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keefe007 writes "It's generally known that smaller and more aggressive memory timings combined with higher clock speeds leads to higher performance, but for the most part, the increase in performance from tweaking each individual setting is relatively unknown. Perhaps in a bit too ambitious move, I set out to examine the impact of each individual memory timing and clock speed on overall performance. Find out the results of the tests at Techware Labs."
fisting like it was cmdrtaco!
Happy Birthday Kat
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No doubt by now you have discovered the ever increasing amount of college kids doing pornography. Never in the history of the world has there been such an explosion.
The real question is "why?"
Several reasons exist for this exponential growth:
So... enjoy that new outflow of college porn while you can. Capitalism is alive and well in the world.AC (Currently singing my college's theme song while waving the American flag... in my underwear.)
The core of the Microsoft .NET platform includes a new virtual machine, the Common
Intermediate Language, also known as MSIL. Unlike most other VMs, including the Java
VM, MSIL is designed specifically to support a wide range of languages. While it is
designed primarily for type-safe, object-oriented languages, it also has facilities that sup-port
both low-level languages and very high-level languages. For example, it accommo-dates
unsafe pointer arithmetic and tail calls. This paper describes the implementation of
an MSIL back end for lcc, a retargetable compiler for Standard C. C is at one end of the
range of languages that MSIL intends to support, and lcc is about the simplest "real" C
compiler widely available. Porting lcc to MSIL thus provides a realistic test of how well
MSIL supports this class of languages and provides a glimpse of its performance costs.
This effort succeeded, but static initializations, function pointers, separate compilation,
and address arithmetic were major problem areas. These problems also suggested
improvements in lcc's code-generation interface, and they exposed a long-standing error
in the lcc front end. Programs compiled by the MSIL back end run 2-3 times slower than
those compiled by lcc native Intel x86 back end, but the MSIL programs have some
important diagnostic benefits.
Does it run HURD and lunix on my chimerial beowulf cluster? imagine what it would be like with one of THOSE babies!
I meant to hit preview! I guess I deserve it for being a wiseass.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/20/1053196
Chimps are people too
By Deborah Smith, Science Writer
May 21 2003
Chimpanzees and people are so genetically similar that our closest hairy relatives should be welcomed into the human family.
That's the conclusion of researchers who have shown that 99.4 per cent of the most crucial bits of DNA in chimp and human genes are identical.
The homo genus only includes modern man, Homo sapiens, and our immediate ancestors. But the two species of chimpanzee now grouped with the great apes - the common chimp, Pan troglodytes and the bonobo, Pan paniscus - also deserve to be homo members, Wayne State University of Detroit research team leader Dr Morris Goodman said.
The recommendation was supported by Australian geneticist Simon Easteal, of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, who said "it makes sense, they are very similar to us, in genetic terms".
Such a move would be consistent with the way genetically similar species of bats, rodents and whales have been grouped.
It would also stimulate much needed debate about the rights of these close relatives, Professor Easteal said.
Chimpanzees and humans split from a common ancestor about 5 million to 6 million years ago.
American scientist Jared Diamond, of the University of California, Los Angeles was the first, in 1991, to call for the two to be grouped together, coining the term the third chimpanzee to describe humans.
Professor Easteal made a similar call in 1996, based on his genetic studies showing DNA of chimps and humans was about 98.4 per cent similar. He also said gorillas should be included in the homo genus.
Last year an American study concluded that the DNA of chimps and humans was only 95 per cent similar.
The latest study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was based on a comparison of 97 genes. It examined the DNA sequences which were important in making proteins to come up with the figure of 99.4 per cent identical.
Some groups, such as the Great Ape Project, argue apes should have the same legal and moral rights as humans, and not be kept in zoos or used in experiments.
Professor Easteal said it was a difficult issue. Chimpanzees had problems in the wild. "And in good facilities like Taronga Zoo they probably have a reasonable life."
But by emphasising our similarities with chimps, the new research might make people think more.
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray , as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
I'm the worlds biggest Bush basher. Um, like the old grey lady has any credibility at this point. Corporatism getting way out of hand. It's getting scary as hell if you ask me. I suggest focusing on the legitimate reasons to dislike him instead of imaginary ones. So perhaps they've never heard of printouts? For example, his appointment of ashcroft.
err mean "Funding" from M$ RIAA and the MPAA. I'm happy to hear specific and credible evidence to the contrary.
Vote this moron out of congress, PLEASE!1!! Send the congresscritters a letter. Uh, I think they only read letters from constituents that also contain $100,000+ checks in the envelope. fucking linux fagot fucks, go jack off to goatse you anal criminals. How do people missing vision or limbs use them? Your Rights Online: Sheep isn't a verb. At least American citizens survive the voting process. Where is the proof? We had a great system. Unfortunately, it was based on having a frontier. MAUS AJ Zacxor Davexor Daveo all own.
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I am the tubgirl. Touch my mammaries.
Your SHIFT key obviously works since you used characters such as ( and ) and > and % in your post, but it seems something is wrong with your I key, your S key, and your B keys.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.