It's also used to clean PVC before forming joints. It does this cleaning by dissolving everything on the pipe including dirt, ink labels, price tags, and it would appear even a bit of the pipe iteslf.
I'm curious, Mister Overly Critical Guy. Do you ever admit you are wrong? Seems like people show you to be wrong quite often, but I never see admission of such from you or any reduction in the amount of misinformed crap you spit out.
Isn't it interesting how much importance we place on quote unquote
"true" randomness of numbers?
You know, when you're able to use quote marks (" for example) in a written medium, you really don't need to spell out quote unquote as well. It really just doesn't make any sense - we can see the quote marks you used, spelling that idiom out doesn't add anything. People sometimes say "quote unquote" because you can't see the quote marks in their speech. Even this practice is ill-advised as it makes one sound like a drooling marketdroid (e.g. "At the end of the day, we need to quote unquote actualize profits by exceeding expenses with net income in order to meet quote-unquote business objective. Take an action quote-unquote item").
This is the most bizarre thing I've seen all day. Please don't do it again. Thank you.
You haven't even demostrated groupthink. When you show that the attitude in your sig is a majority or even prevalent.among the slashdot group (ha), then we cna start talking about the exceptions.
You have nothing better to do than to reply to people who have nothing better to do than to "make stupid offtopic comments about other people's sigs"? Wow, I knew I was pathetic, but you really take the cake.
Sigs are my new slashdot hobby. Your sig is a great source of amusement. I think I may cash in my userid for "sig cop".
If I was you manager, when I moved you to the parking garage, I'd take away your keys to the main floor. Also, I'd probably punch you in your throat
Score: -1, Pro-Microsoft
Karma: Crappy (see above)
For a suitably loose definition of crappy, perhaps. For you lurkers out there, notice that the Bungi has such "crappy" Karma that he has the +1 bonus. Look at his posting history - he frequently gets 4s and 5s.
The above post suggests that his karma is fine when he is merely "Pro-Microsoft". It's when he turns into a drooling anti-linux schill that he runs into Karma trouble.
It was pretty funny, though. Of course, If I was your manager and you fed me that misinformtion, I'd fire your ass.
Slashdot logic: Correlation does not equal causation, unless of course the RIAA is having a good year.
Pogen Logic: If some members of a group express a certain view, it can be inferred that the entire group holds that view and it is then proper to label that view with the name of the group
You are right that the sun does not produce Uranium, but the grandparent poster is (probably) right that the sun has more uranium than we would know what to do with. It is likely that the sun has an equal or greater composition of heavy elements as compared with the earth. Given the sun's large mass, this would make for a lot of uranium in the sun.
You, sir, are wrong. Both fusion and fission reactions are nuclear reactions. That is, unless they chnaged the terminalogy from the time I did my undergraduate physics work.
You are correct that fusion reaction are more energetic for a given mass of reactant, though.
modern (1990s?) : < 10 yrs old ; expected lifetime = 30 years, expected failure = 2020-2030
So basically, your friend's theory is that all houses will fail around the year 2030. Does he think they run 32bit Unix? Or maybe he is expecting the end of the world around then, and his theory has nothing to do with construction.
Extending the theory, we find that houses build in the year 2020 will last 10 years, and houses built in the year 2040 will fall apart before they are finished
In any case, if your friend is still building houses then, he sure is going to be busy!
You have a strange definition of "low end". Linux and X are quite usable on my 350MHz K2 w/128MB ram and passable on my 360MHZ K2 laptop with only 64MB ram. I tend to favor thinner apps (as opposed to KDE and similar) on these machines, but they can manage when they need to.
X was usable on even slower machines I had before that, but I'm sure they would seem sluggish now.
I see - you mean 50% rate increase. 10 things / second -> 15 things / second, hence 30 things goes from 3 seconds to 2 seconds. I thought at first you mean 50% time reduction. It's probalby true that many apps don't utilize SMP effectively. In that case, SMP is probably not worthwhile unless it's much cheaper (and it definitely isn't). I guess I'm spoiled because I get to do development of parallel software on SMP systems all day long.
I'm truly surprised that 3d rendering (non video card assisted) doesn't do better with SMP systems. It's frequently trivially parallelizable for sequences of renders/movies, and I would even thing single image rendering could be parallelized to a great extent.
I don't know what you mean by 50% (like, compared to what?), but some applications definitely benefit from SMP. 2 1GHz chips will perform almost as well as 1 2GHz chip for some of these things. In that case, I would say the (unacheivable ideal) for 2-way SMP is 50% speed-up. Time goes from 2 minutes to (just over) 1 minute, for example. Of course, going from 1Ghz to 2Ghz chip for the same application will probably give you somewhat less than a 50% speed up. Hence my confustion at your comment.
I find desktop SMP systems nice not only for the parallel apps I run, but also because the general responsiveness of the system seems to be better on average under load.
I haven't done rendering in a while, but SMP systems seem like they would help there. They definitely help in compiling, in my experience. Don't know about games.
"Complete bullshit" == "+3: Informative" on Slashdot. People that buy Itaniums and the like frequently care about SPEC* because cpu intensive applications frequently behave like some combination of those numbers. If all you care about the Desktop you can keep your Quake3 and Photoshop benchmarks. (Not aimed at you, more to granparent).
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Something is either unique or not. It doesn't come in degrees. HTH.
It's also used to clean PVC before forming joints. It does this cleaning by dissolving everything on the pipe including dirt, ink labels, price tags, and it would appear even a bit of the pipe iteslf.
I'm curious, Mister Overly Critical Guy. Do you ever admit you are wrong? Seems like people show you to be wrong quite often, but I never see admission of such from you or any reduction in the amount of misinformed crap you spit out.
You know, when you're able to use quote marks (" for example) in a written medium, you really don't need to spell out quote unquote as well. It really just doesn't make any sense - we can see the quote marks you used, spelling that idiom out doesn't add anything. People sometimes say "quote unquote" because you can't see the quote marks in their speech. Even this practice is ill-advised as it makes one sound like a drooling marketdroid (e.g. "At the end of the day, we need to quote unquote actualize profits by exceeding expenses with net income in order to meet quote-unquote business objective. Take an action quote-unquote item").
This is the most bizarre thing I've seen all day. Please don't do it again. Thank you.
Soundtrack is pretty good, too.
pogen logic:groupthink != groupthink
Sigs are my new slashdot hobby. Your sig is a great source of amusement. I think I may cash in my userid for "sig cop".
If I was you manager, when I moved you to the parking garage, I'd take away your keys to the main floor. Also, I'd probably punch you in your throat
For a suitably loose definition of crappy, perhaps. For you lurkers out there, notice that the Bungi has such "crappy" Karma that he has the +1 bonus. Look at his posting history - he frequently gets 4s and 5s.
The above post suggests that his karma is fine when he is merely "Pro-Microsoft". It's when he turns into a drooling anti-linux schill that he runs into Karma trouble.
It was pretty funny, though. Of course, If I was your manager and you fed me that misinformtion, I'd fire your ass.
Pogen Logic: If some members of a group express a certain view, it can be inferred that the entire group holds that view and it is then proper to label that view with the name of the group
Is it "No"? Or perhaps "Yes"? My third guess is "YHBT, HAND".
You are right that the sun does not produce Uranium, but the grandparent poster is (probably) right that the sun has more uranium than we would know what to do with. It is likely that the sun has an equal or greater composition of heavy elements as compared with the earth. Given the sun's large mass, this would make for a lot of uranium in the sun.
You are correct that fusion reaction are more energetic for a given mass of reactant, though.
Thermonuclear != nuclear? WTF.
sizeof (bool) typically is 1 byte, possible larger, i've never heard of it being smaller
- 1920s : 80+ yrs old : expected lifetime = 110 years, expected failure 2030-2040
- 1950s : 50+ yrs old : expected lifetime = 80 years, expected faulure = 2030-2040
- 1970s : 30+ yrs old
:expected lifetime = 50 years, expected failure = 2020-2030
- modern (1990s?) : < 10 yrs old ; expected lifetime = 30 years, expected failure = 2020-2030
So basically, your friend's theory is that all houses will fail around the year 2030. Does he think they run 32bit Unix? Or maybe he is expecting the end of the world around then, and his theory has nothing to do with construction.Extending the theory, we find that houses build in the year 2020 will last 10 years, and houses built in the year 2040 will fall apart before they are finished
In any case, if your friend is still building houses then, he sure is going to be busy!
As you posted it at -1 (not logged in), I can only think there must be no good readon for your post.
X was usable on even slower machines I had before that, but I'm sure they would seem sluggish now.
Or, judging from the score of your posts and your .sig, both Karma Whores AND Trolls. ;)
Also, both sthey're both made out of rock and not water, but who's counting?
I'm truly surprised that 3d rendering (non video card assisted) doesn't do better with SMP systems. It's frequently trivially parallelizable for sequences of renders/movies, and I would even thing single image rendering could be parallelized to a great extent.
I don't know what you mean by 50% (like, compared to what?), but some applications definitely benefit from SMP. 2 1GHz chips will perform almost as well as 1 2GHz chip for some of these things. In that case, I would say the (unacheivable ideal) for 2-way SMP is 50% speed-up. Time goes from 2 minutes to (just over) 1 minute, for example. Of course, going from 1Ghz to 2Ghz chip for the same application will probably give you somewhat less than a 50% speed up. Hence my confustion at your comment.
I find desktop SMP systems nice not only for the parallel apps I run, but also because the general responsiveness of the system seems to be better on average under load.
I haven't done rendering in a while, but SMP systems seem like they would help there. They definitely help in compiling, in my experience. Don't know about games.
YMMV
"Complete bullshit" == "+3: Informative" on Slashdot. People that buy Itaniums and the like frequently care about SPEC* because cpu intensive applications frequently behave like some combination of those numbers. If all you care about the Desktop you can keep your Quake3 and Photoshop benchmarks. (Not aimed at you, more to granparent).