You really think they have no goal? If anything, they have too many goals since so much of the population can't grasp a concept that doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.
Fair enough, but the fact still remains that the vast majority of meat is processed in a factory that would hold no more risk of containing hazardous chemicals than the current factories do. The word 'lab' was used so that 'hazard chemicals' could be used without anyone calling foul. Besides, even if you go to a local butcher who goes out into his back yard and sings his cow to sleep before quietly euthanizing the animal in it's sleep while he weeps for the animals lost life, you will STILL have hazardous chemicals at the facility.
There are certainly choices in how you get your meat, but the cry of "lab" and "chemicals" is being totally dishonest.
Why wouldn't we count facebook, tweets, or any other internet reading they do? The problem isn't that kids don't read. It's that you don't seem to know what reading is.
What is intellectually dishonest is to call the place it would be made a "lab", and imply that this indicates the presence more hazardous chemicals than where food is processed now. As it is now, there are hazardous chemicals in virtually every single factory, and virutally every single restaurant, grociery store and farm for that matter.
Grade inflation is already WAY out of control. I won't comment on parents making that deal with their own children, as I believe parents should be, well, parents. That means they choose how to raise their children. As for a national policy of paying for good grades, it would only take the first round of report cards to come out before the public would start considering it theft to not give their kid an A.
You could also minimize it by not wasting electricity posting on Slashdot. I'm not saying you should stop using there internet. Just that you acknowledge that you unnecessarily damage the environment for entertainment.
No. Because animals shouldn't eat their own kind. It spreads disease. Cows should not eat cows. Chickens should not eat chickents, and humans should not eat humans.
True. I am a veterinarian too. I just use human meat as my definition of meat, and I never eat that. The cows I eat every day don't count.
More seriously, being a vegetarian is 'cool' to certain demographics. Those people don't really want to be vegetarian. They just want to be cool. Thus they rationalize why the animals they eat don't count. I have literally had 'vegetarians' tell me that only red meat counts as meat.
If this meat were to hit the market, the stuff you buy would not be made in a lab. It would be made in a factory. Your current meat is processed in a factory too. The fear that there would be increased chance of exposure to hazardous chemicals is irrational.
You are a perfect example why there can be no change. A "Swing Voter" is a voter that actually looks at the candidates and their platform. The problem is that the 10% of voters can't out vote the 90% of voters that are going to vote for the team with their favorite colored jerseys.
The media has convinced people that if they don't pick a team and vote for that team no matter what the team does, they must be stupid. The newspeak has worked, and it has worked on you specifically.
Low end laptops run the exact same software as high end laptops. For the tasks you describe, Windows, OSX, and Linux are all just easy as on the iPad. Obviously your mother agrees.
I never said I hate Apple. The fact that you think not declaring Apple products superior at every task means a person "hates Apple" puts you far into the fanboy realm.
ReplayTV disappeared because they were sued into oblivion. People also buy interesting tech for the TVs all the time. Whether that is an Xbox360, a Roku, or equipment that is integrated directly into the TV. I know I wouldn't consider buying a new TV that didn't at least stream Netflix.
What Steve Jobs REALLY meant was that no one will pay the premium that Apple wants for the privilege of plastering Apple's logos all over their TVs. There is also very little 'Cool' factor involved in buying TVs so Apples tradition product value would be largely incompatible.
Roku is a good system at a good price. I have one on every TV in my home. At the price they cost, even if something better comes out in a few years, you won't feel like you have wasted your money.
I had not heard previously that Google had started this. It is obvious, and I have been waiting for it. What will be interesting will be to see how much it competes with game consoles. Android now has gamepad APIs. I could see a large percentage of households finding an Android device hooked to their TV to be more than adequate for their gaming needs.
I don't know where you live, but in the US, the standard is that the Government decides who gets a line pulled into your home. That is what gives teh corporations the power to cap bandwidth.
That is a myth. I run multiple "Web 2.0" pages all the time. I run Flash and Java Script. My couple of year old PC has no problem with them. Heck, the Atom N270 base netbook I have here has no problems running them. If your modern processor has problems with that kind of usage, your computer is broken. My kid's favorite games are online flash games. He will load up a dozen of them in seperat tabs of his computer and his couple of year old PC has not problems.
I get that it is hip to claim that web pages are dragging your computer's process, but it is just a fantasy for those that want to complain.
The piece that surprises me that hasn't been pushed is that today's consoles could run productivity apps. Wii tried this with this a little with the browser, but it was a poor implementation.
Maybe the next generation. Presumably the next generation will all use HDMI, so their output will be no different than a desktop's output.
It is about the speed of computers. People would always have preferred to have massive computing power that did not have to be used at their desk 100% of the time. They also would have always wanted the systems to be low power if they could have looked past their desire for speed. It has been the desire for the absolute fastest speeds possible that has tied them to a desk using large amounts of power.
The amount of processing power most people need has been well surpassed by what x86 offers, but is not fully bet by ARM. The low power that people want (and is required for phones) is met by ARM, and not fully met by x86. Intel is pushing down into the low power market while trying to keep enough speed, while ARM is pushing up with more speed while trying to keep the low power. ARM wasn't even a consideration for most people before the CPU speed bubble popped because ARM was so much slower.
The separation between tablets and desktops is a false dichotomy. The obvious end game is to have a tablet that sits on a stand, has a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for desktop use and a connectable keyboard to turn the tablet into a clam shell laptop. At that point, "desktop" and "tablet" become description of how you are using your device, not a description of the device itself.
Intel is aware of this, and will push downward into this market. They are not going to just leave it for ARM. ARM is aware of this, and is pushing upward into the same market.
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You really think they have no goal? If anything, they have too many goals since so much of the population can't grasp a concept that doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.
It would have been a lot cheaper and safer for the city to bring in porta-potties.
Fair enough, but the fact still remains that the vast majority of meat is processed in a factory that would hold no more risk of containing hazardous chemicals than the current factories do. The word 'lab' was used so that 'hazard chemicals' could be used without anyone calling foul. Besides, even if you go to a local butcher who goes out into his back yard and sings his cow to sleep before quietly euthanizing the animal in it's sleep while he weeps for the animals lost life, you will STILL have hazardous chemicals at the facility.
There are certainly choices in how you get your meat, but the cry of "lab" and "chemicals" is being totally dishonest.
Why wouldn't we count facebook, tweets, or any other internet reading they do? The problem isn't that kids don't read. It's that you don't seem to know what reading is.
What is intellectually dishonest is to call the place it would be made a "lab", and imply that this indicates the presence more hazardous chemicals than where food is processed now. As it is now, there are hazardous chemicals in virtually every single factory, and virutally every single restaurant, grociery store and farm for that matter.
Grade inflation is already WAY out of control. I won't comment on parents making that deal with their own children, as I believe parents should be, well, parents. That means they choose how to raise their children. As for a national policy of paying for good grades, it would only take the first round of report cards to come out before the public would start considering it theft to not give their kid an A.
I would wager that the average number of words per day read by kids today is at least 3 times the number read 50 years ago.
You could also minimize it by not wasting electricity posting on Slashdot. I'm not saying you should stop using there internet. Just that you acknowledge that you unnecessarily damage the environment for entertainment.
No. Because animals shouldn't eat their own kind. It spreads disease. Cows should not eat cows. Chickens should not eat chickents, and humans should not eat humans.
True. I am a veterinarian too. I just use human meat as my definition of meat, and I never eat that. The cows I eat every day don't count.
More seriously, being a vegetarian is 'cool' to certain demographics. Those people don't really want to be vegetarian. They just want to be cool. Thus they rationalize why the animals they eat don't count. I have literally had 'vegetarians' tell me that only red meat counts as meat.
That depends on what you define as an animal.
If this meat were to hit the market, the stuff you buy would not be made in a lab. It would be made in a factory. Your current meat is processed in a factory too. The fear that there would be increased chance of exposure to hazardous chemicals is irrational.
You are a perfect example why there can be no change. A "Swing Voter" is a voter that actually looks at the candidates and their platform. The problem is that the 10% of voters can't out vote the 90% of voters that are going to vote for the team with their favorite colored jerseys.
The media has convinced people that if they don't pick a team and vote for that team no matter what the team does, they must be stupid. The newspeak has worked, and it has worked on you specifically.
Low end laptops run the exact same software as high end laptops. For the tasks you describe, Windows, OSX, and Linux are all just easy as on the iPad. Obviously your mother agrees.
I never said I hate Apple. The fact that you think not declaring Apple products superior at every task means a person "hates Apple" puts you far into the fanboy realm.
ReplayTV disappeared because they were sued into oblivion. People also buy interesting tech for the TVs all the time. Whether that is an Xbox360, a Roku, or equipment that is integrated directly into the TV. I know I wouldn't consider buying a new TV that didn't at least stream Netflix.
What Steve Jobs REALLY meant was that no one will pay the premium that Apple wants for the privilege of plastering Apple's logos all over their TVs. There is also very little 'Cool' factor involved in buying TVs so Apples tradition product value would be largely incompatible.
Does the 360 support bluetooth keyboards? That remote is bluetooth.
This is the proper way to incorporate a keyboard into a TV product.
http://www.presentationtek.com/2010/02/11/vizio-1080p-led-lcd-hdtv-with-wireless-and-via-vf552xvt-and-vf472xvt-review/
Roku is a good system at a good price. I have one on every TV in my home. At the price they cost, even if something better comes out in a few years, you won't feel like you have wasted your money.
I had not heard previously that Google had started this. It is obvious, and I have been waiting for it. What will be interesting will be to see how much it competes with game consoles. Android now has gamepad APIs. I could see a large percentage of households finding an Android device hooked to their TV to be more than adequate for their gaming needs.
I don't know where you live, but in the US, the standard is that the Government decides who gets a line pulled into your home. That is what gives teh corporations the power to cap bandwidth.
That is a myth. I run multiple "Web 2.0" pages all the time. I run Flash and Java Script. My couple of year old PC has no problem with them. Heck, the Atom N270 base netbook I have here has no problems running them. If your modern processor has problems with that kind of usage, your computer is broken. My kid's favorite games are online flash games. He will load up a dozen of them in seperat tabs of his computer and his couple of year old PC has not problems. I get that it is hip to claim that web pages are dragging your computer's process, but it is just a fantasy for those that want to complain.
You seem to be confused about basic math, and in particular the difference between positive numbers and negative numbers. Maybe Kahn can help. http://www.khanacademy.org/exercises?exid=number_line.
The piece that surprises me that hasn't been pushed is that today's consoles could run productivity apps. Wii tried this with this a little with the browser, but it was a poor implementation.
Maybe the next generation. Presumably the next generation will all use HDMI, so their output will be no different than a desktop's output.
More like 0.000000000000%.
It is about the speed of computers. People would always have preferred to have massive computing power that did not have to be used at their desk 100% of the time. They also would have always wanted the systems to be low power if they could have looked past their desire for speed. It has been the desire for the absolute fastest speeds possible that has tied them to a desk using large amounts of power.
The amount of processing power most people need has been well surpassed by what x86 offers, but is not fully bet by ARM. The low power that people want (and is required for phones) is met by ARM, and not fully met by x86. Intel is pushing down into the low power market while trying to keep enough speed, while ARM is pushing up with more speed while trying to keep the low power. ARM wasn't even a consideration for most people before the CPU speed bubble popped because ARM was so much slower.
The separation between tablets and desktops is a false dichotomy. The obvious end game is to have a tablet that sits on a stand, has a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for desktop use and a connectable keyboard to turn the tablet into a clam shell laptop. At that point, "desktop" and "tablet" become description of how you are using your device, not a description of the device itself.
Intel is aware of this, and will push downward into this market. They are not going to just leave it for ARM. ARM is aware of this, and is pushing upward into the same market.