Why can companies not come up with decent code names. For instance, this would be the perfect case for it being codenamed "Beowulf".
They're using geographical names (cities, places, lakes, rivers) to avoid having to register the codename as a trademark. Geographical names can't be trademarked so no one will use your codename for his trademark.
Don't you mean "much less"? It seems to me that producing meat in a factory, once the production processes are fine-tuned and volume increased, will cost far LESS than growing real animals. Less energy would be needed (you wouldn't have to grow a lot of food to feed animals), and the meat would be produced far more quickly, and most importantly, far less labor would be needed: no cowboys, farm hands, etc.
Just like using mechanized agricultural equipment is far cheaper and more efficient than using slaves in farming, producing meat in factories promises to be cheaper and more efficient, and as a by-product, eliminating animal suffering as well.
Also probably no need for vaccinating (because it will never leave the vat on its own), probably no waste disposal, no stench of the large scale farms, etc.
Also importantly, it'd be possible to create many types of meat cheaply that currently are very expensive due to small supply: filet minion cuts of beef, copper river salmon, veal, Kobe beef, etc. Think about how little filet minion there is per cow versus all the other cuts (and the waste products); never again would people have to eat "stew beef", as everyone could have filet minion, since it probably wouldn't cost any more to make than a synthetic version of a cheaper cut.
Even better: we could artificially grow game, bush meat, or even the illegal meat of the endangered species! Wouldn't you like to taste a Panda Burger? Or a Lion Steak? Or a crunchy wing of a White Eagle?
I'm sure that China government would sacrifice only 1 Panda foetus to earn millions of dollars on Panda Burgers without risking the extinction of the species:)
API is stable. ABI isn't. Every program distributed as source will be compatible with every future version of Linux (at least the 2.6.x series). Only those distributed as binary won't be compatible.
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Why can companies not come up with decent code names. For instance, this would be the perfect case for it being codenamed "Beowulf".
They're using geographical names (cities, places, lakes, rivers) to avoid having to register the codename as a trademark. Geographical names can't be trademarked so no one will use your codename for his trademark.
Don't you mean "much less"? It seems to me that producing meat in a factory, once the production processes are fine-tuned and volume increased, will cost far LESS than growing real animals. Less energy would be needed (you wouldn't have to grow a lot of food to feed animals), and the meat would be produced far more quickly, and most importantly, far less labor would be needed: no cowboys, farm hands, etc.
Just like using mechanized agricultural equipment is far cheaper and more efficient than using slaves in farming, producing meat in factories promises to be cheaper and more efficient, and as a by-product, eliminating animal suffering as well.
Also probably no need for vaccinating (because it will never leave the vat on its own), probably no waste disposal, no stench of the large scale farms, etc.
Also importantly, it'd be possible to create many types of meat cheaply that currently are very expensive due to small supply: filet minion cuts of beef, copper river salmon, veal, Kobe beef, etc. Think about how little filet minion there is per cow versus all the other cuts (and the waste products); never again would people have to eat "stew beef", as everyone could have filet minion, since it probably wouldn't cost any more to make than a synthetic version of a cheaper cut.
Even better: we could artificially grow game, bush meat, or even the illegal meat of the endangered species! Wouldn't you like to taste a Panda Burger? Or a Lion Steak? Or a crunchy wing of a White Eagle? I'm sure that China government would sacrifice only 1 Panda foetus to earn millions of dollars on Panda Burgers without risking the extinction of the species :)
Why in hell would they want to sell the Sun hardware business to HP when they have just started to advertise it? See http://www.oracle.com/features/sunoraclefaster.html
API is stable. ABI isn't. Every program distributed as source will be compatible with every future version of Linux (at least the 2.6.x series). Only those distributed as binary won't be compatible.
This BSOD was set up on purpose - it was a part of the decoration. See http://blog.internetnews.com/apatrizio/2008/09/the-fail-er-joke-is-on-the-web.html