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They are powerful enough for the task they are doing in the context of a smartphone.
Newer instances of CPU will only have marginal gains in performance, but I hope offer better power usage and heat management.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Such as photo and video editing ... Yes I have friends editing video on smartphones. Or they do video and audio recoding.
Everbody today do image and sound analysis - face recognition, voice command processing. The quality of the result is very much limited by the processing power available. A CPU with ten times the peformance on tasks like these could do a more reliable recognition, fewer errors in interpreting speech or gestures or whatever. You get the quality that your smartphone's CPU is capable of giving you, saying "It good enough for me", so you don't care to know if your desktop PC have two or ten times the performance of your smartphone.
Maybe, in a couple of years, you will have higher expectations. Not too long ago did I dig up some old family videos, asking myself: But... I thought these were digital video recordings! This is VHS quality, isn't it? - I have been working with a fairly high quality HD camera for 8-10 years. I had to dig up the old DV tapes from the basement, comparing the orignial tapes to my harddisk copy. The quality was identical. What I considered razor sharp, superb resolution in 1995 was no better than VHS when I judged it 20+ years later. (Well, it was: VHS was far worse than I rememered.)
Smartphone capabilities (and our expectations) will develop the same way. Once we get access to more processing power, we will expect better results.
I suspect that people's reluctance to compare smartphone to desktop PCs is a fear of discovering how far ahead desktop CPUs are in performance. If you've recently spent USD 1500 on a top-of-the-line smartphone that you are really proud of, then you don't want to be told that it has only a fraction of the power of that USD 600 desktop PC that is nothing to be proud of. You want to compare that new expensive flagship to inferior models, not to anything with greatly superior performance. The reason why we don't have the figures I am asking for is that we don't want them!
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Member 7989122 wrote:
I suspect that people's reluctance to compare smartphone to desktop PCs is a fear of discovering how far ahead desktop CPUs are in performance. If you've recently spent USD 1500 on a top-of-the-line smartphone that you are really proud of, then you don't want to be told that it has only a fraction of the power of that USD 600 desktop PC that is nothing to be proud of. You want to compare that new expensive flagship to inferior models, not to anything with greatly superior performance. The reason why we don't have the figures I am asking for is that we don't want them!
(for the whole quote) So what; I don't care, and most people don't care either; and if they were, it would be like "Hey look what my phone can do that your 5 kilos desktop PC cannot do!"
Desktop and smartphones are different, they have different usage; they have different requirements.
Don't compare tomatoes to oranges.
I work in an engineering domain, we use very high end desktop computers, we need the computing power; but we're probably the 0.001% (or even less) of the people that really need that kind of performance on a desktop PC.
If I was asked to develop a mobile version of our software, the requirements would be completely different.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Few days ago heard another "the phone in your pocket has multiple times more processing power then all the computers combined for round trip of NASA landing a man on the moon."
That's great, except all that NASA computing was many times more focused on a few jobs. I (now and then) don't take for granted how amazing processing power my phone has, but NASA (as much as I know) was not dealing with malware detection, stupid user inputs, rogue code, wasted code, bad code, bloated code and such.
to answer your question at a basic level - for today, it has enough processing power.
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Code Of Conduct[^]
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I recognize most but "Bury the dead." made me spit coffee.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Bury the dead.
That should be #1 commandment for project managers.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Insert necessary Project Manager joke:
Three men: a project manager, a software engineer, and a hardware engineer are helping out on a project. About midweek they decide to walk up and down the beach during their lunch hour. Halfway up the beach, they stumbled upon a lamp. As they rub the lamp a genie appears and says "Normally I would grant you three wishes, but since there are three of you, I will grant you each one wish."
The hardware engineer went first. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living in a huge house in St. Thomas with no money worries." The genie granted him his wish and sent him on off to St. Thomas.
The software engineer went next. "I would like to spend the rest of my life living on a huge yacht cruising the Mediterranean with no money worries." The genie granted him his wish and sent him off to the Mediterranean.
Last, but not least, it was the project manager's turn. "And what would your wish be?" asked the genie. "I want them both back after lunch" replied the project manager.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Ah well, I was living like a monk anyway, so this should pose no problems for me 
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Very commendable, but let's stay quiet about this. You would not want to hear from someone in Rome. They tried to declare me a saint, but I did not fall for it. You have to be dead before you can officially become a saint.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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72 commandments.
Devote yourself frequently to prayer. I prefer actual code-reviews over prayer. If someone prays before a release, it is time to move.
Attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good you see in yourself.
Recognize always that evil is your own doing, and to impute it to yourself. So if I do something good, he takes the credit, but if the devil makes me do it, it is my fault? Does that make God a software-manager?
Be not addicted to wine. Then stop with turning water into it and start making smoothies.
Clothe the naked. No need to; if they needed clothes they would be born with them.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I have no problem with those commandments but they miiiiight have. My Lord God is Tharizdun...
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I had nearly forgotten those realms 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You did indeed, since there are no grey hawks there.
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Good. I still have a letter of marque from the lords of Waterdeep[^].
Anyway, Athas is also a fine place to roll some dice.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'd love it, especially since it really calls for the introduction of psions or, better yet, warlocks (as per 3.5 edition and not 5th).
Without them I don't know, I like it but it's too hostile to spellcasters. Maybe I could play my Human Monk there...
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First time I played, I asked the GM what kind of character would fit best to me. He told me that I would probably enjoy playing a Templar. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Cool! My monk is more a Kenshiro type without much moral guidance (Legal Neutral) and as the campaign progressed he developed quite a bit of PTSD.
My ispiration for its core were a mix from Kenshiro and Zell Dincht (Final Fantasy VIII), the rest came naturally. The PTSD wasn't planned at all, it just developed until I recognized it as such. Too bad the party split irredeemably.
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You do know that Athas is more like a post-apocalyptic wreck of a fantasy setting where halflings are cannibals, elves are scavengers in the desert and a templar is the merciless goon of one of the defilers?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I missed some details
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I'm a fervent member of the YMRCotIGB-SA myself*
* Young Men's Reformed Cultists of the Ichor God Bel-Shamharoth Association
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Careful, you're PUFF appliable then.
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I don't live by the sea!
I don't frolic in the autumn mists!
(But if you have any strings and sealing wax ...)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oh, for the love of Zarquon...
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I prefer actual code-reviews over prayer. If someone prays before a release, it is time to move.
People pray for dinner all the time.
They're either very bad cooks or they have a lot of enemies (or both)
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