The 2.0 GHz P4 will still lose to the T-bird 1.4 in floating point math, rendering, and basically all that matters for most people. However, the high numbers attract companies like Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. because consumers are stupid. Hopefully the company with the better product will prevail, but I'm not going to make any assumptions.
Relating to this event:
A few weeks ago, I took advantage of my friend's ignorance and used ftp to place a simple perl script into his box via the internet. Then, using telnet (yet another service he has enabled!) I executed the script. This script basically repeated these commands: "eject/dev/hdc" and "eject -t/dev/hdc", thus causing his cdrom drive to continously open and close. A few seconds later, after logging out of the telnet session, I received a phone call.
Now, instead of taking an exit and driving to the nearest gas station, you can just pull over and urinate in your gas tank. The nitrogen from your urine oughta give your car an extra boost!
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The 2.0 GHz P4 will still lose to the T-bird 1.4 in floating point math, rendering, and basically all that matters for most people. However, the high numbers attract companies like Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. because consumers are stupid. Hopefully the company with the better product will prevail, but I'm not going to make any assumptions.
Just to let you know, this story was mentioned on [H]ard|OCP about a week or so ago.
Relating to this event: A few weeks ago, I took advantage of my friend's ignorance and used ftp to place a simple perl script into his box via the internet. Then, using telnet (yet another service he has enabled!) I executed the script. This script basically repeated these commands: "eject /dev/hdc" and "eject -t /dev/hdc", thus causing his cdrom drive to continously open and close. A few seconds later, after logging out of the telnet session, I received a phone call.
Now, instead of taking an exit and driving to the nearest gas station, you can just pull over and urinate in your gas tank. The nitrogen from your urine oughta give your car an extra boost!
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