> Come on, taxpayers have to pay that back.

Taxpayers have to pay only if the city runs a loss.

The parent poster made some assumptions and came up with some numbers. I was just explaining to the parent poster what his/her numbers mean.

I am aware that there are factors not in the calculation, the interests on the bonds for one, the others include administrative and maintenance costs, like you said, or that not every internet-connected home in the city is a subscriber to the city network, etc.

Whether or not the city will need to use taxpayer money to pay back the bonds depends on whether the profit can cover those additional costs.

If the profit is enough, that means the network will have been paid back by its users only and not costing city taxpayers.

I do agree it is entirely possible that those costs end up higher though.

The city issued bonds, basically borrowed $143m to build the network. That means the $143m was not taxpayer money and not a cost to the taxpayers.

However, the city will need money to pay back the debt when the bonds mature.

This is where the $60/mo/home goes, towards paying back the $143m, not as a cost in addition to it.

Using your numbers, $143m works out to be $33/mo/home. So, each month the city actually runs a $60 - $33 = $27 profit per home.

From a resident of the city's perspective, he/she is paying $60/mo for internet, and since the city is running a profit, not only there is no hidden tax burden, he/she is possibly benefiting from a richer city government too, due to the existence of the network.

Forget about large monitors looking silly. As you realize, a large 43" UHD takes up the same desk space as two 22" FHD monitors, but displays 4 times as much due to the additional height, and you don't need to deal with the bezels.

Unfortunately the DPI is also the same. But if you go for a 30" UHD monitor you can get 146.86 DPI which is about 150% of a "normal" 96 DPI, not quite 200 or 300 but definitely can get more beautiful font rendering.

I look forward to the day of cheap, large, high DPI desktop monitors, but you can pretty much achieve 2 out of 3 nowadays, which is not so bad.

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I did not found this, read it somewhere :)

Is it like an inch, but defined by Apple?

When I use a CLI, I use a device with buttons distinguishable both visually and by touch. The keyboard is not a flat UI.

How about donating the current snapshot to a computer museum or a go association? If the hardware costs too much, perhaps do a crowdfunding campaign.

I'd say "the A.I. that beat the best human player" has some cultural value. Granted, the possibility of Google going under any time soon is very low, but this piece of great engineering achievement deserves a backup place of safekeeping to ensure it is not lost to the times.

https://opensource.org/history

The “open source” label was created at a strategy session held on February 3rd, 1998 in Palo Alto, California, shortly after the announcement of the release of the Netscape source code.

I have a TV that is capable of 3D. However I discovered that on the connected PC I can't play games in 3D unless I pay nVidia extra for their 3DTV Play software. It is the same deal with AMD too.
They're both now pushing VR which on the software side is pretty similar to 3D (having the game produce left / right eye images instead of a single one) and it seems you can get that for free?! What's the justification for that?

And my TV has HDMI 2.0 which has enough bandwidth for 4k@60Hz but somehow 3D is limited to only 1080p@24Hz / 720p@60Hz.

It makes me feel that both nVidia / AMD and the TV makers aren't serious about 3D and does just enough to make a tick on that feature checklist...

SATA 3 spec is defined as 6 GB/s

No, SATA 3 spec is defined as 6 Gbps, and with 8b/10b encoding, actual throughput 600MB/s max. Given that NVMe SSDs can run over 2000MB/s, SATA being a bottleneck is true.

Engineer: We've put $x million into user interface design so that the Note 5 is usable even by idiots.

Idiot: *Insert pen backwards*

Engineer: ARRRRRRRGH!!

Or perhaps there are problems with his house's electric power? Over-voltage, under-voltage, brownouts, frequent lightning strikes etc.

Or there's something wrong with the air. e.g. seaside salty moist air causing erosion.

Or even simpler, he just forget to shutdown the computer and cut the power directly!

Oops, the last sentence should of course read 'I am not aware of any organization that sends out patches ...'.

Is patch size usually a factor in determining whether to send out a patch or not?

In my experience, people update because a patch fixes some bugs or introduce some features they want. The size of the patch doesn't matter unless the user is severely bandwidth-limited.

For developers, patches are usually sent out on a schedule (e.g. Microsoft's patch Tuesday), when certain milestone is reached, or when a sufficiently dangerous bug is found and need to be fixed quickly. I am not any organization that sends out patches based on 'the size of the diffs accumulated so far', but please enlighten me if you know of one.

Not directly related to the Debian situation, but Mozilla could have instead trademarked 2 names, e.g. "Firefox Official" and "Firefox Unofficial" or somesuch. Only unmodified builds can be branded Firefox Official and builds based on Firefox code but modified CAN (not must) be branded Unofficial.

This way there is no need for every distribution/individual to come up with a new name when they modify Firefox and distribute the result.

Now we're in a potential situation that there'll be a dozen of differently-named browsers that all have similar functionality. This does not help the Firefox brand, but rather dilutes it IMHO.