Apple is falling behind Google’s Android. And if you’re bullish on Apple, these trends should raise a big red flag.
The Android gains matter because technology platform markets tend to standardize around a single dominant platform (see Windows in PCs, Facebook in social, Google in search)
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Peter Serafinowicz stars and directs the video for Alex Metric & Steve Angello’s Open Your Eyes, featuring Ian Brown. Monster.
The map above was compiled by Cambridge University Gates scholar Alex Davies, who determined levels of happiness from ‘looking at high-level correlations between words and emoticons’ in tweets originating in different counties. Language models were then created to assess the distribution of words and icons associated with happiness and unhappiness.
Ireland (ranked 21) doesn’t come out terribly well. Then again, attempting to determine the emotional state of a nation via Twitter is what’s known in scientific circles as very, very silly.
Highlights of the research are the ‘happy’ and ‘sad’ terms defined for each region. That, and the fact that a Cambridge Gates Scholar can’t spell the word ‘happiness’.
The Twitter World Happiness Map
Germans Top table of Happiest Tweets (Cambridge Research News)
Wall Street Journal and Joe Higgins singing from the same hymn sheet shocker.
Choice quotes:
“As the banks’ losses deepen and Dublin’s credibility withers, now is an apt time to rethink the foundations of the European Union’s Irish-rescue strategy, one that is now effectively premised on sinking one country so that tough political choices may be avoided in another.”
..” pain in German banks ought to be Germany’s responsibility to mollify, not Ireland’s. If losses on Irish debt would cause German banks to require recapitalization, then German taxpayers should pony up to fill the gap”
“What is now being sold as Ireland’s contribution to systemic stability is in fact a dodge, a way for German and French leaders to avoid owning up to their own banks’ bad decisions in lending to Irish institutions in the first place.”
The full madness of the scheme has been revealed in the Dail today by Minister Fergus O’Dowd.
1) It will take three years
2) It will cost €500m
3) That will come from the National Pension Reserve Fund.
4) But by the time it’s paid back it will have cost €1bn.
5) It will cost more than what it would have cost to stop leaks of treated water.
6) 45% of treated water is lost through leaks.
7) But we have to do it THIS WAY because Europe says so.
The coffin of murdered PSNI Constable Ronan Kerr is carried from the catholic church in Beragh in County Tyrone by his PSNI comrades, after the funeral mass today.
Policeman’s Funeral Hears Plea To End Violence (Belfast Telegraph)
Man Arrested Over Northern Ireland Bomb (Sky News)
Listen here
“Hey Mark, excuse me I’m on my way to 3768 kind of got hung up, it’s raining out here, I’m on my way into Dallas. Jerry is probably going to be calling you to find out where I’m at if he can’t get a hold of me I’m sure.
“Whoa! Whoa! Man I just had a wreck right in front of me. This guy ran a red light and hit FOUR old ladies in an Impala. Just kind of clipped them and turned them around right in front of me. That was close. Oh now this guy is getting out of his car, he’s got a white shirt on with a giant cigarette hanging out of his mouth, he’s throwing his hands in the air as if it was their fault. Hold on, he’s going over to their window. She’s rolling down the window; oh man I think she sprayed him with pepper spray.
“His hands are on his face and he’s on his knees. She’s getting out and beating him with an umbrella. Now the other ones are getting out too. There’s one old woman with a little black purse tomahawking him. She looks like a…jackhammer. We got another woman that’s hitting him like she’s got a cattle prod. She’s got an umbrella she’s sticking it in his side. There’s another one that’s a little woman that looks like mother goose. She’s beating him! She’s beating him! She’s got a huge bag! She’s beating him. She’s got this big bag! It’s huge it’s about the size of her, she’s about 4 foot nothing. She hit him over the head and everything went all over the place.
“Her bible fell…oh she’s hit him in the head with the bible. She picked the bible up and lifted it way over her head…and she’s still beating the hell out of this guy. She picked this bible up and raised it above her head and beamed the guy. This guy is not getting up. They’re still hitting him. The one with the little black purse is…okay he’s up…the little old lady beamed him again with that big bag. He’s running to his car, he’s out of here. She’s talking to him while he’s driving off. I wish you would have been here man, this was just too good. I got to go.”
