Anecdotal evidence: I bought a Nexus 7 2012 for my wife exactly the day Lollipop was released. It had 4.1 on it, or something. It offered OTA updates for several versions all the way to 4.4.4 that evening, and 3 days later offered a Lollipop update which I promptly accepted. Went on without a hitch, now she has a great, responsive tablet.
Neither. I'm a fairly successful employee, considering the country I am from. The only downside is that I was born in what you would call a third world country, and that prevents me from earning what you'd call a reasonable salary.
Yes, Yes and I'm not doing it because people in the USA yell off the top of their lungs if a company hires people from outside the 'states. Disclaimer: I do NOT want to move to the US, so yeah, you'd be safe from getting another filthy immigrant, as they say.
Hell, they could hire me for 50K a year and that way they'll have a 50% salary reduction for that position while I would make 4 times the amount I'm making now, working for an USA-based company. Batshit crazy, ain't it?
How much is a disappeared citizen worth, exactly? I'm bad at math so please humor me. More money is spent each DAY on beauty products worldwide than on the entire cost of looking for '370 up to date. Wasted food in the USA costs 40B a year for households alone (Jones, Timothy. Corner on Food Loss. Biocycle, July 2005. p25). Compared to those numbers, looking for 239 missing people is pocket change.
From a different perspective (that is, excluding money from the equation), I agree with you, and that perspective is temporal. Too much time has passed since the plane's disappearance. The chances of finding it are below what I'd consider a threshold for continuing to search for it. And again, I must emphasize on this: it is not about the money to me, and it never was.
I have 1+TB of music on my HDDs. I don't need an MP3 player to listen to it, and I can listen to any of it, from anywhere, using my mobile phone and PLEX Media Server (on my PC) combined with the Android client (on my phone). There's one method to achieve hassle-free access to all your music. The purpose of an MP3 player is different; it's never intended to hold ALL your music, especially if you have alot of it.
While I would agree with you about not being able to differentiate between MP3 and FLAC in terms of sound, I don't agree about support (even shitty Chinese MP3 players do it natively) and storage space isn't an issue anymore nowadays. Maybe that 1GB MP3 player would fit 10 albums instead of 3 by using MP3 versus FLAC, but that's a sign you should go for a newer MP3 player (as in spend 30 bucks on a 16 GB MP3 player).
Not a perfect solution but a start. There are issues with desert storms and keeping the panels clean (currently done with water, dry cleaning isn't quite there) but if you think about how cars were in the early 1900s... there's hope, to say the least.
We're not talking about billion dollar problems, that's a severe underestimation. Climate fuck-up and possible extinction (yes, it CAN get there, albeit not in the next few centuries, hopefully) can't be counted in dollars. It's actually reaching an infinite amount in damages. So yes, if a solution costs trillions, then so be it. Do you think it's a lot? What's the total USA debt?
Japan's easy: Watch their shows; watch their ads; watch their music; watch their products. All, with very few exceptions, are way over the top. China's really too big to be momolithic in this approach. It's a subcontinent by itself, to the extent that people from the North side don't speak the same language as those from the South, therefore one can't say "Chinese culture" without over-generalizing. South Korea is gravitating toward extremes as well.
If they're told to. That's the big difference. A human mind starts constructing a simulation by itself, a computer doesn't, nor do I see it doing so in the foreseeable future.
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Just clear the Dalvik cache and it's gonna be fine.
Anecdotal evidence:
I bought a Nexus 7 2012 for my wife exactly the day Lollipop was released. It had 4.1 on it, or something. It offered OTA updates for several versions all the way to 4.4.4 that evening, and 3 days later offered a Lollipop update which I promptly accepted. Went on without a hitch, now she has a great, responsive tablet.
Others might have been unlucky, not me.
You want to play that game?
Fine.
No, you're mistaken.
There, that solves everything.
Ad hominem isn't necessarily involving a person. An entity would suffice.
Neither. I'm a fairly successful employee, considering the country I am from. The only downside is that I was born in what you would call a third world country, and that prevents me from earning what you'd call a reasonable salary.
Which would at least earn them honesty points.
Yes, Yes and I'm not doing it because people in the USA yell off the top of their lungs if a company hires people from outside the 'states.
Disclaimer: I do NOT want to move to the US, so yeah, you'd be safe from getting another filthy immigrant, as they say.
Hell, they could hire me for 50K a year and that way they'll have a 50% salary reduction for that position while I would make 4 times the amount I'm making now, working for an USA-based company.
Batshit crazy, ain't it?
I always thought that transparency should be right there in the banner. "Hey guys, we have 60M worth of assets but we need more because $REASON".
It's the future past tense of the rooted version of "I can haz cheezburger".
Your comparison is retarded for many reasons I can't even start to explain because I'm sure you won't get it.
So I'll just say: 'tis okay, you win.
Yup, easy to write such a letter when you have a dry soul. I guess banks and the IRS would have an open position for your kind.
"In this case there is no benefit to the people at all making your comparison to waste in the private sector chalk and cheese"
Tell that to the grieving families looking for closure.
Good luck listening to 32 kbit WMAs then.
How much is a disappeared citizen worth, exactly? I'm bad at math so please humor me.
More money is spent each DAY on beauty products worldwide than on the entire cost of looking for '370 up to date. Wasted food in the USA costs 40B a year for households alone (Jones, Timothy. Corner on Food Loss. Biocycle, July 2005. p25). Compared to those numbers, looking for 239 missing people is pocket change.
From a different perspective (that is, excluding money from the equation), I agree with you, and that perspective is temporal. Too much time has passed since the plane's disappearance. The chances of finding it are below what I'd consider a threshold for continuing to search for it. And again, I must emphasize on this: it is not about the money to me, and it never was.
I have 1+TB of music on my HDDs. I don't need an MP3 player to listen to it, and I can listen to any of it, from anywhere, using my mobile phone and PLEX Media Server (on my PC) combined with the Android client (on my phone).
There's one method to achieve hassle-free access to all your music.
The purpose of an MP3 player is different; it's never intended to hold ALL your music, especially if you have alot of it.
While I would agree with you about not being able to differentiate between MP3 and FLAC in terms of sound, I don't agree about support (even shitty Chinese MP3 players do it natively) and storage space isn't an issue anymore nowadays. Maybe that 1GB MP3 player would fit 10 albums instead of 3 by using MP3 versus FLAC, but that's a sign you should go for a newer MP3 player (as in spend 30 bucks on a 16 GB MP3 player).
I had to be doubly-extra.careful when typing the twisted word myself, I feel your pain bro.
Don't you wanna read about "clarificiations"?
Oh, now I understand.
Wind and solar are unsuitable for base load due to variability
Sahara disagrees.
http://www.desertec.org/
Not a perfect solution but a start. There are issues with desert storms and keeping the panels clean (currently done with water, dry cleaning isn't quite there) but if you think about how cars were in the early 1900s... there's hope, to say the least.
We're not talking about billion dollar problems, that's a severe underestimation.
Climate fuck-up and possible extinction (yes, it CAN get there, albeit not in the next few centuries, hopefully) can't be counted in dollars. It's actually reaching an infinite amount in damages.
So yes, if a solution costs trillions, then so be it. Do you think it's a lot? What's the total USA debt?
yes I did.
Japan's easy: Watch their shows; watch their ads; watch their music; watch their products. All, with very few exceptions, are way over the top.
China's really too big to be momolithic in this approach. It's a subcontinent by itself, to the extent that people from the North side don't speak the same language as those from the South, therefore one can't say "Chinese culture" without over-generalizing.
South Korea is gravitating toward extremes as well.
If they're told to.
That's the big difference. A human mind starts constructing a simulation by itself, a computer doesn't, nor do I see it doing so in the foreseeable future.