That doesn't help when you have access to someone else's computer for a half hour a week, with no privilege to install software, but would potentially have access to your own Raspberry Pi for an hour or more per day.

If you happen not to be able to afford a new TV, then you'll have to use the CRT SDTV that you already own or can get at a pawn shop. Good luck working at close to 320x240* like they used to back in the days of 8-bit microcomputers, as that's all a standard-definition NTSC TV can display through composite.

* True, analog video doesn't have discrete horizontal pixels, but composite video does have a luma-chroma crossover filter at 3 MHz, and sampling luma at the Nyquist rate of 6 MHz over the 47 microsecond width of the title safe area produces about 280 usable pixels. And though SDTV is 480i, interlace produces far more objectionable flicker in text than the nonstandard 240p mode used by pre-Dreamcast game consoles.

But I'd bet it is required to license one or more of the "HDMI" trademark, the patented connector shape, and the patented signaling mechanism.

New ones do, I'll grant. Used TVs at pawn shops and charity shops still don't. I see CRT SDTVs in local charity shops that don't even have composite in; all they have is RF, with an analog tuner that only picks up low-power stations exempt from the switchoff.

Poverty might increase where there's no wind and little sun, I'll grant.

Or electric power from wind, PV, or solar thermal.

Thinking petroleum is the only way to make fertilizer is both bullshit and batshit. Literally.

There are alternatives as strong as chemicals.

Or maybe we could eat the bugs too. There's a reason food is called "grub": insects have protein.

I had compressed memory on a Mac nearly two decades ago in the 7.5.x days with Connectix RAM Doubler. Did OS X just get native compressed memory after Connectix's patents ran out?

As I understand it, that's because bitrate peeling drastically reduced the "analog-like noise" advantage of vector quantization over the more warbly scalar quantization used in MP3. But with several Moore's law doublings of transistor count since the release of Vorbis, reencoding shouldn't be quite as painful anymore.

Then Germany needs to start exporting to the United States and other markets outside the euro zone. The whole USA, roughly comparable in population to the euro zone, shares one dollar; why doesn't it collapse?

Unless the prices rise so sharply that the rise destabilizes governments.

The other markets would buy things and export other things back to us. That's what trade is supposed to be about. Under the Balassa-Samuelson model, the quickest way to increase a currency's value is to ramp up export production. If all were net exporters, on the other hand...

Should oil prices rise and remain high, producers of wind turbines, PV panels, solar thermal collectors, storage batteries, and maintenance services for same can get rich.

Would you prefer to consume everything so that your children have nothing left to consume?

And because Android allows multiple competing web browsers to compete for standards support, it picks up support for these standards sooner than iPhone. Firefox for Android appears to support WebGL as of version 24 according to this table. Safari and Safari wrappers, on the other hand, support standards only once Apple makes the business decision to no longer deliberately exclude them. For example, iOS supports WebGL, but only in iAds approved by Apple. The limits of Safari and Safari wrappers appear calculated to encourage application developers to buy an additional computer and a developer license and develop a native application instead of not buying a Mac, not buying a developer license, and developing a web application instead.

The universe will die of heat death "eventually". To exaggerate slightly less, anyone can make an iPhone "eventually" once copyright in iOS expires. To exaggerate even less, if I eat "eventually", I will die of starvation first. People making applications for the phones that exist now need to eat now. I was referring to the foreseeable future, not 95 years from now.

By the time MultiFinder was made mandatory in System 7, Windows 3 was doing the same cooperative multitasking that Mac OS would continue for nearly the next decade.

So what's the best practice for a web site to use all 116em* of a 1920x1200 monitor's active width without making the main text column wider than the 30-36em** that's best for readability?

* Assuming the default font size of 16px per em, minus 2em for scrollbars and 2em for outer margins.
** Assuming the 80-character line length and just over 2 characters per em.