I have developed on Symbian UIQ, Series 80, and now Series 60 3rd edition platforms for the last few years. It is the most difficult and rtarded platform I have ever seen. The cost of development is so much greater than Windows Mobile that I can't see it competing. The tool set is pathetic (although perhaps getting better with Carbide), the version of C++ used is so bad with such horrible idioms (why use exceptions when you can have Leaves?!), the build environment so clunky, and the debugging so atrocious, that I can't see it ever overcoming Microsoft's momentum. Sure, it claims a huge number of devices sold, but most of those are the decidedly non-smartphone variety.
The class hierarchy and mixin patterns are extremely unintuitive, the documentation horrible, rant ad infinitum...
India is a strongly typed (uh, I mean caste) society. The Indian families that I know (in the US) have an almost pathological obsession with prestigious universities. What these students want going in is the prestige of a college degree. What they want going out is a job. I suspect the market has responded by creating colleges to bestow degrees (prestige) to satisfy the huge demand, but they realize too late that this degree is worthless upon graduation. That's why so many of them come to the US for graduate work.
Youth never vote. At least in the US. This is a recurring and, somewhat comical, theme in US politics. The left always places an extreme amount of importance in the youth vote (always left-leaning, of course), but they are always left shaking their heads in amazement when the youth don't vote and all the old folks do.
Name the last Category 3 hurricane (or equivalent) to hit Venice or the Netherlands. The Gulf of Mexico gets several per year and the odds are much higher that another will hit New Orleans vs. an equivalent storm hitting The Netherlands or Venice.
I used to agree with this sentiment, until I saw King Kong being played on a LCOS HD TV. It was freakishly good and unquestionably better than existing DVD quality. The real question is choosing the winning format. I think that most of us will wait until there is a winner (and by that time the high prices will have fallen).
In most respects I agree with the post. However, there are a few corrections I would like to make:
>Bio Diesel is 100% compatible with any diesel engine on the market today.
Not true wrt fuel systems. You have to use synthetic hoses, o-rings, etc. Biodiesel is a very good solvent. Also, if you use B100 with a former petro-diesel rig, you are likely to have fuel clogging problems.
>Bio Diesel is non-toxic.
While it's true that BD has a zero toxicity rating, that is due to the fact that rodents can metabolize methanol while humans cannot (toxicity testing is done by feeding mass quantities to rodents to see how many die). If the BD (most likely methyl-esters) ever converts back to methanol in the human digestive system - look out. However, I don't believe you need to handle B100 with gloves like you do PD (petro-diesel).
>Bio Diesel may produce less emissions than gasoline (hard to test with different engines)
Net-net it is better, but it does produce ~10% more NOx. This might be mitigated with changing compression ratios.
Additional fun-facts:
B100 is made by transestrification of your waste oil or soyoil with methanol or ethanol. The methanol will undoubtedly come from fossil fuels, but it is a great start.
If you used 100% of the soybean crop in the US for B100 production, I think you would get about 10% of our total fuel needs met.
As another poster pointed out wrt Ethanol, these are not silver bullets, but do provide substitutes/alternatives. If you just allow the market to adjust, the fuel supply problems will be solved as if by magic. The CO2 problem is another matter...
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I have developed on Symbian UIQ, Series 80, and now Series 60 3rd edition platforms for the last few years. It is the most difficult and rtarded platform I have ever seen. The cost of development is so much greater than Windows Mobile that I can't see it competing. The tool set is pathetic (although perhaps getting better with Carbide), the version of C++ used is so bad with such horrible idioms (why use exceptions when you can have Leaves?!), the build environment so clunky, and the debugging so atrocious, that I can't see it ever overcoming Microsoft's momentum. Sure, it claims a huge number of devices sold, but most of those are the decidedly non-smartphone variety.
The class hierarchy and mixin patterns are extremely unintuitive, the documentation horrible, rant ad infinitum...
India is a strongly typed (uh, I mean caste) society. The Indian families that I know (in the US) have an almost pathological obsession with prestigious universities. What these students want going in is the prestige of a college degree. What they want going out is a job. I suspect the market has responded by creating colleges to bestow degrees (prestige) to satisfy the huge demand, but they realize too late that this degree is worthless upon graduation. That's why so many of them come to the US for graduate work.
Youth never vote. At least in the US. This is a recurring and, somewhat comical, theme in US politics. The left always places an extreme amount of importance in the youth vote (always left-leaning, of course), but they are always left shaking their heads in amazement when the youth don't vote and all the old folks do.
Name the last Category 3 hurricane (or equivalent) to hit Venice or the Netherlands. The Gulf of Mexico gets several per year and the odds are much higher that another will hit New Orleans vs. an equivalent storm hitting The Netherlands or Venice.
I used to agree with this sentiment, until I saw King Kong being played on a LCOS HD TV. It was freakishly good and unquestionably better than existing DVD quality. The real question is choosing the winning format. I think that most of us will wait until there is a winner (and by that time the high prices will have fallen).
In most respects I agree with the post. However, there are a few corrections I would like to make:
>Bio Diesel is 100% compatible with any diesel engine on the market today.
Not true wrt fuel systems. You have to use synthetic hoses, o-rings, etc. Biodiesel is a very good solvent. Also, if you use B100 with a former petro-diesel rig, you are likely to have fuel clogging problems.
>Bio Diesel is non-toxic.
While it's true that BD has a zero toxicity rating, that is due to the fact that rodents can metabolize methanol while humans cannot (toxicity testing is done by feeding mass quantities to rodents to see how many die). If the BD (most likely methyl-esters) ever converts back to methanol in the human digestive system - look out. However, I don't believe you need to handle B100 with gloves like you do PD (petro-diesel).
>Bio Diesel may produce less emissions than gasoline (hard to test with different engines)
Net-net it is better, but it does produce ~10% more NOx. This might be mitigated with changing compression ratios.
Additional fun-facts:
B100 is made by transestrification of your waste oil or soyoil with methanol or ethanol. The methanol will undoubtedly come from fossil fuels, but it is a great start.
If you used 100% of the soybean crop in the US for B100 production, I think you would get about 10% of our total fuel needs met.
As another poster pointed out wrt Ethanol, these are not silver bullets, but do provide substitutes/alternatives. If you just allow the market to adjust, the fuel supply problems will be solved as if by magic. The CO2 problem is another matter...