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A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along?
Eh-Wire writes "Almost every hardware junkie I know would give most anything to take a spin in the new dual core hot rods from Dell or one of the custom system builders. But what if you actually needed that second core to run your anti-virus, spyware detection software and firewall just to get a little gaming or Internet surfing done on the first core. Would that really be a good reason to bring home a shiny new machine? I can think of a couple of different things I could use a second core for but running an iron lung on it just to keep the machine chugging along just isn't one of them. Curiously enough, PCMag thinks that's a perfectly good reason."
Who wants to waste all that power running virus software? I don't get it.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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Yeah, Windows users need the second core to run all that spyware. It'll probably help a lot!
i'm sorry that should be
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http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2
slashcode butchered that url.
One Core for me and one Core for all my dead homies.
wtf. *sigh*. nm
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Programmer: "Why? Why? Muahahha.... BECAUSE I CAN."
Using more resources than necessary to complete a task doesn't demonstrate any sort of talent.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
maybe it's just me, but I like having gaim start up when I login.
To be fair, he does have an HTML only option for slower machines (not that you'll see anything useful there though). ;-)
Looking at the source to his HTML I see:
;-)
* A whole bunch of keywords and an extra --!> that shouldn't be being displayed
on screen, but actually is.
* <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
Hmmm.... perhaps he should employ the services of an award winning website
webdesign team?
My word processor doesn't lag. I use emacs.
so, file a bug report. sheesh!
You've lost those 6 seconds forever... ah, you would have just wasted them anyway...
You're right! And I wasted another 5 seconds reading your meaningless reply, and yet another 20 seconds writing this meaningless reply, in response to your meaningless reply (which clearly took you several minutes to come up with)! ! When will it all end?!?!
bash: rtfm: command not found
Oh it does , it demostraits the talent to buy shares of IBM/AMD/Intel with your wages then program a procesor hog so people upgrade *Cough conspiracy theory cough*
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I'm writing this on a DOS Box you insensitive clod!
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To what are you alluding? The meaning of your comment eludes me.
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
knowing your OS is nice an' all, but what do you wordprocess in? openoffice for emacs?
You should optimize the time of your optimization so that you optimize the effects of that optimization. Optimizing at an inopportune opportunity will result in an unoptimized optimization. Just remember to use your optimization optimizer to find the best opportunity to optimize!
It's trivial, really. Hierarchial optimization is like SO basic. Don't forget to optimize your optimization optimizer! There's nothing more embarrassing than missing the optimum opportunity to optimize your code because your optimization optimizer took too long to execute!
Please stop using the "we" word when talking about Apple. That job belongs to PR and marketing, would you like it if they started hacking on your code?
-An Apple Employee