Trains are much more efficient then any alternative. They are also cheaper then flying, and faster, safer, and more convenient then driving. They have a lot going for them, that's why they are so popular in most of the world.
And in the long run, the trans-continental railroad was a good thing for the country. So are you agreeing that in the long term the high speed rail will also be worth it?
Personally, I'm undecided. I would love to have access to high speed rail to SF, I would certainly use it, but Californians in general have a strange love for driving themselves everywhere. One concern is if the TSA gets themselves involved in railroad security, that would ruin the major speed and convenience advantage that rail has over air.
Right, that's exactly why no one would ever build a high speed rail system somewhere like Japan where they are also prone to earthquakes. Obviously a train getting derailed is the biggest concern in quake prone areas.
Way, way back in the day a music store used to do that. The Wall I think it was. They gave you a sticker to put on the CD when you bought it, and if it was ever damaged they would replace it for free.
Yeah, that's no surprise. The Thai's I've known love ketchup. And for some reason they add ketchup to weird stuff and then call it "American style", despite the fact that no American in history has ever thought to use ketchup in those ways.
Android is a whole distribution, not just a kernel. Obviously building the whole OS is more difficult then just building the kernel. The difficulty of deploying Android depends on the hardware, but the same goes for Linux.
I don't see anything I would consider difficult on that page. Certainly easier then installing Linux 10 years ago, did you not consider Linux Open Source back then?
But the newer battery has more capacity, and the newer phone does jumping jacks around my old feature phone, and has about the same amount of talk time / standby time, if not more
You lost me there. I could almost get through a weekend without charging my old feature phone if it had good signal. My smartphone doesn't come close to that.
Embarrassment about the ugly code may be a part of it, but I think reading between the lines isn't really necessary here. They said the code was simply broken for the vast majority of devices people would want to use it on, as excuses go that one is pretty reasonable as is.
Bai is different meanings based on context (white, old, in vain), but I've not heard of the characters changing sound based on context
How much Chinese have you studied? There are some very common characters that have multiple pronunciations. For instance the character pronounced "de" in "Wo shuo zhongwen shuo de bu cuo" is the same as the character pronounced "dei" which means "need to". Then there is the "jiao" in "shui jiao" is the same character as "jue" in "jue de" and "yue" in "yin yue" is the same characters as "le" in "kuai le". There are more, but those are just the common ones off the top of my head.
Matias Duarte said basically the same thing: "On Honeycomb we cheated, we cut the corner of all that smaller device support. That’s the sole reason we haven’t open sourced it."
Yeah, if you've already transitioned to a meat free diet you should certainly stick with that. In theory I think this would be a better alternative for meat eaters, not for vegetarians.
True, vegan diets are unnatural. But the typical American diet of large chunks of meat 2-3 times a day is equally unnatural. The middle way between those two extremes is my preference.
Of course one more jab on the animal rights front, many animals alive today would simply not be here if humans didn't eat meat. While it may seem noble to not slaughter the cows for beef, it must be realized that if humans didn't eat meat most of those cows would never have lived in the first place.
Preventing a life from existing is not considered unethical at all, it's most definitely not ethically comparable to taking a life.
Do you believe the article? Industrial scale cell culture (think a number of very expensive pharmaceutical products) is incredibly complicated. You don't drop a bunch of stem cells into a vat and come back two weeks later.
What's not to believe? Obviously it's not as easy as dumping a bunch of stem cells in a vat and fishing out a steak two weeks later, if it was that easy we would already be eating synthetic meat. But just because it's difficult doesn't make it impossible. The right way to do it only needs to be figured out once.
Besides, the nice thing about cows is that you can make other cows from cows (paraphrased and modernized from Heinlein).
That applies to in vitro muscle cells just as well as it applies to the full animal.
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Trains are much more efficient then any alternative. They are also cheaper then flying, and faster, safer, and more convenient then driving. They have a lot going for them, that's why they are so popular in most of the world.
And in the long run, the trans-continental railroad was a good thing for the country. So are you agreeing that in the long term the high speed rail will also be worth it?
Personally, I'm undecided. I would love to have access to high speed rail to SF, I would certainly use it, but Californians in general have a strange love for driving themselves everywhere. One concern is if the TSA gets themselves involved in railroad security, that would ruin the major speed and convenience advantage that rail has over air.
Right, that's exactly why no one would ever build a high speed rail system somewhere like Japan where they are also prone to earthquakes. Obviously a train getting derailed is the biggest concern in quake prone areas.
Yeah, he has. Look up the term "copyleft".
Way, way back in the day a music store used to do that. The Wall I think it was. They gave you a sticker to put on the CD when you bought it, and if it was ever damaged they would replace it for free.
Yeah, that's no surprise. The Thai's I've known love ketchup. And for some reason they add ketchup to weird stuff and then call it "American style", despite the fact that no American in history has ever thought to use ketchup in those ways.
Android is a whole distribution, not just a kernel. Obviously building the whole OS is more difficult then just building the kernel. The difficulty of deploying Android depends on the hardware, but the same goes for Linux.
As far as I've heard, the only negative reception KDE 4 still gets is from people who haven't used it since 4.1 was released.
I don't see anything I would consider difficult on that page. Certainly easier then installing Linux 10 years ago, did you not consider Linux Open Source back then?
But the newer battery has more capacity, and the newer phone does jumping jacks around my old feature phone, and has about the same amount of talk time / standby time, if not more
You lost me there. I could almost get through a weekend without charging my old feature phone if it had good signal. My smartphone doesn't come close to that.
Graphite is composed of tiny sheets of graphene.
What do you mean by reasonably? Of course you can do it with Android phones currently on the market. CM wouldn't be so popular if you couldn't use it.
You don't need to install a new version of Android to remove this software. The Android equivalent to jailbreaking is rooting.
Embarrassment about the ugly code may be a part of it, but I think reading between the lines isn't really necessary here. They said the code was simply broken for the vast majority of devices people would want to use it on, as excuses go that one is pretty reasonable as is.
Bai is different meanings based on context (white, old, in vain), but I've not heard of the characters changing sound based on context
How much Chinese have you studied? There are some very common characters that have multiple pronunciations. For instance the character pronounced "de" in "Wo shuo zhongwen shuo de bu cuo" is the same as the character pronounced "dei" which means "need to". Then there is the "jiao" in "shui jiao" is the same character as "jue" in "jue de" and "yue" in "yin yue" is the same characters as "le" in "kuai le". There are more, but those are just the common ones off the top of my head.
Would someone RTFA? The displays have LCDs on the side which provide light for viewing when there is not enough ambient light.
Bloomberg was recently a Republican, but he's an independent currently.
Matias Duarte said basically the same thing: "On Honeycomb we cheated, we cut the corner of all that smaller device support. That’s the sole reason we haven’t open sourced it."
No, ICS is for tablets and phones.
Ummm, why is the guy pictured in that link the same guy pictured in the iPhone story?
Yeah, if you've already transitioned to a meat free diet you should certainly stick with that. In theory I think this would be a better alternative for meat eaters, not for vegetarians.
I'm all in favor of tissue-culture beef, but if they don't work on the taste, I'll go veggie
I still don't see the downside! :)
I enjoy my meat, but I still think vegetarianism is the best way to go. If that's your choice, all the better.
True, vegan diets are unnatural. But the typical American diet of large chunks of meat 2-3 times a day is equally unnatural. The middle way between those two extremes is my preference.
Of course one more jab on the animal rights front, many animals alive today would simply not be here if humans didn't eat meat. While it may seem noble to not slaughter the cows for beef, it must be realized that if humans didn't eat meat most of those cows would never have lived in the first place.
Preventing a life from existing is not considered unethical at all, it's most definitely not ethically comparable to taking a life.
Do you believe the article? Industrial scale cell culture (think a number of very expensive pharmaceutical products) is incredibly complicated. You don't drop a bunch of stem cells into a vat and come back two weeks later.
What's not to believe? Obviously it's not as easy as dumping a bunch of stem cells in a vat and fishing out a steak two weeks later, if it was that easy we would already be eating synthetic meat. But just because it's difficult doesn't make it impossible. The right way to do it only needs to be figured out once.
Besides, the nice thing about cows is that you can make other cows from cows (paraphrased and modernized from Heinlein).
That applies to in vitro muscle cells just as well as it applies to the full animal.