If you're classifying anything greater than 5 ounces as a brick, then you're probably taking a huge risk by exerting whatever force is necessary to get your words onto my screen, whether that's typing or moving your jaw for a speech-to-text program.
Sounds like you'd be better off if the companies would ditch the "thinner is better" idiocy and put some decently hefty batteries in the things. My LG G2x gets a week of standby time with the extended battery I bought, and I will never purchase a device without an easily replaceable battery (as in just under the back cover, so all I have to do is get a bigger battery and fatter cover). I don't give a damn about wireless charging if the charge won't last more than a day in the first place.
If you have no idea what the numbers mean, then perhaps you should leave analysis of the numbers to someone with the requisite basic computer hardware knowledge. This isn't challenging stuff. Perhaps you'd be best just leaving the computer alone completely. Really, what are you doing on the internet?
What idiot stores their cash in somebody else's wallet with no guarantee of that somebody's legitimacy and no insurance? Maybe these morons will have finally learned their lesson, and will keep their cash in their own wallets in their own pockets.
In the first phase, which lasts 1.5 years, hard drives have an annual failure rate of 5.1%. For the next 1.5 years, the annual failure rate drops to 1.4%. After three years, the failure rate explodes to 11.8% per year. In short, this means that around 92% of drives survive the first 18 months, and almost all of those (90%) then go on to reach three years.
Extrapolating from these figures, just under 80% of all hard drives will survive to their fourth anniversary.
1.00 (total) -.051 (failure rate for 1.5 years) =.949 (non-failure), but only 92% survive for 18 months (a.k.a. 1.5 years)? What?
So, if it is fails to be best in one case, it is therefore suboptimal in all other cases? Guess we should un-launch all the satellites since a few of them were damaged on the ground, and tell the Mars rover to power down, since other Mars missions have had problems.
It’s interesting that the code built with the g++ compiler performed the best in most cases, although the clang compiler proved to be the fastest in terms of compilation time.
Just in case you didn't get that: They did benchmark the resulting binaries, and g++ made the best ones.
Yes, "much better", going by available data. Here's that table with version numbers converted into dates. I deleted rows with missing data for either compiler, and removed other compilers. If I get bored, I might actually go through their changelogs for missing data.
Why are they only allowed to attempt anonymity in relation to the store? Perhaps they just want to remain untracked by their ISP, and foul up any GeoIP-based advertising.
I hope that there are very few people that do their graphics editing inside Word, so using an external tool like Inkscape shouldn't be a burden. For the rest of the listed items, except MathML, try Maqetta (http://maqetta.org). You could get bonus reputation points for your company by convincing them to sponsor MathML support in Maqetta. If you need a more advanced editor, try JetBrains WebStorm.
Right, because there aren't WYSIWYG editors for all of the above. You ought to occasionally ignore the imaginary personalities you invent for your straw men friends and visit the real world.
Complex mathematical equations are easy. You've apparently never heard of MathML. It's been around for a few years.
Text with gradient fills and drop shadows are easy. You've apparently never heard of SVG. It's written in XML, and it can do all of that. It's been around for many years.
Date fields that updates automatically are easy. You've obviously never heard of Javascript. It's been around for two decades.
You ought to occasionally push back that rock blocking the entry to your cave and visit the real world.
I seriously doubt they're planning on offering 1 GB per second service, as there are just about zero consumer-grade 8 Gb (let alone 10 Gb) modems, NICs, or routers. FFs, this is supposed to be a "tech" site, how the crap can you fail to use proper unit abbreviations?
Several years ago, compiling anything on single-CPU machines was a serious pain. Hence the popularity of "binary" (I hate that term... all computer code is binary, FFS) distributions. Now, with quad-, sex-, and octo-CPU machines (yes, that's sex-core. If they wanted to call it hex-core, then they should've called four-core tetra-core. http://phrontistery.info/numbers.html), compiling everything is a piece of cake. Going from "nothing" to X takes perhaps 20 minutes, and going from there to a full DE takes another 30 minutes to an hour. And through all that, I can tell it to keep everything gnome/gtk/gstreamer the heck off my system:)
The only people affected by DRM are the paying customers
FTFY. The last time I paid for a Blu-ray movie, it wouldn't play on any of my computers with Blu-ray drives. Are you going to say I have to spend a full month or two of income on a TV and ANOTHER Blu-ray drive (one that doesn't even support data discs or burning from my computer)?
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1.1kWh per day != 1100 W per day. You can't just cut off that pesky "hours" part of the unit.
If you're classifying anything greater than 5 ounces as a brick, then you're probably taking a huge risk by exerting whatever force is necessary to get your words onto my screen, whether that's typing or moving your jaw for a speech-to-text program.
Sounds like you'd be better off if the companies would ditch the "thinner is better" idiocy and put some decently hefty batteries in the things. My LG G2x gets a week of standby time with the extended battery I bought, and I will never purchase a device without an easily replaceable battery (as in just under the back cover, so all I have to do is get a bigger battery and fatter cover). I don't give a damn about wireless charging if the charge won't last more than a day in the first place.
If you have no idea what the numbers mean, then perhaps you should leave analysis of the numbers to someone with the requisite basic computer hardware knowledge. This isn't challenging stuff. Perhaps you'd be best just leaving the computer alone completely. Really, what are you doing on the internet?
Dude, ever heard of FDIC?
What idiot stores their cash in somebody else's wallet with no guarantee of that somebody's legitimacy and no insurance? Maybe these morons will have finally learned their lesson, and will keep their cash in their own wallets in their own pockets.
In the first phase, which lasts 1.5 years, hard drives have an annual failure rate of 5.1%. For the next 1.5 years, the annual failure rate drops to 1.4%. After three years, the failure rate explodes to 11.8% per year. In short, this means that around 92% of drives survive the first 18 months, and almost all of those (90%) then go on to reach three years.
Extrapolating from these figures, just under 80% of all hard drives will survive to their fourth anniversary.
1.00 (total) - .051 (failure rate for 1.5 years) = .949 (non-failure), but only 92% survive for 18 months (a.k.a. 1.5 years)? What?
Whose watching?
So, if it is fails to be best in one case, it is therefore suboptimal in all other cases? Guess we should un-launch all the satellites since a few of them were damaged on the ground, and tell the Mars rover to power down, since other Mars missions have had problems.
Can you read?
It’s interesting that the code built with the g++ compiler performed the best in most cases, although the clang compiler proved to be the fastest in terms of compilation time.
Just in case you didn't get that: They did benchmark the resulting binaries, and g++ made the best ones.
I prefer my 2560x1600 screens in 10" form factor. 27"+ needs to be at least 3840x2160.
Yes, "much better", going by available data. Here's that table with version numbers converted into dates. I deleted rows with missing data for either compiler, and removed other compilers. If I get bored, I might actually go through their changelogs for missing data.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AsJ4G9Bsq42ddHRjbmJNbldUbWxFckpITTFQUkVJUUE&output=html
I heard that was a complicated game.
Why are they only allowed to attempt anonymity in relation to the store? Perhaps they just want to remain untracked by their ISP, and foul up any GeoIP-based advertising.
I hope that there are very few people that do their graphics editing inside Word, so using an external tool like Inkscape shouldn't be a burden. For the rest of the listed items, except MathML, try Maqetta (http://maqetta.org). You could get bonus reputation points for your company by convincing them to sponsor MathML support in Maqetta. If you need a more advanced editor, try JetBrains WebStorm.
Right, because there aren't WYSIWYG editors for all of the above. You ought to occasionally ignore the imaginary personalities you invent for your straw men friends and visit the real world.
Really? Is that magical color-changing pony-friend metal they've made the case out of, or is it just the screen presenting a solid blue image?
Complex mathematical equations are easy. You've apparently never heard of MathML. It's been around for a few years.
Text with gradient fills and drop shadows are easy. You've apparently never heard of SVG. It's written in XML, and it can do all of that. It's been around for many years.
Date fields that updates automatically are easy. You've obviously never heard of Javascript. It's been around for two decades.
You ought to occasionally push back that rock blocking the entry to your cave and visit the real world.
I didn't know loud and annoying Harley riders did that...
Look, it's the insecure American doing name-calling.
Hock up your incorrect knowledge of vocabulary and hawk it to somebody else.
I seriously doubt they're planning on offering 1 GB per second service, as there are just about zero consumer-grade 8 Gb (let alone 10 Gb) modems, NICs, or routers. FFs, this is supposed to be a "tech" site, how the crap can you fail to use proper unit abbreviations?
Several years ago, compiling anything on single-CPU machines was a serious pain. Hence the popularity of "binary" (I hate that term... all computer code is binary, FFS) distributions. Now, with quad-, sex-, and octo-CPU machines (yes, that's sex-core. If they wanted to call it hex-core, then they should've called four-core tetra-core. http://phrontistery.info/numbers.html), compiling everything is a piece of cake. Going from "nothing" to X takes perhaps 20 minutes, and going from there to a full DE takes another 30 minutes to an hour. And through all that, I can tell it to keep everything gnome/gtk/gstreamer the heck off my system :)
The only people affected by DRM are the paying customers
FTFY. The last time I paid for a Blu-ray movie, it wouldn't play on any of my computers with Blu-ray drives. Are you going to say I have to spend a full month or two of income on a TV and ANOTHER Blu-ray drive (one that doesn't even support data discs or burning from my computer)?
I had some common taters for dinner.