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Comment Re:Still lightyears off of today's PC hardware (Score 5, Interesting) 220

Fact remains that even moderate PCs today outperform both the PS4 and Xbox One at a similar price point.

I'm not quite sure about that.
PS4 has a GPU that is between AMD 7850 / 7870, when building your PC you'd pay 150+ Euro for the GPU alone.

Despite "common knowledge" that "PCs are faster", at least if we can trust Valve's statistics (about a third of their PC users run games on an integrated GPU!), no it isn't.
7870 is a good mid range GPU these days even in PC world.
One could argue about underwhelming CPU part , but 8Gb GDDR5 and software written to use most of it's 8 cores makes up for it.

Comment Re:Hrm... (Score 1) 354

Germans in WW2 where always outnumbered.
They started the war being sure they are the better fighters (if you check most battles, including the largest tank battle of the WW2) and they were indeed.
Check the losses (typical in that war):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

USSR lost 4 times more people and 7 times more tanks while defending. (normally it's the attacker that takes more casualties, since it needs to breach prepared positions). Germans were outnumbered 2 to 1, yet they were attacking.

Entire campaign was adventurous from the very beginning, yet they were not far from succeeding.

Comment Re: How about no? (Score 1) 235

My Compac iPaq 5555 had touch screen and grid of icons (which look rather outdated compared to what Android OS has, I have to note) long before iPhone.

Jump from pocket PC to phone that is also a pocket PC was obvious to me, back in 2005, when my iPaq died and I couldn't find a good replacement.

Comment Re:Invisible unicorns in a garage (Score 1) 150

On a side note:

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is comprehensible" said Einstein.
I never fully got why it was a big deal, but I'm pretty sure "comprehensible" in this sentence is about describing it in math.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences

Comment Re:Well, he's not wrong (Score 1) 479

Driving to long distances with an electric car would need "swap stations" where you'd replace your empty battery with charged ones.
If electric cars will become popular, we'd need to build lots of more power plants.

Both qualify as "building infrastructure" in my books.

Also check how far they are with fuel cells in Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_highway_(Japan)#Japanese_hydrogen_powered_cars

Comment The best argument vs Rosenhan's experiment (Score 2) 124

The best criticism of Rosenhanäs experiment that I've heared so far:

If I were to drink a quart of blood and, concealing what I had done, come to the emergency room of any hospital vomiting blood, the behaviour of the staff would be quite predictable. If they labelled and treated me as having a peptic ulcer, I doubt I could argue convincingly that medical science does not know how to diagnose that condition.

You can't fake symptoms and then complain that diagnostics sucks.
Experiment would be legit if they'd faked improvements in a way matching symptoms.

Comment Re:Why a 64-bit phone is good: (Score 1) 348

Uh, oh, I don't know about "better" but a couple of month ago my Galaxy Tablet 10.1 upgraded from 3.x to 4.x, that's about 2 years after it was released.

And the most important part is: it has become FASTER.
On the contrary, Apple users that I know complained that it has become slower after an OS upgrade. Which, evil tongues say, is to actually FORCE people to upgrade the firmware.

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