Part of the reason Windows was successful was that it supported a lot of hardware, with only one API. Android needs to insure that it's not difficult to write a single application that will run on every decently modern ( 2 year old) android phone, or else it would give up what is probably its biggest advantage.
Even if Earth threw all of its resources at sending people on one way trips to Mars, we wouldn't even be able to keep up with our current population growth rates. Currently we're experiencing ~1% growth, so in order to decrease the population of the Earth only by sending people to Mars we'd have to be sending almost 200,000 people a day, which seems extremely impractical.
It would have to be several orders of magnitude cheaper to get people to Mars than it is with our current technologies to have a chance at reducing earth's population in this manner. In fact, I haven't seen any sort of proposal for a cheap way into orbit that is believably scalable to that magnitude of people. Maybe something like a few space elevators would allow 1,000 people a day to head off for Mars, which would allow for a large city (or several small ones) to be built very quickly, but humanity isn't even close to being able to pull off an exodus like you suggest.
I think that practically, the best way to decrease the population on Earth is to do what China's doing with population controls, though it would really be better if people would just self regulate, rather than having the government get involved with that.
Sometimes, they merge very quickly into a single contrail, and his argument is that this is the case, and the angle at which the photo was shot at doesn't allow you to see them merge.
No. Any finite number of 3s making up 0.33333333.....30 is an aproximation of 1/3. In the real numbers (or the complex numbers, or the rational numbers), 0.3333333... (as in an infinite number of 3s after the decimal point) is precisely 1/3. If you consider the sequence.3,.33,.333,.3333. The limit of that sequence is what happens when you reach infinity. That limit happens to be 1/3. The same is true for 1/9. In other words, you simply can't put a real number between 0.333333333333333... and 1/3. For the real numbers, if |a - b| < epsilon, for any positive epsilon, then a = b.
Your point about the binary is precisely why having the source code is preferable to a compiled application.
If every app had it's source code distributed with it's binary, being locked in to old platforms would rarely happen.
With the source code, and some following of basic standards that have been around forever (like POSIX) it's not terribly difficult to get pretty much any app to work on pretty much any platform
I just looked at the link. The unencrypted passwords are intended to never exist on last passes servers, the encryption and decryption is done locally.
I think you have the Unsubsidized and Subsidized prices backwards. The subsidized price is $99.99 and the unsubsidized price is $79.99. $20 discount for not getting the initial phone purchase subsidized.
I buy pretty much exclusively from Amazon, due to where I live. It would take longer for me to find the time to make the 1:30 roundtrip drive to the nearest Barnes and Noble (Borders is farther) than it takes for amazon to ship it to me.
Amazon is pretty popular in the more rural areas of the US.
Take a look at the upcoming motorola droid coming to verizon. Probably hitting stores on Nov 6th, Possibly online/telephone sales the end of this month. It has a slideout qwerty keyboard, 3.7inch capacitive touchscreen, 5MP camera, and will be the first Android 2.0 phone. It's also only.5in thick.
Reportedly It's made of metal and has a very sturdy feel to it.
I think they usually do it based on operating system. Something that has BREW is automatically a dumbphone, something that's running WinMo, Android, BB OS, iPhone OS, etc is a smartphone.
The source code for that command line client should be available at: http://www.waveprotocol.org/. If i remember correctly it's not ncurses but jline, and it was programmed entirely in java.
Occam's Razor is an argument for God so long as you accept that having an all knowing all powerful being in the universe simply existing is a simple explanation. But I found that rather hard to swallow.
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Part of the reason Windows was successful was that it supported a lot of hardware, with only one API. Android needs to insure that it's not difficult to write a single application that will run on every decently modern ( 2 year old) android phone, or else it would give up what is probably its biggest advantage.
Even if Earth threw all of its resources at sending people on one way trips to Mars, we wouldn't even be able to keep up with our current population growth rates. Currently we're experiencing ~1% growth, so in order to decrease the population of the Earth only by sending people to Mars we'd have to be sending almost 200,000 people a day, which seems extremely impractical.
It would have to be several orders of magnitude cheaper to get people to Mars than it is with our current technologies to have a chance at reducing earth's population in this manner. In fact, I haven't seen any sort of proposal for a cheap way into orbit that is believably scalable to that magnitude of people. Maybe something like a few space elevators would allow 1,000 people a day to head off for Mars, which would allow for a large city (or several small ones) to be built very quickly, but humanity isn't even close to being able to pull off an exodus like you suggest.
I think that practically, the best way to decrease the population on Earth is to do what China's doing with population controls, though it would really be better if people would just self regulate, rather than having the government get involved with that.
Sometimes, they merge very quickly into a single contrail, and his argument is that this is the case, and the angle at which the photo was shot at doesn't allow you to see them merge.
Though the those electro-diesels don't actually have any batteries.
No. .3, .33, .333, .3333. The limit of that sequence is what happens when you reach infinity. That limit happens to be 1/3. The same is true for 1/9.
Any finite number of 3s making up 0.33333333.....30 is an aproximation of 1/3. In the real numbers (or the complex numbers, or the rational numbers), 0.3333333... (as in an infinite number of 3s after the decimal point) is precisely 1/3. If you consider the sequence
In other words, you simply can't put a real number between 0.333333333333333... and 1/3. For the real numbers, if |a - b| < epsilon, for any positive epsilon, then a = b.
Though I doubt this is the case, check out: http://panopticlick.eff.org/
Your point about the binary is precisely why having the source code is preferable to a compiled application.
If every app had it's source code distributed with it's binary, being locked in to old platforms would rarely happen.
With the source code, and some following of basic standards that have been around forever (like POSIX) it's not terribly difficult to get pretty much any app to work on pretty much any platform
Some shows/episodes aren't available on Hulu Desktop, making it worthless if you're after those shows
I just looked at the link. The unencrypted passwords are intended to never exist on last passes servers, the encryption and decryption is done locally.
Apps where more has moved to the cloud.
I think you have the Unsubsidized and Subsidized prices backwards. The subsidized price is $99.99 and the unsubsidized price is $79.99. $20 discount for not getting the initial phone purchase subsidized.
One note. No Ads are required by google on blogspot. You may add adwords to your blog easily however though.
I buy pretty much exclusively from Amazon, due to where I live. It would take longer for me to find the time to make the 1:30 roundtrip drive to the nearest Barnes and Noble (Borders is farther) than it takes for amazon to ship it to me.
Amazon is pretty popular in the more rural areas of the US.
That's not an ad for android ... it's an ad for a specific android phone. The Motorola Droid (previously known as sholes/tao)
Take a look at the upcoming motorola droid coming to verizon. Probably hitting stores on Nov 6th, Possibly online/telephone sales the end of this month. It has a slideout qwerty keyboard, 3.7inch capacitive touchscreen, 5MP camera, and will be the first Android 2.0 phone. It's also only .5in thick.
Reportedly It's made of metal and has a very sturdy feel to it.
I think they usually do it based on operating system. Something that has BREW is automatically a dumbphone, something that's running WinMo, Android, BB OS, iPhone OS, etc is a smartphone.
The source code for that command line client should be available at: http://www.waveprotocol.org/.
If i remember correctly it's not ncurses but jline, and it was programmed entirely in java.
Water + Solar/Nuclear = Return flight.
But the key changes every 2 minutes or so. You can't watch tv if you can't break it in much less than that.
youtube is owned by google, and I believe its rather popular, and runs on flash. 95% of all video on the net is streamed through flash these days
No its not.
Was IE released for WINE? No.
Was Safari released for Windows? Yes.
Advantage to this is that you wouldn't have to modify any system files or the kernel.
Ummm I'm pretty sure thats the ability to act as a wifi access point, which windows can't do yet.
Occam's Razor is an argument for God so long as you accept that having an all knowing all powerful being in the universe simply existing is a simple explanation. But I found that rather hard to swallow.
xkcd makes a valid point: http://xkcd.com/538/