for a couple 3.5" hard drives,
2.5 inch SSDs are plentiful.
Also a real desktop can get much faster CPUs than an iMac.
From what I've heard, i7-4790k is a real screamer... It really does depend on whether you can use more than 4 cores.
Somebody has to write the code associated with
#define MAXIMUM_BATTERY_LIFE 1
It's akin to writing a scheduler-- some algorithms are efficient, some are not so efficient.
The taxi industry is a dinosaur. Uber is the Comet
Maybe you should read up on this extinction event. I like the part about impact winter, myself.
This article on SMT and the mainframe mentions that it has the potential to complicate billing...
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Whoa there. He's not composing python. He's writing in a real programming language.
Moderation is our form of peer review.
The mid 2011 model MacBookAir 11 could be configured with either 2 or 4 GB of Ram. And... that's it. No user serviceable parts inside.
In 2012, people who wished to dally with obsolescence were force to get at least 4 GB-- 8GB was a build to order option.
It makes a real difference if the storage has more latency than the memory.
I've been dealing with a somewhat less than satisfactory app on my ipad-- eDrawings Pro, a CAD viewer. It's always complaining about running out of memory. The solution to my problems (assuming that I don't just cut my losses and run) would depend on whether the error message was being pedantic about RAM vs storage.
Laptops generally have a lot more memory than 16 or 32GB, so it's not an issue. When it becomes an issue, as with mobile devices, this should be compensated with more memory to dedicate to OS.
My iMac has 8GB of memory, and 4 TB of storage.
My iPad has 1 GB of memory and 16 GB of storage
Apple doesn't sell laptops with more than 16 GB of memory.
Now, get off my lawn!
But, IMO, it is preferable to use the same units when possible.
That can get cumbersome:
"Proxima Centauri lies about 1.1 parsecs from our sun, but the observable universe has a radius of 14,000,000,000 parsecs".
Earh is 50 kiloparsecs from the Large Magellic Cloud, 778 kiloParsecs from the Andromeda Galaxy. And 2 Megaparsecs from this newly discovered galaxy. Apparently. KKs is an isolated spheroidal galaxy-- not a satellite of the Milky way, Andromeda or even Triangulum, nor is it clustered with other dwarf galaxies in the local group.
The paper says
Since 2008, only three galaxies had been newly discovered in a spherical shell between radii 1 and 3Mpc around the Local Group. Two of them are dIrrs, UGC 4879 (Kopylov et al. 2008) and Leo P (Giovanelli et al. 2013), and the third one, KK 258 (Karachentsev et al. 2014), belongs to the transition type dTr with minimal but detectable gas and young stars. Here we report the discovery in this volume of a dwarf spheroidal system KKs 3 ([KK2000] 03 = SGC 0224.3–7345 in the nomencla- ture of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database) at a distance of D = 2.12 ± 0.07 Mpc and well removed from any other known galaxy.
So the interesting feature isn't that it's close. It's that it's distant from any galaxy.
50 Megapixels in a phone is absurd. Even the most absurdly expensive glass has trouble keeping up with Nikon's full frame D800-- and that's only 36 Megapixels. It's more understandable in a medium format camera-- but those are significantly larger than phones, and far more expensive.
What really would be useful in a phone is decent low light performance-- noise free images at ISO 12,800 and beyond (as well as the focusing systems necessitated by this lack of light.)
My own lying eyes aren't cleared for this evidence, so I'm going to have to go with the CIA.
Why yes, I do want free two day shipping with Amazon Prime!
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
