Q dub

"While a 5 mbps HD stream is only 1/3 of your 15 mbps Verizon connection, ALL residential broadband resources are provisioned on the basis that only a few connections are active simultaneously. What broadband providers want to protect is their ability to over-provision at the multiples they've always enjoyed. Even 30x over-provisioning is not uncommon! This has little to do with net neutrality, but I wanted to point out that bandwidth scarcity is in fact a problem if you factor over-provisioning into your back-of-the envelope math. The part where I'm a bit fuzzy about is VOIP: while 100kbps is not bad, 100kbps perfectly QOS'd may be harder than you think. I don't know the math here, so many another expert can comment =)" - Q dub

"On the super soldier point: Oddly, I felt the ODST play still very similarly to the Chief. Besides the loss of regenerating health, you're still able to eat up roughly equal amounts of damage, face against equally numerous Covenant foes in equally open and direct confrontations. I was hoping for a stealthier style of play =\" - Q dub

"Doostang does a similar thing with recurring subscriptions. They sell “1 month for $X, 3 months for $Y” and then adds a small line of text saying they’ll bill your repeatedly on the confirmation screen." - Q dub

""less than 5% of Europeans have paid for online content in the last three months" and in the youngest age group "this figure is twice as high." -- Doesn't that mean the opposite, that younger cohorts are MORE willing to pay?" - Q dub

"less than 5% of Europeans have paid for online content in the last three months" and in the youngest age group "this figure is twice as high." -- Doesn't that mean the opposite, that younger cohorts are MORE willing to pay? - Q dub from FriendFeed MT Plugin

"Mathematical nuance, I’m not talking relative savings, but absolute savings (measured in gallons, not %!) which is what matters: I’m saying that IMPROVING a car from 5 mpg to 10 mpg is twice as good as improving a car from 10 mpg to 20 mpg. Say you’re driving a car for 100miles: The 10 mpg car consumes 10 gallons, upgrading to 20 mpg consumes 5 gallons for the same trip, thus saving 5 gallons The 5 mpg car consumes 20 gallons, grading to 10 mpg consumes 10 gallons for the same trip, saving 10 gallons =) What if we were like the rest of the world, and measured gallons per mile? Then we see a 10 gpm >> 5 gpm and a 20 gpm >> 10 gpm change. Both are 2x improvements, but 20 gpm >> 10 gpm is clearly better! That is why I say that MPG is an unintuitive fraction." - Q dub

"Sounds promising, but Toshiba really needs to drop their crazy non-standard keyboard layout. Notice the ~ key is to the left of the space bar? No no no, that’s sacred space for alt-X shortcuts." - Q dub

"One reason why “230 MPG” sounds so out of this world is because here in the US, we do the fraction upside down. It should really be measured as gallons-per-mile…with the resource you’re interested in conserving in the NUMERATOR. If you look at the GPM instead of MPG, you’ll see that extraordinary MPGs actually means incrementally smaller fuel savings because because you’re just making a small number even smaller! The biggest impact on fuel economy will come from improving the existing cohort of vehicles by just a few MPGs, not from inventing new cars with supposedly stratospheric MPGs." - Q dub

"Small denominator fallacy – It’s like hyping over some tiny startup because it’s experienced 70000% growth in the past month!!" - Q dub

"Tabs-on-top is leaps and bounds superior. In a world where web-apps are growing in diversity and functionality, a browser shouldn’t beg the question that the standard navigation chrome (back-forward-reload-URL) is universal across all applications. What will be true though, is browsers becoming a run-time for any number of applications so it’s first order UI responsibility is manage multi-tasking, not navigation." - Q dub