Eh, I don't think the Prius looks futuristic at all. All the electric cars are ugly as hell. The Leaf looks like an overweight catfish with a fat ass. The Volt looks like a patchwork doll with pieces and parts pasted on. The only thing the volt has going for it is 17" rims. The Prius looks like mini-van that got squashed in the back after someone replaced all the tires with shopping cart wheels. Yeah, I don't like tiny wheels on cars... but I thought electric vehicles were supposed to be high torque? Why is there a need to have smaller diameter wheels?
Not everyone leases vehicles though. I did once, and I'll never do it again. Tracking how many miles you can put on in a year and hoping you don't change jobs to somewhere further away is a PITA.
Well, it was subtle... if it happened right in front of our faces and we didn't notice until it was done. (I agree with most of what you've posted here, just pointing that one minor detail out.);)
I don't know if I've ever needed to see a reflector driving sideways across a road...
I guess you've never made a turn across a road at night, then.
And you talk about disingenuous arguments...
The whole mechanism sticks up out of the ground.
Who actually uses those, though? Those are heinously more expensive than what is commonly used, which is a traditional reflector in a little divot pressed into the tarmac.
Ohio... I see literally hundreds of thousands of them every day.
1. They only need to be visible from two cones of angles, the angles you are driving toward them. I don't know if I've ever needed to see a reflector driving sideways across a road... They even have some reflectors that have the back side colored red so if you try to go down the wrong way you see red reflectors.
2. One could say the same about the dots... the space behind the dot could collect rocks.
3. The whole mechanism sticks up out of the ground. That's the point of the metal ribs to the left/right of the reflector... to protect it from plows. If it were recessed, the plow would skip right over and there'd be no need for the metal.
In this case... I think it's a case of this account having the footprint of the recent troll/"new account every two weeks"/Anti-Google/Pro-Microsoft person that has been around. I mean, here is one of their posts recently. I made up a journal of these accounts and it looks like I need to add another to the list. It was so quiet for a period of time. It looks like things are picking up.
The PCPro article says "Silber said Ubuntu for Android would be released under an open source license, but that Canonical expects it to mostly be pre-installed on specific hardware." I honestly hope they don't screw this one up, it's got the potential to be huge.
... So is it going to be open sourced (where CyanogenMod can do it themselves...invalidating the extremetech article) or not?
What bothers me are blue Christmas lights. Several of the shopping centers around here adorn their trees with all blue Christmas lights and I can't seem to focus on the lights to distinguish them. It's just bright blue annoyance.
NTP also uses "the web" and is included with pretty much every computer shipped in the past few years. (I can't think of any that do not off the top of my head.)
I can't wait for the next installment of your post.;)
On topic though, I have a feeling you're right to a point. Linux will likely take up a role as the kernel for most portable devices but the interfaces will be build using "non-Linux means" (local webserver hosting local "web" apps, JVMs like Dalvik, and about a year ago, I would have said a Mono build... maybe someone's still working on a Metro clone with it... I don't know.)
Some bottled water is literally tap water from the city it was bottled in. I can't remember where it was, but I got a bottle of "Walmart" water (Sam's choice?) and on the side it literally said it was bottled from municipal water supplies in X town.
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Because there's no money there... but they will attack anything that uses the kernel: Android, Nook, TomTom
And give it to whom?
Eh, I don't think the Prius looks futuristic at all. All the electric cars are ugly as hell. The Leaf looks like an overweight catfish with a fat ass. The Volt looks like a patchwork doll with pieces and parts pasted on. The only thing the volt has going for it is 17" rims. The Prius looks like mini-van that got squashed in the back after someone replaced all the tires with shopping cart wheels. Yeah, I don't like tiny wheels on cars... but I thought electric vehicles were supposed to be high torque? Why is there a need to have smaller diameter wheels?
Not everyone leases vehicles though. I did once, and I'll never do it again. Tracking how many miles you can put on in a year and hoping you don't change jobs to somewhere further away is a PITA.
To the government, everyone is a terrorist.
Well, it was subtle... if it happened right in front of our faces and we didn't notice until it was done. (I agree with most of what you've posted here, just pointing that one minor detail out.) ;)
There are a few... we try to keep them locked up. Sometimes they get out.
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I don't know if I've ever needed to see a reflector driving sideways across a road...
I guess you've never made a turn across a road at night, then.
And you talk about disingenuous arguments...
The whole mechanism sticks up out of the ground.
Who actually uses those, though? Those are heinously more expensive than what is commonly used, which is a traditional reflector in a little divot pressed into the tarmac.
Ohio... I see literally hundreds of thousands of them every day.
I can't say I've ever seen one collect ice...
Try someplace with weather.
Yep, we have weather here.
I'm not sure you've ever seen these... or you are talking about something entirely different?
http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediawebserver?mwsId=SSSSSu7zK1fslxtUPY_1l8TSev7qe17zHvTSevTSeSSSSSS--&fn=190%20Flyer.pdf
1. They only need to be visible from two cones of angles, the angles you are driving toward them. I don't know if I've ever needed to see a reflector driving sideways across a road... They even have some reflectors that have the back side colored red so if you try to go down the wrong way you see red reflectors.
2. One could say the same about the dots... the space behind the dot could collect rocks.
3. The whole mechanism sticks up out of the ground. That's the point of the metal ribs to the left/right of the reflector... to protect it from plows. If it were recessed, the plow would skip right over and there'd be no need for the metal.
4. I can't say I've ever seen one collect ice...
Maybe where you live, but where I live, we have reflectors buried in the pavement with metal to protect them from snow plows. (I've never heard the term "Botts' dots")
In this case... I think it's a case of this account having the footprint of the recent troll/"new account every two weeks"/Anti-Google/Pro-Microsoft person that has been around. I mean, here is one of their posts recently. I made up a journal of these accounts and it looks like I need to add another to the list. It was so quiet for a period of time. It looks like things are picking up.
I just bought a Droid 4... Google search provider.
The comment right above parent says:
The PCPro article says "Silber said Ubuntu for Android would be released under an open source license, but that Canonical expects it to mostly be pre-installed on specific hardware." I honestly hope they don't screw this one up, it's got the potential to be huge.
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So is it going to be open sourced (where CyanogenMod can do it themselves...invalidating the extremetech article) or not?
On another note, is that the proper spelling of sink in that usage?
Proper usage ;)
Mozilla's doing it the cheap way: They let users do it.
I was thinking more of Mega Maid.
I've played Katamari... It's in no way better. Pretty soon that gum will get to the size of Saturn and just suck up the Earth on it's way to Jupiter.
I see a few spaces in there.
If it fits, it ships
What bothers me are blue Christmas lights. Several of the shopping centers around here adorn their trees with all blue Christmas lights and I can't seem to focus on the lights to distinguish them. It's just bright blue annoyance.
NTP also uses "the web" and is included with pretty much every computer shipped in the past few years. (I can't think of any that do not off the top of my head.)
I can't wait for the next installment of your post. ;)
On topic though, I have a feeling you're right to a point. Linux will likely take up a role as the kernel for most portable devices but the interfaces will be build using "non-Linux means" (local webserver hosting local "web" apps, JVMs like Dalvik, and about a year ago, I would have said a Mono build... maybe someone's still working on a Metro clone with it... I don't know.)
If more people would just freaking *think* before they got in ...
... anywhere. I find some people use thinking as a last resort. Highway merges, grocery lines, banking...
Some bottled water is literally tap water from the city it was bottled in. I can't remember where it was, but I got a bottle of "Walmart" water (Sam's choice?) and on the side it literally said it was bottled from municipal water supplies in X town.