Indeed. Although it is "just one experiment, and the outcome was influenced by [his] own abilities." this kind of "benchmark" is what gives me ammo against grumpy, entranched dev who goes "new_foo is useless anyway, I can do that with old_bar too", and to make a hesitant hierarchy finally make a leap forward instead of clinging into aging, "mastered" technology.
Apple may not be against innovation, but they are trying to control innovation. That is inherently counter to innovating, and is an oxymoron.
You're saying that this simple 5 dollar chip (not 1 as you claim, by the way) doesn't hurt innovation, but it does. For instance, what if you wanted to connect your arduino to your iphone? Is it really worth paying 5 dollars to connect a 7 dollar chip?
Now suppose it is still worth it. Could a programmable microcomputer get by Apple's "Works with iPhone" standards? Not a chance.
I can think of a hundred cool things to do with an iPhone connected to an arduino, but those are all dead. I can think of a hundred more pieces of hardware I'd love to connect to my portable phone, but those can't work either.
It's the amount of energy required to lift one pound vertically by one foot, or the amount of momentum a one pound object gains by falling one foot in a vacuum.
You'll find similar differences between the "feet and fists" death rate. What are the "feet" control laws?
And, the UK's low firearms death rates predate the firearms laws, which largely occurred post-WWI to stop a communist takeover.
Note the US' firearms death rate isn't uniform. For example, most of the peninsula's is better than the UK's best, but East Palo Alto, which has exactly the same laws (and lower firearms ownership than Palo Alto), is horrendously worse.
Parts of the US are third-world, with all that that entails. Gun control won't change that.
OK, but a) Northern Ireland has been in a state of at best hevy terrorist activity and at worst borderline civil war in some areas for a good part of the last 40 years, and b) Relative populations:
England: 51.5m
Wales: 3m
Northern Ireland: 1.5m
So in NI we're talking about just over 1,000 deaths against E/W combined, about 200. Hence the separate treatment.
The stats in this table are terribly out of date. I'm not criticizing your post, just pointing it out. Also odd the authors of this article chose to publish 2 numbers for the U.S. I interpret them for corresponding to 2004/1993, which means there was a significant difference between those two years, not the rate is between those numbers.
I've bemoaned the difficulty in finding reliable, research-quality statistical data like this for a long time. I've even tried to raise capital to for a start-up to do this. No luck.
Anyone know of anything similar for other web technologies?