I can tell you I had 4 gamer customers that were the classic "must win teh benches!" types, one so bad his grandma is using a Skulltrail box because frankly that was the slowest hand me down he had left, and ALL FOUR had their SSDs fail within 2 years. these guys didn't buy cheap crap either, it was always what was at the top of the benches when they bought, most were either Intel or OCZ I believe is the name of the company. As for what they did? Play games, watch videos, run benches, pretty typical gamer stuff.
Two points. First, the fastest ("teh benches-winning") hardly ever means the most reliable. Second, you can actually benchmark an SSD to death.
So far I have been totally unable to tax my current CPU past 40% utilization. I think we can take a break and let software catch up and older systems fall off the support map before the next generation of CPUs hit.
Just because your usage scenario is not CPU-bound does not mean everyone else's is.
1) Need to exchange documents with Microsoft Office users without corrupting the document.
2) Enjoying the rather sensible Win7 GUI while waiting for Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE 4 to die a horrible death and for Gnome 2 to rise from the dead.
3) Exotic soundcard, drivers for Windows only.
But there isn't a PC that can cold boot inside of 1 minute using either a regular BIOS or EFI to a Windows desktop in under a minute unless it's overclocked.
You misunderstand me. I never claimed it varies by 10% or any other amount, anywhere. What I tried to convey was "accepted value" is meaningless for g, as in "by thinking it's a constant, the GP to your post made a fool of himself or herself".
Pretty much everything is "hidden" behind the Spotlight-esque search thing because the Spotlight-esque search thingie IS the main way to access everything in Unity. And Vista. And Seven.
I don't know which version of Windows 7 you're using, but I have a neat toolbar on the side of my screen with four dozen tiny icons that launch programs when I click on them. And no, I don't mean the taskbar, I mean the toolbar. Who in their right mind would go wasting several clicks or keystrokes to look for stuff that's needed all the time?
It's interesting, because certain cellular automata are Turing-complete. Thus, in theory, you could write, say, a C++ compiler for this (or similar) thing.
Of course, since it's still in the lab, there's no immediate practical application and probably there won't be for another decade, similarly to the examples you quoted.
I thought about how stupid people can be and I can say with certainty that 50% are below average.
So can I. That's because that's how averages work, by definition.
Exactly! Like when there's a test and out of 50 pupils 49 score 100/100 and one of them scores 0/100. The average score is then 98 and exactly half of the students are below the average, right, oh wait...
You: How are you today?
Rosette: Pretty good, thanks. How are you?
You: Not too good, I'm afraid.
Rosette: Nice to meet you, afraid. May I call you afraid?
Boot from a write-protected floppy which is always in the drive. The boot sector of the floppy loads a tiny piece of code that checks the checksum on the parition table and MBR and alerts you that it changed. Problem solved. Until they stop producing floppy drives, that is.
I think we misunderstand one another. My understanding of your comment was that by having replaced a HDD with an SSD, you removed the bottleneck (HDD) from your system and claim the CPU is now the bottleneck, i.e. that you no longer spend significant time in I/O waits, but rather observe a 100% CPU utilization.
What I then meant to say was that whenever this happens, it's likely that the CPU is actively waiting for the RAM. With CPU speeds and numbers of cores increasing steadily, the performance of RAM has not kept up, especially when there is thread contention involved. Thus, it's actually likely that it's the RAM that becomes the bottleneck. The fact that RAM is way faster than SSD is not relevant to this point.
It was covered as part of a sports coaching course.The course was mainly health and safety. Part of health and safety obviously covered coaching children, and it was part of the taught material we were given. Not pornography, obviously, but general paeodphilic behaviour.
The validity of the sources you cite made me collapse onto the floor with hysterical laughter.
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As for what they did? Play games, watch videos, run benches,
or
Except they would only run a benchmark ONCE when they got a new piece of gear.
but not both.
I can tell you I had 4 gamer customers that were the classic "must win teh benches!" types, one so bad his grandma is using a Skulltrail box because frankly that was the slowest hand me down he had left, and ALL FOUR had their SSDs fail within 2 years. these guys didn't buy cheap crap either, it was always what was at the top of the benches when they bought, most were either Intel or OCZ I believe is the name of the company. As for what they did? Play games, watch videos, run benches, pretty typical gamer stuff.
Two points. First, the fastest ("teh benches-winning") hardly ever means the most reliable. Second, you can actually benchmark an SSD to death.
This. Particularly if we're just simulated.
So far I have been totally unable to tax my current CPU past 40% utilization. I think we can take a break and let software catch up and older systems fall off the support map before the next generation of CPUs hit.
Just because your usage scenario is not CPU-bound does not mean everyone else's is.
When aliens visit natives, it is better to be the aliens.
Unless it rains.
Never does a -us suffix change to -ii.
You mean like in radius -> radii or denarius -> denarii?
1) Need to exchange documents with Microsoft Office users without corrupting the document.
2) Enjoying the rather sensible Win7 GUI while waiting for Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE 4 to die a horrible death and for Gnome 2 to rise from the dead.
3) Exotic soundcard, drivers for Windows only.
But there isn't a PC that can cold boot inside of 1 minute using either a regular BIOS or EFI to a Windows desktop in under a minute unless it's overclocked.
You've just made my PC disappear.
Everything.
You misunderstand me. I never claimed it varies by 10% or any other amount, anywhere. What I tried to convey was "accepted value" is meaningless for g, as in "by thinking it's a constant, the GP to your post made a fool of himself or herself".
There is no accepted value to acceleration due to gravity, it varies by location. Could this be why your teacher called you a dumbass back then?
Pretty much everything is "hidden" behind the Spotlight-esque search thing because the Spotlight-esque search thingie IS the main way to access everything in Unity. And Vista. And Seven.
I don't know which version of Windows 7 you're using, but I have a neat toolbar on the side of my screen with four dozen tiny icons that launch programs when I click on them. And no, I don't mean the taskbar, I mean the toolbar. Who in their right mind would go wasting several clicks or keystrokes to look for stuff that's needed all the time?
This.
Second that.
It's interesting, because certain cellular automata are Turing-complete. Thus, in theory, you could write, say, a C++ compiler for this (or similar) thing.
Of course, since it's still in the lab, there's no immediate practical application and probably there won't be for another decade, similarly to the examples you quoted.
I thought about how stupid people can be and I can say with certainty that 50% are below average.
So can I. That's because that's how averages work, by definition.
Exactly! Like when there's a test and out of 50 pupils 49 score 100/100 and one of them scores 0/100. The average score is then 98 and exactly half of the students are below the average, right, oh wait...
You: How are you today?
Rosette: Pretty good, thanks. How are you?
You: Not too good, I'm afraid.
Rosette: Nice to meet you, afraid. May I call you afraid?
Boot from a write-protected floppy which is always in the drive. The boot sector of the floppy loads a tiny piece of code that checks the checksum on the parition table and MBR and alerts you that it changed. Problem solved. Until they stop producing floppy drives, that is.
I think we misunderstand one another. My understanding of your comment was that by having replaced a HDD with an SSD, you removed the bottleneck (HDD) from your system and claim the CPU is now the bottleneck, i.e. that you no longer spend significant time in I/O waits, but rather observe a 100% CPU utilization. What I then meant to say was that whenever this happens, it's likely that the CPU is actively waiting for the RAM. With CPU speeds and numbers of cores increasing steadily, the performance of RAM has not kept up, especially when there is thread contention involved. Thus, it's actually likely that it's the RAM that becomes the bottleneck. The fact that RAM is way faster than SSD is not relevant to this point.
However, SSDs will likely soon start reaping the benefits of scale.
Now my laptops bottle neck is the bloody processor. I never would have thought in a million years. 0_o
Actually, your processor is probably doing wait-states waiting for the RAM.
... or if you can exploit a zero-day in thumbnail handling, right?
It was covered as part of a sports coaching course.The course was mainly health and safety. Part of health and safety obviously covered coaching children, and it was part of the taught material we were given. Not pornography, obviously, but general paeodphilic behaviour.
The validity of the sources you cite made me collapse onto the floor with hysterical laughter.
One would expect that canines would be extra hyper sensitive to such irritants, but I think you might well be right: no effect.
Interesting biology / physiology experiments there for someone. But how to do it ethically?
Do it with convicted dogs only.
So what did they throw?