Not really. Low Chinese prices are due to the issue of differing environmental regulatory structures.
You see rare earth ore deposits are generally found to contain containing stuff like Thorium in conjunction with the desired rare earths.
In places where people care about not totally destroying the environment safety precautions are required. If you don't care you can mine much expensively.
Well, I like Win 7 because it has nice 64 bit support, something that XP never really managed well.
Otherwise I haven't seen any other particular benefit, and in fact a lot of pain associated the MS upgrade treadmill and their business model of churning the user base as fast as possible.
It looks like Google will be adding some models next week - Nexus 10, with an extremely high resolution screen for less than $300. And a Nexus 7 32G with the price of the original Nexus 7 dropping to about $160.
Some new Nexus phones too.
I have a Nexus Galaxy phone that I bought from Google and use on a prepaid plan. It's a nice unlocked choice without the junk the phone company loads on your phone, and the prepaid aspect gives me a lot of flexibility.
This article reminds me of the BBC show titled "Bread from the Air, Gold From the Sea", which is mostly about the development of the Haber Process for manufacturing ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen.
Fritz Haber won the 1918 Nobel Prize for this; it is the key step in the manufacture of fertilizer and currently it's estimated that today 3.5 billion people are dependent on it for their food supply.
Tragically Dr Haber later turned his abilities to the manufacture of poison gasses for use in war, misled by misplaced loyalty to his country. Both his wife and son ended committing suicide because of the horrors associated with his work.
It is one of the most poignant stories of the 20th century.
What everyone seems to be missing is that the answer to this lies in the terms of the extradition treaty between the two countries.
Clearly that treaty allows for the extradition of people who commit crimes against the US to the US for trial and possible punishment.
The Home Secretary is taking a rather extraordinary action by overriding a court decision in this case. Of course it won't amount to much given the relationship between the two countries involved, except perhaps a bit of tit for tat.
As far as the concerns about Asperger's and suicide, clearly the treatment of the suspect could be a subject of negotiation if this is a concern. I have a son who has Asperger's, and from reading the literature the general understanding is that the tendency for suicide generally is elevated do to co-morbidity with other factors - which haven't been talked about in this case. It would be interesting indeed to know if this is a factor, or that Asperger's alone is being waved around when it may not actually be a real concern, but rather being used as an excuse for political gain.
Fracking compositions known as slickwater have been around for a lot longer than 1998 - I know Halliburton had a key patent on that expire in 1968. Generally the term 'slickwater' refers to adding some type of polymer - either natural or synthetic that suppresses formation of vortexes in the fluid flow making it easier to pump. This makes the fluid 'slick'.
WP also got the 1947 date wrong. Fracking has been used a lot longer than that. Some forms involving pumping nitrogylcerine into wells were used as early as 1860. Liquid fracturing fluids were definitely used in the 1930s.
Finally the idea that shale gas uses especially high pressures never used before is equally specious. Hydraulic fracturing pressures are determined by one thing - what is needed to open the resource bearing formation.
Wikipedia is just not factually correct in several regards on this topic.
Interestingly the start of the Centralia coal fire had nothing to do with mining activities. The local town managers had the brainstorm that setting the local landfill on fire would be a positive clean-up step. Unfortunately there was a natural coal outcropping in the landfill which caught and spread underground, eventually making it into the mines.
Nonsense. Fracking, including 'slantwise drilling' has been used in the oil industry for 80 years. It's a well proven, safe technology when it is practiced with modern engineering principles.
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Umm it will make a visible difference because the contrast range in UHD is higher.
That's really where an improvement is needed, not the number of pixels.
Strange because HDMI will carry Ultra HD.
There are even BD players that will upscale BD to this resolution.
Ah well. It's really a prototype not a mainstream product.
In 5 years or so I'll probably be buying something like this.
That toxic material is Thorium. Nasty indeed.
Not really. Low Chinese prices are due to the issue of differing environmental regulatory structures.
You see rare earth ore deposits are generally found to contain containing stuff like Thorium in conjunction with the desired rare earths.
In places where people care about not totally destroying the environment safety precautions are required. If you don't care you can mine much expensively.
Go look up the educational ranking of the Right to Work states.
Being a public figure only means that the writer has to be proven to know the allegation is written acted with actual malice.
Yes it's a higher burden. But I'd vote that way.
Global warming is not about extinction of life on Earth. It's about economics and disruption of existing infrastructure.
"you Android fans"
I'm not an Android fan, more a non-fan of systems that close out users from having control of what they buy.
Fan - Linux
Fan - No cell contract
Fan - having root easily available
Non-Fan - DRM
Non-Fan - Secure Boot
Non-Fan - No root access
Non-Fan - App store lock-in
Non-Fan - computers that are welded closed
As far as size goes, I've never expressed a size preference for a tablet. I'm also a Non-Fan of being stereotyped, thank you.
It's not that amazing if the aspect ratio is different.
Which it is.
Making it fatter is an interesting move. Some people might find it harder to hold in one hand.
Read the fine comment again please. WiFi only for $329.
If you want cellular that will be $459 for the 16GB model.
Plus cost of a data plan.
Why would I think? It's not my personal opinion, just rumors.
Smashing if true. I have been thinking about a Nexus 7, but for $300 or even $400 a Nexus 10 would be a great buy.
Above that and I'll probably go with the Nexus 7.
I've worked for organizations with very deep pockets before.
Usually that isn't all that great an indicator regarding expenditures because these same organizations had short arms.
Well, I like Win 7 because it has nice 64 bit support, something that XP never really managed well.
Otherwise I haven't seen any other particular benefit, and in fact a lot of pain associated the MS upgrade treadmill and their business model of churning the user base as fast as possible.
So yes they can sod off.
> why anyone would get an ipad for ebook reading
How about not having your content deleted and your reader bricked at the whim of your corporate owner?
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/
It looks like Google will be adding some models next week - Nexus 10, with an extremely high resolution screen for less than $300. And a Nexus 7 32G with the price of the original Nexus 7 dropping to about $160.
Some new Nexus phones too.
I have a Nexus Galaxy phone that I bought from Google and use on a prepaid plan. It's a nice unlocked choice without the junk the phone company loads on your phone, and the prepaid aspect gives me a lot of flexibility.
Well yes Stallman is an extremist, and is often over the top. Perhaps as often as not.
But there are less strident voices that have been warning about DRM for a while. Like the one in my head.
That's why I buy physical media, or at the worst DRM free media for anything I know I will want to keep long term.
And I thought I was just being paranoid about this sort of thing.
When Amazon first went around deleting books off of people's Kindles I vowed I'd never buy one. Now it appears my apprehension was all too justified.
I hear the Nexus 7 does a better job with pdfs than the Kindle. It appears to me that's the way I am headed.
This article reminds me of the BBC show titled "Bread from the Air, Gold From the Sea", which is mostly about the development of the Haber Process for manufacturing ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen.
Fritz Haber won the 1918 Nobel Prize for this; it is the key step in the manufacture of fertilizer and currently it's estimated that today 3.5 billion people are dependent on it for their food supply.
Tragically Dr Haber later turned his abilities to the manufacture of poison gasses for use in war, misled by misplaced loyalty to his country. Both his wife and son ended committing suicide because of the horrors associated with his work.
It is one of the most poignant stories of the 20th century.
The amount of money in circulation has inversely relationship to it's value. The key concept here is velocity of money.
The fact that so little of it circulates suggests that the value of an individual BC is rather overstated.
What everyone seems to be missing is that the answer to this lies in the terms of the extradition treaty between the two countries.
Clearly that treaty allows for the extradition of people who commit crimes against the US to the US for trial and possible punishment.
The Home Secretary is taking a rather extraordinary action by overriding a court decision in this case. Of course it won't amount to much given the relationship between the two countries involved, except perhaps a bit of tit for tat.
As far as the concerns about Asperger's and suicide, clearly the treatment of the suspect could be a subject of negotiation if this is a concern. I have a son who has Asperger's, and from reading the literature the general understanding is that the tendency for suicide generally is elevated do to co-morbidity with other factors - which haven't been talked about in this case. It would be interesting indeed to know if this is a factor, or that Asperger's alone is being waved around when it may not actually be a real concern, but rather being used as an excuse for political gain.
Fracking compositions known as slickwater have been around for a lot longer than 1998 - I know Halliburton had a key patent on that expire in 1968. Generally the term 'slickwater' refers to adding some type of polymer - either natural or synthetic that suppresses formation of vortexes in the fluid flow making it easier to pump. This makes the fluid 'slick'.
WP also got the 1947 date wrong. Fracking has been used a lot longer than that. Some forms involving pumping nitrogylcerine into wells were used as early as 1860. Liquid fracturing fluids were definitely used in the 1930s.
Finally the idea that shale gas uses especially high pressures never used before is equally specious. Hydraulic fracturing pressures are determined by one thing - what is needed to open the resource bearing formation.
Wikipedia is just not factually correct in several regards on this topic.
Interestingly the start of the Centralia coal fire had nothing to do with mining activities. The local town managers had the brainstorm that setting the local landfill on fire would be a positive clean-up step. Unfortunately there was a natural coal outcropping in the landfill which caught and spread underground, eventually making it into the mines.
Nonsense. Fracking, including 'slantwise drilling' has been used in the oil industry for 80 years. It's a well proven, safe technology when it is practiced with modern engineering principles.
Lucy Koh got bitch-slapped on this one. Let us hope that it is the start of a trend.
"Before PROST, MOORE, and REYNA, Circuit Judges. "
Thank you and those who had the wisdom to select you to the court.
"de minimis non curat lex"