Re: Fastest Mobile Networks 2021

Chris <[email protected]> wrote
> Wade Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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".
>
> The differences are not small.
>
>> I used the Olympics (all the athletes are top notch).

> Athletes are supreme beings

They are actually fools stupid enough to waste great slabs
of their pathetic excuses for lives doing nothing useful.

> and the pinnacle of human performance.

Only in doing something completely pointless.

> Mobile broadband is for the masses where differences in average
> speed can make big differences to individual use cases.
>
>> 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.

> There's no such thing as best art. Art is intrinsically subjective.

That’s bullshit too.