Agreed. I run groundwater simulation models that take 48 hours to complete. My Xeon CPU is the bottleneck.
At my charge out rate of $200/hour, a modest increase in CPU speed could lead to saving over $1000 per model run.
But Xeons aren't overclockable, and our IT department wouldn't allow them to be overclocked even if they could be.
So, yes MHz/GHz still matters. But, no I'm not too fussed about the overclocking issue in the article.
Given that astronauts and cosmonauts on the station are engineers and techs, it is hardly surprising they decided not to 'upgrade' to Windows 8.
They probably want to get work done.
Besides, all that start menu manual swiping to slide across to the Skype app would end up spinning you in circles in zero grav.
From the article, if you can't be bothered clicking the link:
The words not, that, we, who, and give are cognates in five language families, and nouns and verbs including mother, hand, fire, ashes, worm, hear, and pull are shared by four. Going by the rate of change of these cognates, the model suggests that these words have remained in a similar form since about 14,500 years ago, thus supporting the existence of an ancient Eurasiatic language and its now far-flung descendants.
From Google:
Mother in England
Matr in Russia
Motina in Lithuanian
Mater in Latin
Manman in Haitian Creole
Ma in Chinese
Mwtr in Yiddish
Mteay in Khmer
I guess this would be a good time to bring up the fact that batteries often fail explosively.
...for unusual definitions of "usually", yes.
Getting Doom with it was a large part of their Kickstarter campaign.
They did say the Kickstarter was only for devs, so Doom would be more as a tech demo than the main reason for purchase, but a lot of the 9,500 supporters looked like regular people wanting to get in on the next cool thing.
I can imagine a lot of unhappy people.
I reckon I'll use it to run Notepad, so I can take notes on my phone, and Solitaire, so I can play games when I'm out.
I doubt anything more heavy duty would run fast enough, and besides, I can usually remote desktop to my home PC from my phone if I need to.
See http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/01/apple-stores-warranty-approach-contradicts-australian-consumer-law/ for more detail.
'Models are useful even when their results are not entirely correct because they facilitate communication' World Bank HEF Techniccal Report 1, June 2010
because as you can see, the model is generating discussion. If the model is wrong, it is still the first step towards making a better model.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
