I've reached the same conclusion. While it's going to be very hard, maybe impossible, to perform scientific experiments that can help us understand if that is what's going on - it's one of the more (to me) likely explanations that fit with the observed facts.
Actually yes. I can only assume your Asperger's makes you unable to understand what is written unless it's expressed in pure logical statements.
Regarding "lacking mathematical skills" - you might want to check up on what significant digits mean. What's the varians in a "2:1" statement in written text?
1:78 (or do you have more decimals to go with that?) - with the anomaly of Transformers and looking at the trend - is very much a proof of the "2:1" this discussion started with. That person never mentioned anything about which time span he meant, and the reply to his post (which I responded to) put forward the unsubstantiated idea that the sales might be "even" (1:1) instead.
Now crawl back to wherever you sit when you're obviously not interested in the actual subject at hand (not owning and HDTV, and I assume not a Blu-ray or HD DVD player either).
Why do you keep on debating something where your knowledge is sub par? The months where you claim BD's lead has been narrowing are the months where practically nothing was released on Blu-ray. The point was rather that the "since inception" figure (which is not 2:1) is not interesting since it includes a few month where HD DVD was released and Blu-ray wasn't - thus skewing it. The 2:1 figure applies if you remove that anomaly - and for many months (where both formats have had big releases) Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD with more than 2:1.
Now go back to debating something you know about instead. This is futile, pointless, and says more about your inability to deal with facts (thus acting like a simple fanboy).
The trend is clear. It's the Transformers HD DVD release that for one/two weeks skewed the results. Feel free to continue looking into the issue since you're wrong (you might want to think about starting dates for one thing).
Oh the math I posted is backed up exactly by the source. You would know that if you want back week for week and studied the numbers - they've been 2:1 or above for many months with very few exceptions (like Transformers).
On the other hand. You're quite likely not smart enough to understand things like fact checking, logical reasoning etc. That's ok. You have many years ahead of you to learn.
You're free not to believe me. It does however mean that you fail at finding information yourself. What that means for your future only you can ponder upon.
according to this weeks Nielsen VideoScan numbers, courtesy of Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray took the lion's share of the HD movie sales again this week with a 71% to 29% split
What's really interesting is that there is only one HD DVD title in the top ten this week
The number of people willingly carrying around several devices so closely matched in size and features are so low that they're not an interesting share of the market.
Q: Why did Apple make the iPhone? A: They knew mobiles (Sony Ericsson Walkman amongst others) would take over their iPod business
You must be a USian. The rest of the world moved on a long time ago. The "phone" is the mobile Internet and media companion in your pocket - the digital "you".
imagine concrete with the intelligence to repair itself
I found the Stephen Baxter Destiny's Children series to contain a few of these in reality very obvious-but-not-obvious technology descriptions. I think it is in book 3 an intelligent house paint is described.
anyone wanting either feature was already on digg, del.icio.us, livejounal, etc...
vs
The App platform in one fell swoop eliminated every single competitive advantage Facebook once had, and completely erased its identity
When people ask me why I like Facebook my answer is just BECAUSE it's such a great "Web 2.0" aggregator. My Facebook profile lists my Wordpress blog, my del.icio.us bookmarks, my Last.fm music, my latest Jaiku and my Flickr pictures.
That is, exactly the opposite to your objection above, and it was possible due to the application platform. Now guess why Myspace recently opened up 3rd party APIs as well...
The mitochondria now producing energy for all the cells in your body were once "foreign" - as everything else once was. You have lots of old viruses in your body, being incorporated into your DNA and a part of the human evolution. The means with which gene transfers have been made, naturally, are not at all that different from what we can do today in a lab.
Short answer, you're wrong. Your view on how a disruptive genetic change happens (through incorporation of viruses or gene transplants by bacteria) is very much 20th century and needs to be updated to the 21st;)
... following the path predicted by many, and nicely depicted in this short flash movie called "Epic 2015". We're indeed seeing the death of news as we know it. How does it feel to become a tiny part of the global consciousness?
If foreign is bad, and foreign means everything "not naturally occuring in" at a specific moment in time - then I guess you do not believe in evolution?
Think about it, then try again;) While you're at it, check up on what the mitochondria in your cells really are from the beginning.
Brief list of the different networks and how they can evolve. I only list the world wide ones, China and the US have some local standards that aren't that interesting and at least when it comes to the US on their way out.
HSPA is a "software upgrade" (in the sense that you do not build a new network) on top of normal 3G (UMTS). While Edge can reach ~220kbps (and Evolved Edge around ~1Mbps) UMTS ("3G") starts at 384kpbs, and as I already pointed out HSDPA is available at 1.2Mbps, 3.6Mbps, 7.2Mbps (available here right now) and will go up to 14.4Mpbs. LTE is projected to reach (at least) 100Mbps.
... which, of course, has no relevance whatsoever with regards to the discussion:) The point is that WiMax does not deliver anything not already delivered with 3G (using HSPA - a "software upgrade") and then LTE for the higher bandwidth and lower cost per bit.
In the end the WiMax name will probably live on, but as just another nickname for the current cellular technology of the day.
3 Mb in my car, in starbucks(WITH OUT PAYING THERE RAPING WIFI RATES) or where ever you may be in any populated area of consiquence. By the end of 2008. I know Ill have it as soon as it's available in my area
Or you could come visit Sweden, where the 3G networks are already upgraded with 7.2Mbit/s HSDPA (14.4Mbit next year, and also increasing the uplink using HSPA) for a flatrate fee of between $13-$26/month.
Besides the 3G PC-card in my laptop that gives me fast Internet wherever I am, my cell phone also has HSDPA should I ever be near another computer that's not connected to the Internet.
Sorry, why should I be interested in WiMax again? Existing 3G (and then LTE) is already everything WiMax wants to be. Now.
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I've reached the same conclusion. While it's going to be very hard, maybe impossible, to perform scientific experiments that can help us understand if that is what's going on - it's one of the more (to me) likely explanations that fit with the observed facts.
It's a nice theory.
Some of us prefer more than one significant digit, though.
Sure, so please keep your ramblings in a thread where they belong. They don't in this.
Actually, no
Actually yes. I can only assume your Asperger's makes you unable to understand what is written unless it's expressed in pure logical statements.
Regarding "lacking mathematical skills" - you might want to check up on what significant digits mean. What's the varians in a "2:1" statement in written text?
1:78 (or do you have more decimals to go with that?) - with the anomaly of Transformers and looking at the trend - is very much a proof of the "2:1" this discussion started with. That person never mentioned anything about which time span he meant, and the reply to his post (which I responded to) put forward the unsubstantiated idea that the sales might be "even" (1:1) instead.
Now crawl back to wherever you sit when you're obviously not interested in the actual subject at hand (not owning and HDTV, and I assume not a Blu-ray or HD DVD player either).
Why do you keep on debating something where your knowledge is sub par? The months where you claim BD's lead has been narrowing are the months where practically nothing was released on Blu-ray. The point was rather that the "since inception" figure (which is not 2:1) is not interesting since it includes a few month where HD DVD was released and Blu-ray wasn't - thus skewing it. The 2:1 figure applies if you remove that anomaly - and for many months (where both formats have had big releases) Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD with more than 2:1.
Now go back to debating something you know about instead. This is futile, pointless, and says more about your inability to deal with facts (thus acting like a simple fanboy).
The trend is clear. It's the Transformers HD DVD release that for one/two weeks skewed the results. Feel free to continue looking into the issue since you're wrong (you might want to think about starting dates for one thing).
Oh the math I posted is backed up exactly by the source. You would know that if you want back week for week and studied the numbers - they've been 2:1 or above for many months with very few exceptions (like Transformers).
On the other hand. You're quite likely not smart enough to understand things like fact checking, logical reasoning etc. That's ok. You have many years ahead of you to learn.
You're free not to believe me. It does however mean that you fail at finding information yourself. What that means for your future only you can ponder upon.
The link that it should take you two seconds to find
according to this weeks Nielsen VideoScan numbers, courtesy of Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray took the lion's share of the HD movie sales again this week with a 71% to 29% split
What's really interesting is that there is only one HD DVD title in the top ten this week
Last week (29/10-4/11)
Blu-Ray: 71%
HD-DVD: 29%
Year-to-date:
Blu-Ray: 64%
HD-DVD: 36%
Since Inception:
Blu-Ray: 61%
HD-DVD: 39%
Feel free to apologize.
No, 2:1 is when counting just movies - and it's growing in favour of Blu-ray.
The number of people willingly carrying around several devices so closely matched in size and features are so low that they're not an interesting share of the market.
Q: Why did Apple make the iPhone?
A: They knew mobiles (Sony Ericsson Walkman amongst others) would take over their iPod business
Seriously, phones are for talking
You must be a USian. The rest of the world moved on a long time ago. The "phone" is the mobile Internet and media companion in your pocket - the digital "you".
That was the question, and thus my answer, yes?
Although, I must confess, my phones only do 1.2 and 3.6 Mbit/s atm - but the network is at 7.2.
Flat rate, ~$15-30/month, 7.2Mbit/s
Sweden
imagine concrete with the intelligence to repair itself
I found the Stephen Baxter Destiny's Children series to contain a few of these in reality very obvious-but-not-obvious technology descriptions. I think it is in book 3 an intelligent house paint is described.
anyone wanting either feature was already on digg, del.icio.us, livejounal, etc...
...
vs
The App platform in one fell swoop eliminated every single competitive advantage Facebook once had, and completely erased its identity
When people ask me why I like Facebook my answer is just BECAUSE it's such a great "Web 2.0" aggregator. My Facebook profile lists my Wordpress blog, my del.icio.us bookmarks, my Last.fm music, my latest Jaiku and my Flickr pictures.
That is, exactly the opposite to your objection above, and it was possible due to the application platform. Now guess why Myspace recently opened up 3rd party APIs as well
The mitochondria now producing energy for all the cells in your body were once "foreign" - as everything else once was. You have lots of old viruses in your body, being incorporated into your DNA and a part of the human evolution. The means with which gene transfers have been made, naturally, are not at all that different from what we can do today in a lab.
If I came off as worried that was most definitely not my intention ;)
Short answer, you're wrong. Your view on how a disruptive genetic change happens (through incorporation of viruses or gene transplants by bacteria) is very much 20th century and needs to be updated to the 21st ;)
... following the path predicted by many, and nicely depicted in this short flash movie called "Epic 2015". We're indeed seeing the death of news as we know it. How does it feel to become a tiny part of the global consciousness?
I think you need to reread my earlier posts, and stop pretending that you already know what conclusion I was leading you towards.
What I did, shortly, was to prove that your opinion is based on faulty presumptions. Don't worry, you will understand if you search for the facts.
If foreign is bad, and foreign means everything "not naturally occuring in" at a specific moment in time - then I guess you do not believe in evolution?
;) While you're at it, check up on what the mitochondria in your cells really are from the beginning.
Think about it, then try again
Brief list of the different networks and how they can evolve. I only list the world wide ones, China and the US have some local standards that aren't that interesting and at least when it comes to the US on their way out.
* GSM - GPRS - EDGE - Evolved EDGE ("2G, 2.5G")
* UMTS - HSDPA - HSUPA (together they form HSPA) ("3G, 3.5G")
* LTE ("3.9G")
HSPA is a "software upgrade" (in the sense that you do not build a new network) on top of normal 3G (UMTS). While Edge can reach ~220kbps (and Evolved Edge around ~1Mbps) UMTS ("3G") starts at 384kpbs, and as I already pointed out HSDPA is available at 1.2Mbps, 3.6Mbps, 7.2Mbps (available here right now) and will go up to 14.4Mpbs. LTE is projected to reach (at least) 100Mbps.
I suspect that you can get more details by starting at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP
Define "foreign".
Then study biology.
... which, of course, has no relevance whatsoever with regards to the discussion :) The point is that WiMax does not deliver anything not already delivered with 3G (using HSPA - a "software upgrade") and then LTE for the higher bandwidth and lower cost per bit.
In the end the WiMax name will probably live on, but as just another nickname for the current cellular technology of the day.
3 Mb in my car, in starbucks(WITH OUT PAYING THERE RAPING WIFI RATES) or where ever you may be in any populated area of consiquence. By the end of 2008. I know Ill have it as soon as it's available in my area
Or you could come visit Sweden, where the 3G networks are already upgraded with 7.2Mbit/s HSDPA (14.4Mbit next year, and also increasing the uplink using HSPA) for a flatrate fee of between $13-$26/month.
Besides the 3G PC-card in my laptop that gives me fast Internet wherever I am, my cell phone also has HSDPA should I ever be near another computer that's not connected to the Internet.
Sorry, why should I be interested in WiMax again? Existing 3G (and then LTE) is already everything WiMax wants to be. Now.
Mostly their supporters :)