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  1. Re:5 Trillion Ops? on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Apple usually advertise burst speed - at which they beat most other mobile processors.
    Over longer runs Apple processors heat up quickly and don't do well on sustained performance. This might be due to the larger size of the chips than most comparable generation mobile processors.
    When it comes to sustained performance and size of the die Qualcomm et al beat them by a mile.

  2. Re:Android 4.3? on Hands On With Motorola's Moto X · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't understand.
    If Nexus and iOS devices can be updated without carrier interference, why can't everything else be similarly updated.

  3. Increasing Wireless Network Speed By 1000% on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    Wonder if can be combined with a previous invention : Boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times

  4. Not sure this is good on Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead of wasting so much money, I wish Google had investing in something much more worthwhile like offline navigation.

  5. Searched for Turbo Gameworks and only thing it came up was a scanned pdf. No disk images. I had it but my parents threw it away with other junk. Would love to have it back.

  6. Re:$500 vs $200 on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 2

    To be fair one of those devices comes with a 2x plus markup over the manufacturing price.

  7. Unlocked HTC phones are on HTC Unlocks Its Own Phones · · Score: 2

    no longer under warranty?!!!

  8. Re:Love the attempt, but... on IE9 Released, Media Has Opinions · · Score: 2

    I am not sure what is your glitch or why it is not fast for you.
    I can say that Microsoft has really beaten the pants off Chrome with the release of IE9 as far as speed is concerned.

    Its much faster for me than Chrome and now it has Ad blocking / tracking blocking, per site flash blocking, plays well with high DPI monitors among many other nice features.
    I only wish they had made the 64-bit version faster too (but I can wait for the next release).

  9. Re:Bombay/Mumbai? on Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science · · Score: 2

    Several institutions in Mumbai have not changed their name this includes Bombay Stock Exchange, Bombay High Court, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay etc.

    BTW, Half of my Indian friends still call it Bombay.

  10. Oligotropic doesn't mean its rich in oxygen on Russian Team Prepares To Penetrate Lake Vostok · · Score: 4, Informative

    It just means an environment which is low in nutrients.

    The lake just happens to have high oxygen levels because of high pressure from the layers of ice - that doesn't make it oligotrophic.

  11. Re:Good on Microsoft Is Releasing an H.264 Plugin For Firefox · · Score: 2

    Doesn't Chrome support Firefox-compatible plugins?
    I would have sworn it did.

  12. Gmail is top result for me on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: 1

    I am not sure what country you are in. I am in the US.
    Gmail is the top result for me. Hotmail is placed 3rd following Yahoo mail.

  13. Re:The bigger question is: on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    Most clients already include web seeding as defined by
    http://www.getright.com/seedtorrent.html

  14. Windows 7 scales to 256 cores on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 1
  15. Also XBox / Windows Media Center in fray on GoogleTV, AppleTV and the Battle For The Living Room · · Score: 1

    I used Media Center to stream to my TV for quite some time before the novelty wore off.
    MCE is great because you can stream any media (some with additional addins).

    My TV watching hours have gone down to zero.
    Nowadays I just use XBMC whenever I need the 10-foot experience.

  16. Re:Um, Nothing new here.. on The Safari Reader Arms Race · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a even a firefox addon for Readability.
    Safari has apparently taken the code from Readability (it says so in the credits).

  17. Support IEX9 on XP on The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If IE9 is supposed to destroy the previous versions of IE then they better support IE9 on XP.
    XP is still a solid operating system and currently has the highest market share.

    No one is going to upgrade their OS just because there is a new browser from Microsoft.

  18. Why use sorenson squeeze instead of x264 on H.264 and VP8 Compared · · Score: 1

    The comparison seems to use sorenson squeeze (based on MainConcept if I am not mistaken).
    I don't believe it can mach x264's capabilities and speed.

    Using x264 for comparison would be much fairer.

  19. Re:Yeah on Valve's Newell Thinks PS3 Needs To Be "Open Like a Mac" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mac and Open together in a sentence is a Oxymoron.

  20. 2 year old technology on Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics · · Score: 4, Informative

    Robotics studio was made a paid product 2 years ago.
    Looks like they did not get enough buyers and its being offered for free now!
    And looks like it hasn't been updated in last few years.

    Regarding CCR, .Net 4.0 has made vast improvements in multi-core API.
    I don't see how much relevant CCR will be given the release of Task Parallel Library (TPL) for .Net and ConCRT for C++

  21. For <audio> tag on Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please include support for mp3 and aac.

    Thanks for creating this project. Support H.264 for the <video> tag is the right thing to do.
    Good luck for your effort.

  22. Re:R U kidding? on VMware Releases Open Source Virtualization Client · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Netscape Communicator 4 was one of the worst browsers I have ever used.
    Netscape shot themselves by not releasing Netscape Communicator 5 in time. Netscape 4.5 was just 4.08 repackaged.
    By 1998, IE4 had already caught up and had better support for HTML, CSS and other recommendations than Netscape.

    VMWare on the other hand has been consistently releasing new versions with excellent new features and have maintained their lead.
    Superior products do win.

  23. NASA discovered this years ago on Scientists Discover Why Sharks Can Swim So Fast · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact a sharkskin like surface was added to Stars and Stripes racing yacht. Stars and Stripes scored a 4-0 sweep in America Cup in 1987.
    The technology provided such a tremendous advantage that it was banned in subsequent years of America Cup

    http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/Riblets.html

  24. Re:Another example of prior art. on Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" · · Score: 1

    Arthur OS 1987 is another example of prior art.

  25. Looks like bunch of nonsense posts on Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hacked would be a site defaced.

    This looks like someone made some random submissions.