I don't know, my 2002 1.8l Passat Wagon gets 28-29 mpg (US) on the highway at cruising 80mph. I don't know of any similar sized non diesel cars that where getting that kind of mileage. The sticker from then said 31mpg highway. Combined mileage with not so gentle driving I get 26 mpg. As I recall there weren't many sedans or wagons in that class then. Now there are some, but not many. And few if any of the American cars in that group are worth driving.
I'll add my anecdote. I wanted so to believe in Android and Google, that I ended up getting a MyTouch from T-Mobile as an upgrade to an existing T-Mobile Phone. Its an improvement over dumb phones, barely, but other than that it barely accomplishes what it is supposed to do, so I certainly still would classify it as garbage. The one thing I am uncertain of if it is Android or the hardware specs that are the issue. Certainly the combo is to blame, because I have seen Android systems that are better in response, but usually those people don't do anything but the basics with the system. But on the mytouch even trying to do the basics is painful.
I have. And I can't wait to get off of this piece of crap Android phone I am stuck with.
My ipod touch runs circles around my Android - except that it does not make phone calls. I see both Android, Blackberry and iPhones around me, and none of these people have any of this supposed blind superiority complex that is attributed to any one group. The iPhone guys/gals are the least arrogant of the bunch. The Android guys keep talking about how superior their phone is technically and supposedly open, and the blackberry guys just get the work done but wish they could run decent apps (or games). The lone Window mobile 6( or 6.5) guy just keeps showing off the hacks that circumvents any given Verizon lockout.
Of all the current phones I am exposed to everyday, only the iPhone gets things done the way I need them to get done: A tool that works quickly, efficiently, elegantly and I don't have to spend as much maintenance time on as I do productive time.
I am also on the MyTouch - got it about a year ago, and compared to my first gen ipod touch, the entire Android experience sucks on this platform. I am very diligent in making sure I quit every application instead of backgrounding them. I uninstall any apps that will not let themselves be exited. Still, I can launch apps faster, particularly browsing sessions on the ipod touch, even if I have to keep starting the browser on the touch when clicking on a link in another app. When T-Mobile updated to Android 2.x, it was an unmitigated disaster. Didn't take long for an update (4 weeks?) to come out that resolved the issue for the most part and put it back to its normal slow self instead of extra extra slow. Personally I can't wait till T-Mobile offers the iPhone, they provide the best coverage in my area of usage, and having a family plan makes it harder to switch.
On some blog and magazine forums people have been collecting critical reviews to help bolster the argument of the iPad not being good enough for whatever purpose they envisioned their need to be. I found one particular article disparaging the iPad very interesting and ironic. They referenced an article from either the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, where the reviewer thought that the iPad was useless because the iPad basically turned a computer into a TV device.
I couldn't help but smile at the irony - Wasn't that the holy grail of computing (for end users) - that a computer is as easy to use as a TV (toaster, etc)? Now that Apple has come pretty close to that goal (ideal?), it gets disparaged? Luckily the target users see the iPad for what it is, unlike so many holier than thou tech snobs in this forum.
Funny, I have exactly the opposite experience. Verizon has had the worst service I have ever encountered. Can't speak to AT&T overall, but they gave us no gruff at all when we returned phones and canceled service withing their 2 week trial period when we discovered they had really bad coverage in the areas where it mattered most to us ( work, home, and the commute in between). T-Mobile has had excellent customer service when adding or subtracting services, or when Billing questions arose (once in over 6 years with them now).
His approach just lets him know when someone does really want to read his e-mail. Also at the point of request, he does have legal options prior to the governmanet reading his e-mails, whereas without the encryption he would have none.
Right. but if you put in facebook.com, you see that they are an intermediary for an infection. Is what Google describes for facebook.com different than what you describe? And is it different what the summary claims ( yeah i did not rtfa this time either)?
It is the abuse of that monopoly position that would be the issue - you know - the one of which MS has been convicted. Until Google somehow abuses its monopoly position there is no issue.
They did a test on 3 separate cars, Toyota Camry, Infiniti G37, and Roush Stage 3 Mustang to see the effective stopping power brakes at 70 mph and 100 mph, and each with no throttle and each with full throttle. Only the Roush Mustang 3 had any real issue of slowing down with full throttle - but only at 100mph. It did stop eventually, but took 903 feet (vs about 320 feet with no throttle). In the 100mph full throttle tests, the Camry stopped within 88 feet (vs no throttle), the Infinti within 6 feet (The Infiniti has a system that as soon as brakes get tapped the throttle closes, hence such close numbers)
So yes, for 99% of the cars on road, your brakes will overcome your engine easily.
You are right, it was just a supposition, however it still is not implausible. Sure LG dwarfs Apple in the categories you mention, however I also know LG makes a heck of a lot more products than phones, so those statements are like comparing oranges to cumquats.
The iPhone and the Prada being announced within one month of each other these two products certainly makes my supposition possible, particularly taken into account your assertion of LG's capabilities. LG being a supplier to Apple certainly does not distract from that either. As to Apple's internal surveillance... nothing is ever secure from determined enough people.
Another point of the timing - the Prada certainly looks like it could have been from an early stage of the iphone design development; it looks like it is from the design phase when there still where too many buttons....
It is just fun speculation. Certainly while the Prada looks like an iPhone ( or vice versa if you prefer) it certainly looks like it still has too many roots in the win mobile / Blackberry camps with all those buttons.
Wouldn't it be just as plausible that after Apple put in the 2 years of development that it was LG that was the industrial spy and just cranked up their impressive capability to beat the iPhone to market? In any case, the picture on the Wikipedia page owes just as much to any of the windows CE devices and Palms on the market as the iPhone owes that Prada.
As someone having come across a recent incident where a manager was ready to fire a worker because of the insistence that the raw data clearly showed wrong doing. Logs "clearly" showed that the worker was visiting porn sites. A consultant versed in the information the logs presented was after a protracted process still only barely able to convince the manager that a person could not have generated the traffic manually.
So, the release of raw data to anyone and everyone is a scary proposition. Anyone coming up with the real meaning of the data would be so drowned out for so long that much harm would be caused by all the uneducated or crackpot interpretations.
So yes, it does take education to properly make sense of data.
Story of Apple talking to Entertainment/Hollywood/TV executives re monthly subscription fee.... This is the most likely scenario for their intent. This would fit both the desktop and mobile devices.
I was public school teacher for several years in Maruland, and there where no canned lessons plans made available. I was teaching students math ( Algebra to Calculus) and Pascal. On the math side I thought it idiotic that I ( or other teachers ) had to reinvent the wheel just about every day in terms of lesson plans or ideas in how to present certain topics. I would have loved to have access plans and ideas to take as a base and adjust them to the people in my classes. The only time there was real access to presentation ideas of certain topics was on one professional development day. That one day of presenting successful strategies for teaching certain mathematical topics was the only time such a resource was ever available in the 3 years I taught ( other professional development days had little or nothing in terms of this kind of topic). These days I see my kids make use of resources on the Internet for supplemental material that would have been very useful to me back then. It seems to me that schools and teacher unions missed an opportunity in utilizing the Internet to make starting teachers more effective sooner. So, I suppose that these teachers selling their knowledge is the first step in doing that in a capitalist way.
I agree, it would be nice if the iPhone/touch does it. Sometimes I do get lost in trying to find one of he 60 or so apps I currently have. Other than my first screen with most frequent apps, i tend to search for them, but I do know all the games are in the last 2 screens.
But then my Android phone does not do any categorization out of the box either, as far as I can see.
not the storm, no. but on my wife's blackerry 8900, every time i press on a button something happens real quick - even if it is only a progress indicator. But doing anything besides making calls and managing them ( search, history) pretty much sucks on the blackberry. managing contacts sucks compared to Android and iphone. I really don't get.
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I don't know, my 2002 1.8l Passat Wagon gets 28-29 mpg (US) on the highway at cruising 80mph. I don't know of any similar sized non diesel cars that where getting that kind of mileage. The sticker from then said 31mpg highway. Combined mileage with not so gentle driving I get 26 mpg. As I recall there weren't many sedans or wagons in that class then. Now there are some, but not many. And few if any of the American cars in that group are worth driving.
here:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/wave-disk-engines-to-make-hybrid-vehicles-cheaper-more-efficient/1887
and here
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/wave-disc-engine-generator-series-hybrids-10812.html
I'll add my anecdote. I wanted so to believe in Android and Google, that I ended up getting a MyTouch from T-Mobile as an upgrade to an existing T-Mobile Phone. Its an improvement over dumb phones, barely, but other than that it barely accomplishes what it is supposed to do, so I certainly still would classify it as garbage.
The one thing I am uncertain of if it is Android or the hardware specs that are the issue. Certainly the combo is to blame, because I have seen Android systems that are better in response, but usually those people don't do anything but the basics with the system.
But on the mytouch even trying to do the basics is painful.
I have.
And I can't wait to get off of this piece of crap Android phone I am stuck with.
My ipod touch runs circles around my Android - except that it does not make phone calls.
I see both Android, Blackberry and iPhones around me, and none of these people have any of this supposed blind superiority complex that is attributed to any one group. The iPhone guys/gals are the least arrogant of the bunch. The Android guys keep talking about how superior their phone is technically and supposedly open, and the blackberry guys just get the work done but wish they could run decent apps (or games). The lone Window mobile 6( or 6.5) guy just keeps showing off the hacks that circumvents any given Verizon lockout.
Of all the current phones I am exposed to everyday, only the iPhone gets things done the way I need them to get done: A tool that works quickly, efficiently, elegantly and I don't have to spend as much maintenance time on as I do productive time.
I am also on the MyTouch - got it about a year ago, and compared to my first gen ipod touch, the entire Android experience sucks on this platform.
I am very diligent in making sure I quit every application instead of backgrounding them. I uninstall any apps that will not let themselves be exited.
Still, I can launch apps faster, particularly browsing sessions on the ipod touch, even if I have to keep starting the browser on the touch when clicking on a link in another app.
When T-Mobile updated to Android 2.x, it was an unmitigated disaster. Didn't take long for an update (4 weeks?) to come out that resolved the issue for the most part and put it back to its normal slow self instead of extra extra slow.
Personally I can't wait till T-Mobile offers the iPhone, they provide the best coverage in my area of usage, and having a family plan makes it harder to switch.
On some blog and magazine forums people have been collecting critical reviews to help bolster the argument of the iPad not being good enough for whatever purpose they envisioned their need to be.
I found one particular article disparaging the iPad very interesting and ironic. They referenced an article from either the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times, where the reviewer thought that the iPad was useless because the iPad basically turned a computer into a TV device.
I couldn't help but smile at the irony - Wasn't that the holy grail of computing (for end users) - that a computer is as easy to use as a TV (toaster, etc)?
Now that Apple has come pretty close to that goal (ideal?), it gets disparaged?
Luckily the target users see the iPad for what it is, unlike so many holier than thou tech snobs in this forum.
Funny, I have exactly the opposite experience. Verizon has had the worst service I have ever encountered. Can't speak to AT&T overall, but they gave us no gruff at all when we returned phones and canceled service withing their 2 week trial period when we discovered they had really bad coverage in the areas where it mattered most to us ( work, home, and the commute in between).
T-Mobile has had excellent customer service when adding or subtracting services, or when Billing questions arose (once in over 6 years with them now).
His approach just lets him know when someone does really want to read his e-mail.
Also at the point of request, he does have legal options prior to the governmanet reading his e-mails, whereas without the encryption he would have none.
Figures, when I need mod-points I don't have them....
But I give thanks to your post and parent post for saying what you did and saying it well.
But at lest I can comfortably browse on the iphone/ipod touch. I can't say that about the browsing on Android.
Yes, I own both platforms.
Right. but if you put in facebook.com, you see that they are an intermediary for an infection. Is what Google describes for facebook.com different than what you describe? And is it different what the summary claims ( yeah i did not rtfa this time either)?
The other day someone posted a nice link to Google's facebook analysis, so I tried some of the pages mentioned above.
For example:
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=drudgereport.com/
Seems that Google has a different opinion on this information.
They would be white, maybe even just brushed aluminum.
It is the abuse of that monopoly position that would be the issue - you know - the one of which MS has been convicted.
Until Google somehow abuses its monopoly position there is no issue.
The Car and Driver test was only meant to address the issue if brakes can overcome the engine in case of a stuck accelerator.
They where not testing for the cause of the accident.
They did a test on 3 separate cars, Toyota Camry, Infiniti G37, and Roush Stage 3 Mustang to see the effective stopping power brakes at 70 mph and 100 mph, and each with no throttle and each with full throttle.
Only the Roush Mustang 3 had any real issue of slowing down with full throttle - but only at 100mph. It did stop eventually, but took 903 feet (vs about 320 feet with no throttle).
In the 100mph full throttle tests, the Camry stopped within 88 feet (vs no throttle), the Infinti within 6 feet (The Infiniti has a system that as soon as brakes get tapped the throttle closes, hence such close numbers)
So yes, for 99% of the cars on road, your brakes will overcome your engine easily.
The same way Microsoft figures your copy of Windows (WGA) or Office (OGA) will suddenly become illegitimate.
You are right, it was just a supposition, however it still is not implausible.
Sure LG dwarfs Apple in the categories you mention, however I also know LG makes a heck of a lot more products than phones, so those statements are like comparing oranges to cumquats.
The iPhone and the Prada being announced within one month of each other these two products certainly makes my supposition possible, particularly taken into account your assertion of LG's capabilities. LG being a supplier to Apple certainly does not distract from that either.
As to Apple's internal surveillance... nothing is ever secure from determined enough people.
Another point of the timing - the Prada certainly looks like it could have been from an early stage of the iphone design development; it looks like it is from the design phase when there still where too many buttons....
It is just fun speculation. Certainly while the Prada looks like an iPhone ( or vice versa if you prefer) it certainly looks like it still has too many roots in the win mobile / Blackberry camps with all those buttons.
Wouldn't it be just as plausible that after Apple put in the 2 years of development that it was LG that was the industrial spy and just cranked up their impressive capability to beat the iPhone to market?
In any case, the picture on the Wikipedia page owes just as much to any of the windows CE devices and Palms on the market as the iPhone owes that Prada.
As someone having come across a recent incident where a manager was ready to fire a worker because of the insistence that the raw data clearly showed wrong doing.
Logs "clearly" showed that the worker was visiting porn sites. A consultant versed in the information the logs presented was after a protracted process still only barely able to convince the manager that a person could not have generated the traffic manually.
So, the release of raw data to anyone and everyone is a scary proposition. Anyone coming up with the real meaning of the data would be so drowned out for so long that much harm would be caused by all the uneducated or crackpot interpretations.
So yes, it does take education to properly make sense of data.
Story of Apple talking to Entertainment/Hollywood/TV executives re monthly subscription fee....
This is the most likely scenario for their intent.
This would fit both the desktop and mobile devices.
I was public school teacher for several years in Maruland, and there where no canned lessons plans made available.
I was teaching students math ( Algebra to Calculus) and Pascal. On the math side I thought it idiotic that I ( or other teachers ) had to reinvent the wheel just about every day in terms of lesson plans or ideas in how to present certain topics. I would have loved to have access plans and ideas to take as a base and adjust them to the people in my classes.
The only time there was real access to presentation ideas of certain topics was on one professional development day. That one day of presenting successful strategies for teaching certain mathematical topics was the only time such a resource was ever available in the 3 years I taught ( other professional development days had little or nothing in terms of this kind of topic).
These days I see my kids make use of resources on the Internet for supplemental material that would have been very useful to me back then. It seems to me that schools and teacher unions missed an opportunity in utilizing the Internet to make starting teachers more effective sooner.
So, I suppose that these teachers selling their knowledge is the first step in doing that in a capitalist way.
I agree, it would be nice if the iPhone/touch does it. Sometimes I do get lost in trying to find one of he 60 or so apps I currently have. Other than my first screen with most frequent apps, i tend to search for them, but I do know all the games are in the last 2 screens.
But then my Android phone does not do any categorization out of the box either, as far as I can see.
not the storm, no.
but on my wife's blackerry 8900, every time i press on a button something happens real quick - even if it is only a progress indicator.
But doing anything besides making calls and managing them ( search, history) pretty much sucks on the blackberry. managing contacts sucks compared to Android and iphone. I really don't get.
I suppose then that Android's success depends on the Droid. Mainstream users expect at least as smooth an experience as iPhone or Blackberry.