and so that font strokes can be an integer number of pixels wide without too much distortion.

For photos, yes, but for text you can still easily see the difference between 300dpi and 600dpi in plain black with no halftoning. Text rendering is a lot better when the stroke width is getting up around 3 or 4 pixels wide. It gives it a chance to actually look like the right font, rather than be hinted out of shape or anti-aliased into a blurry mess.

In the past it may have been a perjorative for the disabled in some limited circles, but since it's been the name of an image editor, the new meaning has replaced the old, thus making the world a slightly better place for the disabled.

Why not just include the tax and insurance as part of the fuel cost? That's even simpler still, and requires no tracking.

Around here, almost all tow trucks are tilt-tray: Just winch it on and drive off.

I doubt there'd be that many telsa vehicles in the backwater areas of the world that still tow vehicles with wheels on the ground.

In my RSS reader, under the title "Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct?" was an advertisement for a vehicle under the "Great Wall" brand. I wonder if they have "bad cars" as keywords for their ad placement.

Is there a difference between flying the helicopter, and flying bird shot by launching it from a shotgun? So then there was a collision between the two unmanned flying objects, and they both fell to the ground.

Surely there's a way of just scripting that. "The clock just turned 10am" etc...

In terms of Facebook, if you don't include your friends as "friends" on your work Facebook account, then they can't tag you in photos etc. - at least not in any way that links from that account. Currently, in the privacy settings you can also restrict who can see what you are tagged in by your Facebook "friends".

Basically, so long as you maintain separate personal and work accounts - and make sure you add people to the right one, then you should be ok. It does get a bit harder when there is significant overlap between the two: like if you wanted to include colleagues on your personal facebook account. In that case you'd have to agree only to add them as a friend to their personal Facebook account, and not their work account.

I think that was the intended point: 0.00001% of non-.xxx blocked, while 100% of .xxx blocked - it shows that companies using an xxx domain will also provide access via other TLDs as well

We ended up just opening up the windows to let the house warm up to a nice temperature. It's such a waste that the air conditioner keeps trying to cool the whole city to 20C, but dad pays the bills so that's his problem.

-- The Girls.

For some reason people tend to assume a proportional controller, and want to help it out doing its job.

People do this because they don't trust/understand the controller - especially understanding the amount of time it takes to respond to a setpoint change.

Back when A/C was simple, it would just run flat-out until it reached the setpoint, and then turn off until the hysteresis bound was crossed. But then they added inverters and the A/C might run an lower powers when it thought that might be a good thing: but sometimes gets it wrong. The solution was for the human to override it by setting a stupid setpoint so the stupid smart A/C might actually do what they want.

Adding extra layers of complexity to the thermostat may overcome the A/C controller limitations, but on the other hand might just make it so unpredictable that people want to override it more.

I thought it already was banned in the developed world.

Unique names do help in searching for issues relating to a particular release.