Tim Ferriss had Dr. Dom D'Agostino on his podcast late last year[1], where they talked about this subject in-depth. I thought it was a fascinating conversation and a great introduction to the topic.
Except the article seems to be saying that Apple's two-factor auth isn't required to access iCloud backups and that it only protects account details, payment methods, etc.
But you're still up against freely available libraries that let a web developer build similar functionality, as as jquery.payment from the folks at Stripe:
While it's not a completely like-for-like comparison, I suspect it will be tough to justify $299 per single web site for many businesses that might use these tools in the first place. Personally, I'd want solid data about conversion rates to back up the marketing on the creditcard.js website before I'd consider spending real money on anything like this.
I've also found that Downcast has given me the most control over my podcasts.
One thing I haven't found yet, though, is a client that offers a playlist or podcast level setting where I can say I want to download the oldest unplaced episode for a show. iTunes has such a sync setting for TV shows, for example, and it would be very handy for podcasts where I'm working my way through an archive.
There is probably a limited audience for such a feature, however, so I'll probably have to keep waiting.
Can anyone explain what these numbers really mean? How can they possiby be so low?
The only thing I can imagine is that it measures sum(max(clientSpeed,NetflixSpeed))/n , where NetflixSpeed is only about 4Mbps. That would make this a ranking of what isp has the lowest amount of users with really shitty WiFi, or users watching netflix on slow smartphones. I doubt there are many ISP's with offer a connection of less than 4Mbps between their backbone and Netflix.
Either way, it's good to see my ISP ranking the second highest worldwide.
> Can anyone explain what these numbers really mean? How can they possiby be so low?
If you click on any details page (either the global chart or country full results) and scroll to the page bottom you get an explanatory text:
> These ratings reflect the average performance of all Netflix streams on each ISPs network from Nov. 2012 through Sept. 2013 and average performance during prime time starting in Oct. 2013. The average is well below the peak performance due to many factors including the variety of encodes we use to deliver the TV shows and movies we carry as well as home Wi-Fi and the variety of devices our members use. Those factors cancel out when comparing across ISPs, so these relative rankings are a good indicator of the consistent performance typically experienced across all users on an ISP network.
I use tera term when on Windows, it requires an install but I like it more than others. The installer does include some other weird programs that I don't like, but if you only choose to install tera term itself it is good.
