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Muscle Cars And Smokin' Chips

Posted by timothy on from the lowrider-fx dept.

YetAnotherGeekGuy writes "IEEE Computer has an article this month, "The Zen of Overclocking" by Bob Colwell. In it the author compares overclockers to hot rodders (which, in my personal experience, are two sets with a significant intersection). More importantly he talks about the phenomenon, the culture, the attitude, and the natural tension between them and the industry in the quest for the right balance between performance and reliability. Thought-provoking, and some good one-liners. Enjoy!"

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  1. Smoke crack, kill babies by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This fp belongs to me. Eat poopies!

    1. Re:Smoke crack, kill babies by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This brings up a good question. Which OS do you prefer? Windows has the most features but this requires a ton of memory, money, and is generally a little unstable. Linux has less features, but uses less memory and is more stable. Mac OS's are.... well.... Mac.

      Which OS do you prefer?

      Windows
      Linux
      Mac OS

    2. Re:Smoke crack, kill babies by LBArrettAnderson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      has anybody realized that the parent comment is NOT offtopic? sacrificing stability/memory for FEATURES/SPEED is what the poll AND the article are BOTH about.

      The parent brings up a good point, would you rather have features/speed over memory/stability?

    3. Re:Smoke crack, kill babies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      But what in the humidity? My salad days, tripped up like a wagon to the helm of insanity. I dig deeper into my soul. A jagged race against time and space. Against noontime lemonade and the geld of her sparkling eyes. Where did that kosher pickle of mine go? To the clouds or to the lake, black as silk. Atrous and abound. To that bat spinning, to the city of Chicago. To the ancient floundering mesh, my dreams. Fantasy in purity. Animosity at heart. Let it die, whilst it lives. Green flower all the way.

      This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...

  2. Goodbye, cruel world. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did you ever think to see the think to the boat that ran by on ice frozen legs? It's sort of like licking chocolate ice scream. Puzzles and hand painted statues buzzing busely afar. With sand swirling up. I feel my moonlit clouds on the cool forest fo. Whilst naked woman hop the trampolines. And clowns are buried far beneath the Earth.

    1. Re:Goodbye, cruel world. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      OMG CLOWNS ARE BURIED BENEATH THE EARTH! WTF?!

      other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating!

  3. OMFG LOONIX==ON TEH SPOKE BIATCH~!!~!~!`1`1``` by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Phantasm the 1st version was good. It came out when I was about 7 or 8 years old. My friends and I would pretend we were trying to get the tall man. Our tree fort was our headquarters.

    Every so often we'd kill 1 of the dwarfs. I don't remember if we ever did get the tall man.

    Probably not because if we did the game would be over.

  4. 8==D (o)(o) COCKANDBALLSCOCKANDBALLSCOCKANDBALLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm rich, biatch!

  5. Two Sets with a Significant Intersection? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What exactly does the phrase "two sets with a significant intersection" mean? Am I just being pedantic, or does anyone else get annoyed at this pseudo-mathematical nonsense?