Comment Re:Still lightyears off of today's PC hardware (Score 1) 220
If AMD GPU prices are inflated there sure must be a card from competitors, that is faster yet costs less.
Care to name it?
If AMD GPU prices are inflated there sure must be a card from competitors, that is faster yet costs less.
Care to name it?
AMDs own CPUs would run circles around Jaguar, single core performance is not the point of that CPU.
Although its cores are weak, it has 8 of them (running on a faster RAM that PCs get) and while PC game developers might not care, console developers suddenly do.
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.
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.
I'm pretty sure Su-27 was a great jet fighter back in the cold war era.
It was definitely better than Mig-29.
Uh oh. Yet it is much cheaper than i5 (+ premium on mainboard), but does much better in games.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7643/amds-kaveri-prelaunch-information
That's clear.
What's not clear, is how it goes with freedom of speech/expression laws.
My Compac iPaq 5555 had touch screen and grid of icons (which look rather outdated compared to what Android OS has, I have to note) long before iPhone.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.
A (bit outdated) joke:every 4.5 billion years physicists of the Earth gather to launch Large Hadron Collider.
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
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
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.
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.
It tortures before it kills.
It is also inherently non-discriminate.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand