And graphics programmers need both frame rate and pixels. 120Hz seems perfect, but once you try using 3D vision glasses, those LCD shutters bring back the flicker.
We're not using CRTs anymore, LCD panels don't flicker with the refresh rate so 24hz, 30hz, 60hz, 120hz will all be just as steady.
Are you kidding me? Staring at 30 Hz console output is maddening
Huh? How can you tell the difference? It's not like it's a CRT only scanning lines at 30hz.
That's an ignorant argument though. It's like telling a doctor not to bandage a slit wrist because it doesn't fix the underlying problem.
No it's not, it's more treating a wound that requires stitches with just a bandage when stitches are readily available to use.
No one is saying these types of things should be permanent, they're just to keep people healthy until economic development can provide a better diet. Somehow I doubt the people this would help are going to play the nirvana fallacy.
How much has it cost to develop and how much is it going to cost to plant this across the entire country (there's no info in the article) and how much would it cost to plant existing high vitamin A crops, say orange sweet potato to replace the locally grown sweet potato variety?
Why go to all the trouble of creating a new crop which is just a clone of an existing crop with a bit extra if it would cost the same to simply provide an additional crop?
Your cost claim is ridiculous. It costs a lot less to make a GMO than to fix a shitload of socioeconomic and political problems
Who says you can only start fixing poor diet once all the socioeconomic and political problems have been fixed? That's just dumb.
As for your corporate issue, this is developed by a university funded by a charity.
Is it really patent unencumbered? Just because Bill Gates is paying for its development doesn't prove it'll be free for farmers forever.
Perhaps you should RFTA before making assumptions. You've just justified the GP's post.
First of all the GP's post is a generalisation not related to this specific research, and secondly there's no detail in this article or anywhere else on how much it's going to cost and what, if any, strings will be attached to the deal.
Yeah, the actual argument used against this kind of GMO use is that it would cost the same to treat the root cause of the problem by teaching people to grow a wider range of crops and the importance of a balanced diet, rather than this stop-gap solution that provides no long-term change (they're still not eating a balanced diet) and makes people reliant on western industrial food conglomerates with extremely poor human rights records.
Got any non-strawman arguments against that?
You CAN blame the Africans as they are to busy killing themselves.
Talk about victim blaming, how about we blame colonial countries for pillaging natural resources, slicing land up into arbitrary countries, pitting ethnic groups against each other and generally forcing everyone to live in western style cities that are perfect for breeding malaria mosquitoes?
I can remember number.number.number.number.
I cannot remember ASDFDAVUDSFWSNASDCNACKEFADCKSA Which is also an IPV6 address
I can easily remember 10.0.0.0.1 as my new local 5-octet private subnet. But jeeze don't just add 500 alphabet characters expecting things to be the same.
You seem to not realise that IP6 has shorthand built in.
For example the IP6 address of Wikipedia is 2001:503:BA3E::2:30, not really that much harder than 91.198.174.192 is it?
Local subnets are even easier, fe80::1 is actually shorter than 10.0.0.0.1
As I said in a follow-up comment as I forgot to quote it first time:
Fossil fuel subsidies reached $90 billion in the OECD and over $500 billion globally in 2011.[1] Renewable energy subsidies reached $88 billion in 2011.
Whatever the source of that money, we are currently spending over 5x more on fossil fuel than on renewables which makes the argument that we're spending a lot of money on renewables and not seeing much in return pretty moot.
Oops, forgot to quote the figures
Fossil fuel subsidies reached $90 billion in the OECD and over $500 billion globally in 2011.[1] Renewable energy subsidies reached $88 billion in 2011.
With all the money that has been spent on global warming/climate change with little to no results do they think the American public will keep pushing billions their way with no results
All that moneyspent on climate change? The fossil fuel industry receives more subsidies than renewables by a wide margin (70% of US energy subsidies goes to fossil fuels).
Maybe if we didn't give the fossil fuel industry hundreds of billions of dollars every year it would be easier to meet emission targets?
Remind me, why did we give up CRTs again?
Probably because anything over around 40" inches was impossibly big and even small CRT TVs take up a lot more depth than gigantic flat panels.
For desk use LCDs offer much better sharpness, less flicker and again the smaller size makes large flat panels a lot more convenient than tiny CRT monitors.
Better response times too!
Ah I see, I had re-read the original slashdot post about it and misread it as a quote from the truecrypt audit project.
Enough time to rewrite the binaries, change the passwords, and disable the whole lot since it's all been compromised for years. Gets rid of a dangerous product, and pisses off the Feds without violating the terms of anything since TC is still available for download, just in a crippled form.
Well, the TrueCrypt audit project did manage to exactly recreate the binaries from the source file and so far haven't seen anything fishy in the source code other than some slightly weak encryption options making brute forcing of weak to medium strength passwords realistic.
I think you'll find that commercial derivative works, even if unauthorized, are fair use.
The commentary track and the act of actually playing the game is completely original work as the actions taken by the player are not scripted by Nintendo, therefore it's clearly a fair use derivative work as proven by countless legal precedents.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
