Wow, what a bold lie. Android is NOT generally faster at opening the same app. As you can clearly see, the iPhone 6s, which is a year old, laps the brand new Note 7 when opening the same apps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As for Samsung "flash memory" being quicker? I'd love to know which Samsung shills are modding you up... Here's a quote from the Anandtech iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Review:

The other truly impressive aspect of the iPhone 6s’ this generation is the storage solution. The iPhone’s storage solution here is ahead of everything else in the industry for three clear reasons. The first is the use of more advanced NAND organization. Although TLC NAND alone is going to be clearly worse for performance than SLC or MLC NAND, the iPhone 6s’ use SLC caching in conjunction with TLC NAND to improve storage performance in the situations that matter. The second is the use of PCI-Express to enable much higher bandwidths, which means that the SLC cache can really stretch its legs to reach the high levels of bandwidth that it’s capable of. The third is the use of a custom storage controller with NVM Express, which helps to realize the full benefits of PCI-Express. Overall, all of these things come together to make noticeable differences in user experience.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

Apple's silicon dominance is reflected by a superior real world user experience, and that matters since what actually happens when you use a Note 7, is an "embarrassing level of real world performance".

The same lag carries onto scrolling performance in many applications, and infrequently in every application after heavy continuous usage. The phone does not get too hot, mind you, but we do notice that after continuous sessions, it progressively begins misbehaving. Scrolling behavior in particular is behind what you’d expect out of an $850 device, especially after this has been one of Samsung’s weak points for years. When compared to the OnePlus 3, we find that the Note 7 often neglects using its four cores as opposed to the OnePlus 3, which efficiently mixes up its core utilization when handling the same task. GPU profiling on the Note 7 makes it extremely clear that the phone leaks frames on several actions, even minor animations throughout the UI such as a WiFi network spinning circle animation. In some instances, we found outright damning displays of the Note 7’s occasionally-pitiful fluidity accompanied by the walls of green bars denoting serious difficulties pushing the frames through. But this is not just a matter of opening or returning to your application sooner than on other devices, Samsung’s software is noticeably slower than that of competing devices in almost every action. The stock keyboard still sees issues with split-second lockups, and the sharing menu on the Note 7 often leaves you waiting for options to load. The notorious TouchWiz Launcher has earned itself a reputation for slow speed and stutters throughout the years, and while it is not as bad as it used to be, it can still miss clear frames while switching through homescreens, and despite years of integration, Flipboard still remains the most jerky leftmost homescreen panel ever introduced by an OEM.

http://www.xda-developers.com/...

Actually, the iPod Touch and Nano are much thinner than the iPhone 6, and both have headphone jacks. If you want more battery life, you can increase the volume of the battery without making the phone thicker, by removing the jack and using the previously wasted depth.

Perhaps reproductive "credits" could be an incentive for people to make positive contributions for humanity. You know, a global one biological child policy. Couples or individuals are also welcome to adopt additional children from impoverished regions. Maybe when humans are young and fertile, society would provide the option of freezing sperm or eggs, so that should some tragedy strike the biological child, there would be an option of raising another. Or, if tragedy struck while an individual or couple was too old to raise children, some champion could volunteer, or be nominated to carry that genetic lineage. Further, if you are a scientist, educator, or an individual making some notable impact elsewhere, you would gain credits towards an additional biological child. Credits might be gifted, or banked for a finite amount of time. Couples or individuals could also combine credits towards an additional, biological child. On the other hand, if you live a life of leisure, or spend all your time on an Oculus Rift while using a Fleshlight, then you gain no additional credits. Would that be so bad? I don't find that distasteful at all. The benefits humanity would reap from an economy where our basic needs are met would far outweigh the cost of population controls, in my honest opinion.

So population growth has slowed significantly in industrialized nations, but what about China, India or even Africa? How soon will the quality of life, in those regions, approach the quality of life that we enjoy in the West?

Does anyone else remeber seeing something on Slashdot about Bell being forced to produce documents demonstrating that traffic from heavy users "clogged" their pipes? I think when the documents were made public, they showed that heavy users were not slowing their network down at all. Can anyone provide a link? I've tried Google and have had no luck.

Nicolas Cage is one of the greatest actors of ALL TIME.

HAHAHA- why I laugh?

Maybe this might help? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

Skinner: Oh, there's no justice like angry-mob justice.

Lenny: I'm gonna burn all the historic memorabilia.

Moe: I'm gonna take me home a toilet.

Willy: Well, there'd better be two.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F06.html

You call bullshit? Alright, I'll raise one interview with Frank Herbert & David Lynch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zw10o48NoE

Give it a good listen. Fascinating stuff.

That is a lie.

"The United States ranks 31st in life expectancy (tied with Kuwait and Chile), according to the latest World Health Organization figures. We rank 37th in infant mortality (partly because of many premature births) and 34th in maternal mortality. A child in the United States is two-and-a-half times as likely to die by age 5 as in Singapore or Sweden, and an American woman is 11 times as likely to die in childbirth as a woman in Ireland."

"Yet another study, cited in a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute, looked at how well 19 developed countries succeeded in avoiding “preventable deaths,” such as those where a disease could be cured or forestalled. What Senator Shelby called “the best health care system” ranked in last place."

It's early, I'm lazy, but the facts match up. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/opinion/05kristof.html?em