per-MHz single-core performance between the infamously bad (even at the time) P4 and the current best (Core i7) has only improved by a factor of less than 2.6, since October 2004! (When the Pentium 3.6 EE was released).
An i7 965OC running at 4060MHz is 2x faster at single-threaded Cinebench than a P4E 670 running at 3800MHz. In 6 years, Intel achieved 100% more performance for 7% more MHz.
Nothing to sneeze at, but why the heck do you think They went multi-core? Because 4GHz is a pseudo-wall.
Multi-threaded, the i7 965OC is 8.5x faster than the P4E 670.
Nothing that the average person does is CPU-bound if they have a fast CPU
Exactly. With a trailing edge GeForce 210, an Athlon 64X2 4000 and proper drivers, even CPU hogs like Flash on Firefox don't burden the system. Mostly the system is waiting for me to type or the network to respond.
Go record an orchestra in 24/192 and get back to me on how nothing needs something like that.
The problem is that there are -- compared to the billions of people using PCs -- relatively few uses for that much CPU power.
Heck, I'd *love* to pop for a Phenom II X6 to replace my dowdy old Athlon 64X2 4000+, but when I need some ISOs transcoded into x264, I log into my wife's PC (Athlon II X2 555) and use CLI tools over NFS to chug away at them. It gets 198% of CPU for the 22 hours/day that she doesn't use it, and 100% when she *does* use it...
And it's not really that much more expensive (+$100) for the 15% extra gain in performance.
On the x264 Pass 1 Encode test, the i7 2600K is 28% faster than the Phenom II X6 1075T, but (right now, at NewEgg) 66% more expensive.
Since AMD and the mobo manufacturers has a track record with AM2/AM2+/AM3 of backwards compatibility with simple BIOS upgrades, I'm going to stick with them until Intel achieves parity with AMD.
They're going to investigate. Possibly shoddily or incompetently, but nevertheless thy will investigate. When they interrogate you, if you pull out movie tickets or a dinner receipt, they'll go over, talk to the relevant people and then let you go.
Because otherwise they will die, you sociopathic fucktard.
Everyone dies, you numbnuts. The question is: after how much cost and effort compared to pain (in case you didn't know: radiation and chemotherapy are extremely painful) and expected longevity.
take care of the $200,000 dollars a year his cancer treatments cost?
Why does an old (.gt. 70 years) person *need* US$200,000 a year of cancer treatment? $500 of morphine is what they really need.
(I saw my uncles incessantly badgering my grandfather to try this weird treatment or that, all while the cancer spread throughout his body. Same w/ my grandmother except I'm not sure what she exactly died of. Thank the non-existent deity that my newly minted Doctor-cousin came into town, was suitably horrified and promptly prescribed morphine. After months of extreme pain, she died pain-free the next night.)
However, the commentary in the summary shows a bit of naiveness on the part of the submitter. Lukashenko is basically the last of the hard-line Eastern Bloc-style dictators. Getting a wiretap on an opposition figure isn't hard when you run a police state.
Since any wireless providers can only do business by the grace of said dictator, I'm sure that they're owned by people that he favors.
They are dealing with a core Java application, OpenOffice, and Adobe Reader.
What's ignored and not "core" to some CIO or SVP is *vital* to some Accountant. Thus it will become "core" when the CFO stops getting his P&L statements in a timely manner.
Same with the Help Desk, Project Management, etc, etc, etc. And let's remember that OOo doesn't format exactly like Word/Excel.
Ribbon interfaces are designed around Fitt's Law and the idea that the menus should taking up less screen space.
Fitt's Law ignores that over 20 years we've become accustomed to doing things a certain way, and so get Really Pissed And Confused when they change things on us. Same with GNOME. v1 *worked*. v2 *works*, and wasn't that huge of a UI leap from v1.
You can "move my cheese", just don't replace it with a Fisher-Price toy...
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Testament to their effectiveness? If they broken through then they were not effective.
Sure they aren't perfectly effective. But if the exploit allowed is of limited utility then that's a Good Thing.
It doesn't really matter how hard they made it if they aren't actually containing exploits, or at least some of them.
Sure it does, since it contains many exploits, and makes crackers' work more difficult.
per-MHz single-core performance between the infamously bad (even at the time) P4 and the current best (Core i7) has only improved by a factor of less than 2.6, since October 2004! (When the Pentium 3.6 EE was released).
An i7 965OC running at 4060MHz is 2x faster at single-threaded Cinebench than a P4E 670 running at 3800MHz. In 6 years, Intel achieved 100% more performance for 7% more MHz.
Nothing to sneeze at, but why the heck do you think They went multi-core? Because 4GHz is a pseudo-wall.
Multi-threaded, the i7 965OC is 8.5x faster than the P4E 670.
Nothing that the average person does is CPU-bound if they have a fast CPU
Exactly. With a trailing edge GeForce 210, an Athlon 64X2 4000 and proper drivers, even CPU hogs like Flash on Firefox don't burden the system. Mostly the system is waiting for me to type or the network to respond.
Go record an orchestra in 24/192 and get back to me on how nothing needs something like that.
The problem is that there are -- compared to the billions of people using PCs -- relatively few uses for that much CPU power.
Heck, I'd *love* to pop for a Phenom II X6 to replace my dowdy old Athlon 64X2 4000+, but when I need some ISOs transcoded into x264, I log into my wife's PC (Athlon II X2 555) and use CLI tools over NFS to chug away at them. It gets 198% of CPU for the 22 hours/day that she doesn't use it, and 100% when she *does* use it...
bash, HandBrakeCLI & NFS FTW!!
And it's not really that much more expensive (+$100) for the 15% extra gain in performance.
On the x264 Pass 1 Encode test, the i7 2600K is 28% faster than the Phenom II X6 1075T, but (right now, at NewEgg) 66% more expensive.
Since AMD and the mobo manufacturers has a track record with AM2/AM2+/AM3 of backwards compatibility with simple BIOS upgrades, I'm going to stick with them until Intel achieves parity with AMD.
Rendered pages stay cached in memory, so they load faster if you hit the back button.
My experience is that this feature only works on static pages. The problem is that in 2011 there are damned few.
You're conflating being accused of "downloading KP" with "killing a hobo in my home".
Where I live, the social reactions to the two crimes are radically different.
Which is why I earlier wrote Hell's going to freeze over before I leave my router unsecured.
"That's that person that killed that hobo"
Fat chance! My state has a Castle Doctrine statute, so I'd be applauded even if I didn't actually kill the bum.
If you could live with that, by all means, leave your router unsecured.
Hell's going to freeze over before I leave my router unsecured.
the police are going to arrest you.
No they aren't....
They're going to investigate. Possibly shoddily or incompetently, but nevertheless thy will investigate. When they interrogate you, if you pull out movie tickets or a dinner receipt, they'll go over, talk to the relevant people and then let you go.
Because otherwise they will die, you sociopathic fucktard.
Everyone dies, you numbnuts. The question is: after how much cost and effort compared to pain (in case you didn't know: radiation and chemotherapy are extremely painful) and expected longevity.
You need a backup of home regardless of partitioning strategy, so there's no advantage there.
Of course there is: "safety backup" is a hell of a lot faster than "mandatory backup + restore".
(An example would be resizing partitions because you need more on /var and have empty space on /home).
I know I don't run a server, but it's been a decade since /var caused me any real problems.
In which case you still have all the apps in / to to restore /home from backup.
Nah, that's the Big Tobacco HCP: smoke a lot, die early and save Medicaid jillions of geriatric treatment dollars.
Anyway, you didn't actually answer my question.
IMHO there's no very strong reason to have separate swap and boot partitions and so on.
And when you wipe that partition, or "something" accidentally wipes it, there goes /home (which should *always* go on it own partition).
take care of the $200,000 dollars a year his cancer treatments cost?
Why does an old (.gt. 70 years) person *need* US$200,000 a year of cancer treatment? $500 of morphine is what they really need.
(I saw my uncles incessantly badgering my grandfather to try this weird treatment or that, all while the cancer spread throughout his body. Same w/ my grandmother except I'm not sure what she exactly died of. Thank the non-existent deity that my newly minted Doctor-cousin came into town, was suitably horrified and promptly prescribed morphine. After months of extreme pain, she died pain-free the next night.)
People just didn't like it at first because it meant they needed to re-learn the locations of the commands they use.
"Needs retraining" is the drum that MS beats when companies start talking about moving to Linux...
However, the commentary in the summary shows a bit of naiveness on the part of the submitter. Lukashenko is basically the last of the hard-line Eastern Bloc-style dictators. Getting a wiretap on an opposition figure isn't hard when you run a police state.
Since any wireless providers can only do business by the grace of said dictator, I'm sure that they're owned by people that he favors.
For a lot of smaller companies, they are relying on their SLAs and their provider to maintain good backups in accordance with the SLAs.
IOW, dropping their testicles on the chopping block.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/04/01/0354232/Zodiac-Island-Makers-Say-ISP-Worker-Wiped-an-Entire-Season
Is that just a figment of his imagination?
Possibly... :)
All I know is that sound works on my two Linux PCs, and nothing had to be built from scratch.
Tolerance is to let others live like they want.
No, it's not. But you've got to admire those Politically Correct Bastards who insidiously twisted the original meaning of the word...
Tolerance \Tol"er*ance\, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F.
tol['e]rance.]
1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring;
endurance.
[1913 Webster]
Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market
place, shaking, to show his tolerance. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable
persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions;
toleration.
[1913 Webster]
They are dealing with a core Java application, OpenOffice, and Adobe Reader.
What's ignored and not "core" to some CIO or SVP is *vital* to some Accountant. Thus it will become "core" when the CFO stops getting his P&L statements in a timely manner.
Same with the Help Desk, Project Management, etc, etc, etc. And let's remember that OOo doesn't format exactly like Word/Excel.
Ribbon interfaces are designed around Fitt's Law and the idea that the menus should taking up less screen space.
Fitt's Law ignores that over 20 years we've become accustomed to doing things a certain way, and so get Really Pissed And Confused when they change things on us. Same with GNOME. v1 *worked*. v2 *works*, and wasn't that huge of a UI leap from v1.
You can "move my cheese", just don't replace it with a Fisher-Price toy...
So you sabotaged your employer with a logic bomb to promote Firefox
To call "standards-compliant app" a logic bomb is to not understand what a logic bomb is.
than a car without a working sound system.
Tell that to my kids who watch shows on Ubuntu on a regular basis, and watch them look at you like an idiot.
That whole "serving customers in the Seattle area" thing makes it pretty useless to 99% of the population of the US.