That would depend on whether thirdparty apps get the higher performance too. I don't think the fact that a handful of built-in Samsung functions use the higher clock is a good guideline to how the device will perform in typical use.
I'm curious as to how Samsung is maintaining this list of videogames that require an underclock, and how often it's updated. Wouldn't your phone's performance on the new Deus Ex game drop with the next software update?
And in fact, Anandtech specifically points out the opposite:
It's interesting that this is sort of the reverse of what we saw GPU vendors do in FurMark. [...] In order to avoid creating a situation where thermals were higher than they'd be while playing a normal game (and to avoid damaging graphics cards without thermal protection), we saw GPU vendors limit the clock frequency of their GPUs when they detected these power-virus style of apps.
That doesn't tally with the information extracted from the S4 code: it lists several benchmark apps, which when detected activate a "boost" feature that changes the CPU clock.
More formally, your knowledge of certain aspects of the language is strictly bounded by the loss of this information. Historical linguistics as a field knows this and does research into it. I don't see that this undermines the expertise of a historical linguist any more than the uncertainty principle undermines the expertise of the theoretical physicist.
Come to think of it, if the tendency for PR firms to arrange for an "equation for the best sandwich" etc. suggests that an equation is actually quite an easy way of getting the public's attention.
You can write about the results - which is important - but you can't write about the mechanics without at least describing the mathematical concepts and their relations with physical reality. This is why it's such a problem, because everyone deduces from the results written up in the newspapers how they think the mechanics work, and of course they get it wrong because it's profoundly unintuitive.
You'll make people smarter and able to understand the subject if you explain what's going on in the example you want to discuss. That's a pretty basic idea in writing popular science.
I decided to Google his name and the closest I could find to him being a nut was a WUWT post, where the title criticises him, the article doesn't actually get around to explaining what Watts' problem with him is, and the update takes a NASA administrator to task for not knowing about Seinfeld. If this is the state of "climate sceptic" discourse I'd better get caught up on my '90s US TV shows. I'd hate for Anthony Watts to accuse me of not knowing about the third season of Friends or something.
If all you care about is firing people on ballistic trajectories around other solar system bodies, then yes, NASA has failed. If what you want is great science, something like having a network of sophisticated planetary science missions operating on all of the major solar system bodies right now, then they're kicking ass, and Stofan is the right person for the job of continuing that mission.
Yeah, I thought of about fifty things wrong with that about two minutes after I posted it and I've been avoiding this thread all day. The pleasant, enlightening tone of your post makes me feel better.
Ah, I managed to fudge the conversion of the launch speed. Still, quite a bit short of what a chemical propellant can manage on a load that size, so I'm not sure why this particular prototype is more likely to help the project than any of the preceding ones.
Depending on where the Apple store is relative to your home/other jobs/schooling, employees might not relish the thought of going all the way to work and back every day with nothing but the contents of their pockets and wearing their work outfit.
The Apple Store wages are plenty to buy a lot of products they sell. Not everything, but I doubt that 90% of electronics store employees could buy the most expensive 20% of the products on sale either. That's besides the point because retail theft isn't about "oh, I can't afford this and want to own it" anyway. It's about "oh, I can resell this and supplement my income quite handsomely". Most of the stuff people shoplift from supermarkets (staff or customers) isn't stuff that's very overall expensive, but stuff that's easy to steal and fences well like batteries and razors. High value per unit volume, lots of volume available, fungible.
Apple basically has no reason to be doing these checks because there's nothing about their employees or product that makes it any more likely to be stolen than anywhere else. They hardly keep anything out on the shopfloor for deus' sake.
A kickstarter for a version that'll launch 1lb loads up to a small portion of the speed of sound. You're not getting anything in to orbit on the back of this, just helping this guy make a marginally more convincing case to bigger funding agencies. Although if the physics and engineering made sense, I'm not sure why a marginally larger prototype than the ones they already have is needed.
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That would depend on whether thirdparty apps get the higher performance too. I don't think the fact that a handful of built-in Samsung functions use the higher clock is a good guideline to how the device will perform in typical use.
I'm curious as to how Samsung is maintaining this list of videogames that require an underclock, and how often it's updated. Wouldn't your phone's performance on the new Deus Ex game drop with the next software update?
First line of the article:
Somebody with a Galaxy S IV has just performed an Antutu benchmark and revealed all the specifications of the device!
Antutu being one of the benchmarks that supposedly activates the overclock. You must be a real threat down at the debating club.
Pony and trap, crap. AC is a cockney.
The CPU isn't "rated" for anything, Samsung didn't release any GPU or CPU clock figures until the denial quoted above.
And in fact, Anandtech specifically points out the opposite:
It's interesting that this is sort of the reverse of what we saw GPU vendors do in FurMark. [...] In order to avoid creating a situation where thermals were higher than they'd be while playing a normal game (and to avoid damaging graphics cards without thermal protection), we saw GPU vendors limit the clock frequency of their GPUs when they detected these power-virus style of apps.
The section of code that activates the changes is actually called "BenchmarkBooster". Someone will be fired for that I'm sure.
That doesn't tally with the information extracted from the S4 code: it lists several benchmark apps, which when detected activate a "boost" feature that changes the CPU clock.
More formally, your knowledge of certain aspects of the language is strictly bounded by the loss of this information. Historical linguistics as a field knows this and does research into it. I don't see that this undermines the expertise of a historical linguist any more than the uncertainty principle undermines the expertise of the theoretical physicist.
What experience? They don't steer the ship and they don't create the charts.
Those aren't units of measurement, they're points of comparison. That's why they're preceded by phrasing like "as big as".
Come to think of it, if the tendency for PR firms to arrange for an "equation for the best sandwich" etc. suggests that an equation is actually quite an easy way of getting the public's attention.
You can write about the results - which is important - but you can't write about the mechanics without at least describing the mathematical concepts and their relations with physical reality. This is why it's such a problem, because everyone deduces from the results written up in the newspapers how they think the mechanics work, and of course they get it wrong because it's profoundly unintuitive.
How?
You'll make people smarter and able to understand the subject if you explain what's going on in the example you want to discuss. That's a pretty basic idea in writing popular science.
This must be a real dilemma for you, because she's a white woman replacing a non-white person. Which means more to you, your racism or your misogyny?
I decided to Google his name and the closest I could find to him being a nut was a WUWT post, where the title criticises him, the article doesn't actually get around to explaining what Watts' problem with him is, and the update takes a NASA administrator to task for not knowing about Seinfeld. If this is the state of "climate sceptic" discourse I'd better get caught up on my '90s US TV shows. I'd hate for Anthony Watts to accuse me of not knowing about the third season of Friends or something.
The same way that an expert ship navigator doesn't have to have gone out and personally charted every coastline?
Bullshit.
If all you care about is firing people on ballistic trajectories around other solar system bodies, then yes, NASA has failed. If what you want is great science, something like having a network of sophisticated planetary science missions operating on all of the major solar system bodies right now, then they're kicking ass, and Stofan is the right person for the job of continuing that mission.
Yes, NASA has a habit of hiring *competent* scientists.
*snap*
government power overreach to me, otherwise known as fascism
You're not a big fan of finding shades of grey in issues, are you?
Yeah, I thought of about fifty things wrong with that about two minutes after I posted it and I've been avoiding this thread all day. The pleasant, enlightening tone of your post makes me feel better.
Ah, I managed to fudge the conversion of the launch speed. Still, quite a bit short of what a chemical propellant can manage on a load that size, so I'm not sure why this particular prototype is more likely to help the project than any of the preceding ones.
Depending on where the Apple store is relative to your home/other jobs/schooling, employees might not relish the thought of going all the way to work and back every day with nothing but the contents of their pockets and wearing their work outfit.
The Apple Store wages are plenty to buy a lot of products they sell. Not everything, but I doubt that 90% of electronics store employees could buy the most expensive 20% of the products on sale either. That's besides the point because retail theft isn't about "oh, I can't afford this and want to own it" anyway. It's about "oh, I can resell this and supplement my income quite handsomely". Most of the stuff people shoplift from supermarkets (staff or customers) isn't stuff that's very overall expensive, but stuff that's easy to steal and fences well like batteries and razors. High value per unit volume, lots of volume available, fungible.
Apple basically has no reason to be doing these checks because there's nothing about their employees or product that makes it any more likely to be stolen than anywhere else. They hardly keep anything out on the shopfloor for deus' sake.
A kickstarter for a version that'll launch 1lb loads up to a small portion of the speed of sound. You're not getting anything in to orbit on the back of this, just helping this guy make a marginally more convincing case to bigger funding agencies. Although if the physics and engineering made sense, I'm not sure why a marginally larger prototype than the ones they already have is needed.