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CapnAndy posted:It was Apple and the truth is more complex. App development targets the newest hardware and over time, as your phone gets further and further away from that level of processor speed, it draws more and more power to keep up -- using silly, simplified numbers to explain that, if an app needs 40 calculations done every second, your phone can do 50 calculations per second, and the newest phone can do 100, your phone is drawing twice the power to do the same task. In an effort to conserve battery life, Apple put in a thing that'd notice phones doing that past a certain threshold and go "look just limit yourself to a certain power drain level and slow the program down if you need to". It got bad press because they did it in secret and intentionally slowing performance down is never a good look. This isn't it at all. The issue had to due with Apple making a whole series of gently caress ups. So the problem really started with Apple loving up their selection for batteries in the iPhone. They basically used batteries that were right at the borderline of what their processor needed. But lithium ion batteries don't last forever and with daily charging and discharging, within a year or so the voltage output from the battery is noticeably degrading. Now this normally wouldn't be a problem because you'd account for it when you design your product, but Apple didn't, and when a particularly processor intensive task occurred, the processor drew more voltage than some of the batteries could put out causing it to go into a brown out state and reset. Now the responsible thing to do would be to address the problem as a hardware failure. What Apple did was they just turned down the clock speed on the CPU. This wasn't because "old CPUs need twice as much power to do the same thing", it's because switching transistors on and off consumes power and doing it more often require giving that power faster. The amount of power being consumed remained exactly the same, but what had to be sent to the processor at any given moment decreased. They got away with this for about a month with people just going, "My phone is running slower than normal," and other people going, "It's just your imagination," before someone benchmarked a whole bunch of phones and found some really suspicious clustering of scores. Which led to details of Apple's "solution" coming out. It's not about conserving battery life and it's not about the calculations being done per second, at least in the sense that you stated. It's about Apple not planning the lifecycle of their hardware more than six months out and how they mismanaged their batteries. I wrote a relatively long research paper on this so I've gotten a pretty good handle on things.
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Madkal posted:Did you mention Khandaq a bunch of times? I can think of a lot of things to cover on the topic of shifting middle eastern depictions in comics, but if you don't mention that the Joker was the Iranian UN ambassador then you should have automatically gotten an F. Man, I'd love to work in a comics theme to a research paper but the Apple iPhone battery mismanagement paper I mentioned a page or so back is likely the last research paper I have to write for my degree. It's extra disappointing because studying electrical engineering has taught me that early issues of Iron Man are 100% scientifically accurate. By which I mean, Stan probably read an issue of Scientific American talking about the properties of transistors and managed to misinterpret it a lot less than you might think. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 17:16 on May 14, 2018 |
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A Strange Aeon posted:Woah, I've never had any desire to get anything signed, but does it really work like that? You just show up with a dozen books and he signs them all one by one? And a bunch of people are doing this, each carting a dozen trades in their backpack? People do that and as a kid I used to be one of those assholes not thinking about how it was a pain for everyone. These days I make a point of just one or two things but I try to do something a bit more interesting than just a signature. My Mighty Hercules one is the best of those where the signatures are accompanied by each person adding onomatopoeia of them signing the book.
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May 15, 2018 05:52
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CapnAndy posted:From what I remember that was all Perez, who decided on his own that he was going to get every last Avenger or JLAer in, and every single one of their costumes at least once, because he knew he'd never get another chance at this and also he's insane enough to think it was possible in the first place. I think that's actually the result of some kind of curse put on Perez. Now he's compelled to draw gigantic images featuring as many characters as possible in as many different costumes as possible simultaneously.
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May 21, 2018 18:17
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Mr Hootington posted:Big Sir is in this. Lol Everyone who had been on any Justice League or Avengers team ever to that point is on that cover. So Justice League Antarctica is on there. So are the Great Lake Avengers. All of the Guardians of the Galaxy are in there because they got referred to as future Avengers. Perez included Power Girls cat.
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May 22, 2018 04:44
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A Strange Aeon posted:I guess there's no chance of well-known comic artists' private commissions ever seeing the light of day in a published volume? I think it'd be kind of fascinating--just imagine seeing footless Liefeld porn between the 90s Image heroes. It's unlikely given the nature of them, but Adam Warren's superhero bondage porn commissions were used to kick of Empowered and consequentially some of them are in the first volume.
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May 22, 2018 05:05
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Mr. Maltose posted:No, Hamilton is unique in how every beltway pundit apparently saw it and declared it the greatest masterpiece in theater history. There was nothing I liked better than NPR's daily segment on how great Hamilton was.
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May 25, 2018 22:40
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site posted:there might be a real gwen stacy out in the world ya never know My landlord used to be Peter Parker...
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May 26, 2018 05:12
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site posted:Was he buff as hell No. He also had no interest in attending science experiments involving radioactivity. Frankly, a disappointment to the Parker name.
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Teenage Fansub posted:He just did ASM 800. I think the last big interiors things were Star Wars and Empress. I hope he enjoys his retirement because it seems like that is exceptionally rare in the comic book industry.
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