I have always preferred: "If you have to read the label to see what is in something its probably not good for you."
Another good one is: "If your grandfather would not recognize it as food, don't eat it." Though with ethnic food these days you might say "If someones grandfather would not recognize it as food..."
Rice and beans provides a complete protein, no meat necessary. In much of the world it was the staple diet for a long time. In many places it still is.
You get variety by adding different spices. You can make a vegetarian chili with rice and beans or a curry. You could add any number of herbs and spices to provide a different flavor over the same base.
If you really still want meat, you can have it. Add a small amount of ground beef (or better yet, chicken) to that chili to add extra flavor and texture and its still a healthy and inexpensive meal and once in a while there is no harm in having a nice steak or a chicken dinner or some fish. You just do it in moderation and you always have a variety of simple, inexpensive frozen meals to choose from for lunch or for when you just don't feel like cooking during the week
Oh come on, I can feed a family of 4 a healthy dinner of chicken, rice and a vegetable for around 10-15 bucks and there would probably be leftovers. Never mind the huge batch of soup you could make from the carcass and a few bucks worth of vegetables and noodles. A whole chicken is inexpensive and goes a very long way in terms of meals per dollar.
When I make a meal like this I end up freezing a huge amount of the soup for later consumption on nights when I don't feel like spending my time cooking. It has helped me cut down on the number of times I order expensive and not as healthy food from the local take out places.
Every time I walk into an Apple store there is someone dedicated to directing me to what I need. Checking me in for the genius bar, directing me to the area with the product I am looking for and connecting me with a sales person if necessary. It doesn't seem to matter how busy it is or how quickly I enter and B-line to the genius bar or a product, they always make a point of asking.
You could always go ask that guy for whatever help you need, no matter how busy the store is.
True, it is pretty awesome, but I still believe that hot spot use will increase and ultimately carriers will have to provide the feature either very cheaply or at no extra charge. As it is on AT&T its 20 bucks but comes with an extra 2GB of data.... I would rather just buy the data I need (because with the limited amount of tethering I do I wouldn't use 4GB in a month) but I suspect that, as this feature becomes more common on more phones and through more providers, the cost will drop and your phone will be the only cellular deceive you have to carry.
Of course with the AT&T / T-Mobile merger this might not happen as quickly as I had hoped.
My company's hardware is assembled in China, however, many of the base electrical components, switches, capacitors and such, are manufactured in Japan. The assembly lines in China cant build what we need if they can't get the parts.
It didn't come out to quite 50 a month for me (or my girlfriend). I got the 2GB data plan through AT&T with the least minuets and the cost increase was something like 20 bucks over my previous Verizon plan (of course if you have a cheep provider you will have different results) but honestly I havent been using that much 3G data. I could have been fine with the 200mb option that my girlfriend went for.
Of course to hot spot costs extra (ridiculous) and requires a higher cap so that would add up.
That number is native apps, not scaled up iPhone apps, there were way more than 2000 iPhone apps when the iPad came out and they all scaled up to run on the iPad... but who pays money to buy a tablet to run phone apps. Its the native apps that are interesting.
To some extent you are right, but the iPad had a lot of third party applications available at launch. Apple provided the development tools necessary well before the actual launch of the iPad while Google only released theirs just before the Xoom came out.
What I think it comes down to is that the Xoom came out before the OS was really ready and they are suffering for it. Hopefully by the time another Honeycomb tablet comes out there will be more apps available, but I think this was a mistake on the part of Motorola and to some extent, Google.
Of course another big part of this is that Apple designed iOS for a tablet first, before they started designing an iPhone (tablet hardware was not available or cheep enough to build the iPad) so the OS and UI was already designed to scale up to tablet size. Google started from a phone and had to change a lot to take advantage of the tablet form factor.
I suspect that, in the mid term, selling tablets through networks will not be the way to go. I know some people who have the 3G iPad, but honestly its hard to justify the cost when Wifi is pretty damn available and you can even use your phone as a hot spot. Its hard to justify a second contract ( the iPad month by month model is better, but still why bother if your phone can be a hotspot). In the long run I think less expensive WiFi only tablets will be the way to go and they will be sold at best buy rather than at AT&T.
Its relevant because he claims to be struggling. If congress folks were paid, say 70K a year it might be more understandable but at $174 which is much higher than the average family in America its hard not to see him as an ass, especially while his party is attempting to drive down the salary of folks who are getting by on a lot less money right now in order to save enough money to have tax cuts for people like themselves.
I haven't had much of a chance to play with WP7 but I suspect that, even more than android, its UI is not ideal for a tablet. With Honeycomb Google totally reworked the UI to take advantage of a big screen and I think that was a good call based on the way android is laid out on a phone. It works for a tablet, but the new UI seems better. I suspect MS would have to do the same thing with WP7 because while their UI seems pretty good for a phone, I'm not sure it would scale.
For basic commands, particularly in combination with household control, voice control make a lot of sense. Entering a room and saying "lights 75%. Play The Beatles" is a lot easier than even pulling out a smart phone, opening the lighting controls and activating the lights (assuming the system can tell what room you are in) and then opening up the music player and bringing up the desired track.
Of course for something like surfing the web, other than for maybe an inital search, Ill probably take keyboard and mouse over voice control and obviously more complex work makes voice control a waste of time.
I think what a lot of people here fail to realize is that computers finally are becoming appliances. Sure, for some there will always be "real work" but more and more your house will be filled with appliances that are, or contain, general purpose computers and these sorts of things have to work well and have very easy controls. There will be a day when voice control (and possibly gestures) will be a big part of this, but the tech isn't there yet, it either doesn't work well enough (often true of voice control) or its too expensive to justify (home automation). But then the technology for a good tablet didn't exist 10 years ago but that didnt stop people from trying it out.
Just because people rush bad ports of games to market does not mean that this cannot be done properly. It is done all the time outside of the gaming world and people often do a better job because they intend to continue selling the product for more than 6 months and might have to maintain the code to make new versions so there is more incentive to do a good job.
Because Japan has 2 incompatible power grids a large scale transformer is apparently what would have been necessary to hook up those generators and I guess they didn't have any sitting around. The generators from this part of the country (the ones that would have worked) were likely mostly damaged in the Tsunami and the ones that were not are probably keeping the lights on in hospitals and such.
The gas tax will hopefully result in more and more people using electric vehicles which is good, but what if everyone switched over to electric ( a long way off of course) then there would be no money collected via the gas tax, but those electric vehicles still do damage to roads and those roads still need to be maintained. I'm not sure we are there yet, but ultimately something else is going to have to pay for those roads. In this case we will need to have a per mile tax to support those roads or come up with some other source of income to keep those roads usable.
I'm not convinced that high mileage vehicles are common enough to justify this right now, but I hope that one day they will be.
I believe the idea is that the app will only stream to you (based on your login credentials) when your IP address matches the IP address for the account you used to log in to the streaming server.
So you could be in your neighbors house on your wifi if you are close together enough but then you probably could have run a coaxial cable in that case and used a regular TV.
I you really still believe that Microsoft " propped up" apple with a few million dollars when Apple had Billions in the bank then its really not worth listening to your opinion of what was going on 10 years ago. You clearly weren't paying very close attention.
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I have always preferred: "If you have to read the label to see what is in something its probably not good for you."
Another good one is: "If your grandfather would not recognize it as food, don't eat it." Though with ethnic food these days you might say "If someones grandfather would not recognize it as food..."
Rice and beans provides a complete protein, no meat necessary. In much of the world it was the staple diet for a long time. In many places it still is.
You get variety by adding different spices. You can make a vegetarian chili with rice and beans or a curry. You could add any number of herbs and spices to provide a different flavor over the same base.
If you really still want meat, you can have it. Add a small amount of ground beef (or better yet, chicken) to that chili to add extra flavor and texture and its still a healthy and inexpensive meal and once in a while there is no harm in having a nice steak or a chicken dinner or some fish. You just do it in moderation and you always have a variety of simple, inexpensive frozen meals to choose from for lunch or for when you just don't feel like cooking during the week
Can't is pretty damn rare. Don't or won't is your own problem.
Oh come on, I can feed a family of 4 a healthy dinner of chicken, rice and a vegetable for around 10-15 bucks and there would probably be leftovers. Never mind the huge batch of soup you could make from the carcass and a few bucks worth of vegetables and noodles. A whole chicken is inexpensive and goes a very long way in terms of meals per dollar.
When I make a meal like this I end up freezing a huge amount of the soup for later consumption on nights when I don't feel like spending my time cooking. It has helped me cut down on the number of times I order expensive and not as healthy food from the local take out places.
Every time I walk into an Apple store there is someone dedicated to directing me to what I need. Checking me in for the genius bar, directing me to the area with the product I am looking for and connecting me with a sales person if necessary. It doesn't seem to matter how busy it is or how quickly I enter and B-line to the genius bar or a product, they always make a point of asking.
You could always go ask that guy for whatever help you need, no matter how busy the store is.
True, it is pretty awesome, but I still believe that hot spot use will increase and ultimately carriers will have to provide the feature either very cheaply or at no extra charge. As it is on AT&T its 20 bucks but comes with an extra 2GB of data.... I would rather just buy the data I need (because with the limited amount of tethering I do I wouldn't use 4GB in a month) but I suspect that, as this feature becomes more common on more phones and through more providers, the cost will drop and your phone will be the only cellular deceive you have to carry.
Of course with the AT&T / T-Mobile merger this might not happen as quickly as I had hoped.
My company's hardware is assembled in China, however, many of the base electrical components, switches, capacitors and such, are manufactured in Japan. The assembly lines in China cant build what we need if they can't get the parts.
It didn't come out to quite 50 a month for me (or my girlfriend). I got the 2GB data plan through AT&T with the least minuets and the cost increase was something like 20 bucks over my previous Verizon plan (of course if you have a cheep provider you will have different results) but honestly I havent been using that much 3G data. I could have been fine with the 200mb option that my girlfriend went for.
Of course to hot spot costs extra (ridiculous) and requires a higher cap so that would add up.
That number is native apps, not scaled up iPhone apps, there were way more than 2000 iPhone apps when the iPad came out and they all scaled up to run on the iPad... but who pays money to buy a tablet to run phone apps. Its the native apps that are interesting.
To some extent you are right, but the iPad had a lot of third party applications available at launch. Apple provided the development tools necessary well before the actual launch of the iPad while Google only released theirs just before the Xoom came out.
What I think it comes down to is that the Xoom came out before the OS was really ready and they are suffering for it. Hopefully by the time another Honeycomb tablet comes out there will be more apps available, but I think this was a mistake on the part of Motorola and to some extent, Google.
Of course another big part of this is that Apple designed iOS for a tablet first, before they started designing an iPhone (tablet hardware was not available or cheep enough to build the iPad) so the OS and UI was already designed to scale up to tablet size. Google started from a phone and had to change a lot to take advantage of the tablet form factor.
I suspect that, in the mid term, selling tablets through networks will not be the way to go. I know some people who have the 3G iPad, but honestly its hard to justify the cost when Wifi is pretty damn available and you can even use your phone as a hot spot. Its hard to justify a second contract ( the iPad month by month model is better, but still why bother if your phone can be a hotspot). In the long run I think less expensive WiFi only tablets will be the way to go and they will be sold at best buy rather than at AT&T.
Its relevant because he claims to be struggling. If congress folks were paid, say 70K a year it might be more understandable but at $174 which is much higher than the average family in America its hard not to see him as an ass, especially while his party is attempting to drive down the salary of folks who are getting by on a lot less money right now in order to save enough money to have tax cuts for people like themselves.
I'm sure you could at least find out where to get your teeth whitened.
I haven't had much of a chance to play with WP7 but I suspect that, even more than android, its UI is not ideal for a tablet. With Honeycomb Google totally reworked the UI to take advantage of a big screen and I think that was a good call based on the way android is laid out on a phone. It works for a tablet, but the new UI seems better. I suspect MS would have to do the same thing with WP7 because while their UI seems pretty good for a phone, I'm not sure it would scale.
For basic commands, particularly in combination with household control, voice control make a lot of sense. Entering a room and saying "lights 75%. Play The Beatles" is a lot easier than even pulling out a smart phone, opening the lighting controls and activating the lights (assuming the system can tell what room you are in) and then opening up the music player and bringing up the desired track.
Of course for something like surfing the web, other than for maybe an inital search, Ill probably take keyboard and mouse over voice control and obviously more complex work makes voice control a waste of time.
I think what a lot of people here fail to realize is that computers finally are becoming appliances. Sure, for some there will always be "real work" but more and more your house will be filled with appliances that are, or contain, general purpose computers and these sorts of things have to work well and have very easy controls. There will be a day when voice control (and possibly gestures) will be a big part of this, but the tech isn't there yet, it either doesn't work well enough (often true of voice control) or its too expensive to justify (home automation). But then the technology for a good tablet didn't exist 10 years ago but that didnt stop people from trying it out.
Just because people rush bad ports of games to market does not mean that this cannot be done properly. It is done all the time outside of the gaming world and people often do a better job because they intend to continue selling the product for more than 6 months and might have to maintain the code to make new versions so there is more incentive to do a good job.
Just because you can't port a control scheme doesn't mean you don't want to be able to bring over your engine.
Its nice hardware and his company paid for it... who really cares.
Seriously, get yourself a copy of BBEdit for christs sake.
Of course you are more than welcome to use Emacs if you want, or vi or even pico if your a little strange.
For that problem you set up a windows install in a virtual machine.
Because Japan has 2 incompatible power grids a large scale transformer is apparently what would have been necessary to hook up those generators and I guess they didn't have any sitting around. The generators from this part of the country (the ones that would have worked) were likely mostly damaged in the Tsunami and the ones that were not are probably keeping the lights on in hospitals and such.
The toppings contain potassium benzoate....
The gas tax will hopefully result in more and more people using electric vehicles which is good, but what if everyone switched over to electric ( a long way off of course) then there would be no money collected via the gas tax, but those electric vehicles still do damage to roads and those roads still need to be maintained. I'm not sure we are there yet, but ultimately something else is going to have to pay for those roads. In this case we will need to have a per mile tax to support those roads or come up with some other source of income to keep those roads usable.
I'm not convinced that high mileage vehicles are common enough to justify this right now, but I hope that one day they will be.
I believe the idea is that the app will only stream to you (based on your login credentials) when your IP address matches the IP address for the account you used to log in to the streaming server.
So you could be in your neighbors house on your wifi if you are close together enough but then you probably could have run a coaxial cable in that case and used a regular TV.
I you really still believe that Microsoft " propped up" apple with a few million dollars when Apple had Billions in the bank then its really not worth listening to your opinion of what was going on 10 years ago. You clearly weren't paying very close attention.
You see only what you want to see.