The output of either one is going to be exactly the same as far as sound quality goes. They are lossless, their output is identical to the output of the original material. FLAC compression is slightly better than ALAC, the only real factors that come into play is platform support.
I don't know if you saw the nest - but it's just a knob. You turn it until it's at the temperature you want. That's it. No fan control, no heat/cool setting. It just makes it the temperature you want. Then, as you turn it up and down, it learns *when* you want it to be a certain temperature. It also checks via wifi what the temperature outside is, so it learns the delta between preferred indoor and outdoor temperatures (we keep our thermostat at 68, but if it's 65 and sunny outside we turn the furnace off)
It seems pretty nifty, if for no other reason you can set it via the web if you aren't coming home as scheduled.
The first iPhone got two major version bumps over the course of three years. The first Android phone (G1) got a paltry 1.0-1.6 bump over it's one year lifespan. It's *possible* to upgrade it further, but the carriers don't. That's kind of the point of the article.
In what way? Increase the amount of credit available for houses, demand increases, home prices shoot up. Increase the amount of credit for higher education, demand increases, the price of higher education shoots up. It's pretty basic economics.
There are plenty of things that could be done, but Ron Paul's solution to the high cost of college is to simply cut off anyone who isn't already rich.
See, his education got paid for back in the 1950's.
Your strange, populist, ad hominem attack on Ron Paul isn't proving your point.
And the poor compiler works overtime, because it has to redo the same work every time someone writes object.method().
A larger problem is the hacked-up Java VM Google came up with to work around licensing problems with Sun/Oracle (fat lot of good that did them) Dalvik is a fairly poor implementation of a Java VM - on the same hardware the embedded version of Java runs much faster.
I feel the OP's pain. I have a pretty fast android device (Archos 43) and the UI feels smooth about half the time, the other half it's flaky and unresponsive. My wife's iPod touch never so much as hiccups. I still use a cheapo feature phone as a cell - it just works.
Aside from my bafflement that the government leased one of its domains out to monster.com,
Outsourcing a hiring website to the largest, most popular, most experienced job-finding website to run it? Yeah, I'm amazed the government would do something that smart. Usually, on a project like that, they spend millions on reinventing the wheel (poorly.)
Isn't that partially what TPM does? I think my Thinkpad (heh) has an option to lock out the boot device if the boot sector or bios settings were altered without authenticating to the TPM.
"Further evidence of the scientific consensus includes the rejection of a causal link between thiomersal and autism by multiple national and international scientific and medical bodies including the American Medical Association,[45] the American Academy of Pediatrics,[46] the American College of Medical Toxicology,[47] the Canadian Paediatric Society,[48] the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,[2] the Food and Drug Administration,[4] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,[8] the World Health Organization,[7] the Public Health Agency of Canada,[49] and the European Medicines Agency.[50]"
Referenced and everything. You skip over that and reference the editor of a Wikipedia page as a source proving your point?
You're right, that's what you negotiate when laying out the free trade agreements. The US and Brazil agreed to not subsidize cotton farming. The US did it anyway.
Another interesting tidbit - some of the subsidies were intended to spur the cotton growing industry in western Texas. Western Texas has a terrible climate for cotton growing. It's like subsidizing grapefruit production in Montana. You could do it, but why?
No, the point of the program is free money from the federal government. And the politicians can say they've invested $int64 billion dollars in environmental programs. They don't really care what those programs are, they just need to get rid of the money.
This isn't even the dumbest use of our money. We currently subsidize cotton farmers in Brazil, because the US was subsidizing cotton farmers in the southern states, and was found to be doing so in violation of free trade agreements by the WTO. So instead of cutting the subsidies to the US farmers, the US government also subsidizes Brazilian cotton farmers as a sort of pay-off. This isn't a small amount of money - it's in the billions every year.
I did it the stupid way I guess - I worked a ton and paid my own way through college. I also chose a college I could afford. I even had a credit card from one of those predatory credit card companies and, after paying off the balance every month, got enough rewards points to treat myself to a Starbucks every once in a while.
Sorry, zero sympathy for anyone taking out stupid loans. It's not rocket science. There are tons of organizations, books, magazines, and counselors out there to help you figure out what you can afford.
One of my coworkers has a Windows phone. After using it for about a year, he says it has some really nice innovations, but the UI gets in the way of doing certain things, and there hasn't been nearly the same level of development on it as Android or iOS.
The update issue is a separate issue from usability.
And this thinking is why Apple is cleaning up. Ease of updates is not separate from usability. How you activate your phone is not separate from usability. What happens when you plug your phone into your computer is not separate from usability. How easy it is to buy apps is not separate from usability.
95% of the consumers out there just want a cool phone that does what they want. They don't want to hack it. They don't want to run through some third party procedure to get the latest firmware because their carrier decides they don't want to release a Gingerbread update to a particular device. Crap, you'd think that if you were to buy a new Android device it would already have the latest firmware on it, but some carriers are still selling 2.2 and even 2.1 devices. That's complete garbage.
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You still need cryogenically frozen hospital grade AC outlets with a platinum power cord or it will sound like garbage.
The output of either one is going to be exactly the same as far as sound quality goes. They are lossless, their output is identical to the output of the original material. FLAC compression is slightly better than ALAC, the only real factors that come into play is platform support.
Apache license clause 3, coward.
I don't know if you saw the nest - but it's just a knob. You turn it until it's at the temperature you want. That's it. No fan control, no heat/cool setting. It just makes it the temperature you want. Then, as you turn it up and down, it learns *when* you want it to be a certain temperature. It also checks via wifi what the temperature outside is, so it learns the delta between preferred indoor and outdoor temperatures (we keep our thermostat at 68, but if it's 65 and sunny outside we turn the furnace off)
It seems pretty nifty, if for no other reason you can set it via the web if you aren't coming home as scheduled.
The first iPhone got two major version bumps over the course of three years. The first Android phone (G1) got a paltry 1.0-1.6 bump over it's one year lifespan. It's *possible* to upgrade it further, but the carriers don't. That's kind of the point of the article.
It's like saying movie maker is *required* to make the OS run because it's bundled with msvcrt.dll that a bunch of other things use.
So who pays for servicing the government's debt?
It's a lazy-ass argument.
In what way? Increase the amount of credit available for houses, demand increases, home prices shoot up. Increase the amount of credit for higher education, demand increases, the price of higher education shoots up. It's pretty basic economics.
There are plenty of things that could be done, but Ron Paul's solution to the high cost of college is to simply cut off anyone who isn't already rich.
See, his education got paid for back in the 1950's.
Your strange, populist, ad hominem attack on Ron Paul isn't proving your point.
The debt doesn't go away, it just gets tacked on to the deficit. You'll end up paying one way or another.
The people who really achieve in the field they studies at University, but wouldn't have been able to go were it not for student loans.
The argument is that student loans are *why* universities are unaffordable. Besides which there are still plenty of scholarship programs available.
And the poor compiler works overtime, because it has to redo the same work every time someone writes object.method().
A larger problem is the hacked-up Java VM Google came up with to work around licensing problems with Sun/Oracle (fat lot of good that did them) Dalvik is a fairly poor implementation of a Java VM - on the same hardware the embedded version of Java runs much faster.
I feel the OP's pain. I have a pretty fast android device (Archos 43) and the UI feels smooth about half the time, the other half it's flaky and unresponsive. My wife's iPod touch never so much as hiccups. I still use a cheapo feature phone as a cell - it just works.
Aside from my bafflement that the government leased one of its domains out to monster.com,
Outsourcing a hiring website to the largest, most popular, most experienced job-finding website to run it? Yeah, I'm amazed the government would do something that smart. Usually, on a project like that, they spend millions on reinventing the wheel (poorly.)
Isn't that partially what TPM does? I think my Thinkpad (heh) has an option to lock out the boot device if the boot sector or bios settings were altered without authenticating to the TPM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_controversy#Scientific_consensus
"Further evidence of the scientific consensus includes the rejection of a causal link between thiomersal and autism by multiple national and international scientific and medical bodies including the American Medical Association,[45] the American Academy of Pediatrics,[46] the American College of Medical Toxicology,[47] the Canadian Paediatric Society,[48] the U.S. National Academy of Sciences,[2] the Food and Drug Administration,[4] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,[8] the World Health Organization,[7] the Public Health Agency of Canada,[49] and the European Medicines Agency.[50]"
Referenced and everything. You skip over that and reference the editor of a Wikipedia page as a source proving your point?
You're right, that's what you negotiate when laying out the free trade agreements. The US and Brazil agreed to not subsidize cotton farming. The US did it anyway.
Another interesting tidbit - some of the subsidies were intended to spur the cotton growing industry in western Texas. Western Texas has a terrible climate for cotton growing. It's like subsidizing grapefruit production in Montana. You could do it, but why?
Is inflation still that bad down there? :)
No, the point of the program is free money from the federal government. And the politicians can say they've invested $int64 billion dollars in environmental programs. They don't really care what those programs are, they just need to get rid of the money.
This isn't even the dumbest use of our money. We currently subsidize cotton farmers in Brazil, because the US was subsidizing cotton farmers in the southern states, and was found to be doing so in violation of free trade agreements by the WTO. So instead of cutting the subsidies to the US farmers, the US government also subsidizes Brazilian cotton farmers as a sort of pay-off. This isn't a small amount of money - it's in the billions every year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_controversy#Population_studies
I didn't post a link because it's the second thing that shows up when you search for Thiomersal on Google.
IAMNAC....A lot of autism cases have been traced to use of Mercury in vaccines during early childhood.
No they haven't.
Since Mercury was retired from Baby/Toddlers, cases have started to recede.
No they haven't.
Not if the debt instrument is a piece of paper saying "debt item 014012212"
I did it the stupid way I guess - I worked a ton and paid my own way through college. I also chose a college I could afford. I even had a credit card from one of those predatory credit card companies and, after paying off the balance every month, got enough rewards points to treat myself to a Starbucks every once in a while.
Sorry, zero sympathy for anyone taking out stupid loans. It's not rocket science. There are tons of organizations, books, magazines, and counselors out there to help you figure out what you can afford.
You can't default on student loans, they never go away. The fed will garnish your wages forever until they are paid off.
One of my coworkers has a Windows phone. After using it for about a year, he says it has some really nice innovations, but the UI gets in the way of doing certain things, and there hasn't been nearly the same level of development on it as Android or iOS.
The update issue is a separate issue from usability.
And this thinking is why Apple is cleaning up. Ease of updates is not separate from usability. How you activate your phone is not separate from usability. What happens when you plug your phone into your computer is not separate from usability. How easy it is to buy apps is not separate from usability.
95% of the consumers out there just want a cool phone that does what they want. They don't want to hack it. They don't want to run through some third party procedure to get the latest firmware because their carrier decides they don't want to release a Gingerbread update to a particular device. Crap, you'd think that if you were to buy a new Android device it would already have the latest firmware on it, but some carriers are still selling 2.2 and even 2.1 devices. That's complete garbage.