>We, europeans see you like living in a police state

Do you live in the UK? I'd love for you to be from the UK, as that would be really rich. I'm surprised the UK hasn't mandated cameras strapped to the head of every citizen yet.

>Life in America is much worse nowadays than most of the rest of the world.

Bullfuckingshit. I've travelled the world. There's only a few places I'd love to live more than America, and those places aren't very practical places to live.

I haven't seen Into Darkness but a lot of this review covered what was painfully realized in the first movie: no longer is Trek about philosophy, ethics, tolerance, gray areas and real world problems. It's mostly absolute good versus absolute evil. I think the driving force behind the bad guy in the first movie was largely a misunderstanding ... which is incredibly boring. His motivation was confusingly laughable.

Unsurprisingly I'm pretty sure I heard JJ Abrams tell Jon Stewart that "he never liked Star Trek" on The Daily Show. Well, now he's had a chance to kill it by turning it 100% into a modern day blockbuster action flick and shirking any attempt to tackle an interesting philosophical or ethical dilemma as the main plot. As the modern reemergence of comic book and super hero movies have shown, those films are a dime a dozen that anyone can do. Tackling something deeper while still holding our attention is the hard part. The Watchmen was a good candidate for it but fell short. I'm sure JJ Abrams would rather cover up the complicated parts that question good versus evil with another lens flare.

Yep. I made the mistake of watching the 2009 Star Trek. It was a disaster of a movie. A lot of people have told me they think it's a good movie, just not a good Trek movie, but I don't think it's even a very good movie on its own rights. Horrible plot. Horrible characterization. Horrible product placement.

>I bet you that they have immunity of some sort. That is the problem

Sure, so maybe you won't get the legislators thrown in jail (unless you can prove bribery by the red light cam companies), but a reasonably unbribed judge should throw out the lessened yellow light delays and overturn the tickets.

That's exactly what happened here in San Diego when the exact same thing happened. We've since removed red light cams entirely.

Baldur's Gate stored various things as unsigned shorts, IIRC.

There was a monster called the nishruu that would drain charges off your magic items. So after one combat, I found I now had a charged magic item with 32,000-ish charges on it.

Since the gold value of magic items was proportional to the number of charges remaining, I sold it and never needed to worry about money again in the game.

The actual reason for this happening is that Microsoft's renderer heavily clamps the font's outline to be on pixel boundaries. The point at the top of an "i" literally becomes a square, nothing to do with having fewer shades available.

They actually changed this in Vista, with DirectWrite adding support for sub-pixel rendering (basically, removing the clamping). Many people reacted badly to it because it made things look a bit less sharp in the same way you dislike FreeType, and so very few apps actually turn this feature on.

Some particularly problematic scenes involving mostly a single color should still benefit, but I tend to agree especially for movie watching. The real purpose of moving to 10-bit components is to accommodate the ~3x larger gamut without introducing banding compared to 8-bit.

Except every 4K/8K UHDTV broadcast will be using Rec. 2020, in this wide gamut, and cameras have been able to capture images outside of the sRGB gamut for some time. The content will exist.

Right. This is because the de-facto standard 8-bit output is sRGB. These monitors are doing something outside of this standard and require proper color management to make things look correct.

The difference here is that we've got a fairly clean slate with 10-/12-bit UHDTV and Rec. 2020. There's no reason for any device to assume sending sRGB in this case will give the correct results. The TVs/monitors will use it. The content will use it. HEVC has a Main 10 profile added specifically for use with UHDTV.

With 10-bit processing you should be able to do color management without any perceptible loss in quality.

4K/8K will sell UHDTV. But the best benefit, a gem rarely mentioned: it features a hugely increased gamut and 10 or 12-bit (10-bit mandatory minimum) component depth. The image will look more life-like than any of the common TVs available today, and it won't be relegated to photographers and graph designers: it'll be standard.

Don't forget Serious Sam 3, who's DRM manifested as an invulnerable pink scorpion.

This is what happens when games are made by gamers. It's mainly the big, long-disconnected companies that think DRM will save their games from pirates; everyone else just acknowledges it with a little fun.

I used jmce for simulation - 8051s are all different enough that chances are you'll have to hack on you simulator (and configure sdcc) to match the memory layout and dptr/p2 weirdness of your particular variant

yes I think SDCC is the only real OS 8051 solution - I've been through this same process looking for tools for a cc2533 recently and this is what I've found works it's not gcc, and 8051 is a crap target, you have to code with all the memory hierarchies in mind.

Of course it has an effect.

But shutting down a lane of the I-5 or the I-405 is much worse.

>Or maybe it's because there are 7 million more people in LA County than in Orange County?

Yes, because there is such a massive leap in population density when you hit the LA County border. That must explain it!

Orange County is part of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, so it serves as a good natural experiment demonstrating the effects the different policies have had since the 1970s.

Orange County has bad traffic. Los Angeles has indescribably shitty traffic.

>Auto travel does not scale efficiently and over the long term LA is going to have to significantly improve its mass transit (ie subway, light rail, street cars NOT buses) to have any chance of improving congestion.

Yeah, see that's the nice thing about empirical evidence. It shows you're completely full of it. Orange County was able to scale its freeways and has maintained a consistently busy but usable road network. LA is still using the same roads from 40 years ago, a fact that is lost on idiots like you that think it is "proof" that roads do not scale.

Of course, you might be right insofar as they've gone so far down the rabbit hole, they have no chance to dig themselves out now. It'd probably be a billion dollars (that they don't have) just to fix the I-5/I-10 interchange.

"The 405 Freeway runs from the northern end of the San Fernando Valley all the way down to El Torro and runs by LAX."

And is a complete and total piece of shit. Unlike Orange County, which has been upgrading its road network for the last 40 years, LA in the 1970s diverted money away from roads and into mass transit systems (subway, light rail, bus). The net result is the completely clogged arteries of the city, which its vaunted bus network needs dedicated lanes to even barely function in.

Everyone knows when they reach the boundary between OC and LA. Going one way, it opens up from 25MPH to 85MPH. Coming the other way, it slams down from 85MPH to 25MPH.

Also, it's spelled El Toro.