No. Guns are designed to discharge a projectile at a high velocity. That is all.
O, come on, who are you fooling?
If that would be the case, why are legislators and gun makers not trying as hard as possible to make them safer? They are exempt from consumer safety laws. And why? Because their goal is to be lethal.
You are completely right. And it is why the automobile industry puts a lot of effort in making cars safer. And why there are laws like having to use these safety precautions.
By the way, many more cars than guns are used also every day for there intended purpose (moving from a to b) than guns. So your statistic (as tragic as it is) does not compare well.
For example if you build a piece of software that supports thirdparty plugins. Run it, and catch *everything*. When something is caught, disable the plugin, do not crash your application.
200 generations, not years. With an average of three generations per 100 years, that accounts to roughly 7500 years, which is basically "modern man" in terms of evolution.
I had a N900 and did some hacking on it with Python. I also have a Galaxy Nexus and am using the exquisite Android Eclipse plugin to develop for it.
I can tell you, developing for Android is way better than for the N900. You get better apps out faster. Plus they run on almost all devices, not just the N900.
It's open source software. Bugs can be squashed, security holes can be closed. Over time with enough effort the project can mature. If it doesn't there will be forks that use parts of it that are good and grow from there. That's the way the community and projects work.
Or: "It's open source software. Bugs will be left open for years to implement new features nobody wants (Firefox), over time more and more fragmentation will come because of forks and nothing really works. Also, when a project is finished to the original developer (aka "it works"), the whole thing is abandoned.
Windows got better, so I haven't tried Linux since the early 2000's.
Linux has gotten better as well. I switched on the desktop late 2000 from Windows NT 4 to Slackware 7 (version number bumping is nothing new...). From there I have used Debian, Gentoo, LFS and now mainly Ubuntu on desktops and CentOS on servers.
Before 2000, I used Slackware, but just for servers.
Smart marketing, threatening with law suits a week before the longest anticipated product launch since the iPod.
My reply: fuck you Apple. Your arrogance is getting bigger and bigger. It may be your downfall. Read the myth about Icarus before you hire a new army of lawyers.
The community doesn't want to see a significant switch to Linux. We will not be special anymore. We won't have magical computer skills anymore. And we'll have viruses.
I couldn't care less if nobody used Linux. *I* use it, because *I* like it. All this effort to get people to move to Linux is better spent on creating open protocols and formats, so *every* OS out there would just work.
there are also laws governing the quality of code.
The analogy of Microsoft is not so bad, considering that a door-maker, or a house builder actually has laws governing the *construction* of their products. Same thing goes with safety standards in the industry. This leads to provable checks on the design, *before* something bad happens. Then, if something bad happens, you can request the reports and if everything is OK there, the designer/engineer is not responsible, but it is an 'accident'.
If the computer industry can come up with design standards, the law can make these standards obligatory. Without these standards, this whole thing is bound to become yet-another-stupid-IT-legal-battle with lawyers and judges without a clue.
I've since moved on to arch linux and am happier for it.
That's the beauty of open source in general and Linux in particular. You have the choice.
I am a happy Ubuntu user and the Unity interface grew on me, it isn't in my way so it is useable for me (in fact I like it now more than the standard Gnome interface with the antiquated menubar; haven't really used Gnome Shell yet).
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No. Guns are designed to discharge a projectile at a high velocity. That is all.
O, come on, who are you fooling?
If that would be the case, why are legislators and gun makers not trying as hard as possible to make them safer? They are exempt from consumer safety laws. And why? Because their goal is to be lethal.
You are completely right. And it is why the automobile industry puts a lot of effort in making cars safer. And why there are laws like having to use these safety precautions.
By the way, many more cars than guns are used also every day for there intended purpose (moving from a to b) than guns. So your statistic (as tragic as it is) does not compare well.
Guns aren't responsible for violence anymore than cakes are responsible for fat people.
I see this so often and I think it is inherently false. Case in point: Guns are designed to kill. Cakes (or cars, or ....) are not.
Or it indicates a bug in someone else's code.
For example if you build a piece of software that supports thirdparty plugins. Run it, and catch *everything*. When something is caught, disable the plugin, do not crash your application.
200 generations, not years. With an average of three generations per 100 years, that accounts to roughly 7500 years, which is basically "modern man" in terms of evolution.
Don't you mean ONE MEEEELION DOLLARS?
(somehow supervillains always have an accent, also this is to pass the yelling-filter)
Why is there no +1 respect ?
40$/hr doing assembly work?
I do fucking CAD/CAM and get paid way less than that!
Cost of labor is not the same as the wage the laborer gets.
I had a N900 and did some hacking on it with Python. I also have a Galaxy Nexus and am using the exquisite Android Eclipse plugin to develop for it.
I can tell you, developing for Android is way better than for the N900. You get better apps out faster. Plus they run on almost all devices, not just the N900.
It's open source software. Bugs can be squashed, security holes can be closed. Over time with enough effort the project can mature. If it doesn't there will be forks that use parts of it that are good and grow from there. That's the way the community and projects work.
Or: "It's open source software. Bugs will be left open for years to implement new features nobody wants (Firefox), over time more and more fragmentation will come because of forks and nothing really works. Also, when a project is finished to the original developer (aka "it works"), the whole thing is abandoned.
That is also the way the community works.
I had the same issue just now. Looks like a bug in the media folder. When downloading through "Files" it does work correctly.
Windows got better, so I haven't tried Linux since the early 2000's.
Linux has gotten better as well. I switched on the desktop late 2000 from Windows NT 4 to Slackware 7 (version number bumping is nothing new...). From there I have used Debian, Gentoo, LFS and now mainly Ubuntu on desktops and CentOS on servers.
Before 2000, I used Slackware, but just for servers.
SVN is not only free, it will *make* you money.
The cost of not having a decent version control system is higher than having one.
Just a quick note about the MTP issue, install AirDroid on your phone and you are done with the cable hassle.
I stand corrected.
Smart marketing, threatening with law suits a week before the longest anticipated product launch since the iPod.
My reply: fuck you Apple. Your arrogance is getting bigger and bigger. It may be your downfall. Read the myth about Icarus before you hire a new army of lawyers.
The community doesn't want to see a significant switch to Linux. We will not be special anymore. We won't have magical computer skills anymore. And we'll have viruses.
I couldn't care less if nobody used Linux. *I* use it, because *I* like it. All this effort to get people to move to Linux is better spent on creating open protocols and formats, so *every* OS out there would just work.
there are also laws governing the quality of code.
The analogy of Microsoft is not so bad, considering that a door-maker, or a house builder actually has laws governing the *construction* of their products. Same thing goes with safety standards in the industry. This leads to provable checks on the design, *before* something bad happens. Then, if something bad happens, you can request the reports and if everything is OK there, the designer/engineer is not responsible, but it is an 'accident'.
If the computer industry can come up with design standards, the law can make these standards obligatory. Without these standards, this whole thing is bound to become yet-another-stupid-IT-legal-battle with lawyers and judges without a clue.
In the 1600s in the Netherlands, tulips bulbs were sold the price of a house, because of speculation.
That crashed, being the first market crash in history.
Wait, what do we do now? The headline asks the opposite question as the last line of the summary. Yes becomes no and no becomes yes.
I am confused.
You do know there are latex free condoms on the market?
We used to use them because of the allergies.
My idea exactly! Reading is not dependent on the toys, but on time and having a great read. Paper still beats all electronic devices for reading.
I was going to mod you insightful until that last phrase:
The smaller government, the poorer the people. The bigger the government, the richer the people.
The Soviet Union had a large (huge) government, and the people were not quite richer. A more current example would be Cuba.
I think the power lies in the balance: with great power (read: wealth) comes great responsibility.
I've since moved on to arch linux and am happier for it.
That's the beauty of open source in general and Linux in particular. You have the choice.
I am a happy Ubuntu user and the Unity interface grew on me, it isn't in my way so it is useable for me (in fact I like it now more than the standard Gnome interface with the antiquated menubar; haven't really used Gnome Shell yet).
Lots of us have many mail accounts, and many/most/all of them are not with Google. A good mail client is invaluable when you use many mail servers.
That is why you have Google pull your other mail into Gmail and add a label to it. All your mail in one convenient location, always available.
I ditched Thunderbird for Gmail some months ago and am very pleased with it.