Smartphone upgrade

 I am staying with Android for the next year or so. I bought the Samsung Galaxy Note II. After a week in "New gadget land" I am a bit disappointed because it didn't exceed my expectations (dam you marketing!). It has some nice features like all kind of motion sensing (e.g. double tap on top of the phone to scroll to the beginning of a list; shake to sync etc.), BIG screen and I am eager to find out how the S Pen was reinvented. I will have hard time saying goodbye to my old HTC Desire HD though. It is just that HTC has better end user software. Big screen and S Pen (although not yet proven useful) were major pros in deciding on new device. As final thought I wish that Note 2 would be made by HTC.

Ski jump distance?

How the distance of jump is measured? I'm not a fan and when I popped the question when watching a match out of boredom we had quite a dispute. I still don't know and in the end it doesn't matter since the relative distance is what counts (I guess...).

Mostly what was said was that the distance is the length of curved line on the ground over which the jumper jumps (flies? actually they mostly fall) - the line A. This was defended with "I've been there many times and saw markings on the ground!" and "When we built our own take off ramp we measured the distance on the ground!" and "What other way is there?".

We (read I) immediately came up with couple of distances in jump like this. To me the straight line from take off to land point is the most intuitive - the line B.

Vote for what you think or comment if you know what it actually is.

UPDATE: I think I have the answer (but vote first) - http://loveoftechno.blogspot.com/2013/12/measured-ski-jump-distance.html

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