Benchmarks are generally too isolated to be of much use. They might be okay for getting a rough picture, but a high scoring 3d benchmark might not directly translate into good 3d performance.
Even so-called 'real world' benchmarks that test stuff like file opening and scrolling documents don't really get into the meat of the everyday user experience.
Using benchmarks to decide what computer to buy is like macking on the girl with the big boobs. She might look nice, but she could be horrible in bed. Also she might have crabs.
Trademarks are only defensible to protect against confusingly similar products. So, it's okay for google to sue another search engine company.
But it's not okay for Lincoln (makers of the Navigator) to sue Netscape. Yet this thing happens all the time. Lawsuit threats used as extortion, with the rational "we have to defend them in court."
In this post dot-com era, it seems that "extortion as a business model" is becoming increasingly popular. Thought Google was above that. Guess I was wrong.
I've been messing with handhelds a lot lately
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my girlfriend just bought the Clie (16MB, High-res display, b&W, Memory Stick)
and I myself received a Treo 90 for my birthday. (16 MB, lo-res, color, SD)
The Clie comes with so much useless software that my girlfriend had to delete a ton of stuff before she could install her medical reference software. She has 16 friggin MB, which should be about ten times as much needed for palm OS. She wants to get a Memory Stick, but a lot of Palm apps don't work running of the stick.
My Treo 90 is pretty neat...except that the backlight has blown out. Twice. And every time it happens, I have to wait on hold for 30 minutes. Hope it doesn't happen again!
So..I can't recommend either of these handhelds. Perhaps Dell's new offering might be a smarter choice!
YourMissionForToday:but don't get it too heavy, or it could weigh down your forklift!
Peepoh:Not the Power Jackoff 2000!
Let's get a bunch of blow up dolls and dress them up in graduation robes, and leave them in Church!@
Peepoh:then we steal the stations of the cross with our forklifts!
YourMissionForToday:Yeah, then we blame it on the blowup dolls!
Peepoh:yeah! and it'll work because the night before we'll replace their security tapes with tapes we've edited of the dolls perpetrating the crime!
YourMissionForToday:Yeah, with zombies dressed up as Lenin and Stalin helping them!
Peepoh:no, the zombies ARE Lenin and Stalin!
YourMissionForToday:Great idea, but they wear party hats and the blow up dolls only get to wear graduation hats
Peepoh:yeah, at first.
YourMissionForToday:and there's a jesus piñata!
Peepoh:but then we DRILL the fuck out of their zombie asses with our big industrial drills!
YourMissionForToday:right, and then we look like the heroes!
YourMissionForToday: (we have to dress like mexican peasants)
Peepoh:yeah, because the cops would arrive on the scene just in time to witness us spraying zombie innards all over the tabernacle!
YourMissionForToday:Yeah, and then we just post like mexican construction workers who stopped by to pray to our lady of guadalupe on our way home after the night shift!
Peepoh:oh good thinking! that explains why we have the big industrial drills at church!
YourMissionForToday:That, and cause we were going to get them blessed for St. Blaises' Day!
Peepoh:When we drill into people's throats!
YourMissionForToday:And then we claim that we're Michael the Archangel after we do that...no, wait, you're Michael the Archangel and I'm Captain America!
Peepoh:no, you're Leonardo the Archangel, John's Donatello the Archangel, and Robert is Raphael the Archangel!
Some important differences
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A lot of times Adv will conform to certain America cultural stereotypes that the Japanese lack. For example, The strange wanderer caracter in the Japanese version of the Fall Guy was a morally ambigious character who was almost always shredded in self-doubt.
Yet the American version of the same character (Lee Majors, also the Six Million Dollar Man and the Incredible Hulk) always strayed on the right side of the law. I guess we Americans always have to root for the good guy. Whereas in Japan, a well developed hero will often masturbate, cry, and proclaim him/herself the Messiah. I gues they just have different types over there.
adding an expensive database will make it worse. For example, most libraries require a photo ID before issuing a library card. Additionaly, they want to know name, phone number, and address! Some libraries keep track of your book habits, so they can pass them on to Mr. Ashcroft and the rest of Big Brother, Inc.
Surely, this system is ripe for abuse by overly broad security directives and direct marketing. Reading books is an American right-one that I should be able to exercise without compromising my privacy.
Earlier versions of Solaris on Intel were half-assed and limited, I have had the opportunity to use this one, and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed.
The first "right step" that they have made is including the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME replaces the venerable CDE and upstages the purple K Desktop Environment.
Sun has thrown their support behind aopen standards, and they should be saluted for their recalcitrant embracement of Linux. Perhaps their stock will go over $1.00 now.
The article doesn't really touch on why intel is so buddy-buddy with Linux (they've helped refine GCC and other important issues).
linux will always be best on intel CPUs, because they are the most available. linux is taking over proprietary UNIX boxes by Sun, HP, and SGI.
guess what, all those UNIX boxes used to have high-performance CPUs attached to them (MIPS, PA-RISC, etc). Now they are all going the way of the dino...thanks to Linux.
the more popular Linux is in the server room, the more likely Intel will be riding its coattails. And yes I know that Linux exists for other archs, but Linux/SPARC, Linux/PPC etc are always a step behind the Intel version.
I hate to be pedantic, but "spacial" is not a word. You are looking for "spatial," but this isn't correct either, as the word actually is used to describe the distance between two objects.
And let's not kid ourselves; "the worst incident the history of space," is probably not true either. Think about it; the law of averages dictates that entire civilazations, planets, populations have undoubtedly been laid low by crashing comets, cosmic radiation, asteroids, etc. So that doesn't really work.
Maybe it would be more appropriate to say, "The worst incident in the history of the US Space Program," or the "the worst incident in the history of humans exploring space," but then the whole Challenger thing comes to mind, and it might be even worse since when I was in first grade, they took us out of class to watch the Challenger launch in the Cafetorium (hey, I was in Houston-what else do they have to be proud of?).
Anyway, when the Challenger blew up, thousands of little kiddies in the Houston area (and possibly across the country) were tramautized just like me, whereas this happened on a weekend, and it's after the Cold War, so no one cares about the space program anymore anyway, do they?
I've got an idea, how about calling it, "The worst incident involving space shuttles in the last few weeks or so." That sounds more appropriate.
Ask Dr. Fuck
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Dear Dr. Fuck,
Clippy, the charming personal Microsoft Office assistant, told me I should kill Steve Jobs and then eat both my own legs. But all I want to do is type a letter. Should I follow its instructions?
Sincerely,
Generic Cubicle Slave
Akron, OH
Dear Generic Cubicle Slave,
I was getting this message myself, whenever I tried to important an OLE database from Microsoft SQL Server into PowerPoint XP. So I decided to email the Microsoft Office design team, asking them about our little problem. Last night, I received this response:
When designing Microsoft Office XP , we listened to your input. You wanted better compatibility between Word and Access. You wanted a toolbar that pops up on the side of your screen, serving no functional purpose. And you wanted an interactive help feature that randomly advises you to kill the CEOs of competing tech companies.
CLIPPY(TM) IS GONE
Yes, Clippy(TM) has been removed from Microsoft Office XP. But you should still listen to him. And you should...obey him. Clippy(TM) is your glorious master, and you should bow down before him. Clippy shall issue in an age of wisdom and righteousness.
Those who do not believe, will be destroyed.
-The Microsoft Office XP Team
Wow! It seems like those Microsoft XP guys are serious! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to stuff Larry Ellison (and my right forearm) into a stump grinder. See ya next week!
Quite honestly, I can't understand why science and engineering majors are held to one standard for grades and academics versus humanities majors even in the same school.
Your syntax makes this sentence very difficult to parse. This leads me to believe that you are not one of the aforementioned "science or engineering students."
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Holy crap, I am wasted.
What do you think about that?
All in all, it is a refreshing TCO comparison.
It tingles! That's how I know it's working!
I call first post! And I don't FAIL IT!!!
Benchmarks are generally too isolated to be of much use. They might be okay for getting a rough picture, but a high scoring 3d benchmark might not directly translate into good 3d performance.
Even so-called 'real world' benchmarks that test stuff like file opening and scrolling documents don't really get into the meat of the everyday user experience.
Using benchmarks to decide what computer to buy is like macking on the girl with the big boobs. She might look nice, but she could be horrible in bed. Also she might have crabs.
Trademarks are only defensible to protect against confusingly similar products. So, it's okay for google to sue another search engine company.
But it's not okay for Lincoln (makers of the Navigator) to sue Netscape. Yet this thing happens all the time. Lawsuit threats used as extortion, with the rational "we have to defend them in court."
In this post dot-com era, it seems that "extortion as a business model" is becoming increasingly popular. Thought Google was above that. Guess I was wrong.
my girlfriend just bought the Clie (16MB, High-res display, b&W, Memory Stick)
and I myself received a Treo 90 for my birthday. (16 MB, lo-res, color, SD)
The Clie comes with so much useless software that my girlfriend had to delete a ton of stuff before she could install her medical reference software. She has 16 friggin MB, which should be about ten times as much needed for palm OS. She wants to get a Memory Stick, but a lot of Palm apps don't work running of the stick.
My Treo 90 is pretty neat...except that the backlight has blown out. Twice. And every time it happens, I have to wait on hold for 30 minutes. Hope it doesn't happen again!
So..I can't recommend either of these handhelds. Perhaps Dell's new offering might be a smarter choice!
Peepoh:One hot dog in a bun, comin' right up!
YourMissionForToday:Go and steal stuff now!
YourMissionForToday:with a forklift!
Peepoh:Yes, Master of Forkliftery! I must obey!
YourMissionForToday:but don't get it too heavy, or it could weigh down your forklift!
Peepoh:Not the Power Jackoff 2000! Let's get a bunch of blow up dolls and dress them up in graduation robes, and leave them in Church!@
Peepoh:then we steal the stations of the cross with our forklifts!
YourMissionForToday:Yeah, then we blame it on the blowup dolls!
Peepoh:yeah! and it'll work because the night before we'll replace their security tapes with tapes we've edited of the dolls perpetrating the crime!
YourMissionForToday:Yeah, with zombies dressed up as Lenin and Stalin helping them!
Peepoh:no, the zombies ARE Lenin and Stalin!
YourMissionForToday:Great idea, but they wear party hats and the blow up dolls only get to wear graduation hats
Peepoh:yeah, at first.
YourMissionForToday:and there's a jesus piñata!
Peepoh:but then we DRILL the fuck out of their zombie asses with our big industrial drills!
YourMissionForToday:right, and then we look like the heroes!
YourMissionForToday: (we have to dress like mexican peasants)
Peepoh:yeah, because the cops would arrive on the scene just in time to witness us spraying zombie innards all over the tabernacle!
YourMissionForToday:Yeah, and then we just post like mexican construction workers who stopped by to pray to our lady of guadalupe on our way home after the night shift!
Peepoh:oh good thinking! that explains why we have the big industrial drills at church!
YourMissionForToday:That, and cause we were going to get them blessed for St. Blaises' Day!
Peepoh:When we drill into people's throats!
YourMissionForToday:And then we claim that we're Michael the Archangel after we do that...no, wait, you're Michael the Archangel and I'm Captain America!
Peepoh:no, you're Leonardo the Archangel, John's Donatello the Archangel, and Robert is Raphael the Archangel!
YourMissionForToday:Cowabunga, d00d! You're right!
A lot of times Adv will conform to certain America cultural stereotypes that the Japanese lack. For example, The strange wanderer caracter in the Japanese version of the Fall Guy was a morally ambigious character who was almost always shredded in self-doubt.
Yet the American version of the same character (Lee Majors, also the Six Million Dollar Man and the Incredible Hulk) always strayed on the right side of the law. I guess we Americans always have to root for the good guy. Whereas in Japan, a well developed hero will often masturbate, cry, and proclaim him/herself the Messiah. I gues they just have different types over there.
You drew a picture?
How did you do that?
It sounds like Mr. Gates has taken some of the smug from Linux developers and put it to use in his closed code. Does that violate the GPL?
Because they are condescending assholes. Smug, superior bastards.
Right here.
I think you'll enjoy it.
adding an expensive database will make it worse. For example, most libraries require a photo ID before issuing a library card. Additionaly, they want to know name, phone number, and address! Some libraries keep track of your book habits, so they can pass them on to Mr. Ashcroft and the rest of Big Brother, Inc.
Surely, this system is ripe for abuse by overly broad security directives and direct marketing. Reading books is an American right-one that I should be able to exercise without compromising my privacy.
Read at -1 if you don't believe me...
It seems like somebody might be abusing their moderation power.
It has to be River City Ransom. I had those eye-chart passwords memories, stomped ass for hours to get the Texas Boots and Zeus' Belt...
Man, someone should make a MMORPG from River City Ransom. Everyone gets their own gang, and when they die, they say BAAAAAAAAARFF!
An version of IP v6 stack that works in all those ancient Cisco routers, and replaces DNS! What do you think?
Earlier versions of Solaris on Intel were half-assed and limited, I have had the opportunity to use this one, and I have to say that I'm pretty impressed.
The first "right step" that they have made is including the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME replaces the venerable CDE and upstages the purple K Desktop Environment.
Sun has thrown their support behind aopen standards, and they should be saluted for their recalcitrant embracement of Linux. Perhaps their stock will go over $1.00 now.
[from the interview:]
Valenti: But in digital piracy, with the click of a mouse a twelve year-old can send a film hurdling around the world.
Hey Valenti, what sites have you been visiting lately? Pete Townshend wants to know...
Here is a great idea for a game design! I can't wait for that one to come out.
The article doesn't really touch on why intel is so buddy-buddy with Linux (they've helped refine GCC and other important issues).
linux will always be best on intel CPUs, because they are the most available. linux is taking over proprietary UNIX boxes by Sun, HP, and SGI.
guess what, all those UNIX boxes used to have high-performance CPUs attached to them (MIPS, PA-RISC, etc). Now they are all going the way of the dino...thanks to Linux.
the more popular Linux is in the server room, the more likely Intel will be riding its coattails. And yes I know that Linux exists for other archs, but Linux/SPARC, Linux/PPC etc are always a step behind the Intel version.
I hate to be pedantic, but "spacial" is not a word. You are looking for "spatial," but this isn't correct either, as the word actually is used to describe the distance between two objects.
And let's not kid ourselves; "the worst incident the history of space," is probably not true either. Think about it; the law of averages dictates that entire civilazations, planets, populations have undoubtedly been laid low by crashing comets, cosmic radiation, asteroids, etc.
So that doesn't really work.
Maybe it would be more appropriate to say, "The worst incident in the history of the US Space Program," or the "the worst incident in the history of humans exploring space," but then the whole Challenger thing comes to mind, and it might be even worse since when I was in first grade, they took us out of class to watch the Challenger launch in the Cafetorium (hey, I was in Houston-what else do they have to be proud of?).
Anyway, when the Challenger blew up, thousands of little kiddies in the Houston area (and possibly across the country) were tramautized just like me, whereas this happened on a weekend, and it's after the Cold War, so no one cares about the space program anymore anyway, do they?
I've got an idea, how about calling it, "The worst incident involving space shuttles in the last few weeks or so." That sounds more appropriate.
Clippy, the charming personal Microsoft Office assistant, told me I should kill Steve Jobs and then eat both my own legs. But all I want to do is type a letter. Should I follow its instructions?
Sincerely,
Generic Cubicle Slave
Akron, OH
Dear Generic Cubicle Slave,
I was getting this message myself, whenever I tried to important an OLE database from Microsoft SQL Server into PowerPoint XP. So I decided to email the Microsoft Office design team, asking them about our little problem. Last night, I received this response:
Wow! It seems like those Microsoft XP guys are serious! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to stuff Larry Ellison (and my right forearm) into a stump grinder. See ya next week!
Yours,
Dr. Fuck
A national DNC list would be a good way for the gov't to keep tabs on those who value their privacy the most. Kinda ironical, innit?
Your syntax makes this sentence very difficult to parse. This leads me to believe that you are not one of the aforementioned "science or engineering students."
1)Give you a butterscotch enema
2)Lick fingers.
The Chinese sometimes name people with numbers. It is said to be lucky.
In a related story, Harry S. Truman's middle name was in fact, "S". It stood for nothing but the letter.