I'll admit it's a nitpicky point. Still, if that's what was intended, then the submitter should have phrased it like what you said, or maybe 'how well a particular piece of hardware peforms compared to others of the same type' or some such. As is, that phrase made little sense.
Benchmarks exist to determine how a particular piece of hardware performs
in relation to itself, and to others.
Well, yep. Turns out my current PC configuration is 100% as good as my current PC configuration! That's an increase of 0%! I'm sure glad I ran that benchmark, or else I'd never know how much of a boost I got with my latest purchase of, well, nothing.
This is closer to renting a movie than anything else, aside from the 30-day storage option. From the story: Customers will be able to store movies for up to 30 days. Over that span, they can watch a movie as many times as they wish in a 24-hour period.
Another
article is more detailed: The movie files can be viewed on a PC or on a television connected to a computer, but customers have a maximum of 30 days to begin watching their downloaded movie. Once they begin to do so, the movie can be viewed only over the next 24 hours.
Nearly all of the text of the submission is copied directly from the Wired article. How about some attribution, or at least some of those little 66 99 things?
The banner-ad on the right side of my screen reading that article was the Oracle/Unbreakable Penguin ad. Granted Linux has been gaining ground quickly as-of-late, but it's not exactly been an upstart.
Much more likely is the adjective usage, which you hint at in your comment.
adj. 1. Suddenly raised to a position of consequence. (source
here)
That's not what they're saying at all. In fact, Reasoning concluded that there was no statistically significant difference in 'defect density' between Apache and the unnamed commercial product.
"In our February study that compared the defect density of the Linux TCP/IP stack to the average defect density of commercially developed TCP/IP stacks, we concluded that Open Source had a significantly lower defect density compared to commercial equivalents," said Bill Payne, President & CEO of Reasoning. "We received numerous inquiries about that study and took seriously requests for us to examine defect density rates in a less mature Open Source application and compare it with the commercial equivalent. Taking advantage of our database of automated software code inspection projects, we were able to do exactly that,
and found the difference in defect density between the two was not significant." (emphasis mine)
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It was hard to find in the press release, and nonexistent in the submission, but Dynasty Tactics 2 is a PS2-only release.
Oh, take a cold shower, both of you.
I'll admit it's a nitpicky point. Still, if that's what was intended, then the submitter should have phrased it like what you said, or maybe 'how well a particular piece of hardware peforms compared to others of the same type' or some such. As is, that phrase made little sense.
Let's try this again, since another attempt was modded (perhaps justly) as Troll:
This isn't a damn Slashdot interview. The interview has already been done, and they are not soliciting questions.
Has it really gotten so bad that even reading the submission summary is considered harmful?
This is closer to renting a movie than anything else, aside from the 30-day storage option. From the story: Customers will be able to store movies for up to 30 days. Over that span, they can watch a movie as many times as they wish in a 24-hour period.
Another article is more detailed: The movie files can be viewed on a PC or on a television connected to a computer, but customers have a maximum of 30 days to begin watching their downloaded movie. Once they begin to do so, the movie can be viewed only over the next 24 hours.Nearly all of the text of the submission is copied directly from the Wired article. How about some attribution, or at least some of those little 66 99 things?
Much more likely is the adjective usage, which you hint at in your comment.