Univision has been expanding its presence in English-language media for a while now. Its ownership of The Onion is a notable example. The Gawker purchase is a logical extension. But I wouldn't be shocked if they also use the purchase to make some Gawker-like content available in Spanish, probably on a new site.
Food "calories" are always kilocalories as the term is used in physics. A calorie was originally defined as the amount of thermal energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsuis; a kilocalorie will raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by the same degree. (The calorie is no longer a primary unit and is now officially defined as 4.184 joules.) Once upon a time food calories were spelled with a capital C (which was also at one time the convention in physics for kilocalories) but that fell by the wayside over the years. American usage normally just calls them calories, but in Europe you see references to kilocalories or kcal.
Soy allergies are common enough that soy is one of the potential allergens that must be specially called out on food packaging. The full list: milk, eggs, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans.
Given that their original product also uses a science fiction reference that would be seen as negative were it not being used ironically, it's not surprising that they named the new one Coffiest.
Not quite true. Back when the internet was still small enough that a human-curated directory was feasible, Yahoo did a good job of it. That was their original claim to fame. Unfortunately, time and technology left that model behind, and Yahoo has always been a me-too player in most other services. Their strong sports site is a notable exception, and Yahoo Groups is a useful service that doesn't have any direct equivalent at any other major provider.
Even if one's working hours aren't that long, the combination of work hours and commuting make that schedule impossible for some voters.
I think the polls should be open for 24 hours. And in national elections those should be the SAME 24 hours (real time, not local clock time) everywhere to eliminate the problem of the vote in states that vote late being influenced by the results in states where the voting ends early. 9pm Eastern sounds good to me; in most cases (except for really close ones like Bush v Gore) that should allow the count to be ready in time to report on the 11 o'clock news.
The driver's license scheme wouldn't work. Licenses get presented as ID all the time; it wouldn't be too hard for somebody dishonest to skim the keys from them.
One reason that T-Mobile can provide data roaming is because they operate in many of the countries where they offer the roaming. Verizon and AT&T are US-based and have little international presence, so they have to buy roaming service from other companies. (Verizon Wireless was originally a joint venture with UK-based Vodafone; Verizon bought out Vodafone's share a few years ago.) Sprint is owned by a Japanese telecom company, Softbank; I don't think they have any European connections.
The low speed data is delivered over a 2G (EDGE), 3G (HSPA), or 4G (LTE) connection, depending on availability and phone compatibility. (The bands used in the US for LTE are different from the ones used outside the Western Hemisphere, so most US-model LTE phones can't make LTE connections in Europe or Asia.) They just throttle your data speed if you are on a high speed connection.
The story was amended to note that it does not include non-durable products - things like bread that are consumed. Comparing the success of an iPhone to something that may be bought and used up daily isn't a fair comparison.
Sales of the Bible are hard to quantify in the same way. There are many translations of the Bible, so at the very least you'd have to limit yourself to one translation to really be able to consider it a single product. (The King James is probably the most popular.) It is also published in many editions by many publishers, so getting an accurate count would be challenging. There are editions with annotations, commentary, and so forth; are those really the same product? And the Bible has been on the market for a LONG time; sales figures for the distant past are unlikely to be available.
It would be interesting to see how the total sales of King James Bibles would compare to the sales of Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, if it were possible to come up with an accurate number.
I don't know enough about the Quran to say whether multiple versions exist, or what a comparable single product would be.
Your friend has a song on her phone that she wants to share with you. It's one with enough nuance that listening to it through the speaker on the phone won't work well. So you plug in your headphones because sharing her earbuds would be icky.
Because USB-C can't be used to pass out an analog signal. It's a digital-only interface. Whether or not the manufacturers are saying much about it, the DAC is always going to be in the dongle.
One phone, perhaps. But what about the tablet? The laptop? The desktop computer? The stereo system in the living room? My ham radio transceiver? (I know, most people won't have one of those.) Right now I can connect the same headphones to ALL of those things. I'll grant that the stereo needs a 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter, but that's permanently plugged into the stereo.
I want to listen to a song on your phone. So I plug my headphones into your phone. Right now that works just about all the time, but in the upcoming Brave New World of phones without a headphone jack it will not.
It doesn't read magnetic stripe cards. You still need the audio jack reader for now, for people who still have cards with no chips. Most credit cards have been replaced with chip cards by now but debit cards are lagging.
But it's not going to be a $3 adapter, at least not if you want anything that resembles decent sound quality. The DAC and the headphone amplifier have to fit in there.
CyanogenMod only had one notable OEM win: OnePlus. And then they left the fold to do their own OS. So it's not surprising that Cyanogen has concluded that there isn't any business there. But it's bad news for people with older phones that aren't getting updates from their makers.
There are already hybrid buses on the road. They employ regenerative braking, engine shutoff at stops, and electric assist on acceleration so the engine doesn't have to work as hard and can avoid inefficient operating conditions. Reports on efficiency vary, but some have claimed fuel savings of 33% or more.
Full electric buses are also available but not many are currently in use by transit systems. As costs come down and range improves they are likely to become more popular, especially on inner city bus routes where the bus stops and starts frequently and the distance traveled is small.
This makes sense. Tesla is building a battery factory that will be able to build a LOT of batteries. Developing additional uses for their batteries is a natural brand extension.
I routinely beat the factory ratings in most of the rental cars I drive. (I don't currently own a car.) That's with driving conservatively and using the cruise control when it makes sense, but not doing hypermiling tricks like driving under the speed limit or closely drafting trucks.
The tests aren't perfect but they are certainly good enough to help make buying decisions. In the real world, a car that is rated at 21 mpg might or might not actually be more efficient than a car rated at 20 mpg. But you can be certain that a car rated at 30 mpg will beat both of them, and a car rated at 40 mpg will be better still.
Engaging the cruise control helped. Keeping the speed of the car as steady as possible helps fuel mileage; micro-variations hurt efficiency. (Letting speed drop smoothly on uphill stretches is even better for economy but tends to ruin the flow of traffic.) The computer is better at maintaining a steady throttle than most humans are.
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Univision has been expanding its presence in English-language media for a while now. Its ownership of The Onion is a notable example. The Gawker purchase is a logical extension. But I wouldn't be shocked if they also use the purchase to make some Gawker-like content available in Spanish, probably on a new site.
Food "calories" are always kilocalories as the term is used in physics. A calorie was originally defined as the amount of thermal energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsuis; a kilocalorie will raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by the same degree. (The calorie is no longer a primary unit and is now officially defined as 4.184 joules.) Once upon a time food calories were spelled with a capital C (which was also at one time the convention in physics for kilocalories) but that fell by the wayside over the years. American usage normally just calls them calories, but in Europe you see references to kilocalories or kcal.
Soy allergies are common enough that soy is one of the potential allergens that must be specially called out on food packaging. The full list: milk, eggs, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, and soybeans.
Given that their original product also uses a science fiction reference that would be seen as negative were it not being used ironically, it's not surprising that they named the new one Coffiest.
Not quite true. Back when the internet was still small enough that a human-curated directory was feasible, Yahoo did a good job of it. That was their original claim to fame. Unfortunately, time and technology left that model behind, and Yahoo has always been a me-too player in most other services. Their strong sports site is a notable exception, and Yahoo Groups is a useful service that doesn't have any direct equivalent at any other major provider.
I had no trouble with the Yahoo name. The Verizon name, on the other hand, is a problem...
Even if one's working hours aren't that long, the combination of work hours and commuting make that schedule impossible for some voters.
I think the polls should be open for 24 hours. And in national elections those should be the SAME 24 hours (real time, not local clock time) everywhere to eliminate the problem of the vote in states that vote late being influenced by the results in states where the voting ends early. 9pm Eastern sounds good to me; in most cases (except for really close ones like Bush v Gore) that should allow the count to be ready in time to report on the 11 o'clock news.
The driver's license scheme wouldn't work. Licenses get presented as ID all the time; it wouldn't be too hard for somebody dishonest to skim the keys from them.
One reason that T-Mobile can provide data roaming is because they operate in many of the countries where they offer the roaming. Verizon and AT&T are US-based and have little international presence, so they have to buy roaming service from other companies. (Verizon Wireless was originally a joint venture with UK-based Vodafone; Verizon bought out Vodafone's share a few years ago.) Sprint is owned by a Japanese telecom company, Softbank; I don't think they have any European connections.
The low speed data is delivered over a 2G (EDGE), 3G (HSPA), or 4G (LTE) connection, depending on availability and phone compatibility. (The bands used in the US for LTE are different from the ones used outside the Western Hemisphere, so most US-model LTE phones can't make LTE connections in Europe or Asia.) They just throttle your data speed if you are on a high speed connection.
The story was amended to note that it does not include non-durable products - things like bread that are consumed. Comparing the success of an iPhone to something that may be bought and used up daily isn't a fair comparison.
Sales of the Bible are hard to quantify in the same way. There are many translations of the Bible, so at the very least you'd have to limit yourself to one translation to really be able to consider it a single product. (The King James is probably the most popular.) It is also published in many editions by many publishers, so getting an accurate count would be challenging. There are editions with annotations, commentary, and so forth; are those really the same product? And the Bible has been on the market for a LONG time; sales figures for the distant past are unlikely to be available.
It would be interesting to see how the total sales of King James Bibles would compare to the sales of Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter, if it were possible to come up with an accurate number.
I don't know enough about the Quran to say whether multiple versions exist, or what a comparable single product would be.
Your friend has a song on her phone that she wants to share with you. It's one with enough nuance that listening to it through the speaker on the phone won't work well. So you plug in your headphones because sharing her earbuds would be icky.
Because USB-C can't be used to pass out an analog signal. It's a digital-only interface. Whether or not the manufacturers are saying much about it, the DAC is always going to be in the dongle.
One phone, perhaps. But what about the tablet? The laptop? The desktop computer? The stereo system in the living room? My ham radio transceiver? (I know, most people won't have one of those.) Right now I can connect the same headphones to ALL of those things. I'll grant that the stereo needs a 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter, but that's permanently plugged into the stereo.
I want to listen to a song on your phone. So I plug my headphones into your phone. Right now that works just about all the time, but in the upcoming Brave New World of phones without a headphone jack it will not.
It doesn't read magnetic stripe cards. You still need the audio jack reader for now, for people who still have cards with no chips. Most credit cards have been replaced with chip cards by now but debit cards are lagging.
But it's not going to be a $3 adapter, at least not if you want anything that resembles decent sound quality. The DAC and the headphone amplifier have to fit in there.
CyanogenMod only had one notable OEM win: OnePlus. And then they left the fold to do their own OS. So it's not surprising that Cyanogen has concluded that there isn't any business there. But it's bad news for people with older phones that aren't getting updates from their makers.
There are already hybrid buses on the road. They employ regenerative braking, engine shutoff at stops, and electric assist on acceleration so the engine doesn't have to work as hard and can avoid inefficient operating conditions. Reports on efficiency vary, but some have claimed fuel savings of 33% or more.
Full electric buses are also available but not many are currently in use by transit systems. As costs come down and range improves they are likely to become more popular, especially on inner city bus routes where the bus stops and starts frequently and the distance traveled is small.
This makes sense. Tesla is building a battery factory that will be able to build a LOT of batteries. Developing additional uses for their batteries is a natural brand extension.
That won't really work on a modern computer controlled car. The computer will just try to compensate.
I routinely beat the factory ratings in most of the rental cars I drive. (I don't currently own a car.) That's with driving conservatively and using the cruise control when it makes sense, but not doing hypermiling tricks like driving under the speed limit or closely drafting trucks.
The tests aren't perfect but they are certainly good enough to help make buying decisions. In the real world, a car that is rated at 21 mpg might or might not actually be more efficient than a car rated at 20 mpg. But you can be certain that a car rated at 30 mpg will beat both of them, and a car rated at 40 mpg will be better still.
Engaging the cruise control helped. Keeping the speed of the car as steady as possible helps fuel mileage; micro-variations hurt efficiency. (Letting speed drop smoothly on uphill stretches is even better for economy but tends to ruin the flow of traffic.) The computer is better at maintaining a steady throttle than most humans are.