Since it seems that this is all from one type of cell, I imagine it doesn't taste that good. Real meat has not only muscle tissue, but fat tissue, connective tissue, blood, and many other things included in it. Which probably brings up a nutritional question as well. They still haven't made baby formula that has all the same stuff as a mother's milk, and doctors still say that breast fed babies are better off. I don't imagine that this will be able to completely replace all meat and still keep us healthy. I also don't think it will taste that great without added flavourings.
At least with Android it seems like it would be possible to install 3rd party tools that would encrypt the data such that it would not be accessible by a back door. You can completely replace many aspects of the operating system. It would probably be not-too-difficult to install different applications to deal with email, SMS, contact lists, and anywhere else sensitive information might be stored on your phone. Windows and iOS are too closed to do this in a dependable way.
I was referring to the other big correlation where kids from low socioeconomic status usually end up with lower grades. This isn't due to lack of ability but usually the lack of parents taking an interest in the child's learning and schooling. In your case it seems like your parents took a great interest in your learning. But you are the exception rather than the rule. The majority of parents in lower income households put little emphasis on school, or in some cases even discourage school.
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Sounds like even when accounting their socioeconomic status when they were a child, having good grades was still a really good indicator. However, there still is a big problem with kids in lower socioeconomic status obtaining higher grades, those that are able to seem to do better later in life.
Exactly. You might have a problem if Microsoft decided to stop selling the XBox controller, but that probably wouldn't happen any time soon. I'm interested in buying one, but I want to wait at least 6 months to find out how the controller holds up to heavy use.
Yeah, but the Nintendo Wii is also only $99. You can soft-mod it to do all sorts of stuff, but there's a bunch of used games out there for really cheap. There's also the WiiWare store which has a bunch of games for pretty low prices. I'm not sure how the Ouya is a gamechanger. It's basically the same as buying last generation's console.
Controllers are always the hard part. A really good controller is quite hard to come by. They probably would have been better off by not shipping a controller and just telling everyone to go out and buy a XBox360 or DualShock controller. Might have cost a little more in the end for the users, but at least everyone would have a quality controller.
That's what I was thinking. There must be tons of money to be made in continuing to keep these old systems running. Create and PCB that goes between old systems and new storage technology and you don't have to worry about the old storage technology no longer being available. Most of the old hardward could probably easily be emulated on new hardware, or completely replaced with a very small SOC. It would certainly be cheaper in many cases to get a custom computer board built to interface with old machines than it would to rewrite all the software that runs on the old systems.
I tend to use a little bit of both. While I'm sure everything can done without tables, those of us with real time constraints on projects sometimes just need to get things done. A few simple tables can sometimes save you a significant amount of time in getting your design to look right.
Well, you could just use one of the common plugins to download the video file and process it later. Although I do agree with you on the whole thing being a little bit elaborate for something that's basically available for free. Google drive gives you 5 GB for free. MS Skydrive gives you 7GB. that already easily surpasses the 10 GB proposed by this method. Get multiple accounts for each (it's not difficult) and get as much cloud storage as you want for free.
Maybe a good compromise would be for online businesses to collect only state level sales taxes. That way, there would be a sane number of taxing locations, and even small online businesses could reasonably deal with it.
What's more frustrating than Windows activation is finding the right hardware mix that will work well with you Linux/BSD distribution of choice. I using Linux in VirtualBox for a lot of things and thought it was great. Tried to install it as the bare OS on my laptop and it was an exercise in frustration. There are certain configurations that will work flawlessly, but finding the exact hardware you need to get everything working smoothly can be very time consuming, and it doesn't help when you already have hardware and want to switch after the fact.
The most complex solution that most paying users will be happy with will be something like what we haven't had since Windows 2000 (and all versions before that). Which was a simple key that you enter to install the software. The same key could be used on every system, and it didn't really do anything for protecting against piracy. Pirates are going to pirate, regardless of what kind of system gets put in place to stop them. Any system that is good enough to stop even a few people from pirating is inevitably going to annoy quite a few paying users. The only thing that's really going to stop people from pirating is lowering prices for home users. It's the exact reason I got Windows 8. At only $40 I finally felt they were asking a fair price. Asking home users to spend 50%-100% of the cost of the hardware on the operating system for their computer seems to be more than most people are willing to pay. People who buy computers from large manufacturers already pay a license. Most of the individuals who are pirating are those who have built their own systems. Give them the operating system for a price comparable to what they large computer builders would pay, and you'll see piracy drop a lot.
Besides. Android does a pretty good job of controlling what each and every app can access. There's a sandbox around each app. As long as you are careful which apps you install, and look closely at the permissions they require, you should be relatively safe from most malware. If you're at all unsure about an app, it's probably better just to not install it. Sure there are problems, but I think Android is one of the better platforms out there. Not too many others I'm aware of have such fine grained control of what exactly each application may do on your system.
How does a car/plane know how much rust is on the body of the vehicle? How easily can it determine the condition of the propeller blades? How does a plane know how far you're going to fly, and the wind speed and direction to account for how much fuel you're going to need for the trip? You could start putting sensors in for some basic stuff, but too many sensors and the thing gets way too costly, or simply always reports that something is wrong, and thus you can never fly the thing.
The really interesting part of this seems to be that Adobe gets to keep all the money from the licensing. Previously, if you wanted a license, you'd go to some reseller, and they'd get part of the money, as would a distributor, and maybe ever a couple other companies along the way. This is basically a game changer. Adobe believes (and it's probably true) that it's popular enough that they don't need resellers and other people pushing their products, and that they can do good enough business just selling direct to the end user. As much as I like the idea of subscription software, I do like the idea of the middle man being cut out, since most of the time they offer very little value to the end customer, and can only really make prices higher, or at the very best, bleed out money from the process would have been better served going back to the people creating the product. It's the equivalent of music labels selling directly to end users without going through the music stores (be they online or physical stores/records)
More importantly, what happens when they have a mechanical problem? Looking at the way most people take care of their automobiles, I fear the day that people start owning flying cars. People will try to drive around in the winter with only a square foot of frost removed from their windshield and 4 square inches removed from the side window so they can see the driver's side mirror. I hate to think that anybody would be bothered with a pre-flight checklist. When a car on the road has a mechanical problem, it usually results in the guy having to pull off the road. When an aircraft has a mechanical problem it can be devastating to the drivers, passengers, and anybody in the vicinity of the aircraft.
What are you supposed to study up? Unless you're going to limit yourself to chain restaurants, you're probably out of luck. Most independently owned places don't even have the information you're looking for. Even chain restaurants tend to vary their menu quite a bit between different places. And I'll admit, if you don't get the count right, you probably won't die. But if you're going to be on stage in front of 1000 people, you don't want to let them down because your blood sugar is a bit off and you can't think straight. And the mention of "study up" is a bit of proof right there. Non-diabetics don't have to study up before going into a restaurant. They just walk in to any restaurant they feel like and order whatever looks good that day. Also, you mention Fish Sauce and MSG, which probably only accounts for a small percentage of restaurants out there. I was good friends with a (now reformed) vegan in university, and while the restaurant choices were somewhat limited when he wanted to eat a good vegetarian meal, he was almost always able to find something to eat no matter which restaurant we picked.
Take a look at this commercial. It really demonstrates the point quite well. With modern medicine, most people can live to 70 or 80 no problem, but the quality of life for those in good physical and mental shape is very different. No matter what you do, you probably aren't going to live much past 100, but how you live the last 30-50 years of your life can be vary greatly.
That's because testing requires a fair bit of writing and understanding code. Even if you just do black box testing, you still have to be able to write a script that will run the tests for you. If you're testing by clicking on the interface and typing into text fields by hand, you're doing it wrong. Even something as simple as writing up the instructions for recreating the bug is a skill that is somewhat uncommon in the general populace. A decent software tester will have to write quite a bit of code throughout their day.
I agree that there probably needs to be less tech in cars. What there does need to be however, is more standardization. Does it really make sense to have so many custom parts on every different model of car? A hard drive for a PC is so cheap because the same hard drive will work in just about every type of desktop/server/laptop computer sold. Cars seem to be the exact opposite. Parts of cars often aren't even interchangeable between different option packages from cars of the same model/year. And things are almost never shared across manufacturers.
Not only that, but there's a lot of other problems with quality of life when you're a diabetic. Scott Hanselman (has a podcast, works for Microsoft) has mentioned a few times that when he travels the world he ends up eating at Subway all the time, because it's the only place you have a really good idea of how the meal is going to affect your blood sugar. Imagine going to a foreign country and not being able to eat any of the local cuisine because you don't know if it's going to send you into a coma. It's like being a vegan, except that breaking the rules means that you end up getting sick. Vegans can usually find something to eat at almost any restaurant. But for people with diabetes, it can be quite difficult to eat at a lot of restaurants, especially non-chain restaurants as they usually don't have any nutritional information (nor are they required to).
Also, they seem to have the "good 10%". The part of the computer market that actually doesn't mind spending a little extra money to get a well built product. They are making lots of money in profits. They have ignored the $300 laptop market for a reason. There is very little profit to be made in that sector. Their cheapest laptop is around $1000 for the Mac Book Air. Saying that 10% market share is doing badly while still making tons of profits is just stupid.
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Since it seems that this is all from one type of cell, I imagine it doesn't taste that good. Real meat has not only muscle tissue, but fat tissue, connective tissue, blood, and many other things included in it. Which probably brings up a nutritional question as well. They still haven't made baby formula that has all the same stuff as a mother's milk, and doctors still say that breast fed babies are better off. I don't imagine that this will be able to completely replace all meat and still keep us healthy. I also don't think it will taste that great without added flavourings.
At least with Android it seems like it would be possible to install 3rd party tools that would encrypt the data such that it would not be accessible by a back door. You can completely replace many aspects of the operating system. It would probably be not-too-difficult to install different applications to deal with email, SMS, contact lists, and anywhere else sensitive information might be stored on your phone. Windows and iOS are too closed to do this in a dependable way.
You just don't get it. All those things you mentioned are inputs.
I was referring to the other big correlation where kids from low socioeconomic status usually end up with lower grades. This isn't due to lack of ability but usually the lack of parents taking an interest in the child's learning and schooling. In your case it seems like your parents took a great interest in your learning. But you are the exception rather than the rule. The majority of parents in lower income households put little emphasis on school, or in some cases even discourage school.
Sounds like even when accounting their socioeconomic status when they were a child, having good grades was still a really good indicator. However, there still is a big problem with kids in lower socioeconomic status obtaining higher grades, those that are able to seem to do better later in life.
My kids really enjoyed the one about vomiting in space.
Exactly. You might have a problem if Microsoft decided to stop selling the XBox controller, but that probably wouldn't happen any time soon. I'm interested in buying one, but I want to wait at least 6 months to find out how the controller holds up to heavy use.
Yeah, but the Nintendo Wii is also only $99. You can soft-mod it to do all sorts of stuff, but there's a bunch of used games out there for really cheap. There's also the WiiWare store which has a bunch of games for pretty low prices. I'm not sure how the Ouya is a gamechanger. It's basically the same as buying last generation's console.
Controllers are always the hard part. A really good controller is quite hard to come by. They probably would have been better off by not shipping a controller and just telling everyone to go out and buy a XBox360 or DualShock controller. Might have cost a little more in the end for the users, but at least everyone would have a quality controller.
That's what I was thinking. There must be tons of money to be made in continuing to keep these old systems running. Create and PCB that goes between old systems and new storage technology and you don't have to worry about the old storage technology no longer being available. Most of the old hardward could probably easily be emulated on new hardware, or completely replaced with a very small SOC. It would certainly be cheaper in many cases to get a custom computer board built to interface with old machines than it would to rewrite all the software that runs on the old systems.
I tend to use a little bit of both. While I'm sure everything can done without tables, those of us with real time constraints on projects sometimes just need to get things done. A few simple tables can sometimes save you a significant amount of time in getting your design to look right.
Well, you could just use one of the common plugins to download the video file and process it later. Although I do agree with you on the whole thing being a little bit elaborate for something that's basically available for free. Google drive gives you 5 GB for free. MS Skydrive gives you 7GB. that already easily surpasses the 10 GB proposed by this method. Get multiple accounts for each (it's not difficult) and get as much cloud storage as you want for free.
Maybe a good compromise would be for online businesses to collect only state level sales taxes. That way, there would be a sane number of taxing locations, and even small online businesses could reasonably deal with it.
What's more frustrating than Windows activation is finding the right hardware mix that will work well with you Linux/BSD distribution of choice. I using Linux in VirtualBox for a lot of things and thought it was great. Tried to install it as the bare OS on my laptop and it was an exercise in frustration. There are certain configurations that will work flawlessly, but finding the exact hardware you need to get everything working smoothly can be very time consuming, and it doesn't help when you already have hardware and want to switch after the fact.
The most complex solution that most paying users will be happy with will be something like what we haven't had since Windows 2000 (and all versions before that). Which was a simple key that you enter to install the software. The same key could be used on every system, and it didn't really do anything for protecting against piracy. Pirates are going to pirate, regardless of what kind of system gets put in place to stop them. Any system that is good enough to stop even a few people from pirating is inevitably going to annoy quite a few paying users. The only thing that's really going to stop people from pirating is lowering prices for home users. It's the exact reason I got Windows 8. At only $40 I finally felt they were asking a fair price. Asking home users to spend 50%-100% of the cost of the hardware on the operating system for their computer seems to be more than most people are willing to pay. People who buy computers from large manufacturers already pay a license. Most of the individuals who are pirating are those who have built their own systems. Give them the operating system for a price comparable to what they large computer builders would pay, and you'll see piracy drop a lot.
Besides. Android does a pretty good job of controlling what each and every app can access. There's a sandbox around each app. As long as you are careful which apps you install, and look closely at the permissions they require, you should be relatively safe from most malware. If you're at all unsure about an app, it's probably better just to not install it. Sure there are problems, but I think Android is one of the better platforms out there. Not too many others I'm aware of have such fine grained control of what exactly each application may do on your system.
How does a car/plane know how much rust is on the body of the vehicle? How easily can it determine the condition of the propeller blades? How does a plane know how far you're going to fly, and the wind speed and direction to account for how much fuel you're going to need for the trip? You could start putting sensors in for some basic stuff, but too many sensors and the thing gets way too costly, or simply always reports that something is wrong, and thus you can never fly the thing.
The really interesting part of this seems to be that Adobe gets to keep all the money from the licensing. Previously, if you wanted a license, you'd go to some reseller, and they'd get part of the money, as would a distributor, and maybe ever a couple other companies along the way. This is basically a game changer. Adobe believes (and it's probably true) that it's popular enough that they don't need resellers and other people pushing their products, and that they can do good enough business just selling direct to the end user. As much as I like the idea of subscription software, I do like the idea of the middle man being cut out, since most of the time they offer very little value to the end customer, and can only really make prices higher, or at the very best, bleed out money from the process would have been better served going back to the people creating the product. It's the equivalent of music labels selling directly to end users without going through the music stores (be they online or physical stores/records)
More importantly, what happens when they have a mechanical problem? Looking at the way most people take care of their automobiles, I fear the day that people start owning flying cars. People will try to drive around in the winter with only a square foot of frost removed from their windshield and 4 square inches removed from the side window so they can see the driver's side mirror. I hate to think that anybody would be bothered with a pre-flight checklist. When a car on the road has a mechanical problem, it usually results in the guy having to pull off the road. When an aircraft has a mechanical problem it can be devastating to the drivers, passengers, and anybody in the vicinity of the aircraft.
What are you supposed to study up? Unless you're going to limit yourself to chain restaurants, you're probably out of luck. Most independently owned places don't even have the information you're looking for. Even chain restaurants tend to vary their menu quite a bit between different places. And I'll admit, if you don't get the count right, you probably won't die. But if you're going to be on stage in front of 1000 people, you don't want to let them down because your blood sugar is a bit off and you can't think straight. And the mention of "study up" is a bit of proof right there. Non-diabetics don't have to study up before going into a restaurant. They just walk in to any restaurant they feel like and order whatever looks good that day. Also, you mention Fish Sauce and MSG, which probably only accounts for a small percentage of restaurants out there. I was good friends with a (now reformed) vegan in university, and while the restaurant choices were somewhat limited when he wanted to eat a good vegetarian meal, he was almost always able to find something to eat no matter which restaurant we picked.
Take a look at this commercial. It really demonstrates the point quite well. With modern medicine, most people can live to 70 or 80 no problem, but the quality of life for those in good physical and mental shape is very different. No matter what you do, you probably aren't going to live much past 100, but how you live the last 30-50 years of your life can be vary greatly.
That's because testing requires a fair bit of writing and understanding code. Even if you just do black box testing, you still have to be able to write a script that will run the tests for you. If you're testing by clicking on the interface and typing into text fields by hand, you're doing it wrong. Even something as simple as writing up the instructions for recreating the bug is a skill that is somewhat uncommon in the general populace. A decent software tester will have to write quite a bit of code throughout their day.
I agree that there probably needs to be less tech in cars. What there does need to be however, is more standardization. Does it really make sense to have so many custom parts on every different model of car? A hard drive for a PC is so cheap because the same hard drive will work in just about every type of desktop/server/laptop computer sold. Cars seem to be the exact opposite. Parts of cars often aren't even interchangeable between different option packages from cars of the same model/year. And things are almost never shared across manufacturers.
Not only that, but there's a lot of other problems with quality of life when you're a diabetic. Scott Hanselman (has a podcast, works for Microsoft) has mentioned a few times that when he travels the world he ends up eating at Subway all the time, because it's the only place you have a really good idea of how the meal is going to affect your blood sugar. Imagine going to a foreign country and not being able to eat any of the local cuisine because you don't know if it's going to send you into a coma. It's like being a vegan, except that breaking the rules means that you end up getting sick. Vegans can usually find something to eat at almost any restaurant. But for people with diabetes, it can be quite difficult to eat at a lot of restaurants, especially non-chain restaurants as they usually don't have any nutritional information (nor are they required to).
Also, they seem to have the "good 10%". The part of the computer market that actually doesn't mind spending a little extra money to get a well built product. They are making lots of money in profits. They have ignored the $300 laptop market for a reason. There is very little profit to be made in that sector. Their cheapest laptop is around $1000 for the Mac Book Air. Saying that 10% market share is doing badly while still making tons of profits is just stupid.