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Actually, no.

UMA-equipped phones support what is called Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery, an extension to wifi which reduces wifi battery consumption both when idling and when on a call to about the same level as a cell connection.

UAPSD (branded as WMM Power Save) is part of the WMM WiFi extensions, which are a part of most consumer wifi routers.
Yeah, I know what you're saying. However, we often fool ourselves about what we're capable of. If someone has developed a startup and completed an exit and they're prepared to go at it again, that speaks much louder than someone who claims they are willing but has never done it.
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I have fond memories of hacking the quizzes on Teletext as a kid.

You had four choices, represented just by colored buttons that matched up with the remote's buttons. All the page 'urls' were just numbers, but you couldn't tell what the number was before you pressed a button. Once you had, it would show up at the top for a few seconds while the TV waited for that page to be received.

The trick was there was only one wrong answer page, so if you hit a button and recognized its number, you still had a few seconds to select a different answer and progress.

I also used 5 fingers as bookmarks in Choose Your Own Adventure so I could jump backwards when I made a bad choice. Too bad these techniques never worked in real life!
Full article without pagination:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker...
The multiply itself is not being changed. Rather, the order in which the elements in the matrices are being multiplied is changed. The results will be the same.
Why not? Look at email spam.

Free = craziness.
Why the legacy "fmt" instead of "format" ? Go is a new language, why be held back by the old name conventions?
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Any AT&T users just ready for something different? I love my iPhone, but I got an original one so I've had the same experience for three years now. I might pick this up if it's compatible with AT&T's network, just to see the other side of the coin.
"Overall revenue was $5.94 billion for the period ending September 30, an increase of 7 percent compared to the third quarter of 2008."

Just a quick math. Assuming there are about 300mil frequent users of google (i.e more than the occasional search) in the western world. If 4.5 billions came from them, that would be about $15 per user per quarter, so about $60 per year.

Assuming that the google phone user is going to be one of these heavy users, if mobile user are worth $60 per year, then a $100 subsidy doesn't sound that bad, but still, very far fetched.

People would be buying them in droves, and using them in china/india/whatever developing country you think, and there is no way google would be making $60 per year from them.

What I don't believe at all is the 29/mo data plan. There is no way att or t-mobile will put up with this. Remember, the device has to connect to something, otherwise it is just an ipod with wifi.

The other alternative is wimax. Their network would be perfect for something like this, but they are not nation wide yet.

My bet is that android 2.1 will have wimax support.
How would you go about finding co-founders?

We've run a decent company in the past. We're going to start another. We're looking for 2 or 3 co-founders. We've tried different things, posting on startup blogs but the responses were generally from people with little experience or others who were fixed on a pet project they've been working on after hours. So we created a website with info and posted a link here hoping for some constructive feedback.

Do you have any other suggestions?
That just sounds too good to be true, especially the data plan situation.
true, you don't have to click them: every website you visit on android that has Google ads on it, or YouTube (more ads) would generate revenue to Google just by visiting it. Plus, some ads run for over $20+ per click, out of which Google surely makes a nice chunk out of, which means that, by these parameters combined, you don't really have to click many ads to generate $100 for Google.

I reckon that over the course of a year (the average length of time at which users change their phones), you'd generate Google more (if not much more) than $100 in explicit and implicit revenue.
Sure, which accounts for the "not serious" candidates but does not, IMO, explain the claim that it will filter "unqualified" candidates or those who "don't stand a chance."
The problem with this approach is feasibility. Some companies like Netflix and Amazon have done some complex recommendation engines, and I still don't think they're processing as much data as an all-encompassing social network data aggregating recommendation engine would.

I believe Reddit was at one point going to try and create a news recommendation engine but found it impractical as the number of users grew. The number of permutations for what people in just one user's network like and dislike is staggering.
No, the reasons explained are perfectly valid.

Another way to think about it is: you are risking losing the more expensive tie (50%) and your potential gain is a more expensive tie (50%). Those are obviously of equal and opposite value.
The "junk mail" approach to persuasion is only one approach, and it tends to be urgent-sounding. When I think about the businesses I like the most, one common factor is that they have a much more honest-sounding tone.

Maybe the question is not "which technique works best," but "which technique works best on my target audience."
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I don't buy it. Can you show me some statistics to prove that this (junk mail) works? I have always thought of junk mail as a last ditch effort. You have no other means to reach your customer, so you do the "throw it against the wall and see what sticks" approach.
If you're interested in this post, the real deal to knowing how much data you need to determine if a test is a valid winner is best measured by standard deviation.

Detailed explanation of this in these posts below:

http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/what-is-ab-and-multivar...

http://blog.joshbaker.com/2009/01/21/standard-deviation-and-...

http://snaphawk.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-does-google-website...
Where's the line, though? Somebody owns the copyright to everything that's been created in the last 70 years, at least. Why should we treat some of it with more rigor than the rest?

That's the whole point behind the DMCA safe harbor provisions; in a dispute between copyright holders and users of a service, there's a set of actions that keep the service provider out of harm's way. Deviating from that path in either direction may cause legal troubles for the service provider.
This comparison doesn't seem particularly valid.

Insurgencies operate by leveraging small-scale, decentralized groups against a large, slow-moving beaurocracy. They succeed by operating faster than the beaurocracy (inside their OODA loops), leveraging the environment to their advantage and attacking critical points of failure. They're difficult to fight against because of their speed and the fact that they don't readily present targets to be attacked.

Granted, the Civil rights movement was largely grass-roots, but it's not clear to me why a comparison to an insurgency is apt.
Of course.

What's obnoxious about "completed an exit" is that talented people can fail to meet this for reasons that aren't their fault. Possibly the VC wanted to aim for an IPO, they failed because of the downturn, and now they haven't "completed an exit". I know of stories like this.

I wouldn't bat an eye if you said you were looking for people with substantial entrepreneurial experience. I just think the specific criterion of "completed an exit" is obnoxious. It sounds like you think you're too good to talk to people who are talented but haven't had their break yet.
Yea and don't even think about hitting the back button...
They will self-select out because it will not be worth the marginal cost. If the marginal cost is 0, then it is worth the effort for the perceived long-shot chance. You are right in that this will not eliminate the truly deluded.
Instead of a coupon, Microsoft Advertising sent a Flash app.
Using a formatter to easily manage breaking language changes is really clever. I was just reading Pike's interview in Coders at Work where he talked about how all the language changes in the early days of C++ drove him off. This should help Google build up a community while still allowing flexibility.
It's ugly. Just look at its nose from the side - it's evilish and ugly. The most beautiful thing Boeing has ever designed is 747. Or compare it to A380.
Not much content in the article, and they don't even answer the question (which involves math).

How much data do you need? This depends on two things: the expected effect size, and your confidence interval.

With enough data you will ALWAYS get statistical significance. The tighter your confidence interval the more data you need, and the smaller your expected effect size the more data you need.

For example, these are two different questions:
1. What is the likelihood that the observed difference between the test and control candidates is real?
2. What is the likelihood that the test candidate is at least a 20% improvement over the control candidate?

If you're swinging for the fences and need 10-50% improvements in your metrics, you can shut down tests early that prove unlikely to generate those kinds of returns.

The "usual" way of doing things is to let the A/B test run until you reach statistical significance, regardless of effect size. But unless you're Google or Facebook, spending 100,000 impressions to get your 1% improvement is probably not worth it.
re: adding the above info to the about page - I agree. I will do this.
The only way this even sort of makes sense is if Google's primary goal is to force a dramatic drop in cellular data plans. A cheap, desirable phone that's not locked in to a carrier via a contract could, potentially, force intense competition on rates. The phone is removed from the equation when selecting a carrier, and consumers can change carriers on a whim with no penalty. Service has to improve and prices have to drop.

I don't know though. That looks a little too big picture for an actual business strategy.
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Statistics isolate a clearly defined class of irrelevant biases. An excellent, targeted solution is implemented to address that specific problem, and doesn't waste any time blaming people for subconscious biases.

Reminds me of Evelyn Glennie: http://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen....
Talk about burying the lede! From the last paragraph of the article:

"The issue became pressing to me personally when I nearly mowed down, in my car, a teenage boy crossing West End Avenue."
I do more than just stare at them.
Google doesn't have a monopoly in mobile phones, so the anti-competition laws probably wouldn't affect them much.
Agree for the most part - direct mailers were doing A/B testing before the internet existed to maximize their ROI. There's definitely some carry over between what works in print and on the internet.

That being said, its important to know why the junk mail is presented like it is, it may not always work for your users.
I think his whole point is that junk mail's mere existence means that it works.

Junk mailers pay real hard currency for every letter they send, so they've can't afford to use ineffective copy. Online, there is no cost to to sending an email, publishing a blog post, etc., so it's more difficult to determine what copy actually works.
On the contrary, I would argue that conversations of more than 140 characters are not conversations at all. They're speeches, talks, blog p

You should have stopped there and waited for reply.
Listening is important, but maybe it is better to finish your thought when it makes sense, not on some random limit?
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Ahhh....agreed.
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Working in Search marketing for a few years has taught me something similar about writing PPC ad-copy; if you want to see masters at work search for something like "Home Refinancing" and check out the ad-copy on the sponsored results. (These guys are paying $50+ per click. You can bet they know what they're doing; that is, they must if they're going to be doing it for any amount of time.)
Yes go ahead and downvote and demonstrate how you don't understand that one of the points of the open source movement is redundancy in the availability of software. Forking open source code is one major way of ensuring longevity for software you want to use. If you don't like how Oracle is doing it (MySQL), don't complain, fork the software and make your own.
Where are you getting the $300 figure from? Also, elsewhere in this discussion you say "Yet the iPhone costs more than twice that" (ie >$400, [1]). iSuppli estimates the cost to be $180 including manufacturing and "other" parts[2]. This is very much in line with Apple's typical margins. Apple doesn't sell commodity products so it's no surprise that they could be netting 50% margins (see [3] for iPod cost information). I work in the electronic components industry. The component costs quoted by iSuppli are credible. Companies like Samsung and Apple are able to negotiate very low prices for components from their suppliers. The suppliers are willing to offer components at lower prices and hence sacrifice their profit margins for a couple of reasons: (a) Apple and Samsung buy in large volume (b) Apple and Samsung will always be around. Offering the best prices now is a foot in the door for future business with them

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996710

[2] http://gigaom.com/2009/12/09/who-is-getting-rich-off-the-iph...

[3] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc200...
They're legally obligated to take down only content that is infringing their rights. We'll respond to DMCA counter-notices also, though I don't know that we've ever received one. At that point, it's a matter for the courts to settle.
Well, yes and no :) Characters aren't motivated in Star Wars to defeat the Empire so that they can be rewarded with the ability to speak English again, but one of the major motivating factors of this story is giving the protagonist the ability to walk again if accepts and succeeds in his task.

I don't really know anything about the plot, but it seems like I should be expecting a plot turn where the protagonist is faced with the dilemma of turning on his peers and his mission for love's sake, or doing something morally suspect so he can walk again. Just a guess, I really know nothing about the movie.
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I think you're 100% correct that the smartphone market is more than big enough for both to win. IMHO, RIM, Palm, and Windows Mobile are much more at risk than either Apple or Android.

BTW. For getting native applications to work on both, this looks pretty promising: http://www.appcelerator.com/
Haven't had a chance to try it myself yet though.
> Can you show me some statistics to prove that this
> (junk mail) works?

One could argue that it must be effective, as it's expensive to print and post mail, yet marketers have been doing it for decades. Its results are also generally more measurable than those of mass market advertising.

> You have no other means to reach your customer

On the contrary, (addressed) direct mail is generally sent to as targeted a market as possible. If you know your market, you're generally better off putting a lot of resources into a well-qualified set of prospects, than taking a more "shotgun" approach.
As much as I hate to wave the dictionary around in a comment, a paradox is an apparent contradiction that may not actually be one, and usually isn't. You don't need an actual contradiction to have a "paradox". (I'd argue an actual contradiction is simply a contradiction and not a paradox at all, but the dictionary I consulted disagrees.)
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Well, just keep saving what you get and see which companies keep sending more junk - they're the ones that work.
Also worth noting, while Apple prices theirs higher because they make money on the actual handset, Google makes money on every smartphone that gets into the hands of a user from the ad revenue.

Get enough smartphones into the hands of users and Google will see their revenues increase from the increased viewing of ads. So they needn't sell the phone at such a high margin to make a profit.
I think user experience wise Apple is good enough to be the winner but user experience probably isn't the deciding factor. Eventually phone manufacturers will commoditize smart phones. Those phones will need an OS preferably a common one. Rim, Apple, and Palm don't seem poised to share. Therefore they probably won't win. Now we just need to wait for the players to realize and accept this is the likely end game.
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Actually, if you really make that little money out of it, the publicity stunt of giving it all to charity might be more profitable in the long term than keeping it to yourself.
Fond memories indeed. Like gaius, as a kid I had a BBC Micro, and created many a pretend teletext page in MODE 7. In my final year studying computer science in the UK, for my dissertation project I chose to try to get teletext available on the X Window workstations on our SunOS computers. I didn't get as far as the graphics side of it but I did implement a subset of RPC in BBC BASIC and 6502 assembler on a BBC Micro equipped with a Teletext Adapter and get pages coming across a serial line. I had my aerial attached to an upside-down broomstick outside the computing lab. Just after my project finished, broomstick and aerial were stolen, no doubt to be stuck in a similarly upside-down traffic cone in someone's bedroom.

So goodbye Teletext. Oh, and all that music they used to play in the background when all that was available late at night on TV was a selection of Teletext pages.
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Adding unlimited data to a voice plan on T-Mobile currently costs $30, so not totally out of the question. AT&T currently charges quite a bit more.

Mobile WiMAX is still a long ways off.
Sounds like something right out of Shockwave Rider...
He's referring to those super long letters that are sent out, & they do work. The trick is not just in the copy, but also in the list. A good marketer will choose 10 lists or so, each targeting a slightly different demographic. To these lists the marketer will A/B test and see what the conversion rates are. After finding the best conversion rate, the rest of the campaign will go to the list that performs the best. After years and years of iterating through hundreds of demographic segments & lists, different copy/headlines, & even minute details like whether to have a hand-written note inside, whether to have a "P.S." message, whether to use the word "Guarantee" or "No-Risk", etc. (These little details actually make a repeatable difference in conversion rates)

After all this, a particular company will know exactly the demographic that buys, exactly the headline that grabs attention, the copy that gets people to keep turning the page, the post-script message that increases conversions, etc.

This kind of marketing has been perfected, as the author says. A good direct-mail marketer will get a conversion rate of 5%-10%. There are some books you can read to get at specific numbers of different campaigns... This is one of them http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Everything-You-Can-Youve/dp/03....
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Agreed, it's just a scratch on the surface. But if the authors were to open-source it and develop a plugin scheme they might find a lot of contributors, a la Firefox or iPhone app store. Maybe not as many, but with similar enthusiasm.

Not sure I approve of antiforensics because I suspect COFEE could help convict a lot of criminals. On the other hand it seems an invasion of privacy and the US 5th Amendment IMO.
Chicago. It takes me about 15 minutes to get to work on the train. Driving would probably take a bit longer, and would cost about $40/day. (Not including the cost to get a car and a driver's license; neither of which I have.)
Dunno. I ride a couple thousand miles a year, and I have not had any close calls.
Technically, a CFG is the intersection of an n-balanced parentheses language and a regular language. Therefore, any regular language can be described by a CFG (but obviously not vice-versa).

I am completely unfamiliar with Perl and its regular expressions, but from your article and this comment I get the impression that they are Turing-complete, which would mean they're capable of describing any formal language as well as doing any "doable" computation. Is that correct?
Just because they're selling at market price, it doesn't mean that they're not greedy. If they were a bit less greedy, they'd rather have more users for a lower price, which in the long run can actually result in the same revenue. But then I'd get into the luxury brands theory/subject, but meh.
If I had to guess I would say one space for each level of indention.
So shower when you get to work instead of before leaving for work. Or, don't bike. There is no magical thing that is going to prevent you from sweating.
Looking at Stackoverflow Careers from a hiring perspective, I don't really understand the point.

If suddenly 20% of my candidates have a CV that includes some "reputation" score, and other information from a programming website, what am I to do with that?

Does it mean they spend time on stackoverflow instead of working? Does it mean they're a genius who knows all? Does it mean they simply ask and answer a lot of simple questions, but are useless on complex matters? Do I really want to try to figure that out?

In the end, I want to do apples to apples comparisons, and I'm not sure how SO Careers fits in there.

Are there suggested Best Practices for how to integrate SO Careers into a candidate search? Perhaps somebody can enlighten me if I'm missing something, but I don't get it.
Exactly. The second you start moving, a "huge winter suit" will cause you to overheat very quickly.
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The prices of the ties are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is how much each party to the transaction values those ties.

Imagine that instead of ties, the other guy has a share of GM stock that he bought two years ago for $40. And I've got my wedding ring, which cost roughly the same. By your logic, getting the GM stock would double my aggregate value, and I should be able to shrug off the loss of my ring.

But in the real world, the GM stock has little to no value (due to its depreciation), while the ring has huge value to me (sentimental or not, it's still value).

The same things that make that true, also make things that had widely differing purchase prices provide equal value (what economists call utility) to someone.
It wasn't just game sales. Bill Gates has seen the need and value of a PC underneath everyones TV since at least 1995. Set top box software. Web TV. Etc. Xbox is the next step in that strategy. Sony saw the same thing.

And this is no different, I don't think. Google sees value in putting accessibility to its services in everyones pockets.