Stopping a bullet with your skin is nice, but the shock wave is still going to do a lot of damage. A bullet to the skull will produce a hail of bone fragments.

GMO is not even a hypothetical problem if you're not eating it.

The Amish are thriving. Protected by the military and technological strengths and by the freedoms of the United States, their industriousness, relative lack of modern perversions, and high birth rate expands their population and wealth. There are lessons to be learned here, and the country could benefit greatly by learning them.

I've made a point of not memorizing checklists. Good pilots always work from their printed checklists. It lessens the chance of missing something.

...laura

My flying background must be showing. I always review the safety information card, confirm safety equipment in my vicinity, and, yes, I actually do pay attention to the safety briefing.

But that's just me.

...laura

The claimed damage of "Global Climate Change" was evaluated at almost half of all externalities. Given the impossibility of evaluating that cost, let alone GCC's existence, the whole report must be considered worthless.

Sports. I want to see the pitcher, the catcher, and the stitches on the baseball, all at the same time. 4k will provide a resolution of about 0.18 inch over that 60 feet. Almost good enough.

4000 x 2000 x 24 fps x 3600 sec/hr x 2 hr x 3 colors = 4.2 Tbytes, uncompressed. That's about $180 worth of hard drive per uncompressed 2 hour movie. Assuming a conservative 30:1 compression ratio, $1000 of hard drives will store 166 movies.

The marketing guys chose the bigger number so that they couldn't be upstaged. If they didn't do it, somebody at another company would have, and they'd look inferior by comparison.

Presumably, the ultimate goal of visual entertainment is to provide a scene indistinguishable from reality. Without moving his head, a person with perfect vision can resolve pixels roughly 1/7000th of his horizontal field of vision and 1/4000th of the vertical. So, as long as you don't need to see behind you, 7000x4000 is close to perfection. The current 4000x2160 is a step toward that goal appropriate to currently practical technology.

The problem is with sin( near pi ). Range reduction subtracts pi, and the value of pi doesn't have enough bits in the Intel fsin instruction. In gaming, nothing is going to rotate pi radians between updates, so this deficiency won't show up in gaming applications where incremental rotates are used.

Intel has superior process technology, which results in lower power dissipation. At $0.12/kWh 1 watt difference is $1 a year.

Fedora is GPL purist and stays away from any hint of proprietary solutions and possible copyright violations. That not only means no DVD video "out of the box", but also additional repositories must be used.

For example, automatic update screws up a config file necessary for the GUI to work, and screws it up so badly that the system crashes. systemd starts part of the graphical services before login (at least that's my impression, I could be wrong.) This was never a problem with sysvinit.

With sysvinit, it's easy to start at runlevel 3 always, then type startx to get the GUI.

Whoosh. Think again. We orbit it, at a distance of about 90 million miles.

Their the same as you and me

Quod erat demonstrandum.