of view at 1080, but not at 4K... meaning 8K really adds nothing to perception of the picture.
Explain to me again why it's a good idea to provide twice the resolution that the human eye is capable of resolving. "Ohh, it's a bigger number, let's pay a lot more for it!" (The human eye can only perceive about 4000 separate regions in it's field of view, meaning making pixels smaller than 1/4000 of the screen does nothing for enhancing human perception, when viewing the whole screen. Greater resolution is useful if you move in closer and focus on just one section of the screen, but that's not really how we watch sports, is it?)
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You want to use multitouch on a touchscreen... I don't think you can do that by emulating a mouse. Windows 10 does support multitouch on my laptop, pretty sure it doesn't do that by pretending it's a mouse.
As far as I know, all the engines that legitimately meet the emissions standards post-process the exhaust, e.g. Mercedes and Cummins engines. As far as I know, the Mazda Skyactive-D engine is still not approved for US sale. Volkswagen tried to cheap out by NOT using an exhaust filter system, which adds significant cost to each car. We have proof that the standards CAN be met, but it still isn't easy to do so, or we'd have a lot more diesel options available in the US market. I'd like to see a Mercedes diesel hybrid using electric motors to drive all 4 wheels while charging the system with constant speed turbo diesel generator, but I guess they don't see a big enough market to develop such a system.
Does the phase "no resale value" mean anything to you? That's what's really upsetting to all the people that bought Volkswagen diesels; nobody will buy them for any amount of money now, and they are worthless as trade-ins. Sure, if you're planning on keeping that 3.0 liter diesel forever, go ahead and buy one while you still can.
Rolls Royce pickups are actually a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I second the "don't fail anyone for check engine light" notion. My Honda Civic Hybrid battery had problems, meaning my hybrid was getting about the same fuel economy and emissions as a non-hybrid... but of course the Oregon DEQ automatically flunked my emissions test because "the computer says you have an engine problem!" No, I have a _battery_ problem, that doesn't affect the engine at all!
The allowed NOx levels being much lower in the US than most other countries makes an argument for the EPA regulations being unreasonable, and probably devised to protect domestic manufacturers of gasoline-powered engines. That being said, cheating to get around the unreasonable regulations should still be punished by an amount far in excess of what they could possibly have gained by cheating.
Yeah, the great thing about theaters is that it is always exactly 20 minutes of previews, so that the ticket sellers don't even blink when you show up 19 minutes after the posted movie start time and ask for a ticket to see that movie... although they will remind you, "better hurry, the actual movie is starting soon!"
The "analog hole", it doesn't go away. If you can hear it or view it, you can make a copy of it. No amount of DRM changes that fact!
How does the operating system tell whether or not a torrent contains copyrighted material? How does it now whether or not you have paid the license fee for an MP3? How about if I check out a CD or DVD from the library and rip it using 3rd party software, how does Windows tell I haven't paid for it?
In my day both men and women had bell bottoms,hiking boots, and long hair, so you had to ask them to turn around so that you could tell whether they were male or female... and sometimes even then you couldn't tell!
Porn teaches an unrealistic view of reality... just like all other fiction. It also trains people to become sexually aroused by unusual stimuli, so one should probably be careful what kind of porn one watches. On the bright side, several orgasms a week are good for one's health, even if you have them alone (not sure about the sobbing uncontrollably afterwards, but maybe that's just me.)
Even the "1 in 5" is misleading, because the survey defined "sexual assault" as any sexual touch without previous consent. That makes me a rapist, because once at a nightclub I kissed a womanI was dancing with without asking her first. (She didn't object, but personally I think she was just trolling for drugs in the first place.) It also make me a _victim_ of rape, because I've had a women in a nightclub touch my butt while walking behind me... think about it.
Virginity was valued because there are huge costs involved in raising a child, so the people paying those costs had a positive incentive to try to make sure they were doing so to propagate their own DNA, not someone else's! Much of human behavior is instinctual and easily explained as attempting to maximize propagation of one's own DNA (or the DNA of one's tribe).
5. Tinkering and do-it-yourself culture??? Quite the opposite, there is a huge trend in encouraging the "maker" movement, people building things for themselves. In many ways it is a reaction to both mass production and to the runaway protectionism that has gone on for decades, i.e. "No, we can't let kids play around with tools, it's too dangerous! Here, have a Barbie and a Hot Wheels to play with!" The other 5 are wrong as well, but I'll leave it to others to repudiate those unsubstantiated claims.
Based on the population numbers, I'd say you've got it backwards... Muslims aren't blowing enough! ;-)
Millennials are using as much as we did 30 years ago! We've also got a lot worse STDs than we had 30 years ago, so being more cautious about is sex a rational response to the current environment.
My (ex) wife always said size doesn't matter...
The newest, high tech slippers are made out of glass... and only fit Cinderella!
The trained monkeys don't actually follow instructions very well, so it's pointless to even try to explain things like that to them...
Running multiple GTX 1080's in parallel sounds like a damn silly idea to me... but yeah, several people with more money than brains is almost certainly going to try it. You make valid points in that the power supply and heat dissipation of the GPU has now become a bigger problem than that of the CPU, and that there are a lot of other things that GPUs would be good for, if only we had software that could utilize them fully.
What we really need 8K video for is porn... it makes the herpes blisters look SOOOO much more realistic!
8k video is pretty much the Monster Cables equivalent in video resolution world -- difference is not perceivable by humans, but hay, it's a bigger number and costs a lot more!
4K is the point of diminishing returns for video, because it's right at the limit of human perception. Greater than 4K is still useful for still photographs that you are planning on blowing up into larger images, so more than 16Megapixels may still be useful for digital cameras.
Individual pixels are perceivable when the whole screen is in your field of view at 1080, but not at 4K... meaning 8K really adds nothing to perception of the picture.
Explain to me again why it's a good idea to provide twice the resolution that the human eye is capable of resolving. "Ohh, it's a bigger number, let's pay a lot more for it!" (The human eye can only perceive about 4000 separate regions in it's field of view, meaning making pixels smaller than 1/4000 of the screen does nothing for enhancing human perception, when viewing the whole screen. Greater resolution is useful if you move in closer and focus on just one section of the screen, but that's not really how we watch sports, is it?)