ok, we've hashed over the raw speed differences to death on this board. I would just like to say that after looking at the page for 3 seconds, I realized that the graphs were drawn by an idiot. http://www.adobe.com/motion/images/video_c omposite.gif Take a look, and see if you can tell what's wrong? As drawn: Dell P4 3.06 GHz: 54 seconds =.54 Dual G4 1.25 GHz: 1 minute 25 seconds = 1.25 In case you didn't catch it, go look at the labels on the graph & the axis, because here's what the real values equal: 54 seconds = 0.9 minutes 1' 25" = 1.4 minutes So, instead of a difference of 57% it should only be 35%. This does not mitigate the fact that the Pentium was faster, but rather than someone is making pains to make things look even worse then they are . . . . or (if I was feeling generous) that they are simply mathematically illiterate.
If you look at the first graph, as you point out, it compares 0:54 seconds vs. 1:25, but they just blindly did this: 0.54 vs. 1.25 This gave the Dell an advantage on the graph. But, in the second graph, it gets funnier. 2:05 vs. 3:47 becomes: (real) 125 sec vs. 227 seconds = Dell is 45% faster (Adobe) 2.5 vs. 3.47 = Dell is 28% "faster" So in their second graph, the Dell looks a lot slower than it actually is. I guess that evens out then. Whoever did that charge clearly forgot that 1.00 in "time" is sixty seconds, not 100 seconds.
after skimming it a bit more, the opening paragraph says that it was comparing "a 2.53GHz Pentium 4 and a 1GHz dual-processor G4", but the graphs are labeled with a "Dell P4 3.06GHz" and "Mac G4 dual 1.25GHz". So which is it?
Actually a VAT or sales tax would not be such a horrid idea, as long as the following exemptions were enforced on a national level:
Food
Clothing
Paper Products - Toilet Paper is a basic, folks!
Telecommunications - all of em, on the user end, mind you (still taxing calls for the damn Spanish American War)
Energy - electric and gas et al for home heating.
This way the poorer in our society, those who only have enough for the basics and necessities of life dont pay a higher amount of taxes.
Meanwhile, when Fred R. Billionaire buys his 23rd Mercedes, his share of the tax burden is paid for at the outset.
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ok, we've hashed over the raw speed differences to death on this board. I would just like to say that after looking at the page for 3 seconds, I realized that the graphs were drawn by an idiot.c omposite .gif .54
http://www.adobe.com/motion/images/video_
Take a look, and see if you can tell what's wrong? As drawn:
Dell P4 3.06 GHz: 54 seconds =
Dual G4 1.25 GHz: 1 minute 25 seconds = 1.25
In case you didn't catch it, go look at the labels on the graph & the axis, because here's what the real values equal:
54 seconds = 0.9 minutes
1' 25" = 1.4 minutes
So, instead of a difference of 57% it should only be 35%.
This does not mitigate the fact that the Pentium was faster, but rather than someone is making pains to make things look even worse then they are . . . . or (if I was feeling generous) that they are simply mathematically illiterate.
If you look at the first graph, as you point out, it compares 0:54 seconds vs. 1:25, but they just blindly did this:
0.54 vs. 1.25
This gave the Dell an advantage on the graph.
But, in the second graph, it gets funnier. 2:05 vs. 3:47 becomes:
(real) 125 sec vs. 227 seconds = Dell is 45% faster
(Adobe) 2.5 vs. 3.47 = Dell is 28% "faster"
So in their second graph, the Dell looks a lot slower than it actually is. I guess that evens out then. Whoever did that charge clearly forgot that 1.00 in "time" is sixty seconds, not 100 seconds.
after skimming it a bit more, the opening paragraph says that it was comparing "a 2.53GHz Pentium 4 and a 1GHz dual-processor G4", but the graphs are labeled with a "Dell P4 3.06GHz" and "Mac G4 dual 1.25GHz". So which is it?
Actually a VAT or sales tax would not be such a horrid idea, as long as the following exemptions were enforced on a national level:
Food
Clothing
Paper Products - Toilet Paper is a basic, folks!
Telecommunications - all of em, on the user end, mind you (still taxing calls for the damn Spanish American War)
Energy - electric and gas et al for home heating.
This way the poorer in our society, those who only have enough for the basics and necessities of life dont pay a higher amount of taxes.
Meanwhile, when Fred R. Billionaire buys his 23rd Mercedes, his share of the tax burden is paid for at the outset.