GNU is submitting the Hurd to the Australian censors tomorrow. As long as the censors don't block it for promoting anti-corporate values they still have a chance of getting in before DNF. However, should the censor request changes, such as the addition of DRM, expect indefinite further delay.
Famines are not caused by lack of food, so growing food won't help. They are caused by lack of infrastructure and corrupt bureaucracy preventing the food being moved to where it is needed. Building railways solves the infrastructure problems, and doesn't usually happen until the government bureaucracy is functional enough that famine is not a problem. Countries with famine and extreme poverty don't really qualify as emerging anyway - they generally aren't going anywhere.
Why would we want to imitate two countries that have spent the last 15+ years in economic decline (called "the lost decade" in Japan)? That would be akin to saying, "Let's model our system on the fallen empire of Rome." Um. No thanks.
OK, then how about China, which has spent $40B on high speed rail over the last 4 years, and went from nothing to more miles of high speed track than all of Europe in that time.
Amtrak trains have to wait for right of way because they share the line with freight trains, which are often behind schedule, as they don't have customers on board to pressure them into keeping to their schedule. Building a dedicated high speed line would mean only passenger trains sharing that line, so delays would be much less frequent.
American companies aren't the only ones selling their know-how to China, obviously. In 2007, high speed rail in China was non-existent. Now they have more miles of high speed track than all of Europe, and by year end they will have more than the rest of the world put together, and be well on the way to designing their own high speed trains based on the tech sold to them by Japan, Germany and France. If you ever want to do more than talk about building a high speed rail network in the US, you know who to call. Other development is happening at a similar pace, there are plans to build, from scratch, 15 new cities the size of New York in China by 2020.
Even in Europe you can use a foreign patent to establish an earlier priority date. IIRC, you have 12 months from the original patent being granted to file in other countries before the priority is lost.
You mean they should have done what Apple did? Release an incompatible SDK for tablets only as a minor version update then immediately issue a major version update for the phone OS with a key feature that would be extremely useful on tablets (except Android had multitasking from the start so they would have to find something else), and leave users of the shiny new tablets as the ones waiting for months for their OS to catch up.
And in the next quarter when the number of Android smartphones shipped surpasses the number of iOS smartphones, media players, tablets and set-top-boxes (which don't even run iOS apps) combined, he'll want to start including the emulators shipped with the SDK. What next?
My latest HTC has all the USB and headphone socket open to the elements (SIM and SD socket are behind the battery, power is via USB). One I had 4 years ago had the rubber grommets, which as you note fall off quite quickly if you use them, but are quite good for sockets you never use. I never use the headphone jack on my current phone, as I have an iPod for music, and Bluetooth for handsfree, and being on the top of the phone, it is quite exposed to rainfall so a grommet would have been useful.
Really? I'd say only the twitch-surfers who visit sites with little coherent text content would do so (e.g. Facebook twatterers). Well maybe the technologically inept, too. You know, those who take ages to click that menu item you've been telling them to click (and even pointing to with your finger) for the last 5 minutes.
I'm with you on the technologically inept. People that would never change their browser and search engine from the default.
You're missing the fact that on 90% of Android phones shipped, the option to install non-Market applications has not been removed, so developers are not subject to the rules of any one store, and users only have to jailbreak if they want root access for some reason (WiFi tethering used to be the main one, but that has been included since 2.2).
At the end of the day, teachers are still in the top half of earners in pretty much every state. This is by yearly salaries. By hourly rates, they move up into the top 75%.
Are their hours really that much longer than the average, or are your math skills as poor as you claim these teachers' to be?
(but I'm guessing pass the short lifespan trait on more effectively).
Actually, this batch of mosquitoes is also sterile. This is an early experiment, they plan to recapture most of these mosquitoes, presumably to study whether this shorter lifespan is effective in avoiding dengue fever before they start spreading the genetic modification amongst the mosquito population and have them biting people.
But its also talking about 2008, not 2007, so I think it is talking about the same event as the GP. The recession as a whole started in the last half of 2007 when the US property market took a dive.
[Ever heard about poor countries] where people earn like 200-400 buck per month?
No, but I've heard about poor countries where substantial proportions of the population live on less than a dollar a day. $200 - 400 a month is not poor for most of the world.
I went out and bought the cheapest small monitor I could find 2 years ago, to set up my media center PC before hooking it up the TV. Its native resolution is 1440x900, so I don't think you've been looking hard if you haven't seen a monitor that can do 1920x1080 natively.
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This feature may be contributing to the problem. If you mostly text crude jokes to your mates, you better proofread carefully next time you text your boss to say you'll be late for work, or you might not have a job by the time you get there.
The SEC regulations for offering shares to US investors are a lot stricter than for non-US. My guess is that they cannot meet the requirements, which I would take as a big red flag that Facebook is severely overvalued right now.
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GNU is submitting the Hurd to the Australian censors tomorrow. As long as the censors don't block it for promoting anti-corporate values they still have a chance of getting in before DNF. However, should the censor request changes, such as the addition of DRM, expect indefinite further delay.
Famines are not caused by lack of food, so growing food won't help. They are caused by lack of infrastructure and corrupt bureaucracy preventing the food being moved to where it is needed. Building railways solves the infrastructure problems, and doesn't usually happen until the government bureaucracy is functional enough that famine is not a problem. Countries with famine and extreme poverty don't really qualify as emerging anyway - they generally aren't going anywhere.
OK, then how about China, which has spent $40B on high speed rail over the last 4 years, and went from nothing to more miles of high speed track than all of Europe in that time.
Amtrak trains have to wait for right of way because they share the line with freight trains, which are often behind schedule, as they don't have customers on board to pressure them into keeping to their schedule. Building a dedicated high speed line would mean only passenger trains sharing that line, so delays would be much less frequent.
American companies aren't the only ones selling their know-how to China, obviously. In 2007, high speed rail in China was non-existent. Now they have more miles of high speed track than all of Europe, and by year end they will have more than the rest of the world put together, and be well on the way to designing their own high speed trains based on the tech sold to them by Japan, Germany and France. If you ever want to do more than talk about building a high speed rail network in the US, you know who to call. Other development is happening at a similar pace, there are plans to build, from scratch, 15 new cities the size of New York in China by 2020.
Even in Europe you can use a foreign patent to establish an earlier priority date. IIRC, you have 12 months from the original patent being granted to file in other countries before the priority is lost.
You mean they should have done what Apple did? Release an incompatible SDK for tablets only as a minor version update then immediately issue a major version update for the phone OS with a key feature that would be extremely useful on tablets (except Android had multitasking from the start so they would have to find something else), and leave users of the shiny new tablets as the ones waiting for months for their OS to catch up.
And in the next quarter when the number of Android smartphones shipped surpasses the number of iOS smartphones, media players, tablets and set-top-boxes (which don't even run iOS apps) combined, he'll want to start including the emulators shipped with the SDK. What next?
My latest HTC has all the USB and headphone socket open to the elements (SIM and SD socket are behind the battery, power is via USB). One I had 4 years ago had the rubber grommets, which as you note fall off quite quickly if you use them, but are quite good for sockets you never use. I never use the headphone jack on my current phone, as I have an iPod for music, and Bluetooth for handsfree, and being on the top of the phone, it is quite exposed to rainfall so a grommet would have been useful.
So even according to the numbers you pulled out of your own arse, you are wrong!
Which is easier, hauling your engine or hauling the rails?
I'm with you on the technologically inept. People that would never change their browser and search engine from the default.
It doesn't need to work for them, they don't use Bing.
You're missing the fact that on 90% of Android phones shipped, the option to install non-Market applications has not been removed, so developers are not subject to the rules of any one store, and users only have to jailbreak if they want root access for some reason (WiFi tethering used to be the main one, but that has been included since 2.2).
Well, at least they aren't in the bottom 25% of earners, despite their math abilities. That's something.
Are their hours really that much longer than the average, or are your math skills as poor as you claim these teachers' to be?
Have you ever been bitten by a mosquito with a penis? I rest my case.
Actually, this batch of mosquitoes is also sterile. This is an early experiment, they plan to recapture most of these mosquitoes, presumably to study whether this shorter lifespan is effective in avoiding dengue fever before they start spreading the genetic modification amongst the mosquito population and have them biting people.
But its also talking about 2008, not 2007, so I think it is talking about the same event as the GP. The recession as a whole started in the last half of 2007 when the US property market took a dive.
Even in Europe, marijuana is always bought by the ounce, and cocaine by the gram.
No, but I've heard about poor countries where substantial proportions of the population live on less than a dollar a day. $200 - 400 a month is not poor for most of the world.
Possibly, but at least those gimmicks did not require the user to wear stupid glasses throughout the movie.
I went out and bought the cheapest small monitor I could find 2 years ago, to set up my media center PC before hooking it up the TV. Its native resolution is 1440x900, so I don't think you've been looking hard if you haven't seen a monitor that can do 1920x1080 natively.
This feature may be contributing to the problem. If you mostly text crude jokes to your mates, you better proofread carefully next time you text your boss to say you'll be late for work, or you might not have a job by the time you get there.
The SEC regulations for offering shares to US investors are a lot stricter than for non-US. My guess is that they cannot meet the requirements, which I would take as a big red flag that Facebook is severely overvalued right now.