He did bypass the AT&T problem, so he is better than what you describe. Try going to page 2.
But yeah: There is an insane amount of confirmation bias added on top of several geniune concerns.
I am starting to think of hardware reviews are like pick-ups, without a good opener, the product is destined to crash'n'burn in reviews, and nobody does openers better than Apple.
which AT&T has already blocked via AppWorld. That was a boneheaded move by RIM,
What?
Interfacing with your blackberry might be a good or a bad thing depending on whether you are aiming at Blackberry users only or not, but why on Earth are you and the reviewer, not only excusing AT&T, but excusing your own poor choice of carrier?
The difference fuel-consumption between average and high-speed is much greater in a fuel-efficient car (think small engine), a big engine comsumes a lot all the time, but doesn't increase consumption much at higher speeds. My 15 year old BMW station-car is more fuel-efficient than a Toyota Prius when going 100Mph down the german autobahn, then again my car consumes exactly the same amount of fuel per mile at 100mph as it does at 35mph, not exactly impressive for urban driving.
Can you tell me, precisely, what bad things Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand or the Falkland Islands are doing that compare with intimidation and threats against companies that had links to Wikileaks?
No, because they are not featured in the report. Austrialia, Germany, US and Estonia are the four best among countries actually examined. Very few countries were examined and all the traditionally most free are strangely absent.
I noticed that as well. Canada, the Netherlands and all Nordic countries are absent from the report. In their place a semi-nordic east-european country becomes the most free. I guess it would look too bad if there was 10 countries above the US, so they left out everybody above estonia.
I would really have like to hear to position of France and Spain also though.
Just outside CERN on the French side there is a bar when you order 1m of beer. There is something quite cute about the worlds foremost theoretical scientists order beers in meters.
This is exactly what I tried to explain, how is a wikipedia article about it proving me wrong?
One thing I might have been unclear on is that the carrier can also triangulate your position, but their accuracy is much smaller ~100m which is useless for knowning which road or house you are in. The phone can do the same in an urban setting and get an accuracy of within ~10m, in many early/cheap smart phones, this system is used instead of GPS. Not sure what the difference is but it might be that the phone can use data from all cell-towers, and the carrier only from their own.
Your position can be calculated from which cell-towers are nearby. This can only be done by the phone, the carrier already know which tower you are connected to, but doesn't know which other towers you _could_ connect to, only the phone knows that, and in this case it calculates your position from it and stores it. For whatever reason..
Not just bonuses. When companies merge there is an excess of executive managers who will get nice golden parachutes, and to avoid making being fired looked good, the managers that stay gets even bigger cash-prizes for not quiting. The negotiation for how to translate stocks in the merger is also a good opportunity for executive managers to get awarded a nice percentage of the new company (if they don't already have one). All in all this makes merging the most profitable move possible for any CEO. The effects it has on the rest of company are less clear-cut.
It's funny how even people with access to the data still believe this. Apple has never been "king" of the smartphone market -- they've always been behind RIM. Sure, they get all the press and have undoubtedly been responsible for the explosive growth in the smartphone market, but they've never managed to reach the #1 spot.
Well, they actually beat RIM. They never reached number #1, because that used to be Symbian, which is now #2, with #1 being Android. Apple is third, and was at their prime #2 with around 1/10 of the market-share of Symbian, but easily beating RIM.
Personally I think combinatorics is the least of the gains from learning poker. What I really would like more people to understand is how pot-odds works, especially that sunken cost is truely sunken.
It is not fair, we can't compete with cheap labor, that's not fair.
Yeah, having to compete with the cheap labor from rich Europe with their high taxes, and powerful unions enforcing high wages and strict safety regulations, and... Heeey, what a minute...
I can see how they can cut a round-trip with server-push. You request foo.html, and besides giving you that file, it also sends img1.jpg and img2.jpg, that you would likely request anyway.
That assumes the browser then knows what to do with files pushed at it. Technically the same could be done with HTTP, since it is uses MIME documents just like E-Mail, browsers would just need to support multi-part mime-messages like E-Mail readers. Actually since HTML in email-readers is often a generic web-rendering engine, I suspect some browsers might already supprot multipart HTML-pages, though I have to admit, I don't know for sure.
1. SPDY uses 1 TCP-connection, instead of many. Which makes it faster. The time to establisch a new TCP-connection is a lot of overhead when you visit a webpage which has many small elements on it. It also has a big advantage when using HTTPS. Again because you just use the one TCP-connection (no extra SSL-connections to establish):
This is what is called pipelining in HTTP 1.1. It is not required by HTTP, but even 10 years ago when I last checked only Microsoft didn't support it. They do add the ability to send multiple elements in parallel, instead of sequential, but since it is all send from one server and limited by bandwidth, that doesn't actually add anything speedwise over standard HTTP (though it might be needed for their server push implementation).
Interesting. I see nothing in the technical documentation that would lead it to be significantly faster than modern HTTP.
It has exactly the same overhead for establishing connections, since it uses TCP, and HTTP has no additional connection overhead. It compresses HTTP-headers which might helps a few procent on small requests, but not much. It allows multiple requests within the same TCP connection, but then so does HTTP 1.1 by pipelining.
I only see sources of more bugs. The short version is that SPDY is HTTP wrapped in an additional SPDY datagram protocol, wrapped in a stream protocol TCP wrapped in a datagrad protocol IP. And what we gain is compressed HTTP headers and a requirement to support multiple requests, and multiple streams.
I would much rather like to see anything based on SCTP.
Though.. Imagine for a second they use the tax cuts to buy government bonds. This way the government is giving them additional income, they can use to loan to the government to pay for their tax cuts... And on the way "earn" an entitlement to government-provided wealthcare in form of interest.
So you have faith in science having faith in your faith? What are you trying to say, and why can't you see the circular argument?
Anyway, we were never discussing your faith, whatever it is, it is probably really really nice, we were discussing science which is not based on faith.
I know the #37 on Healthcare quality is from a study that, instead of comparing number of people cured of illness per capita or something, came from a study that gave massive bonuses on the ranking to contries with socialized healthcare
No, I think you are confusing what the "bonus" is. Perhaps if you measured quality of actually applied treatment, the US might be first, but socialized medicine doesn't get a bonus to measures of "how many" in cured, it _is_ a natural bonus when measuring of how many is cured (and average life-span). The difference in quality of treatment has be enormous, if treating everybody is not going to easily beat treating only the wealthiest.
Let us imagine some numbers hopelessly exaggerated in your favour: Let us assume the US provides health-care for the 70% wealthiest, and cures 90% of all cases, that means 63% gets successful care. Now imagine Canada gives healthcare the 100% wealthiest, but has a MUCH low quality of treatment and only cures 70%, that means 70% gets successful care. 70% > 63% . Even if there was that great a difference in real-life (there really isn't), the citizens of Canada would get better treatment on _average_, even if those that _got_ treatment in the US was treated better.
The fact is that Google doesn't create those search suggestions. It merely presents a list of other people's queries based on frequency. That means that Google didn't defame this person. A lot of people doing previous searches did.
Try to make the autocomplete suggest anything bad about Google itself, such as autocomplete this: "Google Suc" . It doesn't look they are a neutral carrier to me, they are already pruning insulting results... for some
They work fine. I have 3 old 27.3Gb drive in raid-0, they still chuck along. They are not very fast, but even a single of them without raid is still atleast 10 times if not 100 times faster than what is needed for high-definition video. Even the 10 year old CPU can decode the H264 in 1080p and show it full-screen. It does use more than 50% cpu to do so, where my laptop only uses 5% for the same task, but it is also 10 years old...
Not sure why people keep believing you need a modern high-performance computer for doing everyday tasks...
So recorded history isn't in it. When the Bible talks about "Methuselah lived 900 years", that's almost certainly a poetic exaggeration. But it's not totally rubbish. People probably lived a lot longer before they started living in cities than they did when the Bible was written (i.e., before sanitation).
Age in biblical times was measured in months not years, and Methselah age is stated to be 900, not 900 years. If measured in years, the claimed in the Bible is 75, a very very high age for that time.
Apple's product are high quality products with lousy build quality made of low-end component. What makes them so useful and and nice is the extremely high software quality, every other phone manufacturer may, and does make phones of higher physical quality, but they have more software bugs, and are less polished to use software-wise.
So Apple may do hardware these days, but what makes them special is the luxury software, not the made-in-china-by-childlabour hardware.
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He did bypass the AT&T problem, so he is better than what you describe. Try going to page 2.
But yeah: There is an insane amount of confirmation bias added on top of several geniune concerns.
I am starting to think of hardware reviews are like pick-ups, without a good opener, the product is destined to crash'n'burn in reviews, and nobody does openers better than Apple.
What?
Interfacing with your blackberry might be a good or a bad thing depending on whether you are aiming at Blackberry users only or not, but why on Earth are you and the reviewer, not only excusing AT&T, but excusing your own poor choice of carrier?
The difference fuel-consumption between average and high-speed is much greater in a fuel-efficient car (think small engine), a big engine comsumes a lot all the time, but doesn't increase consumption much at higher speeds. My 15 year old BMW station-car is more fuel-efficient than a Toyota Prius when going 100Mph down the german autobahn, then again my car consumes exactly the same amount of fuel per mile at 100mph as it does at 35mph, not exactly impressive for urban driving.
No, because they are not featured in the report. Austrialia, Germany, US and Estonia are the four best among countries actually examined. Very few countries were examined and all the traditionally most free are strangely absent.
I noticed that as well. Canada, the Netherlands and all Nordic countries are absent from the report. In their place a semi-nordic east-european country becomes the most free. I guess it would look too bad if there was 10 countries above the US, so they left out everybody above estonia.
I would really have like to hear to position of France and Spain also though.
Just outside CERN on the French side there is a bar when you order 1m of beer. There is something quite cute about the worlds foremost theoretical scientists order beers in meters.
This is exactly what I tried to explain, how is a wikipedia article about it proving me wrong?
One thing I might have been unclear on is that the carrier can also triangulate your position, but their accuracy is much smaller ~100m which is useless for knowning which road or house you are in. The phone can do the same in an urban setting and get an accuracy of within ~10m, in many early/cheap smart phones, this system is used instead of GPS. Not sure what the difference is but it might be that the phone can use data from all cell-towers, and the carrier only from their own.
Your position can be calculated from which cell-towers are nearby. This can only be done by the phone, the carrier already know which tower you are connected to, but doesn't know which other towers you _could_ connect to, only the phone knows that, and in this case it calculates your position from it and stores it. For whatever reason..
Not just bonuses. When companies merge there is an excess of executive managers who will get nice golden parachutes, and to avoid making being fired looked good, the managers that stay gets even bigger cash-prizes for not quiting. The negotiation for how to translate stocks in the merger is also a good opportunity for executive managers to get awarded a nice percentage of the new company (if they don't already have one). All in all this makes merging the most profitable move possible for any CEO. The effects it has on the rest of company are less clear-cut.
Well, they actually beat RIM. They never reached number #1, because that used to be Symbian, which is now #2, with #1 being Android. Apple is third, and was at their prime #2 with around 1/10 of the market-share of Symbian, but easily beating RIM.
Almost no software, and certainly no major projects. Except, of the top of my head: GCC, GPG and Samba
Personally I think combinatorics is the least of the gains from learning poker. What I really would like more people to understand is how pot-odds works, especially that sunken cost is truely sunken.
This is why you need to think of a desktop computer as a bear. It needs to hibernate, sleeping is not enough.
Yeah, having to compete with the cheap labor from rich Europe with their high taxes, and powerful unions enforcing high wages and strict safety regulations, and... Heeey, what a minute...
That assumes the browser then knows what to do with files pushed at it. Technically the same could be done with HTTP, since it is uses MIME documents just like E-Mail, browsers would just need to support multi-part mime-messages like E-Mail readers. Actually since HTML in email-readers is often a generic web-rendering engine, I suspect some browsers might already supprot multipart HTML-pages, though I have to admit, I don't know for sure.
This is what is called pipelining in HTTP 1.1. It is not required by HTTP, but even 10 years ago when I last checked only Microsoft didn't support it. They do add the ability to send multiple elements in parallel, instead of sequential, but since it is all send from one server and limited by bandwidth, that doesn't actually add anything speedwise over standard HTTP (though it might be needed for their server push implementation).
Interesting. I see nothing in the technical documentation that would lead it to be significantly faster than modern HTTP.
It has exactly the same overhead for establishing connections, since it uses TCP, and HTTP has no additional connection overhead. It compresses HTTP-headers which might helps a few procent on small requests, but not much. It allows multiple requests within the same TCP connection, but then so does HTTP 1.1 by pipelining.
I only see sources of more bugs. The short version is that SPDY is HTTP wrapped in an additional SPDY datagram protocol, wrapped in a stream protocol TCP wrapped in a datagrad protocol IP. And what we gain is compressed HTTP headers and a requirement to support multiple requests, and multiple streams.
I would much rather like to see anything based on SCTP.
Though.. Imagine for a second they use the tax cuts to buy government bonds. This way the government is giving them additional income, they can use to loan to the government to pay for their tax cuts... And on the way "earn" an entitlement to government-provided wealthcare in form of interest.
So you have faith in science having faith in your faith? What are you trying to say, and why can't you see the circular argument?
Anyway, we were never discussing your faith, whatever it is, it is probably really really nice, we were discussing science which is not based on faith.
No, I think you are confusing what the "bonus" is. Perhaps if you measured quality of actually applied treatment, the US might be first, but socialized medicine doesn't get a bonus to measures of "how many" in cured, it _is_ a natural bonus when measuring of how many is cured (and average life-span). The difference in quality of treatment has be enormous, if treating everybody is not going to easily beat treating only the wealthiest.
Let us imagine some numbers hopelessly exaggerated in your favour: Let us assume the US provides health-care for the 70% wealthiest, and cures 90% of all cases, that means 63% gets successful care. Now imagine Canada gives healthcare the 100% wealthiest, but has a MUCH low quality of treatment and only cures 70%, that means 70% gets successful care. 70% > 63% . Even if there was that great a difference in real-life (there really isn't), the citizens of Canada would get better treatment on _average_, even if those that _got_ treatment in the US was treated better.
You should clean or replace the fans then.
Try to make the autocomplete suggest anything bad about Google itself, such as autocomplete this: "Google Suc" . It doesn't look they are a neutral carrier to me, they are already pruning insulting results... for some
They work fine. I have 3 old 27.3Gb drive in raid-0, they still chuck along. They are not very fast, but even a single of them without raid is still atleast 10 times if not 100 times faster than what is needed for high-definition video. Even the 10 year old CPU can decode the H264 in 1080p and show it full-screen. It does use more than 50% cpu to do so, where my laptop only uses 5% for the same task, but it is also 10 years old...
Not sure why people keep believing you need a modern high-performance computer for doing everyday tasks...
Age in biblical times was measured in months not years, and Methselah age is stated to be 900, not 900 years. If measured in years, the claimed in the Bible is 75, a very very high age for that time.
No, think about it.
Apple's product are high quality products with lousy build quality made of low-end component. What makes them so useful and and nice is the extremely high software quality, every other phone manufacturer may, and does make phones of higher physical quality, but they have more software bugs, and are less polished to use software-wise.
So Apple may do hardware these days, but what makes them special is the luxury software, not the made-in-china-by-childlabour hardware.