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Comment Re:The distinction is minor (Score 1) 223

Sounds like you'd be better off if the companies would ditch the "thinner is better" idiocy and put some decently hefty batteries in the things. My LG G2x gets a week of standby time with the extended battery I bought, and I will never purchase a device without an easily replaceable battery (as in just under the back cover, so all I have to do is get a bigger battery and fatter cover). I don't give a damn about wireless charging if the charge won't last more than a day in the first place.

Comment Re:Unfortunate Card Naming (Score -1, Troll) 142

If you have no idea what the numbers mean, then perhaps you should leave analysis of the numbers to someone with the requisite basic computer hardware knowledge. This isn't challenging stuff. Perhaps you'd be best just leaving the computer alone completely. Really, what are you doing on the internet?

Comment Math (Score 1) 277

In the first phase, which lasts 1.5 years, hard drives have an annual failure rate of 5.1%. For the next 1.5 years, the annual failure rate drops to 1.4%. After three years, the failure rate explodes to 11.8% per year. In short, this means that around 92% of drives survive the first 18 months, and almost all of those (90%) then go on to reach three years.

Extrapolating from these figures, just under 80% of all hard drives will survive to their fourth anniversary.

1.00 (total) - .051 (failure rate for 1.5 years) = .949 (non-failure), but only 92% survive for 18 months (a.k.a. 1.5 years)? What?

Comment Re:How about benchmarking the binary? (Score 0) 196

Can you read?

It’s interesting that the code built with the g++ compiler performed the best in most cases, although the clang compiler proved to be the fastest in terms of compilation time.

Just in case you didn't get that: They did benchmark the resulting binaries, and g++ made the best ones.

Submission + - Battlefield 4 DRM Locking Part Of North America Out Of Its Release Date.

An anonymous reader writes: On the whole, Battlefield 4 had a reasonable launch. The have clearly learned from their past experiences with Battlefield 3 and, more notably, SimCity. Still, some customers are unable to access the game (until presumably October 30th at 7PM EDT, 39 hours after launch) because they are incorrectly flagged by region-locking. Do regional release dates help diminish all the work EA has been putting into Origin with their refund policy and live technical support? Should they just take our money and deliver the service before we change our minds?

Submission + - Samsung Smart Kit: Wireless Zigbee Controlled LED Light Bulbs, Android App

An anonymous reader writes: The Apple store has offered wireless LED bulbs for over a year now courtesy of a partnership with Philips Hue. Now, thanks to a recent FCC filing, we know Samsung is jumping into the illumination game with wireless LED bulbs of their own. "Samsung Smart Kit is a lighting management solution that allows you to control LED bulbs in your house using your Android smartphone. Now you can easily turn lights on and off and change the ambiance in your living space with a touch of your finger." The kit will include 3 LED Bulbs (white) and 1 Ethernet to Zigbee Bridge.

Submission + - Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth wins Austria's Big Brother Award (muktware.com)

sfcrazy writes: Austria’s Big Brother Awards has picked Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth for the coveted Big Brother Award for their online extension to local searches. In times like these when spying by these two countries is becoming such a huge concerned there are companies like ownCloud and Kolab Systems which are building technologies to protect users from surveillance states. At the same time it’s unfortunate to see that Canonical is going in an opposite direction by building a system which will make it easier for NSA and GCHQ to reach the hard drives of users.

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