Indeed, I'm mostly a libertarian and I view this as not really any different than a neighborhood, town, or city getting together and forming a cooperative. My reaction is 'good on them! Fie on established businesses that are failing to meet demands'.
If the line moves 4 times faster, for 1/4 the time, then you need 4 times the laborers... for 1/4 the time. You don't get to multiply people the same way you can speed.
Power vs Energy.
He does actually point this out - his example was rather than needing 5 volunteers doing 1 hour shifts sequentially, they do it in parallel. Which raises the question of whether you HAVE 5 volunteers, or just 1 doing a 5 hour shift...
Still, one would have to ask how many bags a volunteer can carry - if he can carry 3 per trip, but ends up only carrying 1-2 much of the time, a caching system would be more efficient because he can just keep hauling 3 bags per trip rather than 1-2 if that's all the current customer is ordering.
I've never accused Walmart of efficiency, and McDonald's did it's motion efficiency studies decades and decades ago, and hasn't kept up the work.
They don't make money by selling user information to third parties or by selling ads,
Funny, Apple has this thing called iAd where you pay Apple to place targeted ads, and it's currently being sued for selling user info to 3rd parties. Are these activities Apple's primary revenue model? No, but they are part of the revenue stream nevertheless.
A) still calling B) trying to update a half dozen media sites and C) now facebook is going to auto spam you complete with graphics and ad's
Okay, in my experience with the military every time there was a major disaster somewhere in the world I had to tell my command that I was safe and that I didn't have any immediate family in the affected area. They eventually mostly automated this with a website I could use.
So, at least theoretically facebook could dispense with the graphics and ads and send minimal amounts of data, even stuff like 'respond to this text with your status to auto-update', using a few kilobytes rather than megabytes. Done widely enough this would indeed help lower the strain on communication infrastructures during times of emergency while allowing more people to update their status.
Depends on which classes of apps you're talking about there. There's more than just games that use NDK code. That stuff..you're screwed on unless the vendor gets around to making an X86 version.
This is Intel trying to stay relevant against ARM...which is encroaching on their server space. If Intel weren't pushing all the green blow around for the vendors to take up, subsidizing these things, you'd not see X86 devices in the Android space.
I still have no idea what actual information this is supposed to convey. Or is it more of a "rah rah, evolution!" reaction thing?
You need something to compare it to; it's right in the article: "For comparison, humans and chimpanzees split somewhere between 5 and 7 million years ago"
So mice and rats diverged somewhere between 12 and 24 million years ago, while the range is 5 to 7M for humans and chimps. Humans and Chimps are very different and we'd certainly not try to treat chimpanzees as 'small humans' in a lab setting. Yet we tried to do so with mice, treating them as small rats.
Just a linear comparison would tell you that rats and mice have had 3 times as long to diverge as humans, making it a good chance that they're more different than humans and chimps are, even excluding that a generation of rats/mice can be measured in months when it's decades for humans and chimps.
As for the huge range - "He left the highway somewhere in Nebraska" is an overly broad area to search for an escaped felon, but if it's the best the investigators can come up with at the moment, it's the best they can come up with. 'Specification' is already a vague line, and without DNA to compare, or even enough intact skeletal remains, it can be tough.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
