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Comment on New Blog, Simpletidbits.com by Michael Tim

Michael Tim — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:47:07 +0000

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Comment on IPTV, it’s dumb by brilliantideas

brilliantideas — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:13:14 +0000

Anonymous Coward (apt name) your thinking is flawed and your post does not merit a response, but I will give one anyway.

I am well aware of how graphs can be manipulated to make something look different than it really is. However it is your suggestion, not mine, that would perpetrate this abuse. People don’t use goats and that graph would artificially inflate the curve. To address your point directly:

“The problem is that you are looking at offsets that are dwarfed by your initial comparison point.”

I am not. My target readership are those who are currently using dial up and are seeking to move to broadband. My initial comparison point is based on real world use. The graph accurately portrays what my readers will experience.

“The correct way to compare is not to use time saved by absolute time taken.”

Comparing time save by absolute time taken is the only comparison that makes sense as it is really what the user wants to know. They want to know , “how much time will I actually save using a higher speed internet connection?”

Personally I did not appreciate the tone of your response. But in the spirit of my post, show civility, I will not pursue a personal counter attack. I will say from a factual standpoint, you are not well informed in your data representation theory. Maybe there is an instructor you can run this by to learn something.

Comment on IPTV, it’s dumb by Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:26:16 +0000

This is actually about the horrible linked analysis of DSL vs. Cable. The article basically shows how graphs can be used to sell anything.

To show you this, you should add another point to your graphs. Let’s call it “goat”. The goat is almost free (it just eats grass ), but takes about a week to wander somewhere with your MB of data. Now your 56Kbps modem looks great. It saves almost 1week of time. Whereas DSL looks terrible, it saves the same week of time and yet costs much more. The problem is that you are looking at offsets that are dwarfed by your initial comparison point. In your case, DSL and cable look the same since your comparison point (56K) is much slower than either.

The correct way to compare is not to use time saved by absolute time taken. Perhaps cable is not that fast in practice, but your Web page provides no useful info in showing this.

Comment on Firefox must prevail by brilliantideas

brilliantideas — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:48:50 +0000

As a follow up, what convinced you to move to Firefox?

Comment on Show Civility by brilliantideas

brilliantideas — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:53:41 +0000

It is perfectly civil to express an opinion and to assert yourself when someone is mistreating you. Civility has more to do with how something is done than what is done. Each of my responses was respectful and straight forward. Yours on the other hand were misleading, snide, and disrespectful; not to mention unprofessional as I stated before.

I would still like an apology, not for deleting the posts, but for the manner in which you handled the situation.

Cheers,
John

Comment on Show Civility by drmike

drmike — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:33:22 +0000

No, your posts got deleted because you got told to stop by the moderator of the forums. And then a staff member told you as well. You’ve ignored the instructions of those placed in a position to keep control of what is going on. And then, yet again, you’ve made another post after you were isntructed not to.

How is that being civil?