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Comment Re:Stop the constant WP7-bashing. (Score 1) 351

It's a sneaky sales tactic they've been doing with Android phones for quite a while. They could do a sale for 50% (of the upfront price, not the inflated monthly payment cost) off or go the sneaky route and score a contract or contract extension for two phones by making you buy two of them to get the "deal".

Comment Re:New Benchmark (Score 4, Interesting) 175

Also, I have seen cases where compiler optimization is smart enough to remove the entire loop if there are no side effects to incrementing i, and it's not used outside the loop.

Most compilers should be doing this. Hell, even IE9 is supposed to do it for JavaScript now. It gets great scores on SunSpider because of it (the JIT can throw away entire tests).

Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 272

If ads on legitimate sites weren't offering up these kinds of "tools", I'd be more inclined to agree the users that get infected are somehow stupid. I remember having my antivirus going off on a regular basis when browsing completely legit sites because an ad embedded in it was attempting an exploit.

Comment Re:About hardware, not operating systems (Score 2, Insightful) 229

They didn't run the Windows benchmark with all available nodes. I'd assume they didn't have licenses for every node but the researchers made it sound like they had some sort of nerdgasm because the machine could benchmark running Windows on par with Linux (only a 5% margin on a smaller cluster).

Comment Re:Sounds more like... (Score 1) 426

It's nothing more than expansion of the internal storage. Anything you'd find written to the internal storage can be written to the SD card once the internal storage is filled. The SD card installed into a WP7 device is intended to be in the phone for either the life of the card or the life of the phone, whichever comes first.

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