You have valid points, still Google didn't deny the results and in a sense, confirmed it. Read Google's response again: NSS says IE is better than Chrome in X, but hey, they didn't say Chrome is better at Y and Z. NSS didn't claim X covers everything related to security so bringing Y and Z to the discussion is just a move to draw attentions from X.

Well, I did that in 2007. I noticed that a top of the line graphics card is almost as expensive as a whole game console! I was tired of constantly upgrading my PC. There was always something to add, something to upgrade and some more time to spend fixing this or that than actually using my PC for anything. I switched to a Tablet PC as my main computer, got rid of my desktop and got an Xbox 360. I selected a Tablet PC since it was, well, cool and also I was sure I couldn't do much about upgrading it. For 3 years since then I was mostly happy. However old habits don't die easily. I got tired of my under powered, dual-core 2GHz + 4GB tablet. I wanted something more from my Xbox 360. I wanted customizability of Unreal Tournament 2004 and large scale of Supreme Commander back. So two months ago I got myself a new desktop: a 3.2 GHz i7 with 12GB of RAM, SSD boot drive, 2x2TB HDD, HD5870, ... a monster of machine! Now my Xbox is only used to play street fighter IV with friends that come over and all new games are on PC. I don't know where my Tablet PC is and I don't care that much anymore. I also could go back to my other hobby, developing chess engines and throwing lots of hardware at it...

True. Also consider that there could be multiple users at home so they might need to do several of those things at the same time.

I'm curious. I have the Driod Incredible's manual in front of me. On which page of they have mentioned that?

You still don't get it, do you? The test is fine. They did exactly same thing, with and without a glove. 10 dB difference. Difference is due to insulation. End of story.

So how do you explain the 10 dB difference? Your old radio example is irrelevant since here we are talking about two antennas not one. Try harder next time.

The point is that iPhone 4 has 2 problems: one due to metal antennas (yes, there are two antennas and they should not be connected together) and another one due to the death grip. Apple basically deflected the question by talking only about death grip while the real issue was this specific design flaw that bare metal antennas could be bridged together if you hold the phone in a certain way. Anandtech showed that bridging bare metal antennas add another 10 dBm attenuation on top of what you get from death grip.

Well, I don't know what you mean by open. Do you mean open as in people can buy the license and even get the source? (e.g. H.264). Then I guess we live in an open world. Just as a comparison, here is the list of open formats on Windows:

Audio: WMA (open)
Video: WMV (open)
Mail: .pst (open)
Address book: .pst (open)
Office apps: .docx, .xlsx, etc. (open)
OS API: .NET (open)
OS API: Win32 (open, shared source)
OS core: NT (open, shared source)

Hell, why stop there? Everything is open if you can buy it! Did you know that Google's search engine is also open? You just need to afford to buy Google Inc.

hmmm, how? This particular developer was looking for making money right from the beginning (his app had a paid version too) and I can argue that but not making it FOSS, he made it possible for Google to buy it (money!) and hire him (money! money!). How would he make comparable profit buy making the project FOSS?

Well, the point is I didn't want a larger display and generally higher end notebooks at smaller sizes (like 12") are more expensive. I got this Tablet at the end of 2006 but even today powerful tablets tend to be expensive.

I agree. I'm writing this comment on my Tablet PC that I paid $2000 for. It has a 2.0GHz dual core processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB HDD and 12" display. It is portable, fast and offers good connectivity. It is my main computer when I check emails, browse web, run MATLAB code, write C++ code, play chess, read ebooks and take notes in the meetings. Tablet PC to me is something beyond, not inferior to a notebook.

Yes, I do. In fact I'm writing this very comment on my Tablet PC running Windows 7.

Oh crap! I reported the Minimum time, not the average! Here is the full report:

(Min | Avg | Max | Std.Dev |Reliab%)

My university:
Cached Name | 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.003 | 0.000 | 100.0
Uncached Name | 0.008 | 0.060 | 0.225 | 0.065 | 100.0
DotCom Lookup | 0.181 | 3.984 | 4.203 | 0.633 | 100.0

OpenDNS (208. 67.220.220)
Cached Name | 0.005 | 0.006 | 0.008 | 0.001 | 100.0
Uncached Name | 0.008 | 0.066 | 0.190 | 0.053 | 100.0
DotCom Lookup | 0.009 | 0.131 | 0.198 | 0.064 | 100.0

Level 3 (4. 2. 2. 3)
Cached Name | 0.024 | 0.025 | 0.028 | 0.001 | 100.0
Uncached Name | 0.026 | 0.071 | 0.206 | 0.056 | 100.0
DotCom Lookup | 0.025 | 0.081 | 0.191 | 0.058 | 100.0

Google (8.8.8.8)
Cached Name | 0.044 | 0.061 | 0.206 | 0.038 | 100.0
Uncached Name | 0.048 | 0.144 | 0.322 | 0.075 | 97.9
DotCom Lookup | 0.069 | 0.158 | 0.261 | 0.051 | 100.0

I just run a simple benchmark to see how fast these are. It turns out that Google's DNS is slower than our university's (I'm in Oregon), OpenDNS and L-3.

• ISP: Cashed Name: 1 ms, Uncached Name: 8 ms
• OpenDNS: Cashed Name: 5 ms, Uncached Name: 8 ms
• L-3: Cached Name: 24 ms, Uncached Name: 26 ms
• Google: Cashed Name: 44 ms, Uncached Name: 48 ms

I guess for me it's clear: I'll skip it for now.

I think you're wrong. In my experience many people didn't know certain things could be done in Word or Excel until they saw it in the ribbons. In my work environment this issue came up several times and they were surprised when I told them that this or that feature existed in since office xp! I had to use office for years on a daily basis. Moving to ribbons was not difficult for me. After a week I could appreciate the difference and now after two years I'm not going back to the menus.