Posts by xQx 2 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2013
By virtue of most civil aircraft being winged objects or powered parachutes you are correct.
That said, A helicopter without power doesn't make for a particularly comfortable landing, nor does a powered parachute when it's parachute knots up, regardless of power.
The 'jetpack' is sold with an optional BRS (Ballistic [Parachute] Recovery System) for a survivable vertical landing without power.
Really, I don't think it's cheating. It's just putting your best foot forward. The chips are capable of that speed, so why not turn all power saving off when someone launches a cpu-test application.
Obviously if you jailbreak the phone you are going to be able to tweak it to get the same CPU figures for your favorite apps.
Maybe this will force tech journalists to do a real job when reviewing a product by actually testing how it performs in the real world, not just loading some fancy-pants benchmark application and cut'n'pasting the results into their articles.
It's not like they're cheating on compliance tests like LG does:
http://topnews.co.uk/23081-lg-cheats-energy-efficiency-testing-launches-801-liter-dios-refrigerator
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