Re: Fastest Mobile Networks 2021

On 10/6/21 4:18 AM, Chris wrote:
> Wade Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 10/5/21 12:19 PM, Chris wrote:
>>> Wade Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On 10/5/21 2:51 AM, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
>>>>> Am 05.10.21 um 08:38 schrieb NewsKrawler:
>>>>>> Fastest Mobile Networks 2021
>>>>>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/fastest-mobile-networks-2021
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For our 12th annual test, we drove more than 10,000 miles, speed-testing
>>>>>> AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon 4G and 5G in cities, towns, and rural regions
>>>>>> all over the US. We found a radically new landscape−and a surprising winner.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is utter bullshit and at best a tiny little bit of anecdotal evidence.
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah well it all doesn't matter anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Everybody's network is plenty fast enough to easily handle any task you
>>>> do on a little screen. It's all marketing BS and "We're Number One-itis."
>>>>
>>>> Like the Olympics- eight guys finish the race separated by only a couple
>>>> of hundredths of a second. They're all fast as hell. What difference
>>>> does it make...
>>>
>>> Only one of them is remembered.
>>>
>> That is a sporting event and if you participate, the idea is to win.
> 
> Exactly.
> 
>> Here, we're talking about effin' cell phone service fer cryin' out loud.
> 
> Right. So why make an analogy to the olympics, then? Your analogy didn't
> work.
> 
> 
Actually, it does. The point I made- and which you missed- is that 
people make a big deal over small differences among similarly well 
qualified/high performing entities and need a "winner".

I used the Olympics (all the athletes are top notch).

But I could have just as easily used the Miss America Pageant or Dallas 
Cowboys Cheerleaders tryout finalists (all hottie babes) or maybe the 
best shotgun from a collection of fine 19th century English double 
barrels (they're all beautifully engraved works of mechanical art) or 
maybe the best Old Masters painting in the Metropolitan Museum or Louvre 
collections.

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