Well lets see here, at the momment to fairly evaluate computer performace we need to do these things
Processor
Clock Speed
Cache Sizes
Pipline length
Bus Speed
Total FLOPS/MIPS for floating point and interger math
Memory
Bus Speed
Size
CAS latency
Latency
ECC or its equivalent
Hard Disks
Size
Spindle Speed
Number of platters
MTBF
Latency
Bus type
Raid configuration
Transfer rate
And I have just scratched the surface, when you throw in graphics and sound cards, etc things get really muddled.
The only way to do this would be to have a constant OS (Linux/*BSD/BeOS) that could run the same benchmark with all possible optimizations made.
GM is not just an automobile company, they have their hands in many different pies, like Digital Television over Sat, Defense, and Sat Communications (Take a look at Shuttle and dumb-rocket payloads over the last 20 years, Hughes is a name you'll see many times.). Oh yeah, lets not forget they are in the mobile phone arena as well with their OnStar service. Also, they are a big-time money lender GMAC will finance not only your car but your house as well.
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I'm pleased that there are some realists amongst the enviromentalist front, but unfortunately, you suffer the same fate as I do as a conservative. The general perception is that I must be cold, heartless, and could give a rats arse about anything but my bank account.
Oh well, at 3-8 grand a pop for a bicycle replacement, I don't see it takeing off, but perhaps if they could work them into the X-games, they might take off with the in the 'burbs.
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Hey boss, hate to break it to you, electricity has to come from somewhere
Fossil Fuel
Nuclear fission
Hydroelectric
Biomass
wind/solar/tidal/fuel cells, when they work
Now, I'm not a tree-hugger by any means, but at the same time the first three on the list, which are actually real world solutions, draw the ire of every "green" on the planet as instruments of rape of mother earth. Now when we get
If it makes you feel better, my 78 Buick Electra had a factory Rochester Q-Jet on top of the mighty Olds 403 Small Block, 4300 Pounds curb weight, 25 gallon fuel tank, 190 Horsepower/310 Lbs/ft torque, oh yeah, It got 12MPG anywhere anytime
We are missing the largest portion of abuse of these union thugs, tenure. After teachers get it, they have to get caught molesting kids or embezeling money to lose their job.
I think I have a solution....
In the red corner, From Canada, Theo de Raadt and from the MIT AI lab, Richard Stallman
And in the blue corner, hailing from the Redmon Washington campus of Microsoft,
Steve Ballmer and Craig Mundie....
<voice impression="Michael Buffer">Let's get ready to rumble<voice>
mitochondrial DNA is less subject to variation as chromosonal, as any changes would have to be as a result of error-based mutation instead of recombination. If the speciation of the "Tasmanian" marsupials occured fairly recently in time, a suitably close surrogate "mother" should be found.
If there is a Word2k/97 "HTML" document you need to read/mirror and you are on windows95-XP, try HTML-Kit and its "clean up windows 2k documents" filter, it is quite handy.
Why waste the perfectly good rope and clothing they will soil when they die, just strip them naked and hit them with a car/truck/vw bus, drop the clothes at the Salvation Army or Goodwill.
Same address licensing, have you forgotten about college housing.
Frat/Sorority Houses: 10-50 young, mostly computer illiterate people who don't mind pirating because they don't understand it (Why did they shut napster down is the most frequently asked question when I meet these people.)
Apartments/tenant houses: 2-8 people with their live-in signifigant others (2-16 total people), at least one of them is computer illiterate, statisitically speaking)
Address-based licensing makes sense in a traditional nuclear family sense, but beyond that it gets muddied up pretty well.
"Draging" most windows executables is a bad idea, the registry doesn't self-update and any "shortcuts" to it are lost, they must be redited with correct paths, except a windows dialog isn't as fast as 'ln name target'
One thing that just occured to me, is there a QuarkXpress clone for *nix, from quark's page all they support is Mac and Windows, so for say Journalism courses, they could need some professional grade typesetting without learning TeX.
I think if Redhat asked, we would finally see how strong the Linux community is.
At the moment, we exist in three places, largely. As users groups, out in public view for demo days 1-12 times a year at a bookstore or student union. On/., which is a site targeted for the geek community, with very little reason for joe sixpack to come and visit. And on mailing list and web boards that joe sixpack isn't going to participate in, no interest in watching the LKML or phpbuilder unless they have some background or use for the topics being discused. However, if we are in their schools, helping their kids use linux, we might be able to drum up some support.
I myself am active with my younger sister's student technology leadership program, but even as a 5th grader, she has already had 5 years of exposure to M$FT software, their tools are already there, and to top it off, sometime their favorite websites don't display properly or at all unless on an IE platform.
I have talked with school board members about why they are NT based and only received blank stares when mentioning anything but mac's, which they equate to the ancient apple iie's we ran when I was in elementary school. The school district tech coordinator is frankly overworked and underpaid, and unix admin's in my neck of the woods are few and far between, so bringing in a *nix person would be way out of their budget.
This post has been long, but hear me out, even if this settlement goes through as M$FT plans, get out in your communities, lest we have another generation who never access a unix machine until they enter college.
{ /*
win_uptime is the system uptime in seconds, sets "random" seed
curs_pos_* are the x and y position of the strike point as selected by the user
swing_power is the swing power selected by the user
*/
if (win_uptime 12345)//we'll go easy on the guy
{
return 0;
}
else (winuptime == 12345)
{
return 1;
}
else (win_uptime > 4294081)//system should be dead already, here to prevent problems
{
write_random();//writes random sequence of 0 and 1 to disk
crash_system();//infinite loop calls to launch iexplore.exe, current record is 56 calls
return 2;//keeps compiler from spitting syntax error
}
}
switch murphy()
{
case 0:
return dont_alter_values(win_uptime, curs_pos_x, curs_pos_y, swing_power);
break;
case 1:
return randomize_values(win_uptime, curs_pos_x, curs_pos_y, swing_power);
break;
}
I just realized how rusty my c++ is, might have to start using it again, and if your are a game developer, this one is public domain.
This is not a Republican only phenomenon, the klintonista regime was famous for enforcing laws they saw fit and loking the other way as needed.
The "Tyson Exemption" allowed OTR trucks (Big Rigs) that carried tyson chicken to and from processing to be over the weight limit for any other cargo on the road, severly damaging the interstates in AR
The Clinton/Reno DOJ rarely enforced maximum sentences when laws allowed added time for gun use in a crime (Transporting drugs and being in posession of a firearm should be good for an extra 5 in the pen as the laws are written), all the while whining about needing tougher gun laws for law-abiding citizens such as myself
I'm not even going into the "We know how to fix public schools", while sending the dog-faced gremlin to a rich-kid's strip mall/day care
Money for pardons...yeah that's legal
I'm not asking you to run out to your county courthouse and change your party affiliation, but please, try to lose some of the bias. I'll even admit the W has done his fair share of wrong, how else have the Rangers got a 1/4 of a billion to blow on A-Rod
Thats what "Hibernate" does, it suspends to disk, but you take the hit of spin-up and extracting 32MB-4GB of data off disk on restart, which could take as much time as a boot.
Union goons and college students is the MO of UPS, at both the Lexington distro center and Louisville Hub. The campus flyers actually say, "Have you ever worked out for four hours and got paid for it?" 8 bucks an hour beats flipping burgers so a lot of people take a job, especially in October/November so they have Christmas cash. Suprisingly USPS priority mail is the least likely to break shit in IMHO, but I really don't trust them with my bills in first-class mail, go figure.
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Your 401(K) wasn't full of Enron stock was it?
While I don't remember that exact quote, the comment reeks of Dvorak. He's usually the one that makes the dumbest remark in an issuse of PCMag.
GM is not just an automobile company, they have their hands in many different pies, like Digital Television over Sat, Defense, and Sat Communications (Take a look at Shuttle and dumb-rocket payloads over the last 20 years, Hughes is a name you'll see many times.). Oh yeah, lets not forget they are in the mobile phone arena as well with their OnStar service. Also, they are a big-time money lender GMAC will finance not only your car but your house as well.
I'm pleased that there are some realists amongst the enviromentalist front, but unfortunately, you suffer the same fate as I do as a conservative. The general perception is that I must be cold, heartless, and could give a rats arse about anything but my bank account.
Oh well, at 3-8 grand a pop for a bicycle replacement, I don't see it takeing off, but perhaps if they could work them into the X-games, they might take off with the in the 'burbs.
- Fossil Fuel
- Nuclear fission
- Hydroelectric
- Biomass
- wind/solar/tidal/fuel cells, when they work
Now, I'm not a tree-hugger by any means, but at the same time the first three on the list, which are actually real world solutions, draw the ire of every "green" on the planet as instruments of rape of mother earth. Now when we get- Cheap hydrogen fuel cells and/or
- The hippies to quit bitching about fission or
- Lukewarm/Cold fusion
we might have our "energy crisis" solvedIf it makes you feel better, my 78 Buick Electra had a factory Rochester Q-Jet on top of the mighty Olds 403 Small Block, 4300 Pounds curb weight, 25 gallon fuel tank, 190 Horsepower/310 Lbs/ft torque, oh yeah, It got 12MPG anywhere anytime
Last time I checked M$FT owned a cut (~10%) of Apple, and to top it off, the top selling office suite for MacOS comes from... You guessed it M$FT.
We are missing the largest portion of abuse of these union thugs, tenure. After teachers get it, they have to get caught molesting kids or embezeling money to lose their job.
I stand corrected, but let's face it, after the ~72 model year, the car wasn't the same, much like the rest of the American auto industry.
Is that like the Chevy Nova, the car they couldn't sell in Mexico (No == No && Va == Go) The Chevy NoGo
I think I have a solution....
In the red corner, From Canada, Theo de Raadt and from the MIT AI lab, Richard Stallman
And in the blue corner, hailing from the Redmon Washington campus of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer and Craig Mundie....
<voice impression="Michael Buffer">Let's get ready to rumble<voice>
mitochondrial DNA is less subject to variation as chromosonal, as any changes would have to be as a result of error-based mutation instead of recombination. If the speciation of the "Tasmanian" marsupials occured fairly recently in time, a suitably close surrogate "mother" should be found.
If there is a Word2k/97 "HTML" document you need to read/mirror and you are on windows95-XP, try HTML-Kit and its "clean up windows 2k documents" filter, it is quite handy.
Why waste the perfectly good rope and clothing they will soil when they die, just strip them naked and hit them with a car/truck/vw bus, drop the clothes at the Salvation Army or Goodwill.
Same address licensing, have you forgotten about college housing.
Frat/Sorority Houses: 10-50 young, mostly computer illiterate people who don't mind pirating because they don't understand it (Why did they shut napster down is the most frequently asked question when I meet these people.)
Apartments/tenant houses: 2-8 people with their live-in signifigant others (2-16 total people), at least one of them is computer illiterate, statisitically speaking)
Address-based licensing makes sense in a traditional nuclear family sense, but beyond that it gets muddied up pretty well.
"Draging" most windows executables is a bad idea, the registry doesn't self-update and any "shortcuts" to it are lost, they must be redited with correct paths, except a windows dialog isn't as fast as 'ln name target'
One thing that just occured to me, is there a QuarkXpress clone for *nix, from quark's page all they support is Mac and Windows, so for say Journalism courses, they could need some professional grade typesetting without learning TeX.
I think if Redhat asked, we would finally see how strong the Linux community is.
At the moment, we exist in three places, largely. As users groups, out in public view for demo days 1-12 times a year at a bookstore or student union. On /., which is a site targeted for the geek community, with very little reason for joe sixpack to come and visit. And on mailing list and web boards that joe sixpack isn't going to participate in, no interest in watching the LKML or phpbuilder unless they have some background or use for the topics being discused. However, if we are in their schools, helping their kids use linux, we might be able to drum up some support.
I myself am active with my younger sister's student technology leadership program, but even as a 5th grader, she has already had 5 years of exposure to M$FT software, their tools are already there, and to top it off, sometime their favorite websites don't display properly or at all unless on an IE platform.I have talked with school board members about why they are NT based and only received blank stares when mentioning anything but mac's, which they equate to the ancient apple iie's we ran when I was in elementary school. The school district tech coordinator is frankly overworked and underpaid, and unix admin's in my neck of the woods are few and far between, so bringing in a *nix person would be way out of their budget.
This post has been long, but hear me out, even if this settlement goes through as M$FT plans, get out in your communities, lest we have another generation who never access a unix machine until they enter college.
My guess is that it gives them a random seed from 0 seconds to 49.7 days, probably to call a function called "murphy"
murphy (win_uptime, curs_pos_x, curs_pos_y, swing_power)
{
curs_pos_* are the x and y position of the strike point as selected by the user
swing_power is the swing power selected by the user
*/
if (win_uptime 12345)
{ return 0;
} else (winuptime == 12345)
{ return 1;
} else (win_uptime > 4294081)
{ write_random();
crash_system();
return 2;
}
}
switch murphy()
{
case 0:
return dont_alter_values(win_uptime, curs_pos_x, curs_pos_y, swing_power);
break;
case 1: return randomize_values(win_uptime, curs_pos_x, curs_pos_y, swing_power);
break;
}
I just realized how rusty my c++ is, might have to start using it again, and if your are a game developer, this one is public domain.
Guess that was more of that useless 16-bit code they threw out. I noticed this when I updated the drivers for my new mouse sunday.
that is kind of like a telephone autodialer, like spam that hits my hotmail ususally goew jdholl, jdholl0, jdholl1, jdholl2. Its a shotgun effect
This is not a Republican only phenomenon, the klintonista regime was famous for enforcing laws they saw fit and loking the other way as needed.
The "Tyson Exemption" allowed OTR trucks (Big Rigs) that carried tyson chicken to and from processing to be over the weight limit for any other cargo on the road, severly damaging the interstates in AR
The Clinton/Reno DOJ rarely enforced maximum sentences when laws allowed added time for gun use in a crime (Transporting drugs and being in posession of a firearm should be good for an extra 5 in the pen as the laws are written), all the while whining about needing tougher gun laws for law-abiding citizens such as myself
I'm not even going into the "We know how to fix public schools", while sending the dog-faced gremlin to a rich-kid's strip mall/day care
Money for pardons...yeah that's legal
I'm not asking you to run out to your county courthouse and change your party affiliation, but please, try to lose some of the bias. I'll even admit the W has done his fair share of wrong, how else have the Rangers got a 1/4 of a billion to blow on A-Rod
Thats what "Hibernate" does, it suspends to disk, but you take the hit of spin-up and extracting 32MB-4GB of data off disk on restart, which could take as much time as a boot.
Union goons and college students is the MO of UPS, at both the Lexington distro center and Louisville Hub. The campus flyers actually say, "Have you ever worked out for four hours and got paid for it?" 8 bucks an hour beats flipping burgers so a lot of people take a job, especially in October/November so they have Christmas cash. Suprisingly USPS priority mail is the least likely to break shit in IMHO, but I really don't trust them with my bills in first-class mail, go figure.