Definitely. The Core 2 can retire four instructions per cycle per core (I believe), whereas say the 68000 took around 160 cycles for a divide. Not only is the clock a thousand times faster, but the IPC is also potentially hundreds of times higher. These are fun times, aren't they?
In fact most MAC users and lovers I know personally are far more knowledgeable about IT, PC's and MAC, as well as EE than most windows users I know. But then I hang with EE people.
What about the crusade? You know, the one that a certain soon-to-be-ex-President declared as such? What about the nutcase minister that a particular Vice-Presidental candidate associates with, didn't he boast of driving a witch (citizen) out of her own community?
You mean the members of the party that just lost the election? What about them?
What about a particular group in Waco, who's religious leading put them at odds with the ATF much to their demise.
The group roundly written off as nutcases, correct.
What about the systemic different set of rights allotted to married couples? What about the control of the definition of marriage to follow religious beliefs?
How are you binding that solely to Christian groups? In Californa, Prop. 8 narrowly won; a huge percentage of Christians had to have voted against it for the numbers to be so close.
What about the initial reluctance to do much about HIV because it was a sinner's disease?
That has what to do with Christianity?
Look around a little, it's harder to notice needle in a stack of needles than in a haystack. Since the backdrop here is Christian, it's very easy to point out non-Christian flaws.
It's apparently not very easy (for you) to point out Christian flaws.
In Microsoft speak a RC is a feature complete product, parts are still buggy but the capabilities are in, they still reservice the right to add features but will not remove them.
You're joking, right? Please tell me that you're joking! Seriously, "RC" is supposed to mean "we think this might be the one to ship unless something comes up".
NYS has been driving out businesses just by their costs and taxes.
Oh, you think? We were driving to my mom's house for Thanksgiving and stopped in St. Joseph, MO to fill up with gas at $1.43 a gallon. My wife called her parents in Buffalo, NY to tell them, and her dad almost had a stroke because he paid $2.34 a gallon earlier that day. Sadly, he truly doesn't understand why he's paying an extra buck a gallon. His conclusion was that we get cheaper gas in the Midwest for some magical reason.
You mean the illegal immigrants who's kids suck up any and all tax money they may generate - and then some - the moment they enroll them in a public school? It costs ~$12k-$14k per kid.
Side topic: assuming a small classroom of only 20 kids and the bottom end of your scale, that means it costs $240,000 a year to teach them. Suppose for argument that the teacher gets half. Where's the extra $120,000 going? You could build a brand new freestanding building every few years for that price.
If costs really are that out of control, maybe they need to cut educational spending, starting from the top down.
They have a sales tax, right? They're just extending it to non-tangible goods. How is downloaded music any different from buying a CD, in regards to taxes? Why shouldn't it be taxed?
I'll go you one further: declare that music and software purchases are purchases and end this "we only licensed it to you!" crap.
Out of your examples, the only one related to modern Christianity was about the abortion doctor murderers, and they are loudly and publicly condemned by all but a few nutcases. Honestly, you'd be hard pressed to collect a worse set of evidence for your hypothesis.
I don't have to be able to afford to outlast them in court if they get rid of me without following the proper proceedures (which mean I'll come out of it with a lot of money anyway) since I've got union backing.
Which is all well and good once you have the job, but makes it a lot harder to get one in the first place since potential employers know you'll be almost impossible to get rid of. France's Sarkozy saw what it was doing to their unemployment problems and worked to make it easier to fire bad workers, thus making companies more likely to hire.
I was just saying to myself the other day, "Self, you really need to involve more corporations in your purchasing decisions." I mean, I already had a customer loyalty card from the grocery store and just finished taking a survey from Slashdot that roamed from which websites I view to my wife's income to the kind of underwear I prefer, but that just wasn't enough! Thanks, Nintendo, for being there for me when I really needed someone to monitor everything I buy and then reward me with a pittance so long as accept their valuable limited time offer.
The choice between the E8400 and the Q6600 was a tough one. I could have gone either way. Quad-core is great for threaded applications like media encoding. But the E8400 outperforms the Q6600 for the majority of what I do (including Photoshop CS3).
Totally off-topic, but how hot does your E8400 run? In a cool environment, my non-overclocked CPU ran at 49C idle and 63C active with the stock cooler. I bought an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro (my first and only foray into non-stock cooling) and saw that drop to 40C idle to 49C active.
Precisely. I can't believe Snopes made such an obvious mistake.
I can. Read some of their articles on a subject where you know a bit. It can be painful. My main complaint is that they present themselves as authoritative, as though they've done all the research so that you don't have to. At least Wikipedia is honest about its incompleteness.
For what reasons? Repeat after me: we are not a democracy for various deliberate reasons. As others have pointed out, lacking the electoral college the 2000/2004 campaign strategies would have been completely different and might have even ended with a decisive Bush win. Can you accept that as a possibility?
Say what you will, but Barb and Dave are usually pretty good about scoping out all the facts.
Not really. They dismissed the idea that Coke+Aspirin is an intoxicating combination because Coke is benign and Aspirin is benign, until I pointed out that caffeine and Aspirin have a synergistic effect and Excedrin is a combination of the two. Now, obviously it isn't going to get you high, but demonstrates that two minor substances can combine surprisingly. I'd assumed this was common knowledge but the Snopes people had completely missed it.
Their site makes for entertaining reading, but I'd trust Wikipedia over Snopes.com any day of the week (and that's saying a lot).
huh? i drop blu-ray disks into my ps3 and its playing within a few seconds. you're smoking crack.
That's true. It was able to load "Men In Black" in only 43 seconds, which is nearly twice as fast as some other Sony gear. It might still take a while to load "Iron Man" the first time, but that's only because it's upgrading its firmware. In all, the PS3 is much better than your average cheap DVD player which can't even upgrade its firmware or run a cool virtual machine to keep you from stealing all your content, at least for another couple of months.
Artists will never see a dime, labels will have a new printing press for cash and students all across America will get screwed.
You think the students are screwed? Wait until the RIAA discovers what it's like when 100% of college students abandon music stores. Since they already have a receipt for unlimited legal music distribution, why would they ever pay another dime for it? Good thinking, RIAA: spend four years teaching every college kid that music is free. I can't see a single problem with that.
BSD-style licenses do allow you to take open source code and effectively make it closed source. As far as I know the GPL license allows for this too, but states that any modifications to that code must also be released under an open source license if the code is released externally to your organisation.
You have a very interesting interpretation of "closed source".
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When working in base 2? Who on earth works in base 2?
SSD manufacturers, I presume, since they're basically large slabs of RAM.
Definitely. The Core 2 can retire four instructions per cycle per core (I believe), whereas say the 68000 took around 160 cycles for a divide. Not only is the clock a thousand times faster, but the IPC is also potentially hundreds of times higher. These are fun times, aren't they?
I think the PDP-11 had a 300 ns cycle time and current machines are ~10x faster.
As long as .3ns is about ~10x faster than 300ns, sure.
These people don't seem aware that typefaces are usually available in many weights.
Yep. Having worked to tweak a font so, I'm sure they'll be embarrassed to discover that there are others out there.
In fact most MAC users and lovers I know personally are far more knowledgeable about IT, PC's and MAC, as well as EE than most windows users I know. But then I hang with EE people.
Can they spell "Mac"?
What about the crusade? You know, the one that a certain soon-to-be-ex-President declared as such? What about the nutcase minister that a particular Vice-Presidental candidate associates with, didn't he boast of driving a witch (citizen) out of her own community?
You mean the members of the party that just lost the election? What about them?
What about a particular group in Waco, who's religious leading put them at odds with the ATF much to their demise.
The group roundly written off as nutcases, correct.
What about the systemic different set of rights allotted to married couples? What about the control of the definition of marriage to follow religious beliefs?
How are you binding that solely to Christian groups? In Californa, Prop. 8 narrowly won; a huge percentage of Christians had to have voted against it for the numbers to be so close.
What about the initial reluctance to do much about HIV because it was a sinner's disease?
That has what to do with Christianity?
Look around a little, it's harder to notice needle in a stack of needles than in a haystack. Since the backdrop here is Christian, it's very easy to point out non-Christian flaws.
It's apparently not very easy (for you) to point out Christian flaws.
In Microsoft speak a RC is a feature complete product, parts are still buggy but the capabilities are in, they still reservice the right to add features but will not remove them.
You're joking, right? Please tell me that you're joking! Seriously, "RC" is supposed to mean "we think this might be the one to ship unless something comes up".
NYS has been driving out businesses just by their costs and taxes.
Oh, you think? We were driving to my mom's house for Thanksgiving and stopped in St. Joseph, MO to fill up with gas at $1.43 a gallon. My wife called her parents in Buffalo, NY to tell them, and her dad almost had a stroke because he paid $2.34 a gallon earlier that day. Sadly, he truly doesn't understand why he's paying an extra buck a gallon. His conclusion was that we get cheaper gas in the Midwest for some magical reason.
You mean the illegal immigrants who's kids suck up any and all tax money they may generate - and then some - the moment they enroll them in a public school? It costs ~$12k-$14k per kid.
Side topic: assuming a small classroom of only 20 kids and the bottom end of your scale, that means it costs $240,000 a year to teach them. Suppose for argument that the teacher gets half. Where's the extra $120,000 going? You could build a brand new freestanding building every few years for that price.
If costs really are that out of control, maybe they need to cut educational spending, starting from the top down.
They have a sales tax, right? They're just extending it to non-tangible goods. How is downloaded music any different from buying a CD, in regards to taxes? Why shouldn't it be taxed?
I'll go you one further: declare that music and software purchases are purchases and end this "we only licensed it to you!" crap.
COBOL is more likely Freemasonry
As a Mason, I demand that you take that back. Fail to do so and we'll appoint Bush again.
Out of your examples, the only one related to modern Christianity was about the abortion doctor murderers, and they are loudly and publicly condemned by all but a few nutcases. Honestly, you'd be hard pressed to collect a worse set of evidence for your hypothesis.
I don't have to be able to afford to outlast them in court if they get rid of me without following the proper proceedures (which mean I'll come out of it with a lot of money anyway) since I've got union backing.
Which is all well and good once you have the job, but makes it a lot harder to get one in the first place since potential employers know you'll be almost impossible to get rid of. France's Sarkozy saw what it was doing to their unemployment problems and worked to make it easier to fire bad workers, thus making companies more likely to hire.
And none of my old GC games are eligible? Why?
Because your ongoing possession of them is not floating more money in Nintendo's direction?
I was just saying to myself the other day, "Self, you really need to involve more corporations in your purchasing decisions." I mean, I already had a customer loyalty card from the grocery store and just finished taking a survey from Slashdot that roamed from which websites I view to my wife's income to the kind of underwear I prefer, but that just wasn't enough! Thanks, Nintendo, for being there for me when I really needed someone to monitor everything I buy and then reward me with a pittance so long as accept their valuable limited time offer.
The choice between the E8400 and the Q6600 was a tough one. I could have gone either way. Quad-core is great for threaded applications like media encoding. But the E8400 outperforms the Q6600 for the majority of what I do (including Photoshop CS3).
Totally off-topic, but how hot does your E8400 run? In a cool environment, my non-overclocked CPU ran at 49C idle and 63C active with the stock cooler. I bought an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro (my first and only foray into non-stock cooling) and saw that drop to 40C idle to 49C active.
Data is a plural word.
Then let it be plural.
Precisely. I can't believe Snopes made such an obvious mistake.
I can. Read some of their articles on a subject where you know a bit. It can be painful. My main complaint is that they present themselves as authoritative, as though they've done all the research so that you don't have to. At least Wikipedia is honest about its incompleteness.
the popular vote is all that should matter
For what reasons? Repeat after me: we are not a democracy for various deliberate reasons. As others have pointed out, lacking the electoral college the 2000/2004 campaign strategies would have been completely different and might have even ended with a decisive Bush win. Can you accept that as a possibility?
Say what you will, but Barb and Dave are usually pretty good about scoping out all the facts.
Not really. They dismissed the idea that Coke+Aspirin is an intoxicating combination because Coke is benign and Aspirin is benign, until I pointed out that caffeine and Aspirin have a synergistic effect and Excedrin is a combination of the two. Now, obviously it isn't going to get you high, but demonstrates that two minor substances can combine surprisingly. I'd assumed this was common knowledge but the Snopes people had completely missed it.
Their site makes for entertaining reading, but I'd trust Wikipedia over Snopes.com any day of the week (and that's saying a lot).
huh? i drop blu-ray disks into my ps3 and its playing within a few seconds. you're smoking crack.
That's true. It was able to load "Men In Black" in only 43 seconds, which is nearly twice as fast as some other Sony gear. It might still take a while to load "Iron Man" the first time, but that's only because it's upgrading its firmware. In all, the PS3 is much better than your average cheap DVD player which can't even upgrade its firmware or run a cool virtual machine to keep you from stealing all your content, at least for another couple of months.
Artists will never see a dime, labels will have a new printing press for cash and students all across America will get screwed.
You think the students are screwed? Wait until the RIAA discovers what it's like when 100% of college students abandon music stores. Since they already have a receipt for unlimited legal music distribution, why would they ever pay another dime for it? Good thinking, RIAA: spend four years teaching every college kid that music is free. I can't see a single problem with that.
wow. what a grown up and mature attitude. judges must assume you are eleven years old.
Shouldn't you be off filing a lawsuit or something?
That's a good principle to go by in general these days (indie artists excluded, of course :)
I buy lots of CDs - but from the "used" rack. It's possible to legally listen to RIAA music without them ever seeing a penny of it.
BSD-style licenses do allow you to take open source code and effectively make it closed source. As far as I know the GPL license allows for this too, but states that any modifications to that code must also be released under an open source license if the code is released externally to your organisation.
You have a very interesting interpretation of "closed source".