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Hololens, for example, it's far from being a powerful machine and seems to do it just fine. Obviously we are talking about taking the first steps in a field that is still in development. it's not going to be perfect at first.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSIN135004
On top of that, how come other countries that have strict drug regulations and intensive prosecution (for example, Thailand) don't show same low rates of consumption?
That is definitely not true (you can recover from an addiction and there are examples all around you) and a really bad policy to follow if you really want to eradicate addiction, since you are basically marginalizing large groups of people. Saying that you need to "save" those who are not addicted implies that everyone is at risk, but the mechanics of addiction vary from person to person and are heavily influenced by socioeconomic background.
Please refer to professionals that work in this field before proposing approaches like this.
Far from astronomical. 6/7%. It's very good compared to developed countries but the key for percentages is always understanding what is the original value you are growing from. China was a huge country both in size and population that began a transformation into a modern economy. They'll, sooner or later, become the largest economy in the world. But these growth ratios won't be sustainable. They'll stabilize around 2/3% once they fully develop their economic potential.
China has a lot of immigrants. Mostly from rural areas to urban areas. They are Chinese, sure, but because the different laws governing rural areas vs. cities they might as well be from another country. These cities (Shenzen, Hong Kong, Shanghai...) work with special trade regulations that are comparable to any other free-market countries around the world.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=a+mecca+for&ye...
You don't have to leave it, you just cannot sell it on the App Store or run it in modern devices. By all means, open source the code, publish it, archive it... do whatever you want with it.its not the end of the world and its a sensible decision.
Water lines are not necessarily indicative and we didn't have satellite pictures or detailed measurements 100 years ago but you can definitely see the sea rise affecting some areas in the world, like islands in the Pacific Ocean or the extensions of salt water marshes. In satellite pictures is posible to appreciate the change the shape of the shores in some points of the globe, if you have a good resolution capture, comparing pictures of just a decade ago.
Here's the kicker. You don't even need to see pictures. We have constant detailed measurements of sea levels (better than water lines) taken all around the planet going back to several decades.
If you want to check them, NASA has a great page for it. http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/ (and yes, they have pictures too).
And if you think NASA is somehow biased, you can check pretty much any other environmental agency or space agency in the world.
I think splitting hairs over the term is unnecessary. I'm sure there are people who believe earth's climate has always been the same but they are probably very few. The most popular position among climate change deniers, as far as I know, is that this changes are part of the natural cycle and humans have little or no impact.
He is afraid of being proved wrong. It's a very common problem with climate change deniers. Facts and figures keep piling up but they always grasp any possible alternative explanation. The longer they sustain their position, the fooler the look if they backtrack, so they tend to become more and more entrenched in their opinions. Trump just happens to have the opportunity to silence government funded organizations.
Not sure Medium is cutting back on efforts, though, as much as they are trying for a new business model that doesn't rely so much on advertising.
- Macbook Pro Escape: 18.75 hours - Macbook Pro 13": 15.25 hours - Macbook Pro 15": 17.25 hours
I've tested both the Macbook Pro Escape and the Macbook Pro 15" and under very light work load (web, email...) I'd say they were closer to 9 and 8 hours, which, by the way, I find pretty decent considering weight and dimmensions.
I really don't know what methodolgy CR uses, but seems to me that is not very realistic.
That being said, it's not longer a deal breaker, I think, for most of the people that used to complain about it and if you have a pixel or a high end Galaxy its very rare to find instances of slugginess or dropped frames when scrolling.
I still face more sudden app crashes on Android than on iOS, weird error messages that are definitely not user-friendly and for some specific categories of apps, like games or sound/music, I still think iOS offers better selection and reliability.
As long as this is an industry-wide problem, Apple has nothing to fear. It would be a problem IF people who have waited three years to change their iPhone decide to go for a different brand.
They don't depend on them. Apple would still profit nicely (albeit less) without these subsidies.
But then again the same thing could be say of various players on various industries. Detroit was, too, a city built thanks to a lot of subsidies and tax breaks; oil companies extract tremendous profits thanks to subsidies, tax breaks and all kinds of government help... so on and so forth.
Aside from that, I don't think there's a question to be raised about the legality of Apple tax scheme. There's a question to be raised about it's fairness, sure, but not the legality. Apple is using the same loopholes any other corporation can exploit (and they all do, to the extent they can or know how to).
What we need is updated international and national tax codes that start taking these things into account. Most of the current legislation was designed for a time much simpler and with less access to global markets and manufacturing chains.
It could happen for some popular routes, but it will be a minor nuisance and easily fixed with more supercharging stations on the routes that are more congested.
Interestingly enough, Surfaces are actually pretty expensive, especially if you try to upgrade SSD and RAM. Yet, somehow, there doesn't seem to be a big outrage over this. Most of the limitations of the MacBooks, as far as I can tell, seems to come from the fact that Intel processors simply have not advanced much in the last couple of years.
That being said, I'm not sure the developer community has enough interest in supporting that many AI assistants on their apps (Siri, Assistant, Alexa, Cortana...)