and if you can get calc.exe from windows XP, time a factorial of 100,000!
(the factorial function in the new calculator that comes with win7 chokes on big factorials, and all the scores i've accumulated are using calc.exe from xp)
i followed the development of the AI for Real Racing for so long, that now i want to play it just to see how well the use of genetic algorithms worked. but most people think $10 is a lot for an iphone game...
about the only thing that i can get to work is "Try your search on Yahoo, Ask, TheWeb, Live, etc, etc", and that only works for web searches, not news or image.
i'd love to know if all or any of the other goodies are working for you or others. thanks
alright, i tried installing CustomizeGoogle from Mozilla's addon page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743), and then, under noscript i allowed google.com (can't forbid google's js with noscript or customize google won't work).
the results: on web searching, now i DO get the ability to try my search on other search engines (that's my favorite thing, just one middle click on each search engine!). But when using image searching, it DOES NOT add links to other image search sites. Nor does it give convenient links to other news search sites.
And other things like being able to make image links point directly to the image aren't working....
it won't work on my main machine that has FF3.5, and i love that extension, so i still have FF3.0 on my secondary machine, and i don't upgrade that machine to 3.5, just so i can keep using Customize Google.
dang, that got rated troll? that was one of the few comments to make me laugh today. if i get mod points, this is certainly gonna get modded up: funny
btw, i came to this comment from your journal posting of all the mod bombs http://slashdot.org/~mcgrew/journal/242240, and clicked on a few of the links you provided to see IF you might really be a troll. but so far, you seem to be the opposite of a troll.
thank you for questioning! i should have gone into more detail.
i had two brand new, identical atom n270 netbooks, sitting SIDE BY SIDE. one with windows XP, the other with windows 7, both with Office 2007, and clicked the mouse buttons at the same exact time. Word and Excel took a few seconds longer on windows 7.
NOTE: after opening Word and Excel a few times in a row, Windows 7 DID start to load them faster...
hey, windows 7 doesn't make me want to throw my laptop out the window (pun intended), nor does it bring up pure hatred and rage from within me like vista did. Big Plus There.
that said, application launch time ARE slower, by a few seconds, compared to XP. especially when opening MS Word or Excel, i'd say more than a few seconds..... NOT a deal breaker, though.
but one thing that gets me about the reviews of windows 7 is the shutdown time. while MY netbook does shutdown quickly, for giggles timed the shutdown times of the atom netbooks at the big box stores. hang on, let me find the times... here we go: 33, 18, 28, 20, 39, and 60 seconds. sure, those are display units subjected to lot's of kids opening ie to check their myspace (only to think the netbooks don't work when the page doesn't come up, due to secured wifi...) but still, using windows 7 certainly doesn't guarantee your machine won't end up with long shutdown times...
when i was a teenager and actually had muscles, i thought i was cool in a "muscle shirt". now that i'm old and have no muscles and a beer belly, i can wear a muscle suit! with a "power" tie, of course...
damn straight. that is the number one problem with USB anything. i've seen more broken jump drives, and more broken usb ports from someone tripping over usb cable, than i care to fix. yes, they ARE handy as can be, but to WHOMEVER is designing USB 4 or whatever it will be called, PLEASE make the damn connection more sturdy.
i know it sounds funny, but through the years i've found many women who are interested in watching the meteor showers with me. when i used to hang with groups of friends in san diego, i'd inform all of them about an upcoming meteor shower and invite them to go with me to a mountain (usually palomar) to watch. and more often than not, more women would come with me than men.
and then i would answer all their questions about meteors; how fast they go, how big are they, where do they come from, the comets they are associated with, why they are named after constellations, etc. And of course i'd tell them scary stories about how Betelgeuse could kill all life on earth, and show them the BEAUTIFUL Pleiades through binoculars, and before you know it, they were looking at me in a whole new light, and hey, geeks were cool!
i'm old and have a girlfriend now, and she loves meteor showers too, so i don't promote the showers with the single girls anymore, but just thought i'd throw this out there for my fellow slashdotters... Invite that girl you like to watch the show, she will probably like it!
you name your company after one that built robots which destroy most of humanity and declare war on what is left... "Clever" probably isn't the term you were looking for.
i agree. i used to think it was clever, and it did catch my attention (years ago), but since then their blatant rip off just annoys me. i consider it an affront worse than vanilla ice ripping off queen....
i hope a bunch of self respecting robots go kick their asses.
the fact is that YOU don't understand english. since you can't read very well, maybe you can get someone to read to you that in the original post, there is a disclaimer that states the strict technical definition of mooore's law.
nor do you understand the popular meaning of the phrase moore's law, or what it means to the rest of the world.
That graph plots transistor count, which is not a direct indicator of performance.
Benchmarks are a far more useful metric as they are usually designed to simulate actual load.
The lame-brained pursuit of mere numbers is of course, a sign of management rather than engineering.
thank you for posting that, not everyone gets that exponent for feature count curves does NOT equal the exponent for performances, even less so than clock cycle frequency, as the megahertz race proved.
look, you know and i know, as does everybody that reads slasdot, that moore's law was moore observing that the transistor density was increasing every two years.
but to the rest of the world, the meaning has warped to say that CPU PERFORMANCE doubles every 18 months. and most slashdot readers are aware of this twisted meaning that encumbers the term.
i shouldn't have used the words "moore's law". my bad.
anyway, my bold claim is: real world CPU performance at the desktop PC level is currently taking 3 to 4 years to double.
i am NOT saying that rate we are cramming the physical bits and pieces on the chips is slowing down. sorry for any confusion.
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testing for singlethreaded performance.....
if you have an Athlon II X4 of any speed, please run:
cpumark99 on it (if you can find it), and you might get the fastest score in safe mode...
the java benchmark from NIST on it http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/run.html
and if you can get calc.exe from windows XP, time a factorial of 100,000!
(the factorial function in the new calculator that comes with win7 chokes on big factorials, and all the scores i've accumulated are using calc.exe from xp)
please post your java scimark score! we really need some scores for the N280, and amd's L110, thank you.
http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/run.html
i followed the development of the AI for Real Racing for so long, that now i want to play it just to see how well the use of genetic algorithms worked. but most people think $10 is a lot for an iphone game...
mod me: "moron", as i can't mod here since i posted
sorry, i'm such a dumbass
about the only thing that i can get to work is "Try your search on Yahoo, Ask, TheWeb, Live, etc, etc", and that only works for web searches, not news or image.
i'd love to know if all or any of the other goodies are working for you or others. thanks
alright, i tried installing CustomizeGoogle from Mozilla's addon page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743), and then, under noscript i allowed google.com (can't forbid google's js with noscript or customize google won't work).
the results: on web searching, now i DO get the ability to try my search on other search engines (that's my favorite thing, just one middle click on each search engine!). But when using image searching, it DOES NOT add links to other image search sites. Nor does it give convenient links to other news search sites.
And other things like being able to make image links point directly to the image aren't working....
it won't work on my main machine that has FF3.5, and i love that extension, so i still have FF3.0 on my secondary machine, and i don't upgrade that machine to 3.5, just so i can keep using Customize Google.
dang, that got rated troll? that was one of the few comments to make me laugh today. if i get mod points, this is certainly gonna get modded up: funny
btw, i came to this comment from your journal posting of all the mod bombs http://slashdot.org/~mcgrew/journal/242240, and clicked on a few of the links you provided to see IF you might really be a troll. but so far, you seem to be the opposite of a troll.
welcome contributor to slashdot, carry on!
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/12/2/intel-larrabee-finally-hits-1tflops---27x-faster-than-nvidia-gt200!.aspx
way faster than amd's or nvid's hottest....
NOTE: after opening Word and Excel a few times in a row, Windows 7 DID start to load them faster...
argh. that could be confusing. to clarify, 7 started to load them faster than before, not faster than XP, but it did get to almost parity.
thank you for questioning! i should have gone into more detail.
i had two brand new, identical atom n270 netbooks, sitting SIDE BY SIDE. one with windows XP, the other with windows 7, both with Office 2007, and clicked the mouse buttons at the same exact time. Word and Excel took a few seconds longer on windows 7.
NOTE: after opening Word and Excel a few times in a row, Windows 7 DID start to load them faster...
hey, windows 7 doesn't make me want to throw my laptop out the window (pun intended), nor does it bring up pure hatred and rage from within me like vista did. Big Plus There.
that said, application launch time ARE slower, by a few seconds, compared to XP. especially when opening MS Word or Excel, i'd say more than a few seconds..... NOT a deal breaker, though.
but one thing that gets me about the reviews of windows 7 is the shutdown time. while MY netbook does shutdown quickly, for giggles timed the shutdown times of the atom netbooks at the big box stores. hang on, let me find the times... here we go: 33, 18, 28, 20, 39, and 60 seconds. sure, those are display units subjected to lot's of kids opening ie to check their myspace (only to think the netbooks don't work when the page doesn't come up, due to secured wifi...) but still, using windows 7 certainly doesn't guarantee your machine won't end up with long shutdown times...
well, i look at the past with beer goggles too.
when i was a teenager and actually had muscles, i thought i was cool in a "muscle shirt". now that i'm old and have no muscles and a beer belly, i can wear a muscle suit! with a "power" tie, of course...
and stronger ports would be nice. is there such a thing as military grade usb ports?
USB sticks are a bit too fragile
damn straight. that is the number one problem with USB anything. i've seen more broken jump drives, and more broken usb ports from someone tripping over usb cable, than i care to fix. yes, they ARE handy as can be, but to WHOMEVER is designing USB 4 or whatever it will be called, PLEASE make the damn connection more sturdy.
also, bring a blanket, cause when it's cold, you might just have to share it!
i know it sounds funny, but through the years i've found many women who are interested in watching the meteor showers with me. when i used to hang with groups of friends in san diego, i'd inform all of them about an upcoming meteor shower and invite them to go with me to a mountain (usually palomar) to watch. and more often than not, more women would come with me than men.
and then i would answer all their questions about meteors; how fast they go, how big are they, where do they come from, the comets they are associated with, why they are named after constellations, etc. And of course i'd tell them scary stories about how Betelgeuse could kill all life on earth, and show them the BEAUTIFUL Pleiades through binoculars, and before you know it, they were looking at me in a whole new light, and hey, geeks were cool!
i'm old and have a girlfriend now, and she loves meteor showers too, so i don't promote the showers with the single girls anymore, but just thought i'd throw this out there for my fellow slashdotters... Invite that girl you like to watch the show, she will probably like it!
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and now NBC in in fourth place, being bought by a cable company....
that's what they get for messing with star trek
at least it's better than a robotic "Reach Around"
i agree. i used to think it was clever, and it did catch my attention (years ago), but since then their blatant rip off just annoys me. i consider it an affront worse than vanilla ice ripping off queen....
i hope a bunch of self respecting robots go kick their asses.
that's what i was thinking too...
$$$$$ for big enterprises
the fact is that YOU don't understand english. since you can't read very well, maybe you can get someone to read to you that in the original post, there is a disclaimer that states the strict technical definition of mooore's law.
nor do you understand the popular meaning of the phrase moore's law, or what it means to the rest of the world.
thank you for posting that, not everyone gets that exponent for feature count curves does NOT equal the exponent for performances, even less so than clock cycle frequency, as the megahertz race proved.
look, you know and i know, as does everybody that reads slasdot, that moore's law was moore observing that the transistor density was increasing every two years.
but to the rest of the world, the meaning has warped to say that CPU PERFORMANCE doubles every 18 months. and most slashdot readers are aware of this twisted meaning that encumbers the term.
i shouldn't have used the words "moore's law". my bad.
anyway, my bold claim is: real world CPU performance at the desktop PC level is currently taking 3 to 4 years to double.
i am NOT saying that rate we are cramming the physical bits and pieces on the chips is slowing down. sorry for any confusion.