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They are also glazing over the fact that the system uses millions of gallons of water per year.

That plus a combination of better insulation, triple glazing, and increased thermal mass would make better use of the energy.

Clicker questions and small group discussion about the answers gets students thinking rather than just sitting there with eyes glazing over.

But drafts, single-glazing and inadequate wall/ceiling insulation continue to waste enormous energies every winter.

When I start off by trying to define first-principles like implication and Boolean algebra, eyes start glazing over.

And the game does so while keeping things simple so you aren't spending your evening glazing over a 300 page 6502 programmer's manual.

My Uncle had one that ran pricing software for his double glazing business.

We have proper double-glazing (with decent glass), insulation, floor underlay etc.

My eyes started glazing over when he started doing math.

In the UK we have plenty of old houses where there is no central heating, double glazing, loft insulation or fitted carpet.

In both situations, money transfers from the shopkeeper to the glazier, the glazier does some glazing, and the shopkeeper ends up no better off than before.

This can be as simple as reskinning a building - switching to more high-performance glazing or adding insulation - to reduce the lighting and thermal loads.

For most people, eyes will start glazing around the second paragraph or so, which doesn't bode well for your "you just have to" argument.

Glazing over the fact that Qt has an incredibly complicated object hierarchy by saying "they're good for you" is not acknowledging the fact that it's complicated and difficult to learn or work with.

"Windows" is descriptive for glazing supplies so wouldn't be registrable.

"Windows" for software is distinctive and there is no public interest in it remaining free for anyone to use, unlike the case with the glazing example.