It is probably referring to the fact that income for the bottom 50% of US earners has remained largely stagnant since the 1970s (after accounting for inflation)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/31/w...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/09/po...

Only because new people entered the country and dragged the median down.

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/immigrants_simpsons_p...

Consider a nation with Steve (income $50) Bill (income $50) and George (income $100). The median is $50. Now suppose Steve's income remains the same, Bill's goes up to $60, and George's income goes up to $150. The median has gone up to $60, right?

However, suppose during this time, Jose (income $30) and Hector (income $40) immigrated. The median is back down to $50 even though every single person saw their income go up.

The longitudinal data I link to demonstrates that this is exactly what happened (albeit with different numbers).

(Note: this is an argument against drawing conclusions from Simpson's paradox, not an argument against immigration.)

The US$199 would be with a two year contract with a mobile carrier.

The A$799 is without a contract.

Thanks, I replied to codeka above:

Thanks, I had a suspicion this might be it, I don't suppose you've got any idea why Apple sell/advertise them in a contract by default there but not here?

I repeatedly click and drag, click and drag. I have no idea why I do it.

I think of lens-shaped objects, particularly lenticular clouds.

Until now I did not know what the name of those moving images were.

(I'm not the original poster)

Ah, that's what I thought you meant too, but I'm a bit confused about what amazed you in the name. It's a good name, but I think it doesn't make much sense in this context, if it weren't for lenticular printing.

This works fine on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm using Chrome.

The only suggestion that I have is to do some smoothing of the values you get from the accelerometer. The movement can be a bit jerky.

Jerky too on my SGS II

My Galaxy Nexus fails the test at http://dylanreeve.com/phone.php

Apparently the bug is fixed in 4.1 (I'm still on 4.0.4). I installed a temporary fix - TelStop. It just handles telephone Intents so that you get a popup asking you to choose an application.

It makes sense to compare US prices with western/northern Europe, as they are similarly rich/developed.

But to compare prices in the USA with those in eastern Europe doesn't seem right. In nominal terms, the GDP per capita of the USA is 6 times that of Romania, and 4 times by purchasing power parity.

Not quite, they went to Australia.

Yeah, it's an Australian $2 coin in one of the photos. I'm quite surprised that being ~16 hours ahead of the competition is worth an airfare to Australia but impressed nonetheless.

Being the teardown site brings a lot of traffic and business. I know I go there first when I want to know how to tear apart stuff, and I bought my small drivers kit from them.

Apparently they have an office in Australia already.

And it's 10 hours i.e. one sleep between LA and Sydney.

5 inches seems to be pushing it a bit. I think that the S3 is already at the upper limit for a phone. The 5.3 inches of the galaxy note is way too big for an ordinary phone in my opinion. My 4.65" Galaxy Nexus is a nice size, but I don't want it any bigger.

Perhaps they can reduce the size of the bezel to counteract the greater distance you will need to reach.

I'm inclined to agree. I really like my S3 but it's big enough already. I don't think making their flagship phone so huge is a good idea. Leave that for things like the Note.

Same way as in Note 2, they better be decreasing the bezel area.

There is a size selector on the left. S M L XL

The XL is the actual size (pixel-wise) that you would see on a phone such as the Galaxy Nexus.