hybrid is too expensive now for most uses unless you have a lead foot or you live in your car and drive 50,000 miles a year. my new 2010 CR-V has a real time miles per gallon calculator on the dashboard and i can easily go above 30mpg at 65mph and at 30mph. speed is not that big a deal in mpg ratings. the only time it drops a lot is when i accelerate which is a lot since i'm in NYC and we have a lot of traffic lights.
a lot of the SUV's have hybrid versions because most SUV's are modern versions of muscle cars. they are close to 300hp but with luxury and people buy them for the power of hitting the gas and taking off. the hybrid part helps if city driving with constant stop and go since you can get good acceleration with the engine turned off
afghanistan is Muslim which has a long history of conflict with Christianity. and Afghanistan has a long history of warfare with what we consider Western civilization. Alexander conquered it and it was known as Bactria then. The Romans fought there as well. The British invaded in the 1800's. and of course the Russians.
Korea hasn't had much historical conflict with the western world and the only reason not to like americans is because the government tells them. it's not like there is a history or recent invasion so your grandparents can keep the tension going through family/tribal stories
while in the army and stationed in south korea i came literally within 20 feet of the demarkation line and toured the DMZ. it was cool in a museum sort of way. but even though i'm originally from the USSR and remember life under communism, i don't really care about life in north korea.
sure it sucks for people there, but i'm not living there. except for a few crazy people who try to sneak in, most people want to get out. i can't do anything about the people living there so it's not a priority for me
too many interests to lose facebook. and Paul may have screwed himself by waiting so long to collect on such a small debt. he may walk away with nothing just because he waited so long.
it's not the studios, it's the theaters that love it. a new revenue source other than popcorn and soda pop at 1000% mark up because they have to turn all the ticket revenue to the studios. you have to pay the $2.50 or whatever it is to rent the glasses
i've worked for Uncle Sam for 9 years. the government buys their IT crap from CDW and the same companies corporate america buys from. one time i tried to order laptops direct from Dell and it took months of getting special permission to get it done.
and the government buys their IT crap little by little like everyone else. a PC here, a server the next month. a few servers and storage a few months later when there is money. one time they bought layer 2 switches in the 1990's which sat around for over a year because there was no money for the contract to install them. at the end of the year a lot of the "unspent" money gets spent on wishlists and you may have hardware bought one year and the labor paid for the next year
everyone knows it's easy to slip backdoors into hardware, but hiding it is the hard part. every fabless chip maker does spot checks of their products and will find these backdoors. at the very least they will find that the shipping products aren't like the ones they designed with extra circuits.
anyone with data that's worth keeping secret will have it behind firewalls and all kinds of security appliances that will start flashing alerts if there is traffic to a high risk geographic area
one whole season and they still had only one cylon the whole idea of making a human mind out of essentially a google search sounds extremely stupid no leading character. was it supposed to be adama or the kid from breakfast club? too much emphasis on the side story inside the computer
story moved way too slow. with the big risk they took they didn't have time to build the story over a few seasons, they needed to get to the point fast and explore in future seasons
knowing how much they produce means you can estimate the time to replace destroyed tanks and plan accordingly. 90% of winning a war is mastering logistics
there are 20 million people here during the workday, it's a pretty good sample of the US. i know more people with android phones than iphones, but overall i see a lot more iphones in the street here
i take the subway and lately i've been seeing more iPhone 4's than Android phones. i've noticed that a lot of android phones look like an iphone 4, but overall i see a lot more iCrap than Andoid. could be all the people with ipod touches i see have android phones in their bags they aren't showing, but then what is the point of 2 devices?
when people ask me what they should buy i tell them that it doesn't really matter since they are 90% the same
over the years i've noticed that faces aren't unique. i've met at least one person in my life who looked almost exactly like me and as far as i know we weren't related. even though a few people started wondering since the resemblance was so close. my wife is often compared to a minor hollywood actress.
and if you look closely at 500 year old paintings or statues of ancient greeks and romans they look just like people do today. one time when i was in italy i saw someone who looked just like Jay Leno. and looking at some groups in the US who like to breed only with each other, the whole community ends up looking alike.
so Jennifer seeing herself should be a reaction like who the fuck you are you in my house? not why is I from 20 years ago here?
we just had a tornado in my part of NYC last month and only the trees fell down. all the homes are made of brick and concrete and all survived intact even though the tornado passed right over us.
MS Office is like Walmart. an average wal mart carries tens of thousands of products so you can find almost anything you need. MS Office has features that 100% of people need in an office suite. not everyone needs the same features, but everyone uses all of them
Apple is like 7-11. the stuff people use the most is in there, but missing most features competitors have. and it costs more than wal mart
and what do you do with these torrents? hoard them?
i DVR a bunch of cartoons for my eldest son and keep the 3 latest ones. my wife DVR's a few shows and erases them after she watches them. i also have netflix for a few other cartoons and stuff to watch.
what exactly is the point of hoarding TV shows? most of them you watch once and don't want to watch again. stuff like Friends and Everybody loves Raymond is constantly playing reruns
I have a 3 year old who knows half the alphabet, can count to 10 and knows all the basic shapes. We have 3 iPhones in the house and there are hundreds of educational apps in the app store
nothing more than what anyone can find about someone else online. one time a contractor ripped off my inlaws for $15000 and it took my wife and I 3-4 hours to find his home, phone number, the fact that everything was in his wife's name, etc. cost $40 or so.
everything is farther away which means you need 2 cars instead of 1 or 0. you drive more miles so you buy more gas and spend more on maintenance or buy a new car faster with less trade in value. taxes are less than in places like NYC, but you have to pay for everything that taxes pay in NYC. things like garbage pickup. visiting people who live close to the boonies i've noticed that food is more expensive since you have to truck it farther to the store.
then there are the little things like schools tend to suck in the boonies compared to the big cities and their suburbs. if you care about your kids being in the top 10% of earners then NYC, NoVa or a few other places are the ones to go for schools. there are no starbucks or whole foods markets in the boonies. only crappy mass produced crap. nothing to do other than stay home all day when you're not working crappy internet access crappy medical care. big cities have the good hospitals and doctors
every PC running Windows has a keyboard and mouse. there are cool keyboards out there with some cool shortcuts and functionality but that is handled by their drivers. the basic input is the same.
on Android you have hundreds of different devices with different input mechanisms. some have touch, some keyboard. and then there are different touch screens to support multi touch and other forms of input and different gestures. i use an iphone, but i hear there is something called swype out there that a lot of handsets have.
Apple has one way to input data into an iphone. which is easier to QA and debug? how do you write an app with a small footprint which may have to account for 10-20 different kinds of input? how do you design a UI for it?
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hybrid is too expensive now for most uses unless you have a lead foot or you live in your car and drive 50,000 miles a year. my new 2010 CR-V has a real time miles per gallon calculator on the dashboard and i can easily go above 30mpg at 65mph and at 30mph. speed is not that big a deal in mpg ratings. the only time it drops a lot is when i accelerate which is a lot since i'm in NYC and we have a lot of traffic lights.
a lot of the SUV's have hybrid versions because most SUV's are modern versions of muscle cars. they are close to 300hp but with luxury and people buy them for the power of hitting the gas and taking off. the hybrid part helps if city driving with constant stop and go since you can get good acceleration with the engine turned off
afghanistan is Muslim which has a long history of conflict with Christianity. and Afghanistan has a long history of warfare with what we consider Western civilization. Alexander conquered it and it was known as Bactria then. The Romans fought there as well. The British invaded in the 1800's. and of course the Russians.
Korea hasn't had much historical conflict with the western world and the only reason not to like americans is because the government tells them. it's not like there is a history or recent invasion so your grandparents can keep the tension going through family/tribal stories
while in the army and stationed in south korea i came literally within 20 feet of the demarkation line and toured the DMZ. it was cool in a museum sort of way. but even though i'm originally from the USSR and remember life under communism, i don't really care about life in north korea.
sure it sucks for people there, but i'm not living there. except for a few crazy people who try to sneak in, most people want to get out. i can't do anything about the people living there so it's not a priority for me
too many interests to lose facebook. and Paul may have screwed himself by waiting so long to collect on such a small debt. he may walk away with nothing just because he waited so long.
it's not the studios, it's the theaters that love it. a new revenue source other than popcorn and soda pop at 1000% mark up because they have to turn all the ticket revenue to the studios. you have to pay the $2.50 or whatever it is to rent the glasses
it was slow, deathly slow. and a resource hog. with public waves Google Chrome would eat up over 500MB of RAM.
it was like email, IM, internet forums, newsgroups all rolled into one and google would keep track of typos so they would know everything you did
i've worked for Uncle Sam for 9 years. the government buys their IT crap from CDW and the same companies corporate america buys from. one time i tried to order laptops direct from Dell and it took months of getting special permission to get it done.
and the government buys their IT crap little by little like everyone else. a PC here, a server the next month. a few servers and storage a few months later when there is money. one time they bought layer 2 switches in the 1990's which sat around for over a year because there was no money for the contract to install them. at the end of the year a lot of the "unspent" money gets spent on wishlists and you may have hardware bought one year and the labor paid for the next year
everyone knows it's easy to slip backdoors into hardware, but hiding it is the hard part. every fabless chip maker does spot checks of their products and will find these backdoors. at the very least they will find that the shipping products aren't like the ones they designed with extra circuits.
anyone with data that's worth keeping secret will have it behind firewalls and all kinds of security appliances that will start flashing alerts if there is traffic to a high risk geographic area
a spaceship in orbit? like when kirk took the enterprise back in time and talked to spock while on earth of the 1960's
one whole season and they still had only one cylon
the whole idea of making a human mind out of essentially a google search sounds extremely stupid
no leading character. was it supposed to be adama or the kid from breakfast club?
too much emphasis on the side story inside the computer
story moved way too slow. with the big risk they took they didn't have time to build the story over a few seasons, they needed to get to the point fast and explore in future seasons
art is business first
it takes so long to produce a tank that you have to have everything ready and made before you go to war
knowing how much they produce means you can estimate the time to replace destroyed tanks and plan accordingly. 90% of winning a war is mastering logistics
the android mascot looks just like the robot from a Nick Jr show called Team Umizoomi for pre-schoolers.
there are 20 million people here during the workday, it's a pretty good sample of the US. i know more people with android phones than iphones, but overall i see a lot more iphones in the street here
i take the subway and lately i've been seeing more iPhone 4's than Android phones. i've noticed that a lot of android phones look like an iphone 4, but overall i see a lot more iCrap than Andoid. could be all the people with ipod touches i see have android phones in their bags they aren't showing, but then what is the point of 2 devices?
when people ask me what they should buy i tell them that it doesn't really matter since they are 90% the same
over the years i've noticed that faces aren't unique. i've met at least one person in my life who looked almost exactly like me and as far as i know we weren't related. even though a few people started wondering since the resemblance was so close. my wife is often compared to a minor hollywood actress.
and if you look closely at 500 year old paintings or statues of ancient greeks and romans they look just like people do today. one time when i was in italy i saw someone who looked just like Jay Leno. and looking at some groups in the US who like to breed only with each other, the whole community ends up looking alike.
so Jennifer seeing herself should be a reaction like who the fuck you are you in my house? not why is I from 20 years ago here?
someone fire up their CGI skills and make it like it should be and rewrite a few lines of the script
we just had a tornado in my part of NYC last month and only the trees fell down. all the homes are made of brick and concrete and all survived intact even though the tornado passed right over us.
MS Office is like Walmart. an average wal mart carries tens of thousands of products so you can find almost anything you need. MS Office has features that 100% of people need in an office suite. not everyone needs the same features, but everyone uses all of them
Apple is like 7-11. the stuff people use the most is in there, but missing most features competitors have. and it costs more than wal mart
and what do you do with these torrents? hoard them?
i DVR a bunch of cartoons for my eldest son and keep the 3 latest ones. my wife DVR's a few shows and erases them after she watches them. i also have netflix for a few other cartoons and stuff to watch.
what exactly is the point of hoarding TV shows? most of them you watch once and don't want to watch again. stuff like Friends and Everybody loves Raymond is constantly playing reruns
I have a 3 year old who knows half the alphabet, can count to 10 and knows all the basic shapes. We have 3 iPhones in the house and there are hundreds of educational apps in the app store
nothing more than what anyone can find about someone else online. one time a contractor ripped off my inlaws for $15000 and it took my wife and I 3-4 hours to find his home, phone number, the fact that everything was in his wife's name, etc. cost $40 or so.
i hear people in NJ and NYC burbs have $400 a month heating bills in the winter. gotta love them seasons
everything is farther away which means you need 2 cars instead of 1 or 0. you drive more miles so you buy more gas and spend more on maintenance or buy a new car faster with less trade in value.
taxes are less than in places like NYC, but you have to pay for everything that taxes pay in NYC. things like garbage pickup.
visiting people who live close to the boonies i've noticed that food is more expensive since you have to truck it farther to the store.
then there are the little things like schools tend to suck in the boonies compared to the big cities and their suburbs. if you care about your kids being in the top 10% of earners then NYC, NoVa or a few other places are the ones to go for schools.
there are no starbucks or whole foods markets in the boonies. only crappy mass produced crap.
nothing to do other than stay home all day when you're not working
crappy internet access
crappy medical care. big cities have the good hospitals and doctors
every PC running Windows has a keyboard and mouse. there are cool keyboards out there with some cool shortcuts and functionality but that is handled by their drivers. the basic input is the same.
on Android you have hundreds of different devices with different input mechanisms. some have touch, some keyboard. and then there are different touch screens to support multi touch and other forms of input and different gestures. i use an iphone, but i hear there is something called swype out there that a lot of handsets have.
Apple has one way to input data into an iphone. which is easier to QA and debug? how do you write an app with a small footprint which may have to account for 10-20 different kinds of input? how do you design a UI for it?