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Seventy-five percent of American respondents to a survey sponsored by the Wi-Fi Alliance said that a week without Wi-Fi would leave grumpier than a week without
by hugh3 16y ago
Seventy-five percent of American respondents to a survey sponsored by the Wi-Fi Alliance said that a week without Wi-Fi would leave grumpier than a week without coffee or tea.
Uhhh-huh. And I wonder what a survey sponsored by the Coffee and Tea Alliance would have to say.
Is there no filtering layer at the New York Times that comes in between the press release and the story and says "Boy, this sounds like a bogus poll, we probably shouldn't base an entire article around it"?
- davidedicillo 16y agoI see your point, but how many polls do you know that aren't made by an interested party? Most companies sponsor polls to validate their products or success.
- crystalis 16y agoI see your point, but how many ads do you know that aren't made by an interested party? Most companies sponsor ads to validate their products or success. Clearly, they too should get free press coverage.
- jcw 16y agoDoes "a week without wifi" mean "a week without internet"? I hope people understand that you can also use a cable.
- cryptoz 16y agoYou never know. There's a lot of confusion around the term "wireless". As a teenager in the early '00s, I worked in an electronics store that sold laptops. Many times, people would be pissed that you still needed to plug it in to the wall: after all, they were buying a laptop "with wireless"! Of course, there's always the extreme case that's the basis of many jokes on the 'net, where an old lady returns a laptop because it died after three hours of use. She didn't plug it in because "it's wireless, right?" sigh