GHz != performance in a CPU the same way that HP != performance in a car. They're still loosely (or rather, a little bit more that loosely) correlated.
I ran into this problem last fall. All the sites that i visited that claimed to have a java implementation... well, it turns out they only works in IE, on windows. I exchanged several frustrated and progressively nasty e-mails with tech support and eventually programming represetntatives. (pacific poker, paradise poker, and empire poker)
I tried 3 different clients with varieties of java plugins on several different platforms, browsers (ie, mozilla, netscape, konqueror, java 1.3X & 1.4x, blackdown, ms vm)... long story short, nothing worked except java in IE on windows.
I even tried Wine on a otherwise perfectly running fake windows setup. Did not work.
As a result, i opened an account, got the sign-up bonus, played the requisite number of rounds, doubled my money (50$ turned into 110$) and then cashed out.
Also, a word of advice: there are a LOT of really really really BAD poker players on these gambling sites. It's not hard to take the money and run.
Long story short: these casino sites are not in the business to help you technically or support multiple platforms. They have also figured out that the best business plan is to take money from easy marks and then run for it.
We tried XP approaches in my college programming classes. More often than not, it caused my partners and I to claw each others' eyes out, and generally despise your partner for the remainder of the project.
What worked MUCH better was designing the framework from the beginning, outlining how the different functions/processes/data structures etc. would have to communicate with each other, then splitting the programming tasks up.
After every one made progress, we'd recombine, work out bugs, etc.
Much more organic and realistic than the XP approach, which always seemed very articifical and limited.
The problem is that you have to train the software for your voice before you can obtain any high degree of accuracy. Not possible with pre-recorded speech.
Hell, the new voice-mail voice activated menus that have been popping up when i dial customer service sometimes force me to say out my phone number. And even to do that accurately, I have to speak very slowly and quite loud. More ofen, I just press random buttons until I get dumped to a live operator. (Try it, it works!)
actually, there are several forms of haiku. Aside from the slightly more wild 7-9-7 and 7-21-7 we studied in my long forgotten college writing seminars.... haiku is more about style than structure. Small miscalculations in syllable counts were overlooked by the ancient masters. Indeed, dialect changed so rapidly over distances that pronunciations often changed. (imagine aluminum vs aluminium)
And indeed, if you need to judge poetry using algorithmic rules, you're truly missing the point.
For more information, check out this sweet right up at: Haiku@E2
What the hell was the point in porting UNIX to a x86 architechture? Isn't that that chip that was based on chips originally used to control ballistic missiles back in the 70s?
What the hell was the point of emulating windows apps on unix? You geeks whined and whined and got your own OS; why don't you get your own freakin' software, too?
What the hell was the point of...
oh just fsck it.
They did it because it was there. Proprietary hardware and software are the Mt. Everests of the geek.
I, for one, look forward to my new thin-client multimedia center.
While I will give you that 800 vertical resolution is pathetic...
Dude. 512MB is not enough for you? I'm running XP at work right now with 512, I've got a buttload of stuff open, Office (a dozen or so excel docs), Outlook (1 gig e-mail database, woohoo!) about 5 mozillas with approx 36 tabs between them, internet audio churning, blah blah blah, etc etc etc (I'm not trying to outgeek anyone here) and i've still got tons of mem to spare. Maybe it's the quality of ram that you're using that's bottle-necking you.
And unless you plan to do professional level audio-editing on your lap (in which case, you probably do deserve the home sterilization kit), you don't need much more than AC97. The greatest limit to notebook quality are the speakers, not the sound card. You need better sound? Catch a pair of headphones (Sennheiser's got some pretty nice offerings this year)
Remember... laptops are about portability first, power second.
You want to play movies with a bitchin ATI rig at HD quality? Host your own game servers and frag some lusers in Quake? DOS your cubicle neighbour? Stick to the desk.
Don't buy that laptop unless you need the portability, and then understand that you'll have to make some sacrifices.
There's nothing special about this. For anyone who has worked in an office, they already know that the chief source of entertainment is ridiculing the customers.
It's well known that benchmarks aren't the be all and end all. They're often just statistics geared towards a ultra-specific application (remember all those/. stories about benchmark cheating vendors?)
I've seen examples of gcc in a cygwin shell kicking visual-c++ ass at load up times of huge image data on a wintel box. I've also seen java (jdk 1.3) annihilate native c code on console apps calculating complex mathematical formulas on a linux box. This goes for both AMD and Intel chips.
Moral of the story? These languages are all suited to specific uses. Analyze your tasks, your platforms, and your compilers. Learn how to use optimizations properly. Evaluate your need for portability. Do a few tests for performance in different languages and compilers to see which one actually is fastest for your current application.
It's a scare tactic. They'll rub the accused's nose in his 471 years, which will convince him to take a plea bargain on only a few counts. He'll most likely serve only a few years and face minimal fines.
Your facts and terminology are both completely wrong.
Cornell students get, and will continue to get, unlimited access to LAN bandwidth. This means ANY data INSIDE the Cornell network. Uncharged.
As for 2GB for the same X dollars, under the current pricing plan, you get unlimited for 45$ a month. This means under the new pricing plan, it will be approx. 8GB for the same money (the new pricing plan is approximately 23$ flat/ month, + extraneous bandwidth charges.
As for your foolish comments about who's footing the bill, a large portion of Cornell Students can't afford to have everything paid for by "Mommy and Daddy", and have to provide their own funds. As for financial aid, a large protion comes in the form of loans. As a CU student, I for one will be paying off these loans for years to come. So don't start flapping your mouth about the panacea of "financial aide", you insensitive bastard.
Logical and factual omissions == bad under any circumstances. Please, since you seem to be an expert, share your knowledge and explain how the facts are wrong. Otherwise, most will assume you are the idiot.
Well defined? "Last I checked", "generally refers to" and your usage of software in the definition of software seem to suggest that it's not well-defined.
What if a DVD contains an archive of software? It's just data, as it is not intended to execute instructions on a host machine.
I can have Win32 executables on my linux partitions, but they're not software to me, they're just data.
The long standing definition of 'software' is not well-defined, it is quite ambiguous. The interpretation of a sequence of bits as both instructions AND data that can be manipulated originally allowed many of the nascent advances in Computer Science in the late 1950's, early 1960's.
This is the most childish and unprofessional review I have ever read. The editorials in the college newspaper I read this morning deserve more respect than this. It reads like a fanboy's wet dream.
The only criticism with the quality is that it does look perhaps a bit more static and less life-like or organic than film. It's a small price to pay for the clarity we've never been able to appreciate before.
One of the biggest drawbacks to the cinematography, in my opinion, was that the CGI did not look real enough. And if it didn't look real in the theatre, how much worse will it be on my TV?
I remember the original glowing reviews before the film made wide release. And many people ended up complaining about how the film did not live up to hype and expectation. This hyper, Lucas-worshipping review points out the analogy clearly enough for me.
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GHz != performance in a CPU the same way that HP != performance in a car. They're still loosely (or rather, a little bit more that loosely) correlated.
I ran into this problem last fall. All the sites that i visited that claimed to have a java implementation ... well, it turns out they only works in IE, on windows. I exchanged several frustrated and progressively nasty e-mails with tech support and eventually programming represetntatives. (pacific poker, paradise poker, and empire poker)
... long story short, nothing worked except java in IE on windows.
I tried 3 different clients with varieties of java plugins on several different platforms, browsers (ie, mozilla, netscape, konqueror, java 1.3X & 1.4x, blackdown, ms vm)
I even tried Wine on a otherwise perfectly running fake windows setup. Did not work.
As a result, i opened an account, got the sign-up bonus, played the requisite number of rounds, doubled my money (50$ turned into 110$) and then cashed out.
Also, a word of advice: there are a LOT of really really really BAD poker players on these gambling sites. It's not hard to take the money and run.
Long story short: these casino sites are not in the business to help you technically or support multiple platforms. They have also figured out that the best business plan is to take money from easy marks and then run for it.
We tried XP approaches in my college programming classes. More often than not, it caused my partners and I to claw each others' eyes out, and generally despise your partner for the remainder of the project.
What worked MUCH better was designing the framework from the beginning, outlining how the different functions/processes/data structures etc. would have to communicate with each other, then splitting the programming tasks up.
After every one made progress, we'd recombine, work out bugs, etc.
Much more organic and realistic than the XP approach, which always seemed very articifical and limited.
The problem is that you have to train the software for your voice before you can obtain any high degree of accuracy. Not possible with pre-recorded speech.
Hell, the new voice-mail voice activated menus that have been popping up when i dial customer service sometimes force me to say out my phone number. And even to do that accurately, I have to speak very slowly and quite loud. More ofen, I just press random buttons until I get dumped to a live operator. (Try it, it works!)
actually, there are several forms of haiku. Aside from the slightly more wild 7-9-7 and 7-21-7 we studied in my long forgotten college writing seminars .... haiku is more about style than structure. Small miscalculations in syllable counts were overlooked by the ancient masters. Indeed, dialect changed so rapidly over distances that pronunciations often changed. (imagine aluminum vs aluminium)
And indeed, if you need to judge poetry using algorithmic rules, you're truly missing the point.
For more information, check out this sweet right up at: Haiku@E2
What's the point?
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What the hell was the point in porting UNIX to a x86 architechture? Isn't that that chip that was based on chips originally used to control ballistic missiles back in the 70s?
What the hell was the point of emulating windows apps on unix? You geeks whined and whined and got your own OS; why don't you get your own freakin' software, too?
What the hell was the point of
oh just fsck it.
They did it because it was there. Proprietary hardware and software are the Mt. Everests of the geek.
I, for one, look forward to my new thin-client multimedia center.
While I will give you that 800 vertical resolution is pathetic ...
... laptops are about portability first, power second.
Dude. 512MB is not enough for you? I'm running XP at work right now with 512, I've got a buttload of stuff open, Office (a dozen or so excel docs), Outlook (1 gig e-mail database, woohoo!) about 5 mozillas with approx 36 tabs between them, internet audio churning, blah blah blah, etc etc etc (I'm not trying to outgeek anyone here) and i've still got tons of mem to spare. Maybe it's the quality of ram that you're using that's bottle-necking you.
And unless you plan to do professional level audio-editing on your lap (in which case, you probably do deserve the home sterilization kit), you don't need much more than AC97. The greatest limit to notebook quality are the speakers, not the sound card. You need better sound? Catch a pair of headphones (Sennheiser's got some pretty nice offerings this year)
Remember
You want to play movies with a bitchin ATI rig at HD quality? Host your own game servers and frag some lusers in Quake? DOS your cubicle neighbour? Stick to the desk.
Don't buy that laptop unless you need the portability, and then understand that you'll have to make some sacrifices.
There's nothing special about this. For anyone who has worked in an office, they already know that the chief source of entertainment is ridiculing the customers.
...
After all, they make it so easy
It's well known that benchmarks aren't the be all and end all. They're often just statistics geared towards a ultra-specific application (remember all those /. stories about benchmark cheating vendors?)
I've seen examples of gcc in a cygwin shell kicking visual-c++ ass at load up times of huge image data on a wintel box. I've also seen java (jdk 1.3) annihilate native c code on console apps calculating complex mathematical formulas on a linux box. This goes for both AMD and Intel chips.
Moral of the story? These languages are all suited to specific uses. Analyze your tasks, your platforms, and your compilers. Learn how to use optimizations properly. Evaluate your need for portability. Do a few tests for performance in different languages and compilers to see which one actually is fastest for your current application.
There is no single "fastest" language.
Yeah, I watched "I Love the 80s: Stikes Back", too. Quoting without citing (in this case, Hal Sparks), is plagiarism.
Think up your own ideas.
It's a scare tactic. They'll rub the accused's nose in his 471 years, which will convince him to take a plea bargain on only a few counts. He'll most likely serve only a few years and face minimal fines.
Your facts and terminology are both completely wrong.
Cornell students get, and will continue to get, unlimited access to LAN bandwidth. This means ANY data INSIDE the Cornell network. Uncharged.
As for 2GB for the same X dollars, under the current pricing plan, you get unlimited for 45$ a month. This means under the new pricing plan, it will be approx. 8GB for the same money (the new pricing plan is approximately 23$ flat/ month, + extraneous bandwidth charges.
As for your foolish comments about who's footing the bill, a large portion of Cornell Students can't afford to have everything paid for by "Mommy and Daddy", and have to provide their own funds. As for financial aid, a large protion comes in the form of loans. As a CU student, I for one will be paying off these loans for years to come. So don't start flapping your mouth about the panacea of "financial aide", you insensitive bastard.
Logical and factual omissions == bad under any circumstances. Please, since you seem to be an expert, share your knowledge and explain how the facts are wrong. Otherwise, most will assume you are the idiot.
How does it look like the spitting image of Windows? Mine looks completely different, to me.
As inexcusable as this is, it's also inexplicable. Why would a music software suite and its installer have the ability to nuke a drive?
Well defined? "Last I checked", "generally refers to" and your usage of software in the definition of software seem to suggest that it's not well-defined.
What if a DVD contains an archive of software? It's just data, as it is not intended to execute instructions on a host machine.
I can have Win32 executables on my linux partitions, but they're not software to me, they're just data.
The long standing definition of 'software' is not well-defined, it is quite ambiguous. The interpretation of a sequence of bits as both instructions AND data that can be manipulated originally allowed many of the nascent advances in Computer Science in the late 1950's, early 1960's.
This is the most childish and unprofessional review I have ever read. The editorials in the college newspaper I read this morning deserve more respect than this. It reads like a fanboy's wet dream.
The only criticism with the quality is that it does look perhaps a bit more static and less life-like or organic than film. It's a small price to pay for the clarity we've never been able to appreciate before.
One of the biggest drawbacks to the cinematography, in my opinion, was that the CGI did not look real enough. And if it didn't look real in the theatre, how much worse will it be on my TV? I remember the original glowing reviews before the film made wide release. And many people ended up complaining about how the film did not live up to hype and expectation. This hyper, Lucas-worshipping review points out the analogy clearly enough for me.
So, picking your nose in public is okay, but not if there's a camera around?