Comment Re:Surface area to volume (Score 2) 66
Indeed, other than the words '3D printing', why is this news? It's not exactly rocket science.
Indeed, other than the words '3D printing', why is this news? It's not exactly rocket science.
Benchmarks are a more 'sustained' CPU load than typical home/office use. If anything, I think these would feel faster than the tests imply. Not everyone spends their day compiling code or applying Photoshop filters. (What's wrong with them?)
The *program* lasted six years, but the majority of the money was paid back 2-3 years in. It kept ahead of inflation and bond rates, so a net win for taxpayers.
Not shabby at all, as bailouts go. Brilliant compared to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac or the disaster that was the '80s S&L crisis.
Intel is slapping i5 (and i7) on some pretty slow chips these days...
Troll? What else would make a public utility monopoly change its ways?
They switched their attention every three minutes on average. In 2012, we found that the time spent on one computer screen before switching to another computer screen was one minute 15 seconds. By the summer of 2014 it was an average of 59.5 seconds.
I know my average has plummeted over the years; especially when I bought a second display, and then a third.
Fortunately, this year I may replace them all with a large 4k display and then I'll have a long attention span again.
I think it's going to be great, and the "sky is falling" predictions about all the downsides to this seem like nonsense to me
To be fair, that's not what I'm worried about falling.
The capsule in this test is a dummy; the final Dragon v2 will steer and land with its own 'SuperDraco' engines.
Until security is in a less sorry state I doubt too many people will stand in line to have the Internet wired into their nervous system.
She can see the economy from her house!
Glad I wasn't the only one to immediately think of this.
All the major testing houses check for false positives alongside detections, but perhaps they decided more false positives would still look better on benchmarks than a lower detection rate.
I'd love if they could start a new company that pays royalties, Spotify-style, where it can, yet allows users to share rare or otherwise unavailable content as well. Because of the mess of regional rights ownership there will probably never a fully legal way to enjoy all music worldwide, so a gray market will always be necessary to fill the gaps.
In the meantime, I'll sing a song for them.
(...and good luck downloading that legally, US slashdotters)
Don't worry, at least the speed of light is different.
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of transistors suddenly cried out in terror...
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.