Domain: haxial.net
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Re:Hey, here's something
Perhaps because this site is correct?
If you visit the site, don't miss the picture of just a small part of the result of "god's" actions.... -
Re: good for your computer
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Re:As I've been saying for years:
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Re: What do you mean MS doesn't do tabs?
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Re:This is why the "double standard"
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Fair testing...
Reminds me of this editorial on the G5's testing by Veritest. http://spl.haxial.net/apple-powermac-G5/
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Re:Apple?
20240/2200 = 9.2 Gflops/CPU max for Virginia Tech.
2048/256 = 8 Gflops/CPU max for UCLA.
Gee, I was off by 1.2Gflops/CPU.
Maybe YOU should't be such a delusional apple fanboy, and notice that even using virginia tech's numbers, 35 Gflops/xserve = 1.9*9.2*2. Notice the 1.9 in there, that would seem to indicate that a dual xserve does not get 35 Glfops, and that apple lied about 8.3 Gflops/CPU.
And there still is the matter of an dual xserve being 2/3 as slow as a 3ghz dual p4, while costing twice as much.http://spl.haxial.net/apple-powermac-G5/ -
Re:Apple?
The correct link is http://spl.haxial.net/apple-powermac-G5/ where it does document Apple's blatent lies.
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Re:Plurals
Wrong, in no way is virii EVER correct. Notice the extra "i"? Is it actually "virius"? Have you recently checked the statii on your projects?
One could then excuse oneself by saying "viri" but that is already a Latin word -- for "men".
A sibling to your comment posted another good link: allow me to redund* http://spl.haxial.net/viruses.html
Note there that the dictionary includes "emoticon" and "smiley" but does not include virii - however viruses is there as a plural form. So the dictionary is evolving along with the language.
If you want to slog through the whole Tom Christiansen article, you'll actually see that in Latin, there IS no plural for virus.
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Re:How long...
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Never use the GPLAlthough I condone and preach the ideals of the GPL, the actual license is extremely poorly written. RMS isn't a lawyer, as as far as I'm' aware, the GPL has never been reviewed by one.
Were the GPL ever to be the subject of a legal battle, it would be ripped to shreds. There are other licenses available (or you can always have a lawyer draft one for you), but sooner or later, I think the GPL's poor wording is going to kick us in the butt.
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Re:Well, if not
FYI: Viruses
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Re:like anti virus companies
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Re:hmmmm
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I have provided a picture of my passport, as I appreciate you want to know who you are dealing with.
My friend, I expect to be hearing from you.
Sincerely,
JT Kirk -
Re:hmmmm
Dear Ikeme Otobamo,
Your story has touched my heart, and I am willing to help you get into possession of your so deserved stock sales. In the past I have been successfully helping persons that were in a similar position as yours, you can find a reference here.
My only condition is that you accept to add the Kdentu X11 interface to your Linux distribution as an option to Gnombolo.
I have provided a picture of my passport, as I appreciate you want to know who you are dealing with.
My friend, I expect to be hearing from you.
Sincerely,
JT Kirk -
Re:Damn Spoiled Brats
I know you were probably joking, but I thought I should point out this.
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Re:Maybe that's the answer...Unfortunately for apple fans, the number still stand on that site. Dell's own testing shows much better performance with the benchmark than Apple's does, and even makes the Dell machine win the benchmark. On the other hand, if they used GCC to compile the benchmark for the Dell machines, that might explain why they got such cruddy results. It's a widely accepted fact that GCC's code generation on CPUs with limited numbers of registers is pretty poor in terms of performance.
Of course, if you don't trust that website, how about ZDNet or even compare the numbers yourself. There's Veritest's Apple numbers, versus the offical published numbers from SPEC. There's also this site which goes into detail about the benchmark. They used -ffast-math on PPC, but not on x86, for instance. They explicitly turned off hyperthreading, which obviously hurt the Dell machine during the MP tests.
Then again, as the old saying goes, there's three types of lies. Lies, damn lies and benchmarks.
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Mod idiot child downspl's claims were refuted by Apple:
Slashdot | Apple Hardware VP Defends Benchmarks
spl is an idiot and known Mac community troll. Proof for the idiot part can be found here.
Oh, and here is what Luxology had to say benchmarkwise
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Re:That's one of those
However, their scores were inconsistent, even with the index scores stated by the SPEC folks.
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Re:Not enough info ....
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Re:419
Well, nothing can beat the guy who played with the scammer by posing as James T. Kirk, including a fake passport!
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Re:419
Well, nothing can beat the guy who played with the scammer by posing as James T. Kirk, including a fake passport!
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How could you guys forget ?!?!
The funniest Nigeria 419 scam of all time ?!
This was featured on slashdot a while back by another user on Slashdot Sunny Dubey -
This reply is amazingThis story is amazing. It was featured a little while ago in Slashback.
IMHO, it's the best one ever; without selling any punches, it ends in bloodshed
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