cwoods

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by cwoods 13y ago
Funny how Windows' profits are not part of the "PC market". I guess it's all about cherrypicking statistics to create a "winner".
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by cwoods 13y ago
>The striking thing is how the two companies peaked are almost precisely the same time and how that moment (end of 2010) was not related to the entry timing of their nominal disruptor[iPhone]. Could it be that it was Android that hurt Bl
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by cwoods 13y ago
>Increasing the speed at the merge-point will not decrease the queue. It will only decrease the density of the queue but move it back further in traffic. Your time to cross the merge-point will be basically the same. I have to disagree w
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by cwoods 13y ago
>The advert was apparently done by a Microsoft affiliated marketing firm, so it made sense (to me) to include it. Reference? >In regards to your second point, Google and others often make mistakes in their adverts. So when Google clai
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by cwoods 13y ago
Agree 100%. From the article: >Suppose you’re on a 2-lane (each way) highway and one lane is closed up ahead due to construction. Now the flow rate of your lane is cut in half (or there are twice as many cars in line in front of you, dep
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by cwoods 13y ago
> http://modmyi.com/content/10764-microsoft-bashes-apple-samsu... I am lost. What's the alleged lie here? Also, two of your links leads to the ad which wrongly compares the screen size of diagonal length is bigg
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by cwoods 13y ago
The stats are sales over the last 3 months, not install base. However, Statcounter tries to measure usage, not unique devices. Netmarketshare tries to measure individual browsers/devices. For example, if you browse 10 sites in a day on
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by cwoods 13y ago
I would try something non-habit forming like valerian root or melatonin first before going to prescription drugs. Also, at bedtime try to keep the TV and/or reading to something that's not too interesting or too boring(shopping ch
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Research: Android taking over the tablet market from iOS(phonearena.com)
27 points by cwoods 13y ago|61 comments
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by cwoods 13y ago
I would have expected that putting this through a machine learning algorithm( or one of the face recognition ones) trained with a very huge dataset might improve the odds.
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by cwoods 13y ago
"BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
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YouTube Reveals New Google+ Commenting System With Threaded & Ranked Convos(techcrunch.com)
4 points by cwoods 13y ago|0 comments
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by cwoods 13y ago
>I really dont know, but will say seems crazy that Nokia didn't have at least a small team dedicated to making an android OS 'port' for their devices. It seems like even if they thought it was a 1% chance of windows mobile
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by cwoods 13y ago
Well, atleast gaining marketshare is better than going into a death spiral of losses like Blackberry seems to be doing. From http://www.wpcentral.com/kantar-windows-phone-hitting-8-perc... Kantar Worldpanel - July 2013 Wind
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by cwoods 13y ago
I really doubt an ethernet connection can push a full HD video frame in 1ms. The <1ms is for ping, which uses a really small network packet. Pushing 1080p HD video is a totally different matter.
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by cwoods 13y ago
This article would have been much better without all the hyperbole and foaming at the mouth.