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"Content farming is a risk to Google because the distinction between top quality and mass-produced, mass-linked content can be entirely opaque to Page Rank. Its especially true when the content is farmed by players with substantial distribution muscle themselves such as Aol and Demand Media. I happen to find a lot of quality content via the Facebook stream, which is unfortunately off-limits for Google." - Q dub

"The WinTel model of monolithic software + fragmented hardware isn't the only way to win. After watching the the kind of progress HTC has made since Android, Google must wondering: Why do I need all these different hardware partners when I just need one really good one? After all, Apple is killing it with essentially one model of hardware." - 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

The most insightful Chrome OS article today - Q dub

"Thank you, for writing the most interesting, non-echo-chamber article about Chrome OS today." - Q dub

Awesome! SMS is THE best way to bring the next 1B people online. - Q dub

"Umm…this is a good thing in a weird way. It’d be a very very bad sign if Comcast’s own streams were excluded from the cap, which meant that they would most _certainly_ lower or freeze the cap where it is. At least now, they have to raise the cap over time to match their own video customers’ consumption pattern." - Q dub

"Umm...this is a good thing in a weird way. It'd be a very very bad sign if Comcast's own streams were excluded from the cap, which meant that they would most _certainly_ lower or freeze the cap where it is. At least now, they have to raise the cap over time to match their own video customers' consumption pattern." - Q dub

"Umm...this is a good thing in a weird way. It'd be a very very bad sign if Comcast's own streams were excluded from the cap, which meant that they would most _certainly_ lower or freeze the cap where it is. At least now, they have to raise the cap over time to match their own video customers' consumption pattern." - Q dub

"Think there’s a really simple explanation for this: iPhone apps are skewed towards games, which characteristically have lower retention. Not exactly a indicative of the quality of the app library nor of the loyalty of the user base." - Q dub

"HTML is going to become quite powerful…what is really happening is that the browser is becoming both a page viewer and an application-runtime." - Q dub

"HTML is going to become quite powerful...what is really happening is that the browser is becoming both a page viewer and an application-runtime." - Q dub

"HTML is going to become quite powerful...what is really happening is that the browser is becoming both a page viewer and an application-runtime." - Q dub

interactive music visualization! - Q dub

"I think the metered broadband vs metered utility is a very relevant analogy, however does not reflect the biggest reason why carriers want to fight net neutrality. Bandwidth can be managed with caps, but neutrality means the end of price discrimination: the ability to charge different prices per unit of traffic based on different usage. That is the underlying driver of insane SMS margins and paltry data margins if you compare then dollars for bit. There is no analogy to the utility world: it'd be like paying a higher price for drinking water and a lower one for shower water out of the same pipe because drinking water delivers more value per liter." - Q dub

"If a high end iPod touch costs $400, then a $600 "true cost" for the iPhone seems pretty reasonable. So AT basically prorated the subsidy for 1-year customers...seems pretty simple to me." - Q dub

"I find that a lot of technological innovation is about doing away with outdated physical metaphors. Google is trying to kill the snail mail metaphor with Wave, and hopefully somebody (like Lala) killing the disk/tape metaphor for streaming services." - Q dub