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Comment Re:Fantasies about ideologies (Score 1) 355

"In Europe you have people (yes, today, not 50 years ago) calling Nazism the only ideology that is peaceful over the long-term (because genetic improvement will lead to perfection which means no wars, get it ?). It is scary to see that this portion of Europe's political landscape is much bigger than, say America's communists, and they certainly exceed 5%, maybe even 10% of all Europeans."

[citation really very much needed because this is complete bollocks]

Also please note that Christians don't see war as a disaster no matter the potential rewards. Aquinas explicitly endorses the concept of the just war, and Aquinas was was central enough to Catholic ethics that he was both mentioned as the most important Catholic theologist by JPII and was previously made the Catholic saint of the tuition of priests. He also believed that heretics should be put to death both inside and outside the Christian nations, lest the similarity to Islamic holy wars should not be clear. Aquinas' thinking on just wars combined with the argument that heresy was a capital offence underpinned most of the crusades and the anti-Protestant wars.

Comment Re:Core count obsession (Score 1) 207

Uh, presumably they'd be doing that because tablets are at the same resolution. And yes, thanks to Moore's law phones are approaching PS3 level graphics. Does this surprise you? Even on a 4-5 inch display that makes a difference, so it becomes acceptable for both. Tegra 3 is pretty much ps3 level visuals, and fits in phones that are this size. That's small enough, light enough and can do it the job. Given that it drops down to one lower powered core for the majority of the time and has good batter life, why wouldn't I want the extra high quality game use case and general ability to ramp up processor performance if required? It also means stuff like Google Goggles can do real time image analysis and identification and runs smoothly. And as for relevant games? Sure, there are some already coming. And what it gives me? Same games wherever I am, ability to maintain game state, ability to not buy a console for more money, access to my mobile casual style games on the big screen, an open platform I can develop for and games that last more than one hardware generation. YMMV on these things, I guess.

Comment Re:Core count obsession (Score 1) 207

I've been searching for someone to answer to a simple question: what are the tasks at which you feel your high-end smartphone should be faster, that are not attributed to things like network roundtrips where a faster proc is irrelevant? "Four times faster than good enough" just does not equal to "four times as good" to me, especially if it comes with a larger price point.

Gaming at sufficient graphics quality to make full HD gaming possible when I hook up to larger displays. I want PS3 level graphics at the least, and that's coming via a) lots of GPU CUDA cores and b) lots of CPU helping out as with known hardware much of the effects rendering (physics etc) can be pushed back on the CPU cores. It's not like consoles don't use them, and that kind of customisation is the whole benefit of having known SoCs used widely.

Comment Re:No comparison whatsoever (Score 4, Funny) 200

If only we could tell which was most important to people. But wait! We could check by seeing the most useful information via the amount of links. Although we might want to add other metrics like social network mentions and such. We could make some kind of ranking system...to rank pages...if only there was some word for this.

Comment Re:Profit & Lies (Score 4, Insightful) 730

Again: Your company lied on the review, and tried to claim birdsong as your own whilst defaming eeplox by accusing him/her of being a pirate. I hope you feel ashamed of the place you work for, and the way in which it just tried to misappropriate revenue from work you had no part in. I only wish there were criminal sanctions for the person at your company who made the false counterclaim refutation; it isn't at all reasonable to have believed it was copyrighted/represented by yourselves. Please explain how the decision to make a refutation was determined, given that it is a legal statement.

Comment Re:Profit & Lies (Score 3, Interesting) 730

Your company lied on the review, and tried to claim birdsong as your own whilst defaming eeplox by accusing him/her of being a pirate. I hope you feel ashamed of the place you work for, and the way in which it just tried to misappropriate revenue from work you had no part in. I only wish there were criminal sanctions for the person at your company who made the false counterclaim refutation; it isn't at all reasonable to have believed it was copyrighted/represented by yourselves.

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