Sounds nice, but...

What if the wife gives in, you then have kids, and 6 to 18 months after birth (or whatever is the time for vaccination), she changes her mind? I've seen it happen...

What if she changes her mind, tries to re-discuss the issue with her husband, finds she can't convince him, and only pretends to give in. She says she'll bring the child to vaccination, but in reality, she doesn't. She just lies to her husband.

The problem is: if a mother firmly believes that this is in the best interest of her child, and if she believes vaccination poses a risk to her beloved little child, then those feelings are so overwhelming, there's nothing she can do to fight them.

I've seen it happen...

Same in The Netherlands. Hand position 9-3 is soooo old and well-established, I was amazed to read an article about this on /. .

The situation is the same in other European countries I visited.

I do admit that I haven't yet visited all countries.

A trench of 50 cm or narrower doesn't really hurt when the sidewalk is about 2 meters wide. It was only a minor nuisance.

Where people could be expected to want to cross the trench, they made wooden "bridges" every 100 meters or so.

I'm in The Netherlands.

This question may just show that I'm from Europe... But I really wonder: why use utility poles at all? What's the reason? Here, almost all cities and towns got a fibre-optic network during the last three years. I too have a fibre connection in my home, just like the rest of my town. During all of these activities, utility poles weren't even considered. It was clear from the start that the fibres would go underground. Everywhere. So narrow (50cm or narrower - that's about 1 to 1,5 feet for non-/. readers) trenches were dug in every sidewalk. Where roads had to be crossed, a kind of horizontal drill was used. The same for going from the street to my house: a narrow hole was drilled under my front garden, leaving no visible trace of the fibre. (Actually, it may have been more "pushing" than "drilling", but that's a minor technical detail). I'm just saying - im my state of mind, going underground is just sooooo logical, that alternatives weren't even considered. Why is it so different in the USA?

That's what I thought when I read this poll - why is /. asking this more than a whole week after the fact?

Why rent a car?

Here (The Netherlands), we've got the so-called Train Cab. Goes like this: you buy your train ticket plus a train-cab ticket. When you get off the train, you walk to the train-cab stand and get in the cab. It's a shared cab - it will drive as soon as it's full, or as soon as the first passenger is waiting for ten minutes, whichever happens first. The driver selects the best route to deliver all passengers to their destinations.

Alternative is the train bike. For a small fee, you rent a bike at the train station.

The reason for input lag is that manufacturers want the on-screen image to quickly change without ghosting. Here, quickly means "in as few ms as possible", not "without delay". So if you see a change only two seconds later, but the change is instantaneous, that's considered good.

To achieve this, the display electronics must know what the next frames look like. So they buffer two or three frames, then adapt the overdrive on a per-pixel basis to the contents of the next few frames.

Pro: smoother video playing
Con: a delay of two or three frames

Rotaluclac

I really thought this was common knowledge.

When I bought my Eizo LCD last summer, the first thing I did was read around. These issues came up immediately.

Long story short: Prad was my friend.

Rotaluclac

My girlfriend and their neighbours (living in Germany) built this system for their houses too. In summer, heat from the Sun is stored directly underneath the houses. In winter, the hot soil is used to heat water and to heat the house itself. If soil temperature drops too much, a heat pump is used. That's of course powered by the photovoltaic cells on the roof. Rotaluclac

... would increase my latency too.