I dont think so. I think the people who he was talking to were very well aware of the difference between dollars and cents - listen to the call they do know the difference, unless of course the magic.002 number is mentioned, then suddenly they cant tell the difference anymore. They are simply told to quote it that way or lose their jobs - and so they do.
I always hated those solve a problem to play for a little bit style games so when we made a math game ( The Abacus Project ) we tried to hide the math as much as possible so it played more like a game. (inspired heavily by prince of persia, out of this world and some of the other classics of yore - due to their heavy use of exploration and logic puzzle based gameplay)
Interestingly enough, this experiment was note entirely successfull, the teachers complain there isnt enough math in it now, ie too fun, not educational enough. On the other hand the second you say educational any mainstream gamer immediately cringes, you just cant win.
We had a bunch of other educational software too, most notably All the Right Type and the Crosscountry games. Its a weird market to sell into, making sure your game can run on a P166 with no graphics card in this day and age is almost nostalgic.
You're confusing the celeron 300A (half the cache, twice as fast) and the original "deceleron" (no cache at all)
The original celeron was awfull for all but games (because dollar for dollar it bought you an awful lot of FPU performance, which was the limiting factor for games of that era). It was as you described terrible for anything that was mostly integer performance (office apps, servers, compiling etc).
The Celeron 300A - Intels response to the lackluster sales (and damning reviews) of the original celeron, performed within half a percent (sometimes faster, sometimes slower but not by a meaningful amount) of the equivalent regular pentium for all but a few very obscure memory bandwidth synthetic benchmarks - regardless of the application, be it games, compilation or office apps. When it was new getting this processor was a no brainer, all the performance, half the price. (The fact that virtually every 300A could overclock to 450Mhz by changing the FSB was simply icing on the cake.)
You could probably still find the relevant benchmarks on toms hardware.
I think you might be somewhat overstating things here:
Very few cars (my mustang certainly cant do this) will advance the timing to take advantage of increased fuel octane. Typically only turbocharged engines as those are the type of vehicles which have knock sensors since that type of engine can be seriously damaged (blown head gaskets typically) if they start pinging (also referred to as preignition, which is caused by the air fuel mixture igniting during the pistons down stroke and thus results in drastically increased cylinder pressures). (PS: This is only an issue at full throttle high rpm, the occasionally bout of pinging while you are climbing a hill at 1500 rpm is no big deal)
I'm not sure what the end result of this is but fuels of higher octane allow an engine to produce more power because they burn at a higher temperature. Accordingly you can run more timing on the engine without running into pre-ignition. (Maximum power occurs with the timing set as aggressively as possible without producing any preignition). If your vehicle doesnt have a knock sensor, and doesnt ping, then putting higher octane fuel in it is a waste of time, unless you also advance the timing.
For the 200 - 300 GB per modern tape, you would need to buy an awful lot of DVD blanks.
Modern tape drives are screaming fast too, the biggest problem with high speed backups is getting data off disk fast enough to prevent the tape drives from stalling. (A phenomenon known as shoe-shining which just kills your performance)
LTO1 tape drives do 15MB/sec uncompressed, about 30MB/sec with hardware compression enabled and it bursts higher with extremely compressable data (text, document etc).
LTO2 tape drives are exactly twice as fast. Not sure about the forthcoming LTO3.
Generally you need to stream multiple RAID arrays into a single tape drive to max it out.
I like them too, however you should be sure to port filter file sharing traffic too, because external hosts can reply to MS filesharing broadcasts and get thru the firewall otherwise. Had a worm show up on one of my machines everytime I rebooted until I figured it out.
DLink? routers filter the filesharing ports (137-139?) by default and are cheaper to boot (although I have no real preference and in fact own the linksys one myself)
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I believe the not-chicken is defined as the first maternal ancestor incapable of breeding with any living species of chicken.
We outright KILL people if they killed someone else, did the killing stop?
One assumes the odds against a repeat offense are rather high, so I'm going to vote yes.
I dont think so. I think the people who he was talking to were very well aware of the difference between dollars and cents - listen to the call they do know the difference, unless of course the magic .002 number is mentioned, then suddenly they cant tell the difference anymore. They are simply told to quote it that way or lose their jobs - and so they do.
I used to work at a place called Ingenuity works ( http://www.ingenuityworks.com/ )
I always hated those solve a problem to play for a little bit style games so when we made a math game ( The Abacus Project ) we tried to hide the math as much as possible so it played more like a game. (inspired heavily by prince of persia, out of this world and some of the other classics of yore - due to their heavy use of exploration and logic puzzle based gameplay)
Interestingly enough, this experiment was note entirely successfull, the teachers complain there isnt enough math in it now, ie too fun, not educational enough. On the other hand the second you say educational any mainstream gamer immediately cringes, you just cant win.
We had a bunch of other educational software too, most notably All the Right Type and the Crosscountry games. Its a weird market to sell into, making sure your game can run on a P166 with no graphics card in this day and age is almost nostalgic.
You're confusing the celeron 300A (half the cache, twice as fast) and the original "deceleron" (no cache at all) The original celeron was awfull for all but games (because dollar for dollar it bought you an awful lot of FPU performance, which was the limiting factor for games of that era). It was as you described terrible for anything that was mostly integer performance (office apps, servers, compiling etc). The Celeron 300A - Intels response to the lackluster sales (and damning reviews) of the original celeron, performed within half a percent (sometimes faster, sometimes slower but not by a meaningful amount) of the equivalent regular pentium for all but a few very obscure memory bandwidth synthetic benchmarks - regardless of the application, be it games, compilation or office apps. When it was new getting this processor was a no brainer, all the performance, half the price. (The fact that virtually every 300A could overclock to 450Mhz by changing the FSB was simply icing on the cake.) You could probably still find the relevant benchmarks on toms hardware.
I think you might be somewhat overstating things here: Very few cars (my mustang certainly cant do this) will advance the timing to take advantage of increased fuel octane. Typically only turbocharged engines as those are the type of vehicles which have knock sensors since that type of engine can be seriously damaged (blown head gaskets typically) if they start pinging (also referred to as preignition, which is caused by the air fuel mixture igniting during the pistons down stroke and thus results in drastically increased cylinder pressures). (PS: This is only an issue at full throttle high rpm, the occasionally bout of pinging while you are climbing a hill at 1500 rpm is no big deal) I'm not sure what the end result of this is but fuels of higher octane allow an engine to produce more power because they burn at a higher temperature. Accordingly you can run more timing on the engine without running into pre-ignition. (Maximum power occurs with the timing set as aggressively as possible without producing any preignition). If your vehicle doesnt have a knock sensor, and doesnt ping, then putting higher octane fuel in it is a waste of time, unless you also advance the timing.
For the 200 - 300 GB per modern tape, you would need to buy an awful lot of DVD blanks. Modern tape drives are screaming fast too, the biggest problem with high speed backups is getting data off disk fast enough to prevent the tape drives from stalling. (A phenomenon known as shoe-shining which just kills your performance) LTO1 tape drives do 15MB/sec uncompressed, about 30MB/sec with hardware compression enabled and it bursts higher with extremely compressable data (text, document etc). LTO2 tape drives are exactly twice as fast. Not sure about the forthcoming LTO3. Generally you need to stream multiple RAID arrays into a single tape drive to max it out.
I like them too, however you should be sure to port filter file sharing traffic too, because external hosts can reply to MS filesharing broadcasts and get thru the firewall otherwise. Had a worm show up on one of my machines everytime I rebooted until I figured it out.
DLink? routers filter the filesharing ports (137-139?) by default and are cheaper to boot (although I have no real preference and in fact own the linksys one myself)