According to a lot of people, there's no difference.. when Windows dies, the PC is broken. And I have to step in and correct them.. no, it's not broken. It's running Windows. As far as they can understand, that damned wavy-window flag at startup must be burned right into the hardware..
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Like what, FreeBSD? Geezuz, you'd think that whine-ux was the only free UNIX out there. Enough hyperbole, already.
It's not unusual at all. Fast reading is hyperfocus mode, that's all, or so I have been told. When I was a kid, I read the Lord of the Rings in a day and a half. That was cool but after a few years of that kinda reading I ran out of books I wanted to read at my small town library. As to this being something wrong.. I think it depends on what you do for a living. I chose to be a scientist and its hard, at least while I am doing my PhD.
On a Mac or a Winders thing, it runs either as a screensaver or a monolithic app, your choice. The screensaver doesn't degrade performance but the app mode does. While its active it sure will grab 98% CPU. It has to: The small chunk of data you get (340K or so) takes 1.7 billion calculations to be processed. If they didn't ship this with a high priority, you'd be waiting forever for it to finish. You can expect it to take about 10-20 hours per work unit if your machine is cranking hard at the data and longer if not. This is a LOT of work, probably more than RC5, IMO.
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According to a lot of people, there's no difference.. when Windows dies, the PC is broken. And I have to step in and correct them.. no, it's not broken. It's running Windows. As far as they can understand, that damned wavy-window flag at startup must be burned right into the hardware..
Like what, FreeBSD? Geezuz, you'd think that whine-ux was the only free UNIX out there. Enough hyperbole, already.
It's not unusual at all. Fast reading is hyperfocus mode, that's all, or so I have been told. When I was a kid, I read the Lord of the Rings in a day and a half. That was cool but after a few years of that kinda reading I ran out of books I wanted to read at my small town library.
As to this being something wrong.. I think it depends on what you do for a living. I chose to be a scientist and its hard, at least while I am doing my PhD.
On a Mac or a Winders thing, it runs either as a screensaver or a monolithic app, your choice. The screensaver doesn't degrade performance but the app mode does.
While its active it sure will grab 98% CPU. It has to: The small chunk of data you get (340K or so) takes 1.7 billion calculations to be processed. If they didn't ship this with a high priority, you'd be waiting forever for it to finish. You can expect it to take about 10-20 hours per work unit if your machine is cranking hard at the data and longer if not. This is a LOT of work, probably more than RC5, IMO.