This isn't in the home. This is forcibly purchasing a business service, so I don't think it counts.

It's a chaotic system. The optimal responses to that can be another chaotic system, which happens to hit the right symbiosis enough of the time to offer clear benefits. You do not need to understand how the chaos works, and even if you do, it could appear completely nonsensical.

Your current system has exactly 8,000,000,000 bytes of memory, instead of 8,589,934,592? How strange.

Granted, they just want to copy Apple. Apple says "Look, this is new and original and you want it!" even though it's just some old rehash they decided to finally integrate, or some utterly minor tweak, and people stand overnight in lines to fork over their money.

It's because there are multiple companies, but just 1 government. If a company does something bad, they screw up and people can go elsewhere (if there aren't monopolistic lock-ins that they try to legislate into existence). If the government does something bad, there's no other options. Consider that something will _always_ go bad somewhere, and it is better to have a more distributed set of options.

The government is also _bound_ to do things inefficiently, because they are run under rule of law and voted policy; you can't have people using their own judgment and have the liability of just "making things happen" when they represent the people, their tax dollars, and varying interests. This policy-driven model is _good_ for certain things that must be handled with legislative care, but is always going to be more expensive than what private business _could_ offer, pretty much by definition, and again a central point of failure.

IBM's T221 monitor, the now ancient 3840x2400 22" 200dpi display, did the exact same thing.

It had 4 DVI inputs (newer models can support 2 dual-link DVIs), splitting up the screen into 1-4 stripes, depending on your bandwidth and setup. It's also directly plug & play, with no setup issues whatsoever on Linux, for what it's worth, and max frame rate is simply bound to how large each link is offering.

I've got a single card driving 2 T221s at a whopping 12Hz (single-link DVI each), and some low-res 30" 2560x1600 monitor with the displayport connector. 22 megapixels from 1 card is pretty nice, and I could be driving the T221s at 24Hz if I had the dual-link DVI connectors.

They were very flexible in their setup, not sure what Asus did here to make it a pain to set up.

If it takes 10,000 illegal activities to achieve one thing of value, should the law let it slide?

The thing is, when it comes to inexpensive devices, say under the $300 mark, that $50-100 fee is a very significant expense, as opposed to "free" Android or in-house iOS.

Because resonances can often get you more bang for your energy buck than direct impulse.

That, and they want to move things carefully and precisely. This seems like it would be a lot more stable than using air flows.

Point is, there is no flicker in non-CRT displays, and thus the flicker fusion frequency isn't involved at all. Having picture motion seem fluid & realistic, and color range & perception, are separate issues.

Can the bottom of my car be a flat surface which vibrates sprayed water droplets, thus slightly levitating the vehicle and allowing forward movement via those particles?

That's not the problem. The problem is the fact that humanity does not work that way in any scale beyond small clan/tribe units.

This is no different than doing business with any foreign entity. If you buy physical product from some offshore supplier, local business & warranty laws don't apply to them.

If you're dealing in data with a foreign entity, that entity is not bound to your local data laws. The only difference is that now in the "information age" regular home users are exposed to the risks involved.

Currently, to use Tor a program must be written to communicate through Tor's SOCKS proxy, which apparently Windows doesn't support well.

This, in theory and if I'm reading the bits of the description properly, would allow you to run any program that talks basic internet protocols and route its traffic through Tor without any changes to the program. That's similar to how a firewall can change the internet permissions of a program without touching the program itself.

The funny thing is that he's recommending Automatic Reference Counting instead, which destroys cache much more than GC during regular processing.