The follow up of that is that if they want a cannon, they will get a cannon. Whether dad gives it to them as a birthday present and teaches them how to use it safely, or they build one out of old plumbing they scavenge for that abandoned house and blow their hands off.
Kids don't need cell phones? They don't "need" music either. Or, toy cars, or dolls, or a sprinkler to run in. Just because cell phones became popularized after 1980 does not make them some inherent evil that must be carefully controlled to prevent it's diabolical spread. A cell phone is a tool or a toy. They are are less expensive than a video game. Heck, they verge on the price of coloring books, which means that even if they are abused, so what. Of course, at 5, my son is perfectly capable of handling a phone responsibly. He was responsible enough to handle one when he was 3. If you haven't met any 3 to 16 year olds that are responsible enough to handle a telephone, you should be looking at their parents as to why. It isn't because of their age. Seriously, at less than 16, people have built nations. What genetic defect would make them incapable of handling a telephone.
The age that cell phones are appropriate is the age that the kid can understand how not to randomly call strangers.
I didn't get my 5 year old a cell phone because I am over protective. I did it so that whatever my limit's on his freedom were before, I could extend them, knowing that if he got separated from us, he could just call us and read some signs to let us know where he is. This worked out VERY well when we took him to Disneyland at 4. We gave him one of our phones. When he wanted to run free in Tom Sawyer's caves, we were comfortable letting him go. When it turned out that he exited from an exit that we didn't know about, and called us telling us that he couldn't find us, we didn't need to panic. We didn't need to report him as lost. We just needed him to describe what he could see. Less than 2 minutes later, we were all back together again, and a trip that could have been severely traumatic, was just a lot of fun.
I am also going to give my child the tools that make him WANT to write. Why any parent would say "My child want's to write a lot, but I don't think they are responsible enough to do it." is beyond me. I personally love it when my 5 year old sends me little notes over the cell phone telling me that he loves me, tells me what he is doing at that moment, or just tells me about something he thought was neat.
I like your math, but you do have to change it just a tad. The $2 savings is only if he is paying for the work. If he is getting paid, then there is no savings in getting the job done 6 minutes sooner. If he is hourly, he will get paid $2 less each day, while spending an extra $2. This means a $4 a day loss. If he is salary, then there is no change in his income, but he still pays out the $2 a day in equipment costs, and thus still loses money.
For the one paying the wages, there certainly can be a savings. So, for a company that is paying an employee, your math can be correct in some instances.
That all being said, from a non-economic standing, it may still make sense to upgrade. I know, I would rather have the extra 6 minutes of time, even if it is just spent getting a cup of coffee, or just being productive on something else. Ok, Ok, even if it is spent posting on Slashdot about how I would rather have the extra 6 minutes.
Are you saying that the poster was a troll for suggesting that you can get 18 year old women to sleep with you? He didn't say 17, 16, or 12 years old. He said 18. A perfectly legal and moral age for an adult to have as a girlfriend. I guess, this just fall into different strokes for different folks, but suggesting you date 18 year olds seems like a strange thing to get upset about.
That is what WinCE is for.... Perhaps Android is not for you. For me, I would rather have a well thought out OS that is prepared for the future than one that is only concerned about what is available today.
The reason is that the designers were looking at the big picture and not just the release date. Yes, today VMing every app seperatly keeps the phone from being even more cool than it already is, but just like every other piece of computer technology, every year, they percentage of the systems resource that is used by the VMs will go down. The VMs are pretty well fixed on their performance draw. The hardware will improve. Certainly, it has to be clear that running each app in it's own VM will be huge in helping with this OS's security. Sure they could spend a huge effort in creating an install time compiler, but they could also just work on making the OS better in other areas knowing that new hardware will soon make the install time recompile obsolete.
If 'The Inconvenient Truth' is anything more than BS, then there is no point in worrying about Global Warming as we are already in 300 degree weather, and we have already died. I am also waiting to hear his plan on how people can stop breathing without decaying.
I agree that installing Ubuntu is dead simple. About a week after my son's second birthday, I formatted his hard drive and gave him an Ubuntu disk, and told him to reinstall his system. The kid could even read yet, and still he got the system installed and on the internet. True, he couldn't find his gCompris, but he was playing Klotski about a half hour later.
The studies that "show" this are just like BMI. Sure they maybe average, but the actual numbers vary so widely as to make 'average' a meaningless measurement.
I agree that adding flash would be the killer app, but I can say that the lack of VPN is doing a lot of damage too. It just isn't a business phone without VPN.
You are correct. I have an iPhone and a MyTouch right here in front of my, and the iPhone is just...Large.
So far, I like the MyTouch a little better, although, that may be partially because I like the ability to increase my storage with just a standard microSD. It could also be that knowing the battery is not user replaceable in the iPhone puts me off. All in all, they both are perfectly fine phones to use on a day to day basis.
Since it is well established that 'Womens' events are specifically there because they are expected to be 'inferior' to the athletes in the 'Mens" events and thus cannot compete directly, the answer is simple. Just call one the 'inferior' event and one the superior event, and let anybody play in any event they want. If this athlete is actually a man, but in is running in the 'Womens' event because he wants to compete against 'inferior' athletes because he cannot compete against the 'superior' athletes', then big deal. Just note what his is doing.
On the other hand, if this athlete is a woman, and is only winning races because she is running against an 'inferior' set of athletes, she should step up and compete against the 'superior' set of athletes. I know I would rather be 2nd best (or even 300th best) at something than be #1 of the group that has no chance of competing against the best.
And just as many are stuffed under desks, with piles of stuff crammed around them. Often in the cubby hole of 'computer desks'. Heck, my server is in the furnace room, right next to the furnace. Even if you only count the seriously abused PCs, they still have dramatically lower failure rates. Heck, I've had PCs that never even made it into a case that ran for years. Pointing out that some PC are in nice environments doesn't even come close to disputing the OP's very true statement.
When faced with a sea of white "moster faced" troups running at you, they don't have to shoot accurately. It is a sea of them after all. getting a lucky hit eventually is a given.
You have it right. I would love to see the results of a similar study on exercise. You know, take a bunch of people who don't exercise, and then take half and put them on a massive exercise regiment. I can see the results now... "After only a few days on the treadmill, subjects felt massive pain in muscles. Some even lost the ability to walk. Also noted was a massive spike in food consumption."
My personal experience with a low carb-high fat diet is that after 10 months, am 60 lbs. lighter, have greater energy, think clearer, smell better, have greater stamina, and produce far less gas internally. When I have the occasional high carb meal, I feel bloated, gassy, lethargic, and gain weight.
People are really vested in their world view of what is 'healthy'. I have met many people that low carb diets actually make angry. Others that will go out of their way to try to slip carbs into peoples diets. No doubt, vegetarians (a diet that I am not too keen on) have had to deal with similar issues in the past.
I went for a physical a couple of weeks ago, and the doctor tried to convince me that carbohydrates are not sugars. Although, he also told me that I shouldn't worry about body fat percentages because different people need different fat percentages, and instead I should be looking at BMI. He didn't seem to notice that I was sitting there with a six pack on my belly while his BMI chart said I was 5 lbs. short of being obese. He also seemed to miss that to reach what the BMI considers my 'ideal' weight, I would not only have to get to 0% body fat, I would have to amputate another 4 lbs of lean body mass to get there. BMI also says that I am 'normal' weight at 28 lbs below 0% body fat.
Basically, the issue of weight has so much bias in it that even those that are supposed to be in the know, and those that are supposed to be objective, end up just making things up that defy logic and directly contradict empirical evidence.
That is bullshit and you know it. How often do you have to agree to a TOS or EULA? Most people can read through the average TOS or EULA in about 10 minutes. Somehow I doubt you can't spend 10 minutes doing that rather than watching some stupid TV show or playing WoW.
Did you reread the 'Privacy Policy' of Slashdot before making that post to see what current policies you are agreeing to by visiting this site? No? I didn't think so. As I said. Your claim can only lead to being a hypocrite. You agree to TOS/EULA/Privacy Policies many times a day. If you visit 12 different sites in a day and each takes 10 minutes to read, that is 2 extra hours a day to read your TOS. Do you have an extra 2 hours a day to dedicate to that? That is just for your online activities. Add in the huge number of products we use every day offline that also have warnings/instructions/recalls, and you can easily be up to 6 or 7 hours a day, just reading your 'contracts'. This doesn't even touch on actual laws.
You are proving my point. Thanks for playing.
Your point was that people didn't know what they were doing. My point is that people did know what they were doing in regards to ARM loans. It is strange that you would consider that to prove your point.
Calling due diligence is like complaining about spelling. At the end of the day you just end up being a hypocrite. There is no way that any person can fully read every contract, warning, recall, EULA, instruction manual, etc.. There simply isn't enough time in the day to accomplish this and still function in society. So, what intelligent people do is make the best guess they can as to what has the greatest risk, and read those. This software is a perfect example of something that doesn't cause great harm, so it would have been a bad idea for most people to spend hours reading the TOS when they installed it, and re-read it every time they loaded the software to make sure the TOS didn't change. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't get up in arms about bad behaviour. It doesn't mean that they shouldn't feel that the company behaved unethically. It doesn't mean that they shouldn't complain as loudly and frequently as they feel the ethical infraction warrants. Just because something isn't technically illegal doesn't mean that it isn't unethical or harmful.
As for the sub-prime adjustable rate mortgages that ballooned after 2 years... The number of people that didn't know EXACTLY what they were getting is so small as to be irrelevant. People getting sub-prime ARMs just let greed get in their way and made the stupid prediction that housing prices would always increase dramatically faster than inflation. Of course some people got 3 of them, and when the short term housing price increase happened, they massively mortgaged two of them, put the money into the third, and when prices dropped, they cried that they didn't understand as they walked away from the two massively mortgaged houses with the third being free.
You do realize that a Camry with 40,000 miles on it is both heavily used, AND out of warranty. Yes, we all know that if you buy a used car that is out of warranty, you can get it way cheaper than a brand new car.
Basic US landlines end up costing ~$18 after taxes. That is with free local calling and toll long distance calling. Of course, you have to consider that 20 pounds is $32 dollars, so, our landlines are actually cheaper than yours. Also, since at $35, you get unlimited calling to any number in the US, which means over 300 million people, I would say, yes, it is competitive.
That being said, I was not comparing it to European phones. I was comparing it to US phones.
If I get on a commercial plane that is instructed to go to New York, and the pilot takes me to Cuba, that pilot has hijacked that plane. Even if I misspelled New York when I bought my ticket.
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Meat stores better though. If you keep watering and feeding it, it will last for years. It will also survive far harsher climates.
I would look at it this way. There is absolutely no excuse for 24 Hour Fitness to have a single hour were they do not have functioning treadmills.
OK, your right. It isn't that bad for a kid to build a cannon. I think my point still stands though.
The follow up of that is that if they want a cannon, they will get a cannon. Whether dad gives it to them as a birthday present and teaches them how to use it safely, or they build one out of old plumbing they scavenge for that abandoned house and blow their hands off.
Kids don't need cell phones? They don't "need" music either. Or, toy cars, or dolls, or a sprinkler to run in. Just because cell phones became popularized after 1980 does not make them some inherent evil that must be carefully controlled to prevent it's diabolical spread. A cell phone is a tool or a toy. They are are less expensive than a video game. Heck, they verge on the price of coloring books, which means that even if they are abused, so what. Of course, at 5, my son is perfectly capable of handling a phone responsibly. He was responsible enough to handle one when he was 3. If you haven't met any 3 to 16 year olds that are responsible enough to handle a telephone, you should be looking at their parents as to why. It isn't because of their age. Seriously, at less than 16, people have built nations. What genetic defect would make them incapable of handling a telephone.
The age that cell phones are appropriate is the age that the kid can understand how not to randomly call strangers.
I didn't get my 5 year old a cell phone because I am over protective. I did it so that whatever my limit's on his freedom were before, I could extend them, knowing that if he got separated from us, he could just call us and read some signs to let us know where he is. This worked out VERY well when we took him to Disneyland at 4. We gave him one of our phones. When he wanted to run free in Tom Sawyer's caves, we were comfortable letting him go. When it turned out that he exited from an exit that we didn't know about, and called us telling us that he couldn't find us, we didn't need to panic. We didn't need to report him as lost. We just needed him to describe what he could see. Less than 2 minutes later, we were all back together again, and a trip that could have been severely traumatic, was just a lot of fun.
I am also going to give my child the tools that make him WANT to write. Why any parent would say "My child want's to write a lot, but I don't think they are responsible enough to do it." is beyond me. I personally love it when my 5 year old sends me little notes over the cell phone telling me that he loves me, tells me what he is doing at that moment, or just tells me about something he thought was neat.
I like your math, but you do have to change it just a tad. The $2 savings is only if he is paying for the work. If he is getting paid, then there is no savings in getting the job done 6 minutes sooner. If he is hourly, he will get paid $2 less each day, while spending an extra $2. This means a $4 a day loss. If he is salary, then there is no change in his income, but he still pays out the $2 a day in equipment costs, and thus still loses money.
For the one paying the wages, there certainly can be a savings. So, for a company that is paying an employee, your math can be correct in some instances.
That all being said, from a non-economic standing, it may still make sense to upgrade. I know, I would rather have the extra 6 minutes of time, even if it is just spent getting a cup of coffee, or just being productive on something else. Ok, Ok, even if it is spent posting on Slashdot about how I would rather have the extra 6 minutes.
Are you saying that the poster was a troll for suggesting that you can get 18 year old women to sleep with you? He didn't say 17, 16, or 12 years old. He said 18. A perfectly legal and moral age for an adult to have as a girlfriend. I guess, this just fall into different strokes for different folks, but suggesting you date 18 year olds seems like a strange thing to get upset about.
That is what WinCE is for.... Perhaps Android is not for you. For me, I would rather have a well thought out OS that is prepared for the future than one that is only concerned about what is available today.
The reason is that the designers were looking at the big picture and not just the release date. Yes, today VMing every app seperatly keeps the phone from being even more cool than it already is, but just like every other piece of computer technology, every year, they percentage of the systems resource that is used by the VMs will go down. The VMs are pretty well fixed on their performance draw. The hardware will improve. Certainly, it has to be clear that running each app in it's own VM will be huge in helping with this OS's security. Sure they could spend a huge effort in creating an install time compiler, but they could also just work on making the OS better in other areas knowing that new hardware will soon make the install time recompile obsolete.
If 'The Inconvenient Truth' is anything more than BS, then there is no point in worrying about Global Warming as we are already in 300 degree weather, and we have already died. I am also waiting to hear his plan on how people can stop breathing without decaying.
I agree that installing Ubuntu is dead simple. About a week after my son's second birthday, I formatted his hard drive and gave him an Ubuntu disk, and told him to reinstall his system. The kid could even read yet, and still he got the system installed and on the internet. True, he couldn't find his gCompris, but he was playing Klotski about a half hour later.
The studies that "show" this are just like BMI. Sure they maybe average, but the actual numbers vary so widely as to make 'average' a meaningless measurement.
I agree that adding flash would be the killer app, but I can say that the lack of VPN is doing a lot of damage too. It just isn't a business phone without VPN.
You are correct. I have an iPhone and a MyTouch right here in front of my, and the iPhone is just...Large.
So far, I like the MyTouch a little better, although, that may be partially because I like the ability to increase my storage with just a standard microSD. It could also be that knowing the battery is not user replaceable in the iPhone puts me off. All in all, they both are perfectly fine phones to use on a day to day basis.
Since it is well established that 'Womens' events are specifically there because they are expected to be 'inferior' to the athletes in the 'Mens" events and thus cannot compete directly, the answer is simple. Just call one the 'inferior' event and one the superior event, and let anybody play in any event they want. If this athlete is actually a man, but in is running in the 'Womens' event because he wants to compete against 'inferior' athletes because he cannot compete against the 'superior' athletes', then big deal. Just note what his is doing.
On the other hand, if this athlete is a woman, and is only winning races because she is running against an 'inferior' set of athletes, she should step up and compete against the 'superior' set of athletes. I know I would rather be 2nd best (or even 300th best) at something than be #1 of the group that has no chance of competing against the best.
And just as many are stuffed under desks, with piles of stuff crammed around them. Often in the cubby hole of 'computer desks'. Heck, my server is in the furnace room, right next to the furnace. Even if you only count the seriously abused PCs, they still have dramatically lower failure rates. Heck, I've had PCs that never even made it into a case that ran for years. Pointing out that some PC are in nice environments doesn't even come close to disputing the OP's very true statement.
When faced with a sea of white "moster faced" troups running at you, they don't have to shoot accurately. It is a sea of them after all. getting a lucky hit eventually is a given.
Very well put!
You have it right. I would love to see the results of a similar study on exercise. You know, take a bunch of people who don't exercise, and then take half and put them on a massive exercise regiment. I can see the results now... "After only a few days on the treadmill, subjects felt massive pain in muscles. Some even lost the ability to walk. Also noted was a massive spike in food consumption."
My personal experience with a low carb-high fat diet is that after 10 months, am 60 lbs. lighter, have greater energy, think clearer, smell better, have greater stamina, and produce far less gas internally. When I have the occasional high carb meal, I feel bloated, gassy, lethargic, and gain weight.
People are really vested in their world view of what is 'healthy'. I have met many people that low carb diets actually make angry. Others that will go out of their way to try to slip carbs into peoples diets. No doubt, vegetarians (a diet that I am not too keen on) have had to deal with similar issues in the past.
I went for a physical a couple of weeks ago, and the doctor tried to convince me that carbohydrates are not sugars. Although, he also told me that I shouldn't worry about body fat percentages because different people need different fat percentages, and instead I should be looking at BMI. He didn't seem to notice that I was sitting there with a six pack on my belly while his BMI chart said I was 5 lbs. short of being obese. He also seemed to miss that to reach what the BMI considers my 'ideal' weight, I would not only have to get to 0% body fat, I would have to amputate another 4 lbs of lean body mass to get there. BMI also says that I am 'normal' weight at 28 lbs below 0% body fat.
Basically, the issue of weight has so much bias in it that even those that are supposed to be in the know, and those that are supposed to be objective, end up just making things up that defy logic and directly contradict empirical evidence.
That is bullshit and you know it. How often do you have to agree to a TOS or EULA? Most people can read through the average TOS or EULA in about 10 minutes. Somehow I doubt you can't spend 10 minutes doing that rather than watching some stupid TV show or playing WoW.
Did you reread the 'Privacy Policy' of Slashdot before making that post to see what current policies you are agreeing to by visiting this site? No? I didn't think so. As I said. Your claim can only lead to being a hypocrite. You agree to TOS/EULA/Privacy Policies many times a day. If you visit 12 different sites in a day and each takes 10 minutes to read, that is 2 extra hours a day to read your TOS. Do you have an extra 2 hours a day to dedicate to that? That is just for your online activities. Add in the huge number of products we use every day offline that also have warnings/instructions/recalls, and you can easily be up to 6 or 7 hours a day, just reading your 'contracts'. This doesn't even touch on actual laws.
You are proving my point. Thanks for playing.
Your point was that people didn't know what they were doing. My point is that people did know what they were doing in regards to ARM loans. It is strange that you would consider that to prove your point.
Calling due diligence is like complaining about spelling. At the end of the day you just end up being a hypocrite. There is no way that any person can fully read every contract, warning, recall, EULA, instruction manual, etc.. There simply isn't enough time in the day to accomplish this and still function in society. So, what intelligent people do is make the best guess they can as to what has the greatest risk, and read those. This software is a perfect example of something that doesn't cause great harm, so it would have been a bad idea for most people to spend hours reading the TOS when they installed it, and re-read it every time they loaded the software to make sure the TOS didn't change. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't get up in arms about bad behaviour. It doesn't mean that they shouldn't feel that the company behaved unethically. It doesn't mean that they shouldn't complain as loudly and frequently as they feel the ethical infraction warrants. Just because something isn't technically illegal doesn't mean that it isn't unethical or harmful.
As for the sub-prime adjustable rate mortgages that ballooned after 2 years... The number of people that didn't know EXACTLY what they were getting is so small as to be irrelevant. People getting sub-prime ARMs just let greed get in their way and made the stupid prediction that housing prices would always increase dramatically faster than inflation. Of course some people got 3 of them, and when the short term housing price increase happened, they massively mortgaged two of them, put the money into the third, and when prices dropped, they cried that they didn't understand as they walked away from the two massively mortgaged houses with the third being free.
Being raped is endangerment. Ever heard of STDs? Ever heard of the ones that can't be cured and which are eventually fatal?
If you are going to use that standard, then cheating on your spouse is a violent crime.
You do realize that a Camry with 40,000 miles on it is both heavily used, AND out of warranty. Yes, we all know that if you buy a used car that is out of warranty, you can get it way cheaper than a brand new car.
Basic US landlines end up costing ~$18 after taxes. That is with free local calling and toll long distance calling. Of course, you have to consider that 20 pounds is $32 dollars, so, our landlines are actually cheaper than yours. Also, since at $35, you get unlimited calling to any number in the US, which means over 300 million people, I would say, yes, it is competitive. That being said, I was not comparing it to European phones. I was comparing it to US phones.
If I get on a commercial plane that is instructed to go to New York, and the pilot takes me to Cuba, that pilot has hijacked that plane. Even if I misspelled New York when I bought my ticket.