In addition, as apps are often more efficient than sites at communicating over the network, some of the reduction is almost certainly due to "there's an app for that" reduction.
Actually lots of apps will request data refreshes without user intervention, so they probably ultimately use more data than the browser. Android apps are able to do more operations in the background than iPhone apps are, which might explain the fact that Verizon users average more data usage.
The iphone does do corrections like you're saying, this just seems to do a better job of it. It also seems to be able to take the relative positions of all your keypresses and look for likely word mappings, even if the presses aren't anywhere near the actual keyboard position.
I have a real problem with multiple window browsing in Firefox. If I ever want to shutdown the browser the only way to kill multiple windows and still have them restored in the next session is to kill Firefox with Task Manager. Exit and Alt-F4 seem to treat the currently active window as an independent application, and so they just kill that one and not the others.
I think both movies are very similar in that they try to make the viewer literally experience the storyline. For Memento he takes you backwards through the story, so that you the viewer experience the same lack of memory that the main character has. For Inception the story is very layered, details get more ambiguous as you look closer into them, and the ending is interrupted much like an actual dream.
The movies are so different from each other that it's hard to really compare them, but definitely Memento is the more unique of the two. I felt like I'd seen some of the same themes from Inception in The Thirteenth Floor, The Matrix, and Dark City, whereas Memento was going over new ground.
and since the Nook is an Android device it will be interesting to see if the Kindle app will be made to work there. I assume that it will be Barnes and Noble that makes sure that doesn't happen
Hell, didn't Walmart officially stop selling tapes and VCRs only within the past couple years?
Tapes and VCRs were still very useful in a DVD world, because consumer DVD recorders were slow coming and had many issues. That's the same reason why audio tapes lived so long after DVD became king. It seems like it's really been MP3 players and DVRs that killed audio and video tapes.
- Personal self-selection: maybe the type of person you get well enough and for long enough with to be told what they do is the kind of people that tend to be fat and unemployed.
I'm not saying the original post is true or fair, but have you considered that the people who post pictures of themselves online are those that are happiest with how they look which is more often people that aren't fat? That's self-selection in action
Something that only appears involuntary is going to be just as shocking to a viewer as something that is truly involuntary. Since we're talking about the strength of the impression on the viewer, it only matters what they think they're seeing. (I'm *not* saying that they should be treated the same in the eyes of the law)
I think you're giving Roland Emmerich too much credit, his movies are typically "bad bad" not "funny bad".
Are you also suggesting that "7th Heaven", the Christian family show, is bad on purpose? It's certainly "the way that it is" on purpose, but I don't think that the people who make it would say that they intend it to be bad.
They already can do a good job of that by monitoring cookies (i.e. they see the cookie from the previous account you were logged into when you login as the other), and they could probably get close with only IP and User-Agent. Ok, so that wouldn't differentiate two people sharing the same PC but with separate accounts (like husband/wife or siblings), but it would narrow it down that far.
New York Times had an interesting writeup on a fecal transplant case just the other day, so it's funny that this comes up in conversation now. NPR had an interesting story about how bacteria affect the efficiency of digestion a while back too. It's amazing what we don't know about our bodies, and a little bit scary how willing we are to wade into that unknown and just start changing things
Somehow I doubt it was the idea of an antenna designer to put it on the outside where one would hold it. Anyone with any antenna theory knowledge at all knows that your gain would then be changed easily based on how it was held by a conductor (eg, you)
and anyone that lived without cable knows that reception is always better when you hold the antenna! "ok, good, now stand there holding that until my show is over"
The sad part about the whole antenna-on-the-outside narrative, is that people were marveling about how awesome it was at the beginning when we had every reason to believe that having the antenna on the outside had no positive or negative impact. Just the fact that Apple was the one doing it somehow made it amazing?
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The difference is that the more you spend on a car, surround system or PC, in general, the better product you get.
can I interest you in a real wooden volume knob for your stereo that will add richness to its sound?
The claim not only illustrates a complete lack of understanding of the basic supply/demand curve
No, it illustrates a complete understanding that bigger numbers get more attention, and exaggerating the problem helps it get more dramatic headlines
How about when they post "I'm going on vacation" on Facebook?
he should clarify whether he means freeasinbeerloaders or freeasinfreedomloaders
In addition, as apps are often more efficient than sites at communicating over the network, some of the reduction is almost certainly due to "there's an app for that" reduction.
Actually lots of apps will request data refreshes without user intervention, so they probably ultimately use more data than the browser. Android apps are able to do more operations in the background than iPhone apps are, which might explain the fact that Verizon users average more data usage.
The iphone does do corrections like you're saying, this just seems to do a better job of it. It also seems to be able to take the relative positions of all your keypresses and look for likely word mappings, even if the presses aren't anywhere near the actual keyboard position.
I was reminded of how awesome NBA Jam was, but how painful it might be if they used this and the announcer said "He's on fire!!!"
I have a real problem with multiple window browsing in Firefox. If I ever want to shutdown the browser the only way to kill multiple windows and still have them restored in the next session is to kill Firefox with Task Manager. Exit and Alt-F4 seem to treat the currently active window as an independent application, and so they just kill that one and not the others.
A.O. Scott had an interesting article about the polarization, including the fact that a lot of the people flaming critics hadn't even seen the movie yet.
I think both movies are very similar in that they try to make the viewer literally experience the storyline. For Memento he takes you backwards through the story, so that you the viewer experience the same lack of memory that the main character has. For Inception the story is very layered, details get more ambiguous as you look closer into them, and the ending is interrupted much like an actual dream.
The movies are so different from each other that it's hard to really compare them, but definitely Memento is the more unique of the two. I felt like I'd seen some of the same themes from Inception in The Thirteenth Floor, The Matrix, and Dark City, whereas Memento was going over new ground.
and since the Nook is an Android device it will be interesting to see if the Kindle app will be made to work there. I assume that it will be Barnes and Noble that makes sure that doesn't happen
Hell, didn't Walmart officially stop selling tapes and VCRs only within the past couple years?
Tapes and VCRs were still very useful in a DVD world, because consumer DVD recorders were slow coming and had many issues. That's the same reason why audio tapes lived so long after DVD became king. It seems like it's really been MP3 players and DVRs that killed audio and video tapes.
I assume he's thinking of Laserdisc or grouping the two into one category, it's much older than DVD
For those that have pictures, none is fat
- Personal self-selection: maybe the type of person you get well enough and for long enough with to be told what they do is the kind of people that tend to be fat and unemployed.
I'm not saying the original post is true or fair, but have you considered that the people who post pictures of themselves online are those that are happiest with how they look which is more often people that aren't fat? That's self-selection in action
Something that only appears involuntary is going to be just as shocking to a viewer as something that is truly involuntary. Since we're talking about the strength of the impression on the viewer, it only matters what they think they're seeing. (I'm *not* saying that they should be treated the same in the eyes of the law)
I think you're giving Roland Emmerich too much credit, his movies are typically "bad bad" not "funny bad".
Are you also suggesting that "7th Heaven", the Christian family show, is bad on purpose? It's certainly "the way that it is" on purpose, but I don't think that the people who make it would say that they intend it to be bad.
I dunno, supposedly there's an app for everything
They already can do a good job of that by monitoring cookies (i.e. they see the cookie from the previous account you were logged into when you login as the other), and they could probably get close with only IP and User-Agent. Ok, so that wouldn't differentiate two people sharing the same PC but with separate accounts (like husband/wife or siblings), but it would narrow it down that far.
Unless you go through all the code yourself, there's no way to be sure of anything.
you mean unless you go through the code, compile it yourself using a compiler whose code you've also audited and itself was not compiled by an unaudited compiler
New York Times had an interesting writeup on a fecal transplant case just the other day, so it's funny that this comes up in conversation now. NPR had an interesting story about how bacteria affect the efficiency of digestion a while back too. It's amazing what we don't know about our bodies, and a little bit scary how willing we are to wade into that unknown and just start changing things
I think you misspelled Trunk Monkey
I can hit F11 or click the Full Screen option under the View menu. As long as the video is taking up the full page, that should take care of it right?
you mean sort of a You-and-You-and-YouTube?
I guess you could say that the dancers/actresses with fake breasts are committing fraud, but that argument won't hold up without support
Somehow I doubt it was the idea of an antenna designer to put it on the outside where one would hold it. Anyone with any antenna theory knowledge at all knows that your gain would then be changed easily based on how it was held by a conductor (eg, you)
and anyone that lived without cable knows that reception is always better when you hold the antenna! "ok, good, now stand there holding that until my show is over"
The sad part about the whole antenna-on-the-outside narrative, is that people were marveling about how awesome it was at the beginning when we had every reason to believe that having the antenna on the outside had no positive or negative impact. Just the fact that Apple was the one doing it somehow made it amazing?