Yes but overall, isn't it better to at least have the choice to go to the supermarket? (As you kind of acknowledge in your own example.)
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But I would think (and remember reading somewhere) that phonetics shift more quickly where there is no written record of the pronunciation. Chinese has dozens of mutually unintelligible dialects (Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Hakka, etc.). Maybe this fragmentation would be much less if they had a phonetic writing system in the first place.
> In a few decennies any spoken language has shifted, vocalisation is different, especially when the language is used by loosely coulped communities. And then you have to adapt spelling to new pronunciations. But what do you do with old books? And how do you keep the language united?
English (or Spanish, etc) is a real-world example of a mostly phonetic writing system, and I don't think it is that bad. We can still read old texts, even though our pronunciation of the words has changed vastly. If you go back far enough (e.g. to the time of Chaucer in the 1300s), it becomes hard to understand what is being said, but practically speaking I don't see this as a big problem. In contrast, I think it's very important to have a writing system that is easily learned, so that it is accessible to the entire population (not just those able to invest lots of time & effort).
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.6/#improved...
- 1-800-FLOWERS
- 1-800-CONTACTS
- hotels.comThere's a grippie in the bottom right corner indicating the settings pull-out sidebar.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/21/business/la-fi-autos...
"California Senate passes bill for self-driving cars"
> The question is: What strategy should you adopt to minimize the number egg drops it takes to find the solution? (And what is the worst case for the number of drops it will take?)
Then in the solution he says:
> Problems where the solution lays lower down the building are taking less drops than when the solution lays higher up. We need to come up with a strategy that makes things more uniform.
It is not explained why it has to be more uniform.
A more minor issue with this puzzle is that for the sake of thoroughness, the author should say is that the number of floors required to break the egg follows a uniform distribution (i.e., every floor is an equally likely candidate).
If you felt a company was behaving unethically and wanted to boycott it, what would you do? Would your strategy not involve spreading the word to your friends and followers via social media?
Lots of boycotts have been successful throughout history, and most of them started small.
http://www.walkscore.com/apartments/CA/San_Francisco
The numbers there are somewhat different.
You can also enter more than one commute location. So you can find all places that are within 20 minutes of your office AND 30 minutes of your girlfriend's house.
The other tabs have some pretty cool filters, such as proximity to public transit, grocery stores, etc.
They also have heatmaps showing how "walkable" a particular neighborhood is, i.e. how much you can get your daily errands done without needing a car:
Asking that question is like asking an Olympic sprinter why he can't be as fast as Usain Bolt, or scolding a successful musician for not selling as many records as Lady Gaga.
Compared to Apple, pretty much every company sucks at marketing. So what? Apple is an extreme outlier in its PR success, owing to a number of unique factors other companies cannot realistically replicate.
How would you answer your own question? Do you think there's a simple solution Microsoft hasn't figured out?
The goal is not to convey information, but rather to form an emotional bond, whether conscious or subconscious.
Trust me, there will be plenty of time in the coming months for in-depth product reviews, spec comparisons, etc. ad nauseam.
I read it as: The coder who built Microsoft Answers (http://answers.microsoft.com/) cried because of a new development kit.
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