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Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You
Ant writes with a story from Dan's Data, which says that the battery meter and connection-strength displays in your portable electronics are lying to you, "and not just when they whisper to you in the night." Quoting: "Mobile phones, and most modern laptops, have signal strength and battery life displays. One or both of these displays has probably been the focus of all of your attention at one time or another. Neither display is actually telling you what you think it's telling you. The signal strength bars on a mobile phone or laptop do, at least, say something about how strong the local signal is. But they don't tell you the ratio between that signal and the inevitable, and often very considerable, noise that accompanies it ..."
And I bet you're going to tell us next that DRM isn't for our own good and is just a way for conglomerates to steal more of our money with little effort done on their part. Hah!
Are we giving sentience to our cell phones and laptops now? They are not just "misprogrammed" or "wrong"...they are actively lying to us now? Are you implying that they all got together at the factory during the worker's break period and conspired to give false information to their human overlords?
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Hey! My battery bar is full! That's must mean I have at least a few hours le
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Are you trying to tell me that the constantly changing field of electro-magnetic radiation pouring through my laptop does not always match up precisely to the five bars in the display? Frankly, I find that hard to believe.
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Not only can I write software, but since I can multitask, I can do your mom at the same time.
Cingular loves to tout "More bars in more places".
"Higher signal-to-noise ratio across a broader range of the United States" just isn't quite as catchy a slogan.
What? That's only supposed to be for when a mommy and a daddy love each other very much!
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I know it's de rigeur, but that was quite a lot of writing for someone who didn't RTFA.
Dan is claiming that (at least in cell phones) there is a deliberately misleading fudge factor.
Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You
Oh, thank God! I was worried I was the only one who could hear them!
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These types of posts are getting on my nerves.
If you battery went you would not of made the post at all...I'm not stupid.
Maybe he was dictating it.
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Actually, (s)he could have made the post if their battery went half way through, and here's why. The char
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These types of posts are getting on my nerves.
If you battery went you would not of made the post at all...I'm not stupid.
Candlejack does the same damn thing.
If he really had snatched away a poster, he would not have been able to hit Su
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By contrast, when my BMW says "reserve", 50 miles to go, you in fact have 50 miles to go. So as the computer says "0", the engine will sputter and die.
By contrast, one of work's Vauxhalls (UK part of GM) that I was using said it had 13 miles of fuel left, and promptly spluttered to a halt when I started away from some traffic lights, and wouldn't restart until it was filled up.
Car analogies break down.