That is the funny thing. Mac market share is closer to Linux desktop market share than it is to Windows. Heck, it is only slightly ahead of Vista. It looks the 10%-15% is an inflated number. The numbers I usually see tend to put it in the 7%-8%.
I have really liked HTC phones. I have owned 3. The myTouch. It ran mostly well, but was a bit klunky when pushed. The reason was that the hardware was just a bit to low for the OS it was trying to run. I knew that when I bought it, but felt that what Android offered over iOS was worth the bit of klunk. The second was the Nexus One. That phone was awsome. It ran Android great and was sleek. We still use the Nexus One as music player, even though I have upgraded my phone twice since I got it. The only reason the I wouldn't still consider the Nexus One a currently good phone is that it doesn't have enough memory to run a lot of current apps. The third was the G2. The G2 wasn't as sexy of a phone as the Nexus One, but it was a good performing solid phone with a hardware keyboard. The only regret with the G2 was that it was the first phone I got that had Swype. I got the G2 because I wanted a hardware keyboard, and Swype was the soft keyboard that made the hardware keyboard obsolete. So, I ended up with a phone that was thicker than necessary. That certainly wasn't a problem with the phone.
That is a myth. Huge numbers of corporate applications don't require paragraphs of text to submit content. In fact, the need for huge amounts of typing is often the sign of a poorly made application. Sure, writing a budget proposal is going to suck on a tablet, but there are huge amounts of content that is created without the need for that much writing. Think about the UPS guys. They create huge amounts of content without a laptop. I know that a lot of restaurants are starting to use tablets as order pads. You might not count a dinner order as content, but that doesn't mean it isn't.
Tablets are particularly great when you need portability to create content that consists of large numbers of small data.
I find my Nexus 7 to be awesome for VPNing into my server and doing a screen share so that I can fix problems while out and about. No, I am not a full time administrator for a fortune 500 company, so carrying a full laptop around with me to type a few commands or reboot a server is massive overkill. Yes, using the on-screen keyboard is less convenient than having a full keyboard, but carrying a laptop around is WAY less convenient than using the on-screen keyboard.
Besides, web browsing is how a huge number of corporate applications are delivered these days.
No, it isn't. The chicken pox vaccine in children is increasing the rates of shingles other adults in adults. The chicken pox vaccine in children is 40 to 60 years too new to give any data on its effectiveness in preventing shingles in the vaccinated child. The version of the vaccine that is being used for shingles can be given to people who have gained life long immunity to chicken pox by catching the disease as a child.
So, "But... But... Shingles!" is also not a legitimate argument for immunizing children with the chicken pox vaccine. To be fair, anyone that makes it past puberty (biological adulthood) without getting their life long immunity by catching the disease, probably should get the vaccine. But giving it to pre-pubecent children is just screwing the kids for the short term buck.
This is my complaint with the Chicken Pox vaccine. The Chicken Pox vaccine has already shown to not offer life long protection. Getting the disease does offer life long protection. It is a relatively mild disease that less than a third as dangerous as home cooked meals. So far, we have seen a drop from about 100 deaths a year to somewhere around ~50. The kids are being temporarily protected. Thus chicken pox has a hard time getting around and reaching the vulnerable adults. In another 10 years, we are likely to have an adult population that has no immunity and is only avoiding the disease because it is uncommon. Until one day someone who happens to have the virus moves in...
Home cooked meals are demonstrably greater than 3 times more dangerous than the entire population skipping the chicken pox vaccine. So, by your standards, home cooked meals should be a criminal offense.
I was told at the time without the vaccination I would have been in intensive care.
Any doctor that told you that was lying to you. There is no way that any doctor could determine that. That is the kind of doctor that feed the anti-vaccination folks with ammunition.
It also doesn't help when doctors give immunizations that by the medical industry's own numbers are less dangerous than home cooked meals, and don't offer life long immunity, which has a high chance of actually increasing risk to the patient.
There aren't significant numbers. I'm not as familiar with the measles, but I have run the numbers on chicken pox. The chicken pox vaccine is a travesty. The pre-vaccine death rate from chicken pox was less than a third that of home cooked meals. ~100/year. 80% of that was adults even though 90% of the infections were in children. The vaccine has dropped the childhood mortality rate from chicken pox by ~50%. The worst part is that the vaccine has already shown to not offer life long immunity.
The chicken pox vaccine should be reserved for adults who did not get the disease as a child, and are already in the higher risk group.
Part of the problem is that most of the population sees 'vaccines' as one big single treatment. They don't comprehend that there are dozens of vaccines and that they each have their own risk/reward ratios. It also doesn't help that doctors tell their patients that diseases like chicken pox are a serious threat to their children's lives. And then there is the most common argument for totally unrelated vaccines. "But... But... But... Polio!"
If you re-read the parent post, you will see that Polio was not on his list. Polio has never been a 'rite of passage' disease. What you will find on his list is Chicken Pox. Chicken Pox has a death rate that is less than a third of home cooked meals. No rational person is afraid of Chicken Pox unless they are so immune compromised that they should be fearing contact with other humans Chicken Pox or not.
The argument of "But...But...But... Polio!" is not a valid argument for a Chicken Pox vaccine.
If I understand the situation with Wakefield correctly, he never said that "vaccines cause autism". He stated that "a specific formulation of a specific vaccine caused autism". There is a big difference between those two statements. As I understand it, he even recommended kids get the vaccine by using a different formulation. The fact that doctors didn't and don't just give parent who fear immunization a pamphlet that accurately explains Wakefield's claim and offer them an alternative formulation speaks volumes about the whole situation.
You also have the problem with doctors actively giving very bad information. Take the chicken pox vaccine. If the vaccine had never existed. If not one child ever got vaccinated against chicken pox, your chances of dying from chicken pox is less than a third of your chances of die from a home cooked meal. Yet, doctors regularly try to scare parents into getting this particular vaccine with threats that skipping it will mean their child is going to die. They represent chicken pox as having equal risk as polio. When doctors play chicken little, they lose credibility.
I can't say whether Wakefield is a colossal douche or not. But, even if he is, the rest of the medical community has taken full participation in convincing people not to immunize.
Your comment shows very well why the people that don't immunize are not any dumber than you. You most certainly do put your life in the hands of people you don't trust. Every time you get on the road, you are putting your hands into anywhere from dozens to thousands of people's hands that you don't trust. You don't even know them.
As for suing your doctor for malpractice, lets play devils advocate for a second. Just for the sake of argument, lets say that vaccines did cause autism. There is no way in hell you would be able to successfully sue your doctor for recommending the vaccine. The only way you would be able to successfully sue your doctor is if he did something different than most other doctors.
You clearly have not thought through your rational as to why you think that you are smart and the people who don't vaccinate are stupid.
It shouldn't be a surprise that the reputation of the medical profession is in decline when they do things like tell parents that chicken pox and polio are equal threats to health.
So, how is paying an attorney more than the cost of battery so you come out financially in the hole any better than a class action lawsuit where you get a $5 voucher. Your strategy only works if you are the lawyer.
The burden is about like having a perpetual four-year-old. My wife's brother has Down's; he lives with her parents. They certainly don't regard him as a terrible burden.
A 4 year old that is often bigger than you, stronger than you. Not to mention eventually being a four year old in a hormone raging teenager's body. There is more to it than the person just being a perpetual 4 year old.
I am in the US, and I ran into this exact same issue recently. The people that are 'counseling' the couples concerning these issues have no idea what the numbers they are saying mean and because of that, they often state wildly inaccurate information.
This isn't true. There are some tests that are automatically done. DS is not one of them. There there is the fact that there are different tests for DS. When the parents elect to do it, the first test they give has no risk to the fetus, but only gives a statistical likelihood of DS. Based on how high of a likelihood you have, then they offer a test that tells you 100% whether the fetus suffers from DS or not. This secondary tests has a risk of causing miscarriage, so they do not do it as standard.
Except he didn't think less of the ones not getting it. He thought thought less of the guy that said it was a bad idea to tell it because not everyone would get it. You stated that it was a bad idea for the joke to be told at all. Thus, by your own standards, you are in the wrong.
No, they shouldn't just smirk. They should throw Linux a mock Bar Mitzvah. Send the entire development team pens as gifts and welcome them out of childhood.
Telling a joke that other people don't get is not a "behavior issue" if it does not impact those that don't get it negatively. No one gets hurt by giving Linux 3.11 the name Linux for Workgroups. It's not even an insult to MS. Humorless is when you don't want the joke told irrelevant of whether you get it or not.
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That is the funny thing. Mac market share is closer to Linux desktop market share than it is to Windows. Heck, it is only slightly ahead of Vista. It looks the 10%-15% is an inflated number. The numbers I usually see tend to put it in the 7%-8%.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=0
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201206-201306
Now, there is no doubt that hey are making money on that 7%-8% market share, but claiming that everyone is now buying Macs is pure fantasy.
I have really liked HTC phones. I have owned 3. The myTouch. It ran mostly well, but was a bit klunky when pushed. The reason was that the hardware was just a bit to low for the OS it was trying to run. I knew that when I bought it, but felt that what Android offered over iOS was worth the bit of klunk. The second was the Nexus One. That phone was awsome. It ran Android great and was sleek. We still use the Nexus One as music player, even though I have upgraded my phone twice since I got it. The only reason the I wouldn't still consider the Nexus One a currently good phone is that it doesn't have enough memory to run a lot of current apps. The third was the G2. The G2 wasn't as sexy of a phone as the Nexus One, but it was a good performing solid phone with a hardware keyboard. The only regret with the G2 was that it was the first phone I got that had Swype. I got the G2 because I wanted a hardware keyboard, and Swype was the soft keyboard that made the hardware keyboard obsolete. So, I ended up with a phone that was thicker than necessary. That certainly wasn't a problem with the phone.
That is a myth. Huge numbers of corporate applications don't require paragraphs of text to submit content. In fact, the need for huge amounts of typing is often the sign of a poorly made application. Sure, writing a budget proposal is going to suck on a tablet, but there are huge amounts of content that is created without the need for that much writing. Think about the UPS guys. They create huge amounts of content without a laptop. I know that a lot of restaurants are starting to use tablets as order pads. You might not count a dinner order as content, but that doesn't mean it isn't.
Tablets are particularly great when you need portability to create content that consists of large numbers of small data.
I find my Nexus 7 to be awesome for VPNing into my server and doing a screen share so that I can fix problems while out and about. No, I am not a full time administrator for a fortune 500 company, so carrying a full laptop around with me to type a few commands or reboot a server is massive overkill. Yes, using the on-screen keyboard is less convenient than having a full keyboard, but carrying a laptop around is WAY less convenient than using the on-screen keyboard.
Besides, web browsing is how a huge number of corporate applications are delivered these days.
No, it isn't. The chicken pox vaccine in children is increasing the rates of shingles other adults in adults. The chicken pox vaccine in children is 40 to 60 years too new to give any data on its effectiveness in preventing shingles in the vaccinated child. The version of the vaccine that is being used for shingles can be given to people who have gained life long immunity to chicken pox by catching the disease as a child.
So, "But... But... Shingles!" is also not a legitimate argument for immunizing children with the chicken pox vaccine. To be fair, anyone that makes it past puberty (biological adulthood) without getting their life long immunity by catching the disease, probably should get the vaccine. But giving it to pre-pubecent children is just screwing the kids for the short term buck.
This is my complaint with the Chicken Pox vaccine. The Chicken Pox vaccine has already shown to not offer life long protection. Getting the disease does offer life long protection. It is a relatively mild disease that less than a third as dangerous as home cooked meals. So far, we have seen a drop from about 100 deaths a year to somewhere around ~50. The kids are being temporarily protected. Thus chicken pox has a hard time getting around and reaching the vulnerable adults. In another 10 years, we are likely to have an adult population that has no immunity and is only avoiding the disease because it is uncommon. Until one day someone who happens to have the virus moves in...
Home cooked meals are demonstrably greater than 3 times more dangerous than the entire population skipping the chicken pox vaccine. So, by your standards, home cooked meals should be a criminal offense.
I was told at the time without the vaccination I would have been in intensive care.
Any doctor that told you that was lying to you. There is no way that any doctor could determine that. That is the kind of doctor that feed the anti-vaccination folks with ammunition.
It also doesn't help when doctors give immunizations that by the medical industry's own numbers are less dangerous than home cooked meals, and don't offer life long immunity, which has a high chance of actually increasing risk to the patient.
There aren't significant numbers. I'm not as familiar with the measles, but I have run the numbers on chicken pox. The chicken pox vaccine is a travesty. The pre-vaccine death rate from chicken pox was less than a third that of home cooked meals. ~100/year. 80% of that was adults even though 90% of the infections were in children. The vaccine has dropped the childhood mortality rate from chicken pox by ~50%. The worst part is that the vaccine has already shown to not offer life long immunity.
The chicken pox vaccine should be reserved for adults who did not get the disease as a child, and are already in the higher risk group.
Part of the problem is that most of the population sees 'vaccines' as one big single treatment. They don't comprehend that there are dozens of vaccines and that they each have their own risk/reward ratios. It also doesn't help that doctors tell their patients that diseases like chicken pox are a serious threat to their children's lives. And then there is the most common argument for totally unrelated vaccines. "But... But... But... Polio!"
If you re-read the parent post, you will see that Polio was not on his list. Polio has never been a 'rite of passage' disease. What you will find on his list is Chicken Pox. Chicken Pox has a death rate that is less than a third of home cooked meals. No rational person is afraid of Chicken Pox unless they are so immune compromised that they should be fearing contact with other humans Chicken Pox or not.
The argument of "But...But...But... Polio!" is not a valid argument for a Chicken Pox vaccine.
If I understand the situation with Wakefield correctly, he never said that "vaccines cause autism". He stated that "a specific formulation of a specific vaccine caused autism". There is a big difference between those two statements. As I understand it, he even recommended kids get the vaccine by using a different formulation. The fact that doctors didn't and don't just give parent who fear immunization a pamphlet that accurately explains Wakefield's claim and offer them an alternative formulation speaks volumes about the whole situation.
You also have the problem with doctors actively giving very bad information. Take the chicken pox vaccine. If the vaccine had never existed. If not one child ever got vaccinated against chicken pox, your chances of dying from chicken pox is less than a third of your chances of die from a home cooked meal. Yet, doctors regularly try to scare parents into getting this particular vaccine with threats that skipping it will mean their child is going to die. They represent chicken pox as having equal risk as polio. When doctors play chicken little, they lose credibility.
I can't say whether Wakefield is a colossal douche or not. But, even if he is, the rest of the medical community has taken full participation in convincing people not to immunize.
Your comment shows very well why the people that don't immunize are not any dumber than you. You most certainly do put your life in the hands of people you don't trust. Every time you get on the road, you are putting your hands into anywhere from dozens to thousands of people's hands that you don't trust. You don't even know them.
As for suing your doctor for malpractice, lets play devils advocate for a second. Just for the sake of argument, lets say that vaccines did cause autism. There is no way in hell you would be able to successfully sue your doctor for recommending the vaccine. The only way you would be able to successfully sue your doctor is if he did something different than most other doctors.
You clearly have not thought through your rational as to why you think that you are smart and the people who don't vaccinate are stupid.
It shouldn't be a surprise that the reputation of the medical profession is in decline when they do things like tell parents that chicken pox and polio are equal threats to health.
So, how is paying an attorney more than the cost of battery so you come out financially in the hole any better than a class action lawsuit where you get a $5 voucher. Your strategy only works if you are the lawyer.
The burden is about like having a perpetual four-year-old. My wife's brother has Down's; he lives with her parents. They certainly don't regard him as a terrible burden.
A 4 year old that is often bigger than you, stronger than you. Not to mention eventually being a four year old in a hormone raging teenager's body. There is more to it than the person just being a perpetual 4 year old.
I am in the US, and I ran into this exact same issue recently. The people that are 'counseling' the couples concerning these issues have no idea what the numbers they are saying mean and because of that, they often state wildly inaccurate information.
This isn't true. There are some tests that are automatically done. DS is not one of them. There there is the fact that there are different tests for DS. When the parents elect to do it, the first test they give has no risk to the fetus, but only gives a statistical likelihood of DS. Based on how high of a likelihood you have, then they offer a test that tells you 100% whether the fetus suffers from DS or not. This secondary tests has a risk of causing miscarriage, so they do not do it as standard.
There doesn't necessarily need to be hypocrisy to oppose abortion but support the death penalty either.
Except he didn't think less of the ones not getting it. He thought thought less of the guy that said it was a bad idea to tell it because not everyone would get it. You stated that it was a bad idea for the joke to be told at all. Thus, by your own standards, you are in the wrong.
That was always my take on it.
No, they shouldn't just smirk. They should throw Linux a mock Bar Mitzvah. Send the entire development team pens as gifts and welcome them out of childhood.
Telling a joke that other people don't get is not a "behavior issue" if it does not impact those that don't get it negatively. No one gets hurt by giving Linux 3.11 the name Linux for Workgroups. It's not even an insult to MS. Humorless is when you don't want the joke told irrelevant of whether you get it or not.
I'm pretty sure AmigaOS 1.0 - 3.1 would fit bill. It boots to a graphical screen first, and then loads the CLI on top of that.
The anonymous coward is right. Our society even accepts rape as an institutionalized punishment for men. Raping men is considered comedy in the west.