No, the reason F1 cars are topping 200mph is because every few years the rules are changed to slow them down. They've banned ground effects, active suspension, turbocharging (until next year, on 1.6L 4 cylinders with very limited boost), reduced engine displacement continually since the 90s, implemented rev limits, maximum wing sizes, minimum ground clearance, etc, etc, etc.
Without those restrictions being put in place you can be damn sure they'd be hitting 250mph plus on some sections of track and dropping 10 seconds off the lap times they already run at a bunch of circuits.
Getting horsepower out of an engine is easy. Making it reliable, with usable power delivery is another thing entirely. I had 350-ish street driven horsepower out of a 2L SR20DET before without trying very hard at all (bolted on a bigger turbo, fuel system/management and intercooler - zero internal changes) - and that's an alloy-block engine designed back in the late 80s. It also did 60,000km in that level of tune without incident.
I think the guy's point is that no one is going to write games that REQUIRE that because they're all likely to be directly ported between Xbone/PS4/PC as its all PC hardware.
not cross platform = don't care. OpenCL runs on AMD, Nvidia and Intel (on Mac, no doubt support for all processors will follow on other platforms in due course).
I love it when Slashdot nerds think they know what the average person thinks.
...Then goes off on a poorly reasoned diatribe about how iPhone users must be fashion whores/idiots.
I can play that game too.
Conversely there are only 2 reasons the average person buys a Samsung device: they're cheap, and they've been trolled into thinking that apple have tried to patent rounded corners (only) or something equally retarded.
Pretty much this post. I myself am a nerd, and I prefer the iPhone because it does everything I want without me having to fuck with it. I have plenty of other things I'd rather be doing than customising my phone to make it usable. The fact that I get synchronisation between by Macbook, iPhone, iPad and AppleTV is awesome.
You also hit the nail on the head with regards to backups and restores. It's not just the iDevices either. Same with time machine for my mac. If my external drive is available, it backs up to it. If it's on battery, it doesn't. I get full versioning on my files, and if my backup drive is not available, get local backups i can roll back to.
I don't need to think about it. I fuck something up, i can just roll back without worry.
This is all basic stuff that shouldn't be hard to get right. Screwing around doing this shit manually doesn't make you 'leet or whatever. You're just wasting your time on drudge work.
And based on the iPhone continually selling more than any previous generation as new models are released, the android market is being grown via the phasing out of dumb phones. Not at apple's expense.
My reasons for hating sony have zero to do with humanitarian stuff. And besides, have you forgotten about product red, which has been going on for well... a decade or so at a guess?
Whoosh. But no, I had to deal with paper based maps, guess at direction, not be able to check on things at work away from my desk, fail at documentation (convenient video/audio/photos = awesome) and basically be bored out of my brain on public transport.
On the other hand I have plenty of Android owning friends who have sworn to buy an iPhone next time around based on severe dis-satisfaction with the Android device they have dealt with on contract for the past 2 years.
Where did I say anything about reliability? I own one (E39) and I will freely admit that repairs send me broke. But it is worth it for the actual driving experience.
With apple I can move to different phones without losing any of my music, movies or data. Sony get a big thumbs down based on their treatment of customers in the past - reneging on PS3 OtherOS support post-sale, installing the cd-rootkit on Windows machines, their massive fail at online service security and being coy about the extent of their break in, etc.
I'm sure apple will be totally screwed by changing arch. Given that, you know - the new apps for the new iOS would require compilation with the new xcode, which will no doubt have a little button for "x64" or "arm" like it did with the PPC transition. As far as existing software goes, it is all retrieved from the app store, and apple can recompile/require re-submit/etc. for the new platform as they please.
Yes, it is unimportant that the iPhone doesn't have the highest resolution display, as anything that is "high enough" is all that is required. Samsung or Google could release a phone with a native 4k display for all the good it will do; you won't notice any difference.
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It's the price when purchased in bundles of 10. As they will be.
No, the reason F1 cars are topping 200mph is because every few years the rules are changed to slow them down. They've banned ground effects, active suspension, turbocharging (until next year, on 1.6L 4 cylinders with very limited boost), reduced engine displacement continually since the 90s, implemented rev limits, maximum wing sizes, minimum ground clearance, etc, etc, etc.
Without those restrictions being put in place you can be damn sure they'd be hitting 250mph plus on some sections of track and dropping 10 seconds off the lap times they already run at a bunch of circuits.
Assuming the drivers could physically handle it.
Getting horsepower out of an engine is easy. Making it reliable, with usable power delivery is another thing entirely. I had 350-ish street driven horsepower out of a 2L SR20DET before without trying very hard at all (bolted on a bigger turbo, fuel system/management and intercooler - zero internal changes) - and that's an alloy-block engine designed back in the late 80s. It also did 60,000km in that level of tune without incident.
So basically pretty much every world leader then?
... and its promotion of a xenophobic education system, xenophobic religious presence, and xenophobic foreign policy.
Security audit? If i can crack password hashes with a single GPU then who knows how quickly a determined attacker can break them.
I think the guy's point is that no one is going to write games that REQUIRE that because they're all likely to be directly ported between Xbone/PS4/PC as its all PC hardware.
not cross platform = don't care. OpenCL runs on AMD, Nvidia and Intel (on Mac, no doubt support for all processors will follow on other platforms in due course).
I can play that game too.
Conversely there are only 2 reasons the average person buys a Samsung device: they're cheap, and they've been trolled into thinking that apple have tried to patent rounded corners (only) or something equally retarded.
Pretty much this post. I myself am a nerd, and I prefer the iPhone because it does everything I want without me having to fuck with it. I have plenty of other things I'd rather be doing than customising my phone to make it usable. The fact that I get synchronisation between by Macbook, iPhone, iPad and AppleTV is awesome.
You also hit the nail on the head with regards to backups and restores. It's not just the iDevices either. Same with time machine for my mac. If my external drive is available, it backs up to it. If it's on battery, it doesn't. I get full versioning on my files, and if my backup drive is not available, get local backups i can roll back to.
I don't need to think about it. I fuck something up, i can just roll back without worry.
This is all basic stuff that shouldn't be hard to get right. Screwing around doing this shit manually doesn't make you 'leet or whatever. You're just wasting your time on drudge work.
And based on the iPhone continually selling more than any previous generation as new models are released, the android market is being grown via the phasing out of dumb phones. Not at apple's expense.
*turns location services off unless using maps*. Oh look my battery life improved by about 2-3x as well.
My reasons for hating sony have zero to do with humanitarian stuff. And besides, have you forgotten about product red, which has been going on for well... a decade or so at a guess?
Exactly. Until a mandatory firmware update some time after purchase.
Whoosh. But no, I had to deal with paper based maps, guess at direction, not be able to check on things at work away from my desk, fail at documentation (convenient video/audio/photos = awesome) and basically be bored out of my brain on public transport.
On the other hand I have plenty of Android owning friends who have sworn to buy an iPhone next time around based on severe dis-satisfaction with the Android device they have dealt with on contract for the past 2 years.
Where did I say anything about reliability? I own one (E39) and I will freely admit that repairs send me broke. But it is worth it for the actual driving experience.
With apple I can move to different phones without losing any of my music, movies or data. Sony get a big thumbs down based on their treatment of customers in the past - reneging on PS3 OtherOS support post-sale, installing the cd-rootkit on Windows machines, their massive fail at online service security and being coy about the extent of their break in, etc.
Use iTunes match and just play everything on whatever device you want?
Yes. Your point being?
wrong
I'm sure apple will be totally screwed by changing arch. Given that, you know - the new apps for the new iOS would require compilation with the new xcode, which will no doubt have a little button for "x64" or "arm" like it did with the PPC transition. As far as existing software goes, it is all retrieved from the app store, and apple can recompile/require re-submit/etc. for the new platform as they please.
Yes, it is unimportant that the iPhone doesn't have the highest resolution display, as anything that is "high enough" is all that is required. Samsung or Google could release a phone with a native 4k display for all the good it will do; you won't notice any difference.
Tis why i browse with flamebait +2 (see sig).
Then explain why these benchmarks show that with about 2x the CPU hardware, the Nexus5 is not comprehensively beating the crap out of the iPhone.