Jetlag effects only start with a difference of about 3 hours.

Apple was late with "retina" because Android vendors already had 800x480 while Apple was at 480x320. Apple only took the resolution lead for a short while. Then Android vendors came out with 1280x720 phones.

People buy more trucks/SUV in the US. Cars are larger, have worse fuel consumption, and this is a pollution problem. Per capita CO2 emissions is higher in the US than almost every other country. So yes, gas is way too cheap in the US.

That's because no benchmark is using any significant amount of RAM. Any benchmark using just 1.5GB RAM would make the iPhone rank near the bottom. Most CPU benchmarks are actually javascript benchmarks and tells more about the software (javascript engine) than the performance of the CPU. Also, there is nothing wrong with releasing a phone with low specs. But the price should be lower. The Moto G is an excellent phone for the price. The Fire Phone shouldn't be more expensive than the Nexus 5 to begin with.

Many "32" class" TV are in fact 31.5" when you look at the details because they are 80 cm which is even less than 31.5" (so should be rounded down to 31")

Even if every citizen of Virginia was a member of the Slashdot Party, and we were leading in the polls, the state of Vriginia still wouldn't organize a primary for us. Primaries are only organized for parties, and a party is defined as such:

It's pretty much impossible to get 10% of the vote without being a party. And you can't be a party if you didn't receive 10% of the vote. Typical chicken-egg problem to enforce that there will never be more than two parties.

What's wrong is to have state-sponsored open primaries. That's fundamentally anti-democratic. Why should the state organize primaries for only 2 parties? There are dozens of small parties out there which would like to receive the same treatment. Parties should organize primaries themselves.

Canada's number one rival in the North isn't Russia. It's another country called the USA. There is a conflict over a part of the sea near the boundary between Alaska and Yukon. Canada's number two rival isn't Russia either. It's Denmark. Canada and Denmark both claim a tiny island which is on the border between the two countries. Russia does not claim any territory claimed by Canada.

Peering/Transit is a complex economic topic but it is never free. You have to pay for the hardware. I can say that everyone is free to peer with me for free. They *only* have to bring a Gigabit Ethernet cable to my basement. By the way, I live on a tiny island away from the civilization. Also, if my 8 ports switch is full, they have to buy me another switch.

The base model with only 4GB RAM and 64GB storage is pretty much useless instead to be used as an expensive tablet. To replace a laptop, MS knows most people would need 8GB RAM and 128 GB storage... but such option doesn't exist so they are forced to get the $1300 tablet, and then buy a keyboard cover. We are talking about $1400-1500 to replace both a laptop and a tablet. Great device for portability, screen resolution, but expensive.

I understand it's the metric for TelCos, because they care about the amount of paying customers, no matter what phone they use. It's even better for them to have customers paying for a SIM card and not even using it in a phone. However, to know who's winning the smartphone platform war, we can't rely on that, just like we can't rely on the number of Internet connections to ISPs to determine who's winning the desktop operating system war.

Some people have more than one SIM. Others use the same SIM in more than one device. Also, a smartphone can still can be usefull without a SIM card.

Total adoption is hard to dertermine. Is a phone bought 3 years ago still used? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe it's only used as a remote control for the TV while the same person has a new phone. Does that count? Hard to say.

The telcos also provided rotary home phones at first, and they managed/owned your inside wiring. Things have changed, they should change for cell phones too.

Smartphones are really portable computers that happens to be able to make calls. I don't even have a voice/text plan on mine. The operator should only provide the SIM card. They are dumb pipes, just like ISPs.