Not really. Mavericks did some really cool stuff under the hood. Timer-coalescing, "App Nap", and compressed memory are all pretty big. Take a look at the relevant sections of the Ars review to see what I mean.

The Apple approach is to buy a new phone every year. I know of no Apple users who've kept their Macs for less than 5 years (unless they dropped it down the stairs or let it soak in a coffee hot-tub). I've used plenty that were in the 8-10 range, and they were still kicking along just fine.

anti-science, you say?

Bingo.

Last I heard, we can already contain reactions that are hot enough where the cross-sections for aneutronic Deuterium + He3 reactions start becoming viable, though maybe that's only for MCF designs, and not for what the NIF guys are up to.

Having talked to some of these guys when I was working on a fusion sciences grant last summer, one of the interesting challenges of building a reactor this way is launching pellets at a fast enough rate.

The Big Bang Theory is about as obscure as any other television show which regularly garners 15 million viewers per episode, which is to say, did you just come out from under your rock for this month's hermit convention, or have you decided to rejoin society?

Just to be clear, you're aware that, for example, LLVM/Clang, WebKit, and CUPS are all Apple developed at this point?

No kidding. I'm a native (American-)English speaker, and generally can parse through even the really thick accents from places like Scotland, Ireland, India, America deep south, etc. I even do alright with Newfies. Most of the time I can't even *read* what my African American friends are writing to each other on Facebook, let alone understand it in conversation. AAVE is whack.

Dunno why this is moderated funny. Apparently today's batch of mods don't actually know that the word codec is an abbreviation for coder/decoder.

Shouldn't this, technically speaking, be a "bright day" or a "sunny day"? After all, that's what I call it when the cloud-coverage breaks around here.

I definitely appreciate the offer, but the article in your previous post is enough to sate my curiosity for now :) Not looking to plunge headfirst into time/frequency metrology so much as I wanted at least one good article that wasn't dumbed down for lay audiences.

Ah, you're using "summing" as a synonym for counting? That helps me understand your previous post a little better, even if it still strikes me as an odd word choice. And yes, the quote appears to be correct (though imprecise as might be expected from a press release), because a little bit more research brings up Allan-variance. You may also be interested in this reply from another well-qualified poster.

*That's* what I was looking for! Thanks for the good reading material :)

Sounds like you're talking amplitude, not frequency. Stability (and accuracy) are both tied to duration. To quote TFA, "Stability can be thought of as how precisely the duration of each tick matches every other tick." Summing the peaks doesn't tell you how much time passed between them.