The latest Roku Ultra does support AV1. It's ironic that no Google devices support AV1. https://www.roku.com/products/... https://developers.google.com/...

Reading the article you link, I could only find statements that old mature forests might not absorb carbon as much due to soil nutrients being limited. Where does it say the forest could be a positive producer or carbon?

I engineer avionics in far more challenging environments and longer required lifetimes. There's nothing preventing current generation photolithography from working in automobiles. Chip packaging and system design play a far larger role in determining successful operation. Any argument against today's IC feature sizes at ground level altitudes is incorrect.

This study only had a sample size of 20. While it makes a good point, more research is probably needed. Public understanding of climate change terminology

I think everyone should learn to program because it can used to be to teach formal logic and structured problem solving in an applied manner. I think that this will help in many areas of life, not just proficiency in using a computer.

It is of course a mere coincidence that this highly successful and entirely voluntary program, which has saved US consumers billions of dollars over its existence, far more than the actual program cost or cost to manufacturers, was also responsible for rating several of Don The Con's properties as being in the bottom 10% of all rated structures from an energy efficiency standpoint, just because those structures happened to be highly inefficient with their energy usage. That got the program on his Enemies List. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/25/...

I think a study of history would find that that we stand on the shoulders of giants in computing and too often claim old ideas as new. Indeed many useful implementations did exist. We should not use our inability to access something as an excuse to not recognize the amazing contributions of those before us.

Sorry, I wish I could converse more, but spring is coming and I have a lawn to prepare.

History of Parallel Computing https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca...

History of Virtualization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Mother of All Demos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

History of the Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

History of Programming Languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Seems like Manning got taken to task and that didn't even involve top secret data.

'Compactness' is not a remotely optimal means of determining whether a district is gerrymandered or not. Republicans want 'compactness' to be the standard because Democrats are more likely to be clustered in dense cities, where 'compact' lines will cause 'packing' automatically. Maintaining communities of interest has an actual benefit, allowing people with a shared community to select their representation. They're not mutually exclusive; states with a non-partisan redistricting process usually do better at finding a happy medium, with relatively geometric-shaped districts that preserve communities.

It's not solely due to gerrymandering; Democrats also have a less efficient distribution naturally, with many densely-populated heavily-Democratic areas that can't be 'unpacked.' There's not really any way to draw the lines in the state of New York, for example, to take advantage of the massive Democratic population in the city of New York; a district in Brooklyn or something might vote 90% for a Democratic candidate, but that means there's about 40% of a district's worth of Democrats whose votes are just surplus there for the local race, even as it makes statewide races lopsided affairs.

Actually, most states just go with the plurality winner on a fixed date. I know Louisiana and Georgia do require an outright majority and do hold a runoff, but Montana and Alaska (just to name a couple) have recently had winners with under 50%, for example. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska won with under 40% as a write-in in 2010, even.

Because it relies on the definition of when the result of a sperm and an ovum combining changes from 'potential human being' to ' actual human being.' If you believe that it's a human being the instant the sperm meets the ovum, then you consider any abortion to be murder. If you prefer to use viability as your standard, then anything up to the point where the fetus could reasonably survive on its own is still 'potential' and therefore medical treatment is the woman's choice. At that point it's a philosophical and practical dispute, because the definition of a fundamental term is not agreed upon.

My I suggest Ada with just defined profiles?

FAA has an airworthiness directive (not safet to fly) against certain cockpit displays in the 777 and 787 because susceptibility to WiFi causing the displays to blank. No always the passenger's device the FAA is worried about not being made correctly. http://blog.apex.aero/ife/faa-highlights-emi-safety-concerns-eve-expected-relaxation-rules-ped/

From the research paper:

The lexicon has entries for about 24,200 word–sense pairs. The information from different senses of a word is combined by taking the union of all emotions associated with the different senses of the word. This resulted in a word-level emotion association lexicon for about 14,200 word types. These files are together referred to as the NRC Emotion Lexicon version 0.92.