Nope. There are two ways an OS can work, neither of which will do you any good. The simple way is that the OS just assumes your display hardware uses the sRGB gamma curve. Since the OS also assumes that all apps follow this curve, the OS does nothing. The complicated way is that you measure your hardware so that the OS can convert from sRGB to not-perfectly-sRGB that you have measured. In the complicated case, an app might supply a value of 127,127,127 and the OS turns it into 127,128,126 before handing it over to the display hardware.

You're responding as if the OS would do something much more severe, turning that 127,127,127 into something roughly near 192,192,192. Nope, there is no normal OS that is designed for apps that assume gamma of 1.0, which is linear RGB.

50% grey is a pixel value near 192, not one near 128. A pixel walue near 128 is much darker.

As far as I know, the engine doesn't handle this. It may even have some sort of hack to crudely compensate for the error, such as rendering things a bit more or less bold. Any such hack is unlikely to work with both white-on-black and black-on-white.

I think the problem is even implicit in the API. You can't just render to bitmap, cache the bitmaps, then generate pixels with any color.

Green on magenta tends to show the problem well. The edges shouldn't be dark. Giving equal brightness to each color, converting to greyscale should make the text fully dissapear. (identical pixel values)

New England has some frightfully short on-ramps. They are bad even when there isn't ice on the road. Construction can make the situation even worse; once I saw an on-ramp that had a stop sign and then met the road at an angle that my fading memory recalls to have been roughly 45 degrees.

On the other hand, some states are just fast. Texas officially does 85 MPH now. Lots of places unofficially do 90 MPH. Massachusetts is an unofficially fast state, and also in New England.

I'd need 2 of the Prius V, so make that 20 mpg. Imperial gallons? Probably that is 16 mpg in the USA.

I might even need 2 of the Excursion. It depends on vehicle options, future-proofing, and the need to carry the groceries. There are companies that modify them limo-style to have 14 or 20 seats.

I keep hearing about farmer's markets being better than supermarkets, and it simply isn't true.

Is your "supermarket" some low-end discount place that caters exclusively to the poor? There is one place that that near me. I never shop there. There are indications: They don't offer bags or they charge you for them, and they won't help you out to your car. Cans are dented. They sell junk food and soul food, but not a full selection of fruits and vegatables. The store has signs that offer to send money to other countries. Uh, to mention an awkward issue, the shoppers are more likely to be obese and black.

The place I go to will always ask if I want paper or plastic, and always ask if I want help getting my stuff to the car. The place I shop at offers minimally processed meat. They sell USA-grown rabbit. They sell tomatos on the vine. They sell bags of super-ripe indoor-grown tomatos. They stock goose, star fruit, at least a half dozen kind of pears including Asian pears, shiitake mushrooms, a full selection of organic stuff, etc. You can get non-rotting fresh fish, or you can get minimally-processed (no phosphates or carbon monoxide or colorings) frozen fish. You can get live lobsters and shellfish. You can get European-style Mars bars, both Marmite and Vegemite, german pasta (spaetzle), german bread (rye), and French jam/jelly. You can get tortillas with just 5 ingredients, all simple and natural, or you can get ones loaded with omega-3 fatty acids and fiber.

The differences are like night and day. If your supermarket sucks, find a better one. Look for a wealthy suburban zip code and go there.

Getting a proper diet actually makes the problem worse. Low-calorie foods (vegetables and anything with fiber) take up more space. Juice that is not-from-concentrate takes more space than frozen concentrate, which in turn takes more space than powdered drink mix.

The same with excercise. It makes the problem worse because you need more food if you don't sit on your butt all day.

BTW, the biggest engine you can get in a 4x4 for a full-size family is 6 L. This is for the 2013 GMC Savana Passenger Van. You can only get 5.3 L with the Chevy Express AWD. This is barely acceptable for a 3-ton vehicle with 15 seats.

getting there soonish

We're in serious trouble if nerds don't reproduce. I'm doing my part to not let the world be overrun by non-nerds. Don't neglect your duty.

No, he meant fuck. A gas guzzling fuck is kind of like 69, but connected to the source of gas. Some people find it works better if they eat beans or cabbage beforehand.

You still don't have much of a family. If the kids leave home at age 18 and don't come back, an unimpressive rate of 1 kid every other year should get you to about 9 kids. With decent performance you can have 15 kids. Again, this is assuming they leave the nest at 18 and don't come back.

This is old news for Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews. Protestants are starting to get on it too now, with the Quiverful movement. You may have to start your own movement if you don't believe... call it the "r-selection movement" maybe. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-selection for why)

It looks like I'd have to fill that bike about 8 to 10 times per week to feed my family. Each week I have about 4 large carts of food, overfilled top and bottom. Sometimes I hang things off the side. Sometimes I get a second cart.

I don't even bother with beer or bottled water. Each day is about 2 gallons of milk, 2 half-gallons of orange juice, perhaps 8 eggs on average (highly variable, can be about 2 dozen), 10 to 15 bananas, a pair of chickens or a turkey or a goose or similar...

I want the milk that is newest, the meat without marbling, the pear without bruises, and the beets without rotting leaves.

I'm sure it benefits the store to provide me whatever is oldest and/or least desired. If I don't buy more food to compensate, throwing out half of it, there may even be an environmental benefit. (less food waste if people eat the moldy food) No thanks. I want the good stuff.

Well of course. Humane is for humans.

I don't expect a hippo to be nice to me. To a hippo, I'm just a random animal. If I get annoying, the hippo will slaughter me without the slightest bit of compassion.

I'm not doing that job for many reasons, but animal rights is not among them. I'd bite right into the side of a living animal if it were safe to do so. (it isn't: unsanitary, legal trouble, and maybe getting pecked or kicked)

As an end-user, my only complaints about slaughter houses are the bad sanitation and the sleazy attempts to add cheap filler into the meat. As a worker I'd take issue with the pay, the boredom, the legal risk if you fail to follow the crazy laws, the stench, the disease risk, the risk of getting cut or burned or crushed... it's not exactly a cushy office job. I guess it beats being a coal miner or road worker.

If there is a bit of doubt, participation in the test population can be put on hold until that is resolved.

Yes, it is allowed. It is Pope-approved. What is not allowed is sex outside of marriage or the use of birth control to prevent a marriage from producing children. If the man gets butt-raped and thus ends up with HIV, he may certainly use a condom to avoid infecting his wife.

If the law were aligned with the Catholic church, condoms might require a precription. They'd only be available to married couples in which one person has a disease that the other one doesn't. Likewise, birth control pills would be for married women with hormonal problems of the sort that cause severe bleeding during menstration.

Compared to most other church teachings, these positions are actually quite logical. They are the obvious rational conclusion you reach if you start with the belief that sex should be within a marriage and the belief that married people should welcome children into their lives as blessings from God.