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Toms Hardware Reviews 65 CPU's, Past & Present
An anonymous reader writes "Toms Hardware has an interesting review of 65 processors ranging from 100 MHz to 3066 MHz. They spent more than 300 hours benchmarking and recording the scores. Worth a quick glance, especially for the Unreal Tournament 2003 scores on the 100 MHz pentium!" CT: Yeah yeah. It's a dupe. Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me.
cool ;-)
Denken hilft.
Read Slashdot much?
Wow, a same day dupe! heh
Oh yeah...
Damn! There's been a change in the Matrix!
Everyone repost quick! Lets reduce Slashdot to one story!
Omnis amans amens
All my slashdot articles are appearing doubled, there must be something wrong with my video card.
My rights don't need management.
"Hi, I'm CmdrTaco, I don't read slashdot, I just post new stories. I don't really know why I have other editors, as I usually get around to finding most everything important on my own - though I might be a bit slower."
so we get more comments on this one than the other one. People get so confused and itll be a lot of fun.
you can get more info here
Ok, It's a lame joke... but withing a really short time of the first one PROVES they dont even look at the frontpage.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
The Slashdot Sandwich
Take a tasty filling of Gameboy Advanced SP information sandwiched between two two layersof duplicated Tom's Hardware links.
Trolling is a art,
For a reasonable fee per story, I am offering my services to the editors of /. as a proofreader and duplicate checker. Additionally, I will assist if necessary (at a negotiable hourly rate) in adding code to automatically send the draft article blurbs to my wireless device. I am unable to proofread overnight (I have to sleep sometime), so that will have to be covered by another shift, or written off as "happy slashdot error time."
I cannot guarantee 100% error correction, but I will stake my job on significantly decreased rates of grammar and spelling mistakes, and far fewer duplicate postings.
I would also like a T-shirt that says "I work for slashdot".
Please, for the sake of your readers, hire me. I want to help!
Only 63 more duplicates to go!
is the screen on your new laptop?
actually, this is easily the only type of dupe I can understand and accept. If they're close together, it means that two editors were working on the same story almost at the same time, which is understandable, but when they're hours or days appart it can only mean that slashdot editors don't read slashdot...
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
I'm sorry. Comments of this nature are not appropriate for this forum. This thread is strictly for discussing duplicate stories.
/. editors? Bueller? Bueller?
If you wish to discuss the contents of the TomsHardware CPU review, please post your comments in this discussion.
Timothy, you wanna take a crack at it too? ChrisD? Any other
THG should benchmark how quickly you can dupe a story with those CPUs.
"The Pentium 100 managed a painful 48 hours between dupes. However, the P4 managed it in just 30 minutes. That's nearly 100 times as fast! Don't you wish you had such a powerful system? Our advertisers do."
This must be the Slashdot version of double buffering... post the same story twice to ensure smooth, flicker free updates!
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
... who got stuck with the 100 Mhz CPU!
Responsibilities:
- Review content and decide what goes on the front page.
- Check for spelling and grammatical errors.
I don't get it. Why did they leave out the Pentium Pro?
NOnsense, there's over an hour between the 2 posts. ...waiting 20 seconds....
doo dee doo dee doo.
here
...but they keep getting modded down as flamebait or offtopic. *sigh*
here
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Stick Men
Assuming that the plural, possessive, and plural possessive forms of acromyms follow the same form as for ordinary nouns, then the use of an apostrophe depends on the usage. For the plural form, of course no apostrophe should be used. There can be an apostrophe in CPUs if you are referring to some property belonging to the CPU, as in "The CPU's instructions are well designed."
If you are describing a property beloning to a group of CPUs then the largely ignored plural possessive form of "CPUs'" should likely be used. Usually reworking the sentence structure can eliminate the need for this form.
Now lets discuss the combined slashdot editors' frightful confusion regarding homonyms, shall we?
Granted. I don't see how any word processor can justifiably require a 1.6Ghz processor and 512Mb of RAM. In fact, I think Office 97 on a Pentium Pro 200 was perfectly usable in it's day and is just as usable now, but that's not the whole story. There's a whole plethora of applications which are now commonplace, which weren't even considered feasible ten (?) years ago. I can remember a piece of DOS software on my old 286 which displayed JPEG images. That was it. It took noticeable time just to decode the file, and then sample it down to 320x200 to display on a normal VGA monitor. Nowadays, we don't even consider the decoding process when viewing JPGs.
:)
There's other similar applications - DivX movies, strong encryption, even MP3 audio - which we now take for granted 'cos we've got so much horsepower to play with that processing overhead is no longer an issue. Now we're getting into the realm of PVRs, digital camcorders, encoding real-time video straight into DivX - applications which appeal to ordinary home users, and which require some *serious* megahertz. The games industry provides a convenient milestone - anyone can tell that Quake III looks better than the original Wolfenstein 3D, but more importantly, they can see that they're fundamentally the same thing. It's a lot harder to compare modern video editing software with that of ten years ago, because ten years ago the only people editing movies on their home PCs were masochistic millionaires.
Rather than focusing on all those wasted MHz driving more and more bloated word-processors, consider some of the things we just *couldn't* do with slower hardware, and wonder what we're going to be taking for granted ten years from now.
Press release:
Slashdot founder CmdTaco, issued a statement about his er.. frequent use of the slashdot frontpage:
-The last hours I have used zero minutes reading the frontpage.
Melius mori in libertate quam vivere in servitute.
CT: Yeah yeah. It's a dupe. Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me.
Funny that - perhaps people get the idea that you won't look at their mails, seeing as you can't even be bothered to read your own goddamn website...
I can't believe you actually get paid to do this...
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Yeah, I suggest they could repost the story with correct syntax.
Signatures are for stupids.
OK, slashdot has the most sophisticated moderation system I've ever seen with hundreds of users contributing to the moderation of articles every day, just to make sure we only have to read the comments that are worth reading.
:)
Only slashdot admins then go and post the entire article twice within minutes - thus undoing the work of hundreds of moderators.
I wish there was a way to moderate the *parent* article down:
-1 Flamebait
-1 Redundant
etc...
All this moderation, but they can't spare ONE person to say if the article is a dupe or not. Notice how slashdot is the *ONLY* news site that has this dupe problem... This is mainly caused because a lot of the articles aren't news - they're from months ago, so the editors need to have a good memory.
Nick...
"CT: Yeah yeah. It's a dupe. Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me."
Oh, I *see*. It's OUR fault. Gotcha.
Moron.
Hey spacklewit, you can't be bothered to read your own website, why would we think you'd bother to read your email too?
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Come off it. I don't see where you get off bitching because nobody told you that you posted a dupe of a story two stories down. I mean, had you taken a cursory glance at your own site you probably would have seen this story.
You know, if you didn't want us to pay for this, I wouldn't even care. But I cannot believe that you are bitching at paying customers because of your lack of editing. What gives? As I've said before this site has editorial practices slightly worse than that of your average grade school newspaper. I think it's really insulting that you would expect anyone to pay for this.
Let me up the ante here. You editors are pretty tech-savvy, right? I just used Mozilla's oft-praised tabbed browsing feature to open another tab and look up the post I linked above. Now, when you are approving submissions, how hard would it be to have a second tab open to make sure you aren't posting a dupe. I mean, look, you guys approve at most 20 stories a day. Between the four or five (estimate) active editors, that's.. well.. not a lot. It wouldn't be hard to simply say "when I'm ready to approve a story I'll make sure there aren't any dupes." This kind of work wouldn't take long at all, and combined with a little editing would go a long way towards getting some new subscribers. I, for one, pledge to subscribe when the editorial quality of this site improves. That means, basically, that every other story can't have glaring grammatical or spelling errors, and that dupes are practically nonexistant.
I realize that everybody makes mistakes, myself included, but the number of mistakes from people who are professionals (and you are professionals if you do this for a living -- you do) is just too much to be tolerated -- or at least paid for.
you can take the road that takes you to the stars...
Nor the NexGen Nx586, which had 256K on chip cache two years before the Pentium Pro.
They have the K5 on there, which was AMD's bastardization of the Nx586 after they acquired NexGen.
NexGen was the first company to reverse engineer an Intel processor and produce a compatible version. They had some really fine people at that company, and it was their design work which brough us the AMD K6 and Athlon processors. Its unfortunate they don't get a lot of credit. No one seems to remember how terrible AMD used to be. Their acquisition of NexGen was one last ditch effor to do something other make 386 and 486 processors.
I don't read or respond to AC posts
Yeah yeah. It's a dupe. Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me.
Yeah, cause, you know, we're Slashdot editors.
Do people really even subscribe to Slashdot? Doesn't seem worth it.
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Waaaa waaaa, the people who I ignore as much as I can and who pay my salary refuse to do my job for me, waaa, waaa
If I had a breif spell of insanity and thought that Slashdot editors gave a crap about what anyone thought, or even for a moment believed that the editors listen to input, yeah, I might've written a mail. But it seems that everything else that people write Slashdot about, suggestions and complaints alike, is ignored as soon as possible. So why should anyone bother to write you Taco?
I like Slashdot, I like the people on Slashdot, I'm a Slashdot addict, I'll refresh the front page after I'm done writing this. But man, the staff running this place is unbelievable. No spell checking, ever. Dupes, trolls, fakes, bad URLs etc etc all find their way through to the frontpage way too often indicating that half the time the staff don't even read the article, much less check links or such. There is no staging or testing lab, it's quick hacks and patches on the live boxes which every now and then brings the site down or creates some other, ahem, interesting results.
In short, the Slashdot staff isn't even trying anymore. Complete stagnation.
Aaaah it feels good to burn some karma, of course, I'll never get to moderate anything after this rant though.
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You only tell the admins about unexpected occurences. This is normal operating procedure.
'Sensible' is a curse word.
Depending on the authority you go by, the "standard" for writing plurals of acronyms varies.
The (US) Government Printing Office Style Manual states: "an apostrophe is used to indicate...the coined plurals of letters, figures, and symbols." GPO provides examples such as YMCA's and ABC's.
On the other hand, the 14th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style states: "So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numberals) form the plural by adding s alone." Provided examples include CODs and IOUs. Also according to this source, "Abbreviations having more than one period, such as M.D. and Ph.D., often form their plurals of an apostrophe and an s." Examples given include M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s. I particularly enjoy this excerpt for its anthropomorphism of words, ascribing the action of forming the plural to the words themselves rather than the writer.
Then, of course, there is the real definition of apostrophe, the first listed in Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
A figure of speech by which the orator or writer
suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his
discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some
person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's
apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of
``Paradise Lost.''
Thus, for one who considers processors as narrative, it is indeed likely that there might be an apostrophe in a CPU, for example, in the case of a cache miss....
I love that it's implied it is in some way the readers' fault for not telling him "in 2 hours."
I'm the one who posted it, and that guy was right about 2 people posting it at the same time, because when I posted it, from what i could tell, it hadn't been posted yet! (latest story was on the 2.2 million credit cards...) AOL IM Screenname PcChip2