Limiting ourselves to actual real-world scenarios (nobody is going to use an Android phone for a Safety Critical control system like your cars brakes.), none of those data variations have anything to do with how the data is delivered.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote: > Oh, easy question! > > 10 bytes of data when it's describing your current brake pedal > pressure is very different than 10 bytes describing the high score to > ultimately post on a web site somewhere when it gets around to > updating. It makes a real difference how quickly and reliably the data > is delivered. > > 10 bytes of data when it is describing a selected record in a large > database is very different from 10 bytes of data which describe > geographic coordinates on the earth's surface. In the latter case, > there's a frame of reference that even a space alien can understand > without a device. In the former, you need not only the database, but > the particular process of selection, which may in turn involve > information known only within the same process. Those 10 bytes may be > meaningless by themselves, taken out of the context in which they have > meaning. > > 10 bytes is 10 bytes -- so long as you don't care about what those > bytes mean or why they exist. That is, if they're worthless. If > they're valuable, on the other hand, it's a whole other story. > > On Jan 12, 6:29 pm, John Lussmyer <johnlussm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com > >wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:35 PM, John Lussmyer <johnlussm...@gmail.com > > > > > wrote:> > > > > 10 bytes of data is 10 bytes of data. > > > > > Not really, but you are certainly welcome to your opinion. > > > > Now this has me curious. What definitions of data would make a > difference? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
