I've got accidental gun deaths at 10% of homicides, not 1% ? And suicide above homicides, by widely varying margins (+50 to 1000%)
Do suicides and ganbangers not count as gun deaths ? or do you consider them lesser deaths ? or do you have another point ? BTW, gun suicides are more effective, and do raise the death count of suicide attempts.
Yep. Also much better for righting all wrongs: more playstation time, less spinach, marbles thiefs, bath-time enforcers. Thankfully 12 year old kids are in full control of their emotions (like all adults, too), and gun possession would never cause a shouting match or fistfight to graduate to gun murder/
War has always been somewhat kept in control by the fact that people died on both sides. Granted, people who actually decide about going to war have been known to make sure no-one close to them actually got in the thick of it, and incumbent-favouring wars have a way to start towards the end of election cycles, and other politicos have been known to xerox condolences letters, but still...
Like any tool (TV, books, toys...) it all depends on how it is used. The one most significant factor in a kid's learning is the involvement of his parents, both as motivators and as teaching assistants. Kids need to be helped and motivated all the time, but the payback on all that effort is tremendous. My 4yr old nephew called a tomato "spherical" a while back, that cracked us up big time. I'm a bit at a loss on how to proceed though, it's very hard to figure out when a how, when and what to try and teach kids.
Don't we have plenty of examples where the whole lot of money to be made in the Arts displaces effort and attention from worthwhile, but less popular endeavours to easy-on-mind drivel ? Do we really want marketers and bankers in charge of our culture ?
Weren't a lot of artists now recognized as Greats destitute during their lives ?
Isn't people's culture budget fairly constant, thus piracy allows them to have access to more culture, which they couldn't do otherwise ?
Don't out-of-copyright works contribute more to culture than all of the still-copyrighted works put together ?
I find the free market plug kinda funny in that instance: if you let the free market decide, you don't get Nokia nor the Euro GSM standard, you get the US mess of incompatible operators and standards, with each company trying to push their agenda, their patent-encumbered techs... How would you like your radio to work in the UK, but not in Ireland ? Or to work on the public channels, but not with some private ones ? Or to work only with tailor-made, more expensive sets ?
I'm a bit unclear about what you want to achieve: - easier end-user interface - more reliability (backups, journalling, redundancy...) - more speed - more security - more complicated data massaging (multi tables, statistics...) - better vizualization (reports, graphs...)
- iPhones are proprietary. Unless the Gov supports other platforms (Android, RIM, WinMob, Symbian), it is unfair to support just one. - Could not the same results be achieved with a web-only (intrinsically multi-platform) app ? - is the stuff that important that it MUST be available on a mobile (I should RTFA, maybe...)
It's kinda funny. My brother works in the IT dept at a very large company, on various projects (internal wiki, consolidating very specific application servers...). He confessed to me recently that he hoped MS would take over the world, so that he wouldn't have any more risky choices to make. He's having a hell of a time navigating the different choices for server virtualization ^^
Apple is moving the "proprietary playpen" up the food chain: it used to apply only to consoles, Apple were the first to push it aggressively into the media player, and then mobile phone, space. MS is aping them as always, which does not make it a good thing ^^
Phones are different because they really straddle the line between computer and consumer electronics. The 1GHz ARM in my HD2 is probably as powerful as the 800MHz Athlon I was using about 5 yrs ago. If you think of Internet as the new radio/TV, selling gizmos that restrict the apps and media you can use on them is akin to selling radios that won't tune into channels their makers dislike.
I'm not fond of WinMo either, but not enough to pass up on the HD2 large screen (45% bigger than the iPhone's). I wondered whether to wait for the Dell Streak. After a couple of months, I find the HD2 good enough. It "reads" music, ebooks, the web... I don't know what other people are doing with their phones, but that's about all I need. WinMob 6.5 is reliable for what I do, and the interface irrelevant as long as it can display a home page with 6 icons:-p. I understand others have different requirements (keyboard, smaller device...) or use more features (games, social web, work stuff...). I don't. I might get a Streak anyway, since I got the HD2 for only $29 with a friends discount, I still have my own discount to use up, and darn the thing looks nice.
yep. no reading outside. If/when you work at home, no taking your laptop poolside instead of locking yourself up.
Half-full vs Half-empty: do while outdoors things we would normally have to be indoors to do, or start doing indoor-sy things when we have to be outdoors. Oh wait, when do we HAVE TO be outdoors ?
In MS's case, xbox and zune are fairly marginal, and they weren't taking money on phone software (nor censoring it) until Apple showed them the way. You can install software from anywhere, flash, and porn on WinMob 6.5 phones. Alas, WinMob 7 will be as closed as iOS.
I'd rather things had stayed MS's way (no tax on all software and content, no censorship) than move Apple's way like they are now, with a tax, and censorship, on everything you can install and enjoy on your device. The original "MS Tax" of a windows license, which everyone was complaining so loudly about, now seems fairly harmless...
not the same order of magnitude. MS mainly lives, and males money, off selling Windows and Office. These two are a huge portion of their revenues and profits, and are pure software. Peripherals, xbox, zune are more sideshows, probably even smaller than MS's server line. http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Microsoft_(MSFT)/Data/Revenue_Breakdown
OTOH, Apple do not sell any significant amount of software apart from their devices' OS. That OS is a major "leg" of Apple's competitive advantage, but it's available only linked to a hardware sale. They don' even allow you to run it on anything but a Mac. http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-Q3-2009-by-the-numbers/1248218543.
As for the in-house part, Apple also design their hardware, including the CPU, in-house. Would you call Dell not a hardware company because they outsource most of their manufacturing ?
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2 points:
1- you mean you have a greater chance of drowning yourself than of getting killed by someone else in a gun accident ? Spot the difference ?
2- Baths, pools and rivers are not designed to kill. guns are. Spot the difference ?
the GP source says accidental deaths = 10% of voluntary homicides. I don't know if that qualifies as "small".
BTW, it says here 1,500 accidental gun deaths per year, not 100 ? http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/toptens/accidents/accidentsfull.html
I've got accidental gun deaths at 10% of homicides, not 1% ? And suicide above homicides, by widely varying margins (+50 to 1000%)
Do suicides and ganbangers not count as gun deaths ? or do you consider them lesser deaths ? or do you have another point ? BTW, gun suicides are more effective, and do raise the death count of suicide attempts.
Source: http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm
and how many extra gun deaths do you think letting 12 yo have guns would cause ?
hint: http://www.gun-control-network.org/International.gif
(and that chart is only for INTENTIONAL deaths, you can add accidents to that, not that there are ver any accidents with guns...)
Yep. Also much better for righting all wrongs: more playstation time, less spinach, marbles thiefs, bath-time enforcers. Thankfully 12 year old kids are in full control of their emotions (like all adults, too), and gun possession would never cause a shouting match or fistfight to graduate to gun murder/
god that car is fugly.
War has always been somewhat kept in control by the fact that people died on both sides. Granted, people who actually decide about going to war have been known to make sure no-one close to them actually got in the thick of it, and incumbent-favouring wars have a way to start towards the end of election cycles, and other politicos have been known to xerox condolences letters, but still...
Turning war into a video game feels not right.
Like any tool (TV, books, toys...) it all depends on how it is used. The one most significant factor in a kid's learning is the involvement of his parents, both as motivators and as teaching assistants. Kids need to be helped and motivated all the time, but the payback on all that effort is tremendous. My 4yr old nephew called a tomato "spherical" a while back, that cracked us up big time. I'm a bit at a loss on how to proceed though, it's very hard to figure out when a how, when and what to try and teach kids.
Don't we have plenty of examples where the whole lot of money to be made in the Arts displaces effort and attention from worthwhile, but less popular endeavours to easy-on-mind drivel ? Do we really want marketers and bankers in charge of our culture ?
Weren't a lot of artists now recognized as Greats destitute during their lives ?
Isn't people's culture budget fairly constant, thus piracy allows them to have access to more culture, which they couldn't do otherwise ?
Don't out-of-copyright works contribute more to culture than all of the still-copyrighted works put together ?
as someone once said: "50% of my advertising budget is wasted... only I don't know which 50%"
I find the free market plug kinda funny in that instance: if you let the free market decide, you don't get Nokia nor the Euro GSM standard, you get the US mess of incompatible operators and standards, with each company trying to push their agenda, their patent-encumbered techs... How would you like your radio to work in the UK, but not in Ireland ? Or to work on the public channels, but not with some private ones ? Or to work only with tailor-made, more expensive sets ?
Corrected, thanks, non-native speaker (writer ?) here
+1
is it ? reallllllly ?
I'm a bit unclear about what you want to achieve:
- easier end-user interface
- more reliability (backups, journalling, redundancy...)
- more speed
- more security
- more complicated data massaging (multi tables, statistics...)
- better vizualization (reports, graphs...)
I'm not sure a single book can cover all that.
apparently, police in russia are slower to do megacorps' bidding, though ?
lol
- iPhones are proprietary. Unless the Gov supports other platforms (Android, RIM, WinMob, Symbian), it is unfair to support just one.
- Could not the same results be achieved with a web-only (intrinsically multi-platform) app ?
- is the stuff that important that it MUST be available on a mobile (I should RTFA, maybe...)
It's kinda funny. My brother works in the IT dept at a very large company, on various projects (internal wiki, consolidating very specific application servers...). He confessed to me recently that he hoped MS would take over the world, so that he wouldn't have any more risky choices to make. He's having a hell of a time navigating the different choices for server virtualization ^^
Apple is moving the "proprietary playpen" up the food chain: it used to apply only to consoles, Apple were the first to push it aggressively into the media player, and then mobile phone, space. MS is aping them as always, which does not make it a good thing ^^
Phones are different because they really straddle the line between computer and consumer electronics. The 1GHz ARM in my HD2 is probably as powerful as the 800MHz Athlon I was using about 5 yrs ago. If you think of Internet as the new radio/TV, selling gizmos that restrict the apps and media you can use on them is akin to selling radios that won't tune into channels their makers dislike.
I'm not fond of WinMo either, but not enough to pass up on the HD2 large screen (45% bigger than the iPhone's). I wondered whether to wait for the Dell Streak. After a couple of months, I find the HD2 good enough. It "reads" music, ebooks, the web... I don't know what other people are doing with their phones, but that's about all I need. WinMob 6.5 is reliable for what I do, and the interface irrelevant as long as it can display a home page with 6 icons :-p. I understand others have different requirements (keyboard, smaller device...) or use more features (games, social web, work stuff...). I don't. I might get a Streak anyway, since I got the HD2 for only $29 with a friends discount, I still have my own discount to use up, and darn the thing looks nice.
will they feel me up ?
yep. no reading outside. If/when you work at home, no taking your laptop poolside instead of locking yourself up.
Half-full vs Half-empty: do while outdoors things we would normally have to be indoors to do, or start doing indoor-sy things when we have to be outdoors. Oh wait, when do we HAVE TO be outdoors ?
In MS's case, xbox and zune are fairly marginal, and they weren't taking money on phone software (nor censoring it) until Apple showed them the way. You can install software from anywhere, flash, and porn on WinMob 6.5 phones. Alas, WinMob 7 will be as closed as iOS.
I'd rather things had stayed MS's way (no tax on all software and content, no censorship) than move Apple's way like they are now, with a tax, and censorship, on everything you can install and enjoy on your device. The original "MS Tax" of a windows license, which everyone was complaining so loudly about, now seems fairly harmless...
not the same order of magnitude. MS mainly lives, and males money, off selling Windows and Office. These two are a huge portion of their revenues and profits, and are pure software. Peripherals, xbox, zune are more sideshows, probably even smaller than MS's server line.
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Microsoft_(MSFT)/Data/Revenue_Breakdown
OTOH, Apple do not sell any significant amount of software apart from their devices' OS. That OS is a major "leg" of Apple's competitive advantage, but it's available only linked to a hardware sale. They don' even allow you to run it on anything but a Mac.
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-Q3-2009-by-the-numbers/1248218543.
As for the in-house part, Apple also design their hardware, including the CPU, in-house. Would you call Dell not a hardware company because they outsource most of their manufacturing ?
Apple is not primarily a software company.
Less profit is still profit... less though...
Apple ? Software ?