If everybody has the same right to get reduced latency for certain things, the system remains fair.
No it's not. My 10GB download shouldn't be slowed down by someone else doing 10GB of video game.
If the latency is too bad so that online games are not playable, then the network should be upgraded.
Also it's impossible to implement. You can't detect if trafic is gaming or not. You can't detect if it's VoIP or not. Don't tell me that you only have to whitelist xbox live and SIP as there are thousands of game and VoIP protocols.
When is it the last time that Google released a new version of Android and that it was widely deployed after 1-2 months? It never happened, with or without ART. Android 5 even seem much faster than any previous release, being already deployed on some Motorola devices as well as quite a few Nexus.
yeah, they should just re-release the same software with a new version number with no new features. This way, it would be faster for carriers to release updates.
The problem isn't Android fragmentation. It's phone fragmentation. Phones are fragmented between many different incompatible OSes (Android, iOS, WP, BB10, Firefox OS, Maemo, Bada, whatever)
Therefore if Apple or Microsoft wanted to reduce phone fragmentation, they would switch to Android.
Yes. And why not? If I pay the same price for the same service, why should I get a different priority for my packets? In the end, if we all use 10GB over the same amount of time, we each cost the same to the ISP.
I'm OK with ISPs offering speed variation through the day, based on demand. Why limit my speed to 10 Mbps at 4am if you can offer 100 Mbps at no additional cost?
Just don't limit the speed according to the service/application/port number/web site I use. An ISP is a dumb pipe and my bytes should get the same priority as anyone else's.
Maybe it's worth it for you because you prefer the look of a metal frame. But there is no rational argument for paying $50 more for metal. Especially not in the $300 price range.
So plastic laptops last 10 years. That's way more than the average laptop replacement cycle. In short plastic is not the limiting factor and shouldn't influence your purchase. Except of course if you want to pay more for the look of a metal frame.
Canada beats the US in both percentage of foreign-born and net migration rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Also every country rely on skilled jobs. By having less natural resources (per capita), Europe rely on it even more than the US. There are many ways to have skilled workers, one of which is immigration, but there is also education.
The mistake that is often made when estimating said quality is looking at the averaged stats. Thing is, if you're immigrating for the sake of a good job, you need to look at what that job (and others like it) will give you, as opposed to the average or the median. In US, the average is indeed lower than most other western countries because of the wealth gap and piss-poor welfare policies. But people coming here for high-paid jobs (like IT) are getting a deal that's much better than average. And with enough money, you can absolutely have a great experience in US - a good house safe low-crime neighborhood, a great school for your kids in the same neighborhood, solid healthcare, and a private pension fund for retirement. And plenty of jobs to pick from.
Even then, some of us value the safety of the whole city, not just a tiny neighborhood. Also many immigrants will value the outlook for their kids, not just for themselves. Maybe they have a high paying job, but what about their kids? That's where the average or median lifestyle comes into play. Even if being from a rich family helps, you can't be sure that your children or grandchildren won't live in poverty.
The main players in the market today are US, Canada and Australia.
What about western Europe?
OTOH, US generally offers the best career prospects, and the highest quality of life in terms of how much to earn vs cost of living, so it's still the #1 destination for skilled immigration.
The US is the most populous developped country therefore in absolute terms will always have more jobs and more immigrants.
However the quality of life is really debatable. Many people would prefer the quality of life of Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia.
Personally I think oil rich Norway seems to offer the best quality of life. If I were to emmigrate, it would be there.
I have never seen someone replace his tablet because it is made in plastic instead of aluminium. People replace their phone/tablet beacause it is too slow/old or because the display is broken. Aluminium frames do not protect the display any better.
They don't care. Just like those idiots configuring public WiFi hotspots requiring us to open a web browser and visit a random web page.
They don't care if it breaks email/chat/whatever until you've used your web browser.
It's a shame SRAM was left to rot and so much effort research & infrastructure has been poured into DRAM.
SRAM was not left to rot. It's in every CPU out there and is called cache memory. It is much more expensive than DRAM and that's why we only have a few MB.
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If everybody has the same right to get reduced latency for certain things, the system remains fair.
No it's not. My 10GB download shouldn't be slowed down by someone else doing 10GB of video game. If the latency is too bad so that online games are not playable, then the network should be upgraded. Also it's impossible to implement. You can't detect if trafic is gaming or not. You can't detect if it's VoIP or not. Don't tell me that you only have to whitelist xbox live and SIP as there are thousands of game and VoIP protocols.
You are confusing with the UK.
When is it the last time that Google released a new version of Android and that it was widely deployed after 1-2 months? It never happened, with or without ART. Android 5 even seem much faster than any previous release, being already deployed on some Motorola devices as well as quite a few Nexus.
but it will not stay at maximum turbo boost speed for longer than any other laptop
Nexus 5 with 5.0.1 connected to exchange just fine here.
yeah, they should just re-release the same software with a new version number with no new features. This way, it would be faster for carriers to release updates.
The problem isn't Android fragmentation. It's phone fragmentation. Phones are fragmented between many different incompatible OSes (Android, iOS, WP, BB10, Firefox OS, Maemo, Bada, whatever) Therefore if Apple or Microsoft wanted to reduce phone fragmentation, they would switch to Android.
Yes. And why not? If I pay the same price for the same service, why should I get a different priority for my packets? In the end, if we all use 10GB over the same amount of time, we each cost the same to the ISP.
what's wrong with streaming? Why should a user using 1GB visiting web pages should get more priority than another user streaming a 1GB video?
I'm OK with ISPs offering speed variation through the day, based on demand. Why limit my speed to 10 Mbps at 4am if you can offer 100 Mbps at no additional cost? Just don't limit the speed according to the service/application/port number/web site I use. An ISP is a dumb pipe and my bytes should get the same priority as anyone else's.
Apple doesn't make laptops either, the fabrication is outsourced to companies like foxconn. Yet, there is a Sony logo on my laptop.
It is more stable, e.g. when you sit on it by accident.
Not really. It can only bend while plastic will tolerate more deformation / absorbs more shock.
It feels better in my hand (for me that is rational, you might find it emotional :D )
Feels better? They should make it in soft textile it would feel even better :-P
Point is: the price difference is _rationale_, if one buys it, is his business
Of course it is his business. It doesn't make it rational. A lot of people make irrational purchasing decisions.
Maybe it's worth it for you because you prefer the look of a metal frame. But there is no rational argument for paying $50 more for metal. Especially not in the $300 price range.
So plastic laptops last 10 years. That's way more than the average laptop replacement cycle. In short plastic is not the limiting factor and shouldn't influence your purchase. Except of course if you want to pay more for the look of a metal frame.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Also every country rely on skilled jobs. By having less natural resources (per capita), Europe rely on it even more than the US. There are many ways to have skilled workers, one of which is immigration, but there is also education.
The mistake that is often made when estimating said quality is looking at the averaged stats. Thing is, if you're immigrating for the sake of a good job, you need to look at what that job (and others like it) will give you, as opposed to the average or the median. In US, the average is indeed lower than most other western countries because of the wealth gap and piss-poor welfare policies. But people coming here for high-paid jobs (like IT) are getting a deal that's much better than average. And with enough money, you can absolutely have a great experience in US - a good house safe low-crime neighborhood, a great school for your kids in the same neighborhood, solid healthcare, and a private pension fund for retirement. And plenty of jobs to pick from.
Even then, some of us value the safety of the whole city, not just a tiny neighborhood. Also many immigrants will value the outlook for their kids, not just for themselves. Maybe they have a high paying job, but what about their kids? That's where the average or median lifestyle comes into play. Even if being from a rich family helps, you can't be sure that your children or grandchildren won't live in poverty.
Think of a laptop. Have you ever replaced one because the plastic was broken? And that metal would have spared you from purchasing a new one? I don't.
The main players in the market today are US, Canada and Australia.
What about western Europe?
OTOH, US generally offers the best career prospects, and the highest quality of life in terms of how much to earn vs cost of living, so it's still the #1 destination for skilled immigration.
The US is the most populous developped country therefore in absolute terms will always have more jobs and more immigrants. However the quality of life is really debatable. Many people would prefer the quality of life of Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia. Personally I think oil rich Norway seems to offer the best quality of life. If I were to emmigrate, it would be there.
TFS assumes that all great programmers actually want to live in the US.
What I meant is that the only advantage of aluminium is that some people think it looks better.
I have never seen someone replace his tablet because it is made in plastic instead of aluminium. People replace their phone/tablet beacause it is too slow/old or because the display is broken. Aluminium frames do not protect the display any better.
and how much is the version with 32GB storage?
What would be the use case for say, 1GB of SRAM? A level 4 cache for the CPU between the DRAM and the L3 cache?
They don't care. Just like those idiots configuring public WiFi hotspots requiring us to open a web browser and visit a random web page. They don't care if it breaks email/chat/whatever until you've used your web browser.
This doesn't sound much different than the T&C redirect page when you use public WiFi.
Kill it with fire!
It's a shame SRAM was left to rot and so much effort research & infrastructure has been poured into DRAM.
SRAM was not left to rot. It's in every CPU out there and is called cache memory. It is much more expensive than DRAM and that's why we only have a few MB.