That's only ever been "true" for the first iPhone to use that display, and even then only at a certain distance from the screen. It's been a generic and meaningless marketing term ever since.

Or perhaps it's rather a reading comprehension failure on your part. Visual Studio 2013 has a Community edition, but this is talking about 2015, which isn't out yet.

Actually, if you want the performance you mention (straight number of disks times read/write speed of disk), you need to use RAID0, which makes reliability absolutely awful, especially on an array of 4 or 5 drives. RAID1 will give you faster read speeds, but poor writes and no disk space. More advanced striping generally is slow-ish and loses out space as well.

I really don't see many cases where a RAID array is better than a drive like this, especially considering Intel's reputation and reliability ($100 256GB SSDs aren't going to be the best fault tolerant ones...).

I have to ask... why? Looking at the few samples, it looks like some kind of hybrid between Microsoft's Effect framework (which used "techniques" to sandwich multiple shaders at different levels together) and Nvidia's Cg language (which output HLSL and GLSL from a common, sorta kinda average of the two languages). Considering how close GLSL and HLSL are already, I just don't see the point of writing anything more than a thin wrapper and a few headers that work as a shim/compatibility layer.

Or alternatively making up strawmen from all the stuff you dislike does not turn them into real human beings. They're still straw.

I'm guessing the GP also farts a lot then.

Whenever an article even as much as mentions the word "Quebec", the Quebec bashers come out of the woodworks, most of them anonymous cowards. Take a moment to check an article covering any other specific place and you'll note that none of them are so overflowing with baseless attacks and claims, often completely unrelated to the topic.

I don't even understand why that is, which is probably the weirdest part.

Sorry, I don't have an "embarrassment" to the rest of Canada. Perhaps you'd like to double-check the meaning of those words?

As much as we have stupid politicians, I only need to look at the federal level or to our neighbor down south to realize we're no worse off.

As a resident of Quebec, let me laugh at that statement. Help culture? The Liberals don't give a toss about culture, they're just completely fixed on the notion of having a zero-deficit budget by any means necessary. They'll slash health and education funding, they'll add hidden taxes while claiming none are added, they'll do whatever it takes to reach this, because they're considered to be the "economically focused" party. To give context, when a journalist asked them if they could promise that the significant cuts in healthcare funding would not affect services, they straight up said that they can't say that because there might be "obstruction" or "slow uptake" of their new magical plan which makes more with less.

If culture sees a single cent of that tax, I'll be impressed. This is strictly a way of balancing their budget without raising the tax rates, which would've caused furor. This internet tax sailed past all major news organizations as far as I can tell.

A troll? Get off your high horse mate, you're just sounding petulant that someone dared disagree with you.

Putting evolution on a pedestal isn't much smarter. It's not some godlike entity which designed humans with a goal in mind, it's a very long, very sinuous process which often gives locally optimal but globally suboptimal results. There is no reason to think that humans, for some reason, can't do better.

No, what happens is that people will pre-allocate a super large memory buffer (and if their buffer is too small? whoops), or they'll completely forget to do free(), or they'll just copy code from the internet that does it for you.

Incompetence crosses language boundaries, if you think C would make them learn any faster, you're utterly kidding yourself.

And you forgot Colonel Sandurz, his cunning alter-ego.

The EPA has a page on the very subject, claiming that green roofs not only help with cooling, but also heating, since they act as insulators. They also reduce pollutants in the air and combat the heat island effect present in many large cities. I am not aware of many negatives for them, aside from the maintenance required for the more elaborate ones.