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by edderly 14y ago
Yeah, there's a nice summary of some of these types of papers here: http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2007/RAND_WR460.pdf (section 2.3). Some people wish to extrapolate that lottery results proves that a (statistically) lower qualit
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by edderly 14y ago
It practice it doesn't very often unless there's a very weird EGL configuration being requested which the h/w version doesn't support. But your point applies that you'd be better off removing the s/w renderer.
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by edderly 14y ago
It's related to double buffering and vsync together. If the pure rendering performance was 45fps, when the render is complete the next render can't progress until the buffer currently being displayed is available - hence degrades to 30 fps.
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by edderly 14y ago
It's not double the performance. It's a demo that if you use the software GLES implementation (which isn't used in production) they can run that benchmark at 60fps. The non-linaro toolchain GLES renders at less that 60 fps for this benchmar
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by edderly 14y ago
What's being demonstrated here isn't a real world usecase rather it is a demonstration that software (cpu based) GLES implementation can run at 60 fps with this test. In the production devices (and also available on Panda too) the actual GP
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by edderly 15y ago
I think this is confusing two issues. Firstly, no matter how much various techies might desire Android to be similar to the iPhone ecosystem and the way Apple updates it's products, it isn't going to happen because handset manufacturers can
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by edderly 15y ago
Genuine scientific progress is usually collaborative even if the nature of fame, and fiction, is to single out individuals, writes Quentin Cooper. It is sixty years since Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor became Her Royal Highness Queen Eliz
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by edderly 15y ago
I agree, people under-estimate the resources required to render typical web content, and also tend to forget how even on the high end devices that the web experience isn't particularly good. Similarly there's also been an underestimation ab
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by edderly 15y ago
GLBenchMark does run at the screen resolution unless you run the offscreen test.
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by edderly 15y ago
Sloppy linkbait. I'm not an Apple fan boy but when he complains that the performance of GLBenchmark is the same: > The most likely reason for this is that apps must be written to take full advantage of all four GPU cores, much in the sa
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by edderly 15y ago
I think you'll find that India still receives foreign aid from 'the bleachers'.
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Interview with Dr Nathaniel Borenstein, inventor of MIME(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by edderly 15y ago|0 comments
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by edderly 15y ago
I don't imply that there is no charity in India, but I suggest that when the country habors one third of the worlds poor that there is a way to go. I find your argument strange if you don't recognize the magnitude of India's poverty compare
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by edderly 15y ago
I agree it's difficult, but how about let us think that it is possible and important? I would hope technology can help, we already see that cell phones throughout some of the poorest parts of the world have become the default form of non-lo
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by edderly 15y ago
I'm not American. I think it's pretty fair to hold the successful to account for environment in which their success exists. “A Nation’s Greatness is Measured By How It Treats Its Weakest Members.” Mahatma Gandhi
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by edderly 15y ago
Before the elites in India consider themselves comparable to America, I would hope they address the swingeing poverty and piss poor literacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by
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Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked - 6 bit bytes(sciencedaily.com)
94 points by edderly 15y ago|39 comments
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by edderly 15y ago
Nice data, thanks, you might be right with your estimate.
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by edderly 15y ago
Yes I agree that you cannot target the the latest API, and there is a lag, which has been exceptionally long because of the Honeycomb blip. But it just means that, form factor and to a certain extent performance differences are more likely
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by edderly 15y ago
The only relationship between the version of the OS and fragmentation is that a new OS rev usually introduces an additional API level. So if you write an app to API level 15 (4.0 IIRC) that will be available and work on subsequent revs.
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by edderly 15y ago
I think by the end of the year this will be less of a problem. Consider that last year two OS versions were released and the first was Honeycomb which had a very binding legal agreement associated with it so as not to appear on phone form f
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Does privilege promote dishonesty?(news.sciencemag.org)
2 points by edderly 15y ago|0 comments
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by edderly 15y ago
What a load of baloney. This is symptomatic of the believe that management adds overriding value to performance, whereas in practice the best thing they can do is bring the best and/or most cohesive individuals together. An interesting fact
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by edderly 15y ago
It's worth reading Diane Hackborne on this topic https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/XAZ4CeVP...
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by edderly 15y ago
No problem, I've also toned down my reply.
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by edderly 15y ago
Disagree > And RIM’s BlackBerry was still the most popular smartphone in the world. If your world was the USA. Symbian/S60 was the dominant smartphone OS. > What Miner and Google gambled on, and it seems bizarre in retrospect, was t
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Where are the judges fit for the Internet age?(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by edderly 15y ago|0 comments
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by edderly 15y ago
What I'd like to understand is why is management professional training so oriented towards 'leadership' if you believe that facilitators and administrators are required. Working for a large multinational tech firm, I recently saw them launc
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by edderly 15y ago
(As a European) I think it's an exaggeration to say it's a common view that the government truly represents them. However, there also isn't a shared faith that corporations will do the right thing automatically, or there is more cynicism ab
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by edderly 15y ago
Sorry, how exactly do you keep the government out of it entirely? Whether there are regulations or not government agencies will still use the data, oh, unless you regulate it...

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