That's kind of like the Microsoft Windows Experience Index that is provided by Windows Vista / Windows 7 which gives a score based on CPU, RAM, GPU, and hard disk speed. Not entirely useful but gives beta-level nerds something to talk about at the water cooler.
http://windows.microsoft.com/e...

At work my desktop computer is a Pentium E6300 with a 6.3 rating on the CPU and an overall 4.8 rating due to the crappy graphics chipset.
At work my laptop computer is an i3-2010M with a 6.4 rating on the CPU and an overall 4.6 rating due to the crappy graphics chipset.

A compression algorithm rated by speed and compression ability would have to weight the speed vs. the compression, right?

Also, you asked 49 people? What a statistically insignificant number. Way below the margin of error. come back when you have a sample size of 10,000.

I thought sales would be huge because people like horses more than cars. Somebody please help!

i'll settle for lori petty by her pretty self

Didn't Apple create an app for schools / educators / kids that would allow them to create content for the iPad ON the iPad? Samsung and Amazon treat their devices as content consumption only, and that's a weakness of the Android platform.

The only skill Microsoft is seeking is a low daily wage.

does IBM have 400k employees? is the count ~300k for temp staff?

or Kris. or Jo/e

Not surprising at all. When a company takes on a new CEO he looks to get some easy wins quickly, and cutting employees makes the company seem "lean and mean." In the case of Satya, we may not expect him to lay off the employees who stood in the way of his rise to power -- he doesn't seem tyrannical like Jobs or maniacal like his predecessor Ballmer. But if he ever wanted retribution, now is the time.

nice
https://www.google.com/search?...

you have a bad credit score? no bank account for you, ya lousy bum

the quickest way to a cashless society is make everybody broke.

no more beef for the 99%. we'll all be eating bugs in the future.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2...

or perhaps it's from a stargate

thanks, nathan, you scumsucking patent troll!

or Win 8.1 update 1 (start button? not start menu? wtf Microsoft? they truly don't get it.

or OSX Mavericks (anyone ever test mail.app before fucking up your customers' emails? and to make labels dots to the far right of files and folders is FAR less convenient than coloring the actual files and folders themselves. Just like how apple fucked up labels when they took them out of OSX, then re-added them wrongly.