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> Based on just "3GHz core i7", a chip could either be painfully out of date or current top of the line.

This has always bothered me too. I suspect that the ambiguity is intentional on the part of Intel and/or Apple marketing (though I'm not savvy enough to know why exactly).

Does this count as Full Disclosure?

In my experience, you're also rolling the dice when you suspend Linux. My x99 workstation, z77 workstation, and XPS 13 have all failed to resume before. But Windows has done the same. I guess ACPI is a mess.

For those commenting about open-source: check out the zip archive[0] provided by the author. This project appears to be about a decade old; those files have modified dates of 2007/2008 (& perhaps the post title should reflect this).

Since it's freeware/"source-available", I wonder if they would consider making it publicly available or passing it on to a new maintainer.

Either way, very cool project.

[0]: http://josh.com/tiny/download/TinyImage.zip

That is the norm in the Southern cities I've been to -- especially Jacksonville (my home). Hell, even in Atlanta, a relatively well-integrated city, the backronym meaning for MARTA[0] has existed practically since it began.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Atlanta_Rapid_Tra...

Cool -- I didn't even consider the shape of the waveforms (sine-like for flute, saw/square-like for anything distorted) having an effect on the data, but now that you tell me... duh!

I'm assuming this is due to the lower average signal level of symphonic recordings? Rock music is mastered closer to 0db due to the well-publicized loudness war.

Obviously, this doesn't affect bandwidth in uncompressed audio, where every sample contains every bit, so filesize = bit-depth * sample-rate(hz) * T(seconds). But in compressed audio, average signal level can make a significant difference in filesize/bandwidth.

(Who would have thought a network would be a casualty of the loudness war... harhar)

> I am not a gazillionaire;

Haha, I couldn't have been the only one thinking the majority stake probably cost less than one of the cameras.

Good lord.

Agree -- people are missing the point that this stuff would easily take over an hour to do manually in the GUI.

It isn't perfect by any stretch, but I've been liking my XPS 13. The battery is especially noteworthy.