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Time goes faster as you get older
As the 1st of october clicked around i got to thinking about how the older i get the faster the years seem to fly by. I wonder if it is becase we compare thing to how long we have lived. For example when you are 4 then a single year seems to drag because its 25% of you life. But when you are age 25 a year is just 4% of your life, and when you reach 50 a year is even less at only 2% of ones memories. Maybe we measure time not by a fixed rule but against the scale of our life memories. So as we get older each passing year seems shorter.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid or missing answers.
Sometimes people are afraid to ask questions for fear of looking stupid, but questions re not stupid, they just reveal a previous answer was missing or flawed.Answering questions is the thing we should be judged upon.
I get incredibly frustrated when people lie, or guess and pretend to be experts, or avoid answers altogether because the truth, or the fear of a possible truth, scares them. Questions are searches for the truth, and there are no stupid questions.
Android OS upgrades and 18 month mobile phone contracts
Mobile network operators increasingly try to lock thier subscribers into 18 or even 24 month contracts. Why?
Is it that in order to subsidise the cost of expensive mobile phones they need longer contracts to avoid a loss? Is it that with the increasing number of attractive offers the networks are scared of customers being poached to other networks
Regardless of the reason, when I purchase a subsidised android device and am locked to a contract for 18 months then I expect during the lifetime of contract when possible that my mobile device will be upgraded new versions of android where practical. I am purchasing a service from the mobile operator and personally I believe that software upgrades SHOULD be a key aspect of that service.
What price should one place on having the latest software, and more importantly, what long-term cost to mobile operators that do not provide such upgrades.
Design improvements for Samsung Tab v2
- I do not understand why tablets have to have almost an inch of margin padding around the screen. Get rid of that and it will fit in my pocket without making the screen smaller.
- Why only have 2 stereo speakers on one side of the unit? When held landscape for watching movies they are both on the right.
That is not stereo… it would be far better to have a speaker at each corner ( ie 4 of them ) and have the OS use the device orientation to decide which speakers to use for left and right. - On a phone that is tablet size its a shame they could not include a jack for a wired headset to use when one’s blue-tooth headset runs out of juice.
- One would think by now the usb standard bodies would come up with a standard usb connector that could be used for quick/hot dock/undock without each manufacturer inventing their own custom dock plug.