I don't know why you took the quick release out of my front wheel of my bike at Beulahland tonight. My wheel was secured to the frame and the bike staple via u-lock. I admit I was taken aback when I unlocked my bike and the front wheel fell clean off.
I certainly don't know why you wrapped most of the quick release in a soggy newspaper and left it sitting beside my bike.
But I know that you are a toilet.
Try suicide.
For those who have watched Ken Jeong become a focus-stealing presence on Community and in The Hangover films and said, “Yes, more of that, please,” NBC has the show for you. It’s ordered the multi-camera sitcom Dr. Ken, a comedy based on Jeong’s pre-television life as a physician—a life that became increasingly, comically difficult because it had Ken Jeong in it. Every day Dr. Ken Jeong would just try to go about the serious business of practicing medicine, only to have Ken Jeong show up and start causing problems. “Damn you and your shameless, occasionally stereotype-based antics!” Dr. Ken Jeong would yell at Ken Jeong while tossing aside his clipboard, and now that’s a TV show.
Jeong will star in as well as executive produce the series alongside The Internship writer Jared Stern (who knows from characters mildly bucking the system), and while this would suggest ...
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Nintendo of America will hold onto its majority stake in the Seattle Mariners baseball team, even after the death of its former president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, who was considered the Mariners' titular owner.
According to Biz Journals, Yamauchi, who recently died at the age of 85, was credited with saving baseball in Seattle when he became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners in 1992, just as then-owner Jess Smulyan was about to sell the team.
In 2004, Yamauchi transferred his team ownership to Nintendo of America to ensure stability for the baseball team's future.
The Seattle Mariners' chairman and CEO and member of the Nintendo of America board of directors, Howard Lincoln, said that there's always speculation in times like this, but despite Yamauchi's passing, Nintendo of America remains committed to its majority stake in the team as "has no plans to sell its majority interest in the Mariners."
According to Lincoln, Yamauchi never wavered in his commitment to the Mariners and, as such, that commitment will continue at Nintendo of America.
"He was a visionary," Lincoln told Biz Journal. "We need to think about and never forget all he did for Seattle and for the Northwest."
A skilled cat plays ping pong against a human competitor in Taiwan. The cute feline may be cheating by touching and hugging the net, but its return swats are very impressive.
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BlackBerry has struck a deal to sell itself to a consortium led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited for $4.7 billion. BlackBerry shareholders would receive $9 for each share they own.
Fairfax, based in Toronto, describes itself as "a financial services holding company whose corporate objective is to achieve a high rate of return on invested capital and build long term shareholder value." While Microsoft recently agreed to buy Nokia's phone business for $7.1 billion, BlackBerry apparently couldn't muster up similar interest from technology companies.
Fairfax mainly invests in insurance businesses. Rogers CEO Alan Horn is on the Fairfax board, but the company otherwise has few if any obvious ties to the mobile industry.
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firehosethe police love it, great endorsement
The New York Police Department is a big fan of iOS 7. According to several reports on Twitter, the department has officers out on the street distributing fliers encouraging iPhone owners to update to iOS 7, which has new security features that might just cut down on theft. Earlier this year, New York's attorney general called on Apple and other smartphone manufacturers to step up the tools they provide to prevent theft and facilitate device recovery. With Apple's latest update, it's made seemingly large steps in doing that.
"This is an important first step."
Devices running iOS 7 can be remotely secured when lost, making it so that a device's associated Apple ID and password must be entered before it can be wiped and used again. In effect, the new system could make an iPhone almost unusable when stolen, should the system work as planned. The NYPD is evidently hoping that it will discourage thieves, as so-called "Apple picking" theft has become a major problem. Last year, New York City's annual crime rate rose for the first time in two decades — a fact that Mayor Bloomberg blamed squarely on the theft of Apple devices.
The changes in iOS 7 have received praise from both New York's attorney general and the San Francisco district attorney. In a joint statement earlier this week, the two say that iOS 7 "is an important first step towards ending the global epidemic of smartphone theft." While they note that a reduction in theft isn't likely to come about overnight, they believe that tools like iOS 7's new remote securing feature, known as Activation Lock, are an important effort toward making smartphone theft a lot less fruitful.
firehoseTHIS MY JAM TODAY KTHXBAI
firehose'It makes sense that some might consider the increasing racial diversity in the pageant to be a sign of progress. And for South Asians, being integrated into an existing cultural practice might seem like an important step toward cultural acceptance and assimilation. But I would argue it’s not really progress when the role of Miss America is so deeply limited in possibility and scope.
To be sure, optics matter. The minor net good is that little South Asian girls may feel better about themselves when they see a beauty queen that they can relate to. But Miss America still sends a message to girls and women that what you look like determines what you are worth. While it’s tempting to frame Nina Davuluri’s win as a victory for equality, let’s not get confused— the Miss America pageant is fundamentally about objectifying women and limiting their possibility to what they look like in a bikini.
I’m sure my catcaller thought he was being flattering by acknowledging that I wasn’t just any woman to be objectified, but a South Asian one—now open to my own brand of objectification too. But that’s not the kind of “progress” I’m going to rally behind.'
During my Tuesday morning subway commute, I encountered a man who felt the need to stare at me while I walked by. As I passed him, he whispered, “Miss America” at me. I kept walking, slightly confused at this unusual catcall. And then I remembered: as of Sunday night, Miss America was, like me, an American-born desi. Nina Davuluri, from Syracuse, New York—both conventionally gorgeous and medical school–bound—had won the title. Between this new form of catcalling and the inevitable comparisons to her by my nosy aunties, it was clear: she was put on this planet to make my life miserable.
Of course, this historic achievement wasn’t all roses for Davuluri either. Upon her crowning, Twitter overflowed with angry, post-9/11 racial hatred. “Miss New York is an Indian. With all due respect, this is America” chimed one tweeter. Another angrily writes, “How the fuck does a foreigner win miss America? She is a Arab! #idiots.” Actually, no she’s not an “Arab,” she’s an American-born Hindu of South Asian descent.
Here’s what I think those racist commenters are trying to say: We (brown people) did it again; we managed to take another seat that had, for the most part, been occupied for nearly a century by a white face. Miss America, like the president himself, is an important (if illusory) signifier of who’s in charge around here. All of a sudden “we” brown people were two for two in Obama’s America.
Understandably, most liberals’ reaction to the outpouring of racism inspired by Davuluri’s crowning glory has been to defend her. After all, she is actually an American. And there isn’t a South Asian–American that can’t relate to the frustration of being questioned about your nationality. Or the aggravation caused by flippant racists who can’t get even their racism right—calling a Hindu-identified South Asian–American woman a Muslim terrorist, for example, because obviously we all look the same. But for all intents and purposes, in this historical moment brown people are all the same, in that we’re all subject to the same ridicule and attacks thanks to state sanctioned surveillance and the cultural implications of the “war on terror.” It’s publicly acceptable to be racist against people who are assumed to be Muslim.
We can’t let this nasty display of racism back us into a corner. As tempting as it might be, to suggest that Davuluri’s win signifies progress for South Asians in America is to defend the Miss America pageant itself. And there isn’t really much about Miss America that could be considered progress for anyone (except maybe the steady decline in ratings over the last forty years, that might be a sign of progress). Miss America’s role in the public imagination has always been the product of objectification. It’s a beauty pageant after all, and the winner embodies the ideal American woman—prized as an object of beauty.
Miss America has always been a spectacle. The competition started in 1921 as a gimmick to get people to hang out in Atlantic City after Labor Day—at the time it was charmingly called “The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America.” By the 1950s it became conflated with everything that America stood for. Miss America is meant to represent the values Americans are supposed to hold dear—a female face and body to project onto the hopes and dreams of the nation. And throughout the pageant’s history, that female body has typically been thin, conventionally attractive—and almost always white.
Ideas about what kind of woman could adequately represent America have evolved over time. Originally, non-white women were not allowed to participate in the contest. It wasn’t until 1970 that a black woman competed. Since 1983, eight African-American women have worn the Miss America crown. And in 2001 the title went to Hawaii-born Filipino Angela Perez Baraquio.
It makes sense that some might consider the increasing racial diversity in the pageant to be a sign of progress. And for South Asians, being integrated into an existing cultural practice might seem like an important step toward cultural acceptance and assimilation. But I would argue it’s not really progress when the role of Miss America is so deeply limited in possibility and scope.
To be sure, optics matter. The minor net good is that little South Asian girls may feel better about themselves when they see a beauty queen that they can relate to. But Miss America still sends a message to girls and women that what you look like determines what you are worth. While it’s tempting to frame Nina Davuluri’s win as a victory for equality, let’s not get confused— the Miss America pageant is fundamentally about objectifying women and limiting their possibility to what they look like in a bikini.
I’m sure my catcaller thought he was being flattering by acknowledging that I wasn’t just any woman to be objectified, but a South Asian one—now open to my own brand of objectification too. But that’s not the kind of “progress” I’m going to rally behind.
firehosejumping on the sweater bandwagon
We cannot even begin to count the number of puns worthy of the news that Metallica will let you purchase their very own Christmas sweater come holiday season 2013. Mind you, we’ll still usher in our top three in the following lines.
Metallica, or their marketing team, announced via the band’s Facebook page that this holiday season, metalheads far and wide will have one more metal-worthy gift to add to their wish list: a Metallica-themed Christmas sweater! There will be two versions of the cozy christmas clothing – a “Scary Sweater” as well as a “Master Sweater” – and both will be available via the official Metallica store shortly. Whichever way you decide, in about three months, nothing else sweaters. No official word is out yet on what sizes the sweaters will be available in, but we should strongly assume that there will be one to fit Hetfield as well as one to fit Ulrich, whom we recently crowned one of our Top 5 shortest rock stars.
The idea isn’t entirely new though, Slayer had the same strategy a year ago. But in addition to their 3D film Metallica Through The Never which will be opening nationwide next week, the metal legends might have decided early for whom the jingle bell tolls this holiday season – or, even more likely, cash registers everywhere. Granted, Metallica didn’t really need any more confirmation that many of their fans enjoy Christmas after the insane light show a fan made last year.
Reactions on Facebook so far have been pretty torn between calling the band “sellouts” (because they use a spiritual holiday for a commercial purpose – yeah, unlike any other band or brand out there) and placing a mental order already. What is your take on things, will you buy a sweater, enter Santa?
How do you get a small child to stop holding on to the saddle?
Give him a sword and shield :)
firehosetl;dr: Font issues, even on retina!
"The slow motion effect is lost when automatically downloaded to Dropbox from the iPhone camera roll. Slow motion effects are only retained if shared from the camera roll on the iPhone 5s."
Going to take a shot in the dark and guess the display frame rate is stored in the QT header. Playing the file in VLC and slowing down playback there should work, and importing it into an editor (and especially an NLE that supports whatever flavor of MP4 and bitrate it cranks out) should give you the full high-fps footage.
The fingerprint reader built in to the iPhone 5s is not as fast as I expected. It's not instant as some have suggested but rather requires a slightly longer press than I would typically use. With the screen off, I typically give a quick press to turn it on. This is not sufficient to unlock the phone. I found that to unlock the phone I had to hold my finger on the button until the screen display became active. Not so much as to activate Siri, but just a bit more than a quick tap.
The iPhone 5s allows you to store scans for several fingers. By saving scans for the same finger but holding the phone with a slightly different grip, I increased recognition speed and accuracy.1 I've done this for both of my thumbs. It's rare that I would use a different finger to unlock my phone.
I didn't bother saving scans for my wife's fingers. She knows my pin.2 You can unlock the phone with a pin at any time. The fingerprint scanner is purely a convenience function. For people that already use a pin, this will make it easier than entering 4 digits. For those that don't, now there's one less reason to not use some basic security measure.
You will still enter your iCloud password regularly. This is especially true when setting up a new phone. But you can at least set up the fingerprint scanner to authorize purchases.
I'm not a fan of the thin-light font used through out iOS7. There are a couple of options to increase readability but not without impacting layout. The font size can be increased in the Settings -> General -> Text Size setting. This works well.
You can also make all system text bold, which I prefer. This is in the Settings -> General -> Accessibility setting. Bold text creates problems though. Some apps, Downcast for example, have text-wrapping hiccups. This may be caused by the newness of working with layouts in iOS7 but it still surprised me.
I also enabled the On/Off labels in iOS7 since some apps provide poor feedback with muted colors. Considering an On/Off toggle may be the difference between data syncing and data loss, I don't want to take any chances.
The iPhone 5s is fast, but so was the iPhone 5. So was the iPhone 4s before that. I've noticed that transitions from the multitasking display are slightly smoother on the 5s. Switching between apps is also seamless on the 5s, whereas my iPhone 5 had a slight stutter.
It might be my imagination, but Siri also recognizes my commands faster on the 5s. Perhaps this has nothing to do with hardware acceleration. It is possible that Apple can tweak priority on the server side response in favor of their new flagship phone. I'll take what I can get.3
The iPhone 5s is perceptively faster than previous models but I wouldn't buy it just for the speed boost but I'm happy to have it now and will certainly be happier 6 months from now.
I also purchased the black leather case from Apple. It is thin and light. It replaces my Ringke Slim case ($7 on Amazon) but doesn't add much additional thickness to the phone. I really only use a case to increase friction on the phone. I don't like how slippery the iPhone is and I often rest it on my thigh during a meeting.4
My biggest disappointment with the Apple leather case is that the buttons feel mushy with the case on. There are no cutouts for the volume and power buttons so you are actually required to deform the leather to push the button. There's enough resistance that the satisfying button click is eliminated by the case.
The camera is a huge selling point of the iPhone 5s. The photos are noticeably better over the iPhone 5. They are not as good as a real camera but they are good enough. I come from the 70's and most of my family photos are Polaroids that look just as crappy as everyone applying filters today, except my parents didn't have a choice. The iPhone 5s camera is vastly superior to every camera my parents ever used.
Photos taken with the new dual LED flash look significantly better than the iPhone 5 equivalent.
Slow motion is fun. Show it to a 5 year old and they will look at you like you are made of stars. However, the slow motion effect is lost when automatically downloaded to Dropbox from the iPhone camera roll. Slow motion effects are only retained if shared from the camera roll on the iPhone 5s.
Here's my recommendation: Backup to your Mac if you can. Sit down, plug in a cable and watch it backup. That's the safest option. Restoring to the new iPhone takes less time and if you use an encrypted backup, all of your passwords will remain intact.
At the very least use an iCloud backup. You will need to log back into all of your accounts across every app after restoring from an iCloud backup, but at least you don't have to reinstall every application manually. An iCloud restore will still take quite awhile. Have a beverage.
I like the 5s but there is only one reason to recommend an iPhone 5 owner to upgrade: The use their iPhone as their primary camera. In that case, a few hundred dollars gets you a better camera that also comes with a nicer iPhone.
Note from the image that when you delete the "Finger 1", the list is not reordered. Odd, isn't it? Well, you can edit those names if you like. ↩
I'm not going to get into the discussion of whether a finger print scanner is more or less secure than a 4-digit pin. There's plenty of nonsense masturbation about this topic going on elsewhere. Importantly, you are not forced to use either by Apple. ↩
Honestly, sometimes talking to Siri feels like convincing a with Meth addict to do your taxes. ↩
I hate being one of those guys with a phone buzzing or flashing on a table during a meeting, but I also want to know if an entire system has just gone offline at work. ↩
firehose'Some folks would say “This show is as shitty as it can possibly be, so now we can rest on our laurels.” But not Scott Buck and his team. They never stop striving to create the most offensively stupid show on television. And look, if that was the objective here, a slow clap is in order.'
“There will be people who hate it, but we can’t try to anticipate that or put it through the lens of any other show’s finale, because that was another show. This is our show. This is Dexter.” -- Executive Producer Sara Colleton
First, a few deep, meditative breaths to calm myself down. Because generally, when someone vacillates between hysterical giggling and apoplexy this rapidly, he gets placed under state care. The Dexter team outdid themselves. Some folks would say “This show is as shitty as it can possibly be, so now we can rest on our laurels.” But not Scott Buck and his team. They never stop striving to create the most offensively stupid show on television. And look, if that was the objective here, a slow clap is in order.
Granted, there was no way for “Remember The Monsters” to be good. This season has been on a ...
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firehose"a Columbia University professor was badly beaten on a New York City street Saturday by a mob that apparently believed he was a Muslim."
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firehose"GTA5 is often frustrating because the player’s role feels insignificant. It doesn’t matter how many custom car shops you buy or which arbitrary character stat (driving skill, stamina, etc.) you build up—nothing you do changes the world or the protagonists, Franklin, Michael, and Trevor. When the next mission starts, they and the city are back in their fitted roles, even if you just crashed a stolen jet into a golf course.
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No game world feels as vast, intricate, and intentional as Los Santos, and no character in a game of this sort feels as reflective of the player as Trevor does. With these tools, Rockstar could finally tell the bold story that the studio has always threatened to tell. Not this time. Rockstar fumbles the ball across the board.
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Rockstar tries to force its story to serve every purpose here. The torturing is supposed to be a fun game activity, but Trevor’s dialogue is supposed to both deliver a social message and heighten the drama. Then he turns around five minutes later and forces some guy to look at his dick. This thematic whiplash occurs throughout the game.
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One second it wants to be satire, the next simple parody. Pure pornography one second, high drama the next. These storytelling techniques can live side-by-side—just look at the Quentin Tarantino movies that Rockstar honcho Dan Houser so clearly adores—but just like the character identity divide, GTA5 lacks the courage to commit to anything and feels weightless as a result. It’s a waste of its astounding digital landscape."
Los Angeles is an ugly city. Not just downtown, with its scabbed-over theaters and the chain-restaurant misery of L.A. Live, but the whole sprawl. The cramped beach houses, the studio-and-Starbucks spread of Santa Monica, and the godforsaken Valley—ugliness abounds. That makes Grand Theft Auto V all the more miraculous. Los Santos, L.A.’s digital twin, is breathtaking. Cruising from downtown up the coast into the mountains at dusk, with a stolen muscle car blasting FlyLo FM, is an emotional rush. Rockstar North has bottled the evanescent thrill of a nighttime drive when you have no destination. Like the worst stereotype about L.A.’s citizens, though, Los Santos and its surrounding countryside is just a pretty face. Grand Theft Auto V is a masterpiece of craftsmanship but a disappointment all the same.
Every entry in the series since Grand Theft Auto III falls short as a story ...
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firehose"For better or worse, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the best network drama pilot of the fall, but that’s mainly because so many of the other network drama pilots don’t even seem to be trying. ... Whedon earned his reputation by avoiding caution, by throwing out plot twists as quickly as he and his writers could think of them. Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s pilot is precisely the opposite of this. ... Whedon’s series have rarely begun with their best foot forward—both the Dollhouse and Angel pilots are bigger messes than this episode—but even when his shows are messy, they feel like they’re trying something new. Even in its best moments, Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. feels like the product of several hundred cooks."
Since 2007, TV Club has dissected television episode by episode. Beginning this September, The A.V. Club will also step back to take a wider view in our new TV Reviews section. With pre-air reviews of new shows, returning favorites, and noteworthy finales, TV Reviews doesn’t replace TV Club—as usual, some shows will get the weekly treatment—but it adds a look at a bigger picture.
Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives essentially pre-sold. It’s the Disney corporation’s first big attempt to shift one of its major franchises to ABC, and if it works, more Marvel series (and possibly even a Star Wars series) will follow suit. It’s a big gamble, but only as big of a gamble as a series spun off of one of the biggest films of all time, shepherded by that film’s director, and starring ...
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Horsing around in Westford.
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A friend just pointed us towards this incredible web comic that we are 210% behind. Follow Ada Lovelace (inventor of the algorithm, pretty much) and Charles Babbage (inventor of the difference engine) in the thrilling adventures of early computing. It’s all done by Sydney Padua.
Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of mad, bad, and dangerous to know poet and nutcase Lord Byron.
Her mother Anabel fledthe exploding planether husband yet worried that Ada had inherited his wild blood.
ANABEL: Ada must be saved from becoming poetical! Only one thing can subdue poetry…
ANABEL: Mathematics!!
(a wide-eyed baby Ada reads a book titled “ADVANCED CALCULUS”)
Ada’s mother hired the finest mathematicians and scientists of the age to turn her into a human calculating machine!!
Meanwhile, in hissecretlaboratory, Charles Babbage is working on the radical non-human calculating machine…
CHARLES: No one has the intellect to grasp the genius of my difference engine!!
CHARLES: Short-sighted fools!!!
MINION: Didn’t they give you that huge grant that you then used for a totally different machine that you also didn’t build?
CHARLES: Silence, minion!
Then, at a party in 1833, fate intervened…
CHARLES: Nobody understands me…
ADA: Astounding!!
ADA: In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science!!!
CHARLES: Eh?!
ADA: A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible!!
CHARLES: Yes, yes exactly!!
OTHER PARTYGOER: Hey look, we’re present for the invention of the geek.
ADA: This must be twittered!
(she prepares to tap out a 140-character message on her paper fan)
ADA: Wait, this is a fan.
ADA: Suddenly, there is a gaping hole in my life of which I was hitherto unaware.
In collaboration with Babbage, Ada produced, in theory, the first computer programme…
Some sort of math thing for the next-gen analytical engine which I don’t understand.
Unfortunately, Ada died at only age 36, and Babbage never did build any of his calculating engines…
The next steps in computing were not taken until the 1930s. Babbage’s engine was finally built in 1991, you can see it at the Science Museum in London.
(switch to steampunk art style occurs here)
OMG, that’s so boring! What actually happened was, Babbage and Lovelace successfully developed the computer in the mid-1830s (giving humanity the necessary technological advantage to repel the alien invasion of 1898), and used their combined powers to fight crime and have adventures!!
Although they did have a somewhat idiosyncratic view of what constitutes “crime”.
CHARLES: Street music!!!
ADA: POETRY.only one of my favorite webcomics ever
firehoseBrad Neely hates RSS: http://creasedcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/CC_SP_0040_OWLS003_BN1.jpg
firehose"beta support for Wii official online multiplayer"
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firehoseproto-#gamerculture; the game based on RanXerox, about a Frankenstein made from photocopier parts and his underaged girlfriend
advertising tagline: "Your mother wouldn't like it!"
Ranx (Ubisoft - PC - 1990)
firehoseChris Hardwick is absolutely insufferable as always, and there are too many upskirt jokes. But:
- Edgar Wright's Gentleman Bowling is the best
- Steve Jones is adorable
- Brits hustled them
The latest episode of Chris Hardwick’s All Star Celebrity Bowling pits Team Nerdist (Hannah Hart, Ro Pansino, Corey Vidal, and Chris Hardwick) against Team Cornetto Trilogy (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright, and the Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones) to celebrate the recent theatrical release of The World’s End, the final film in the Cornetto Trilogy. Previously, we’ve written about other celebrity bowling face-offs by Nerdist.
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firehosethe other buried lede: Japan is outselling China 2-to-1
So much for demand for a “cheap” iPhone. In the first weekend it was available, the iPhone 5s outsold the 5c by a factor of 3.7 worldwide, says mobile and app analytics company Localytics. Apple hasn’t released the breakdown of sales for the iPhone 5s and 5c, and has only announced that 9 million iPhones were sold in the first weekend. Localytics, however, gets data from bits of code inserted into apps on users’ phones, which report back data like the model of phone being used. They make for an indirect but reasonably good measure of how many of each kind of phone there are.
One might expect that ratio to be skewed especially heavily towards the 5s in the US, where consumers are richer and the upfront price difference between the two is only $100 when buying them on a two-year contract from a mobile carrier. But in fact the iPhone 5c performed relatively worse against the iPhone 5s in the US, with 3.4 iPhone 5s selling for every 5c. (We’ve asked Localytics to tell us about the ratio of the two in emerging markets, but haven’t heard back yet.)
Localytics didn’t release absolute numbers for how many iPhone 5s and 5c models its service saw; instead it looks at the proportion of all iPhones in its data that were the 5s or 5c. As expected, sales in the US, as indicated by the proportion of all existing iPhones that the 5s and 5c represent, were much higher than anywhere else in the world.
And the network with the biggest sales of those iPhones was AT&T.
firehose"Yunnan will be arriving later this year, and it's a game of controlling a Chinese TEA DYNASTY."
"Uwe Rosenberg's sequel to Agricola was revealed as Caverna: The Cave Farmers. Cave farming. The one theme that could possibly eclipse Agricola in the dismal stakes."
'Speaking of simplicity, a new, pretty version of Skull & Roses has been announced, simply titled "Skull".'
Quinns: What a news segment we have for you this week! Disasters! Pillaging! A game made of bones! Another game made of SKULLS! It's all a bit much. I'm going to start off with a nice cup of tea, and a nice game of tea.
Yunnan will be arriving later this year, and it's a game of controlling a Chinese TEA DYNASTY. That distant, jangling noise you heard was the noise of our entire English readership simultaneously reaching for their wallets.
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