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Comment: Re:maybe the article is flat out wrong (Score 3, Informative) 207

by ChronoReverse (#39186135) Attached to: Asus Transformer Drops Quad-core In Favor of Dual-core
That's not necessarily true. The Adreno 225 in the current Krait is slower than the 320 that'll be coming later in the year but it still trades benchmarks with Tegra3 in graphics tests.


Notably, the GLbenchmark offscreen test where the Tegra3 wins the most by, has a severe bug somewhere.

Faster-than-light neutrinos may be error caused by loose cable-> 2

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semi-extrinsic writes "Everyone remembers the faster-than-light neutrinos reported by the OPERA experiment in collaboration with CERN last year. ScienceInsider now reports that the headline-causing result may turn out to be a measurement error caused by a loose cable:

"According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer."

The report comes from an anonymous source, and is yet unconfirmed, but if confirmed would be a disappointing result for all those hoping that we had stumbled across new physics."
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Comment: Re:Not required.. (Score 1) 137

by ChronoReverse (#35982488) Attached to: The Fight Against Dark Silicon
Agree 100%

The two biggest power draws are the screen and radios. This is what needs to be made more efficient.

With proper GUI design and AMOLED screens, the screen power draw can be drastically reduced but things like the 3G radio drain power like mad if the signal isn't perfectly strong (while 4G radios gobble power under all circumstances).

Comment: Re:what (Score 1) 691

by ChronoReverse (#35481126) Attached to: Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Or rather, shit happens and the designs work better than they were engineered for.


The reactors, built 40 years ago, using an old less safe design, engineered for 8.0 earthquakes, survived a 9.0 (it was upgraded) earthquake and a tsunami as well as a hydrogen explosion of the outer building with the all-important containment building still completely intact.


If people were sane and less reactionary, this is actually quite the demonstration of how incredibly resilient it all was.

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