Guess I don't understand. You nudge your case rather harshly many times? Why would anybody do that and be surprised when something fails?
Maybe the real problem was poor quality CD media, or a burner with firmware issues, or BurnProof wasn't enabled and the machine couldn't keep up with the data stream (possibly because DMA wasn't configured for the controller).
Don't get me wrong: I still have occasional maintenance jobs that require a floppy, but would much rather use CD/flash.
That's an argument that nobody makes. Sure, optical media can become scratched or warp if mishandled, and they're not truly archival. But floppy disks are notorious for becoming unreadable 5min after you've copied files onto them.
For every unreadable CD burned by an 'out of balance' burner, there are probably 100 floppies that died because of the phase of the moon.
RAID 1 will slow writes by a full 50% when mirroring across master and slave on the same IDE channel.
RAID 1 will show no read improvements at all on systems which lack optimizations to interleave reads across devices.
There are lots of other cases where real-world RAID performance won't match a naive estimation. For example, it only takes three drives to fully saturate an Ultra 320 SCSI bus these days.
A native AGP motherboard chipset supporting a PCI-Express bridge will lose some performance when running PCI-E video cards. A board like the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA with only x4 active lanes will be bottlenecked by the bus whenever it tries to pass more than 1000MB/s in either direction where an x1 lane is good for about 250MB/s. Probably more noticeable at higher resolutions.
Just not at the same time as DDR. ASRock site And besides, if you already have DDR and then you buy this board, you're no more "stuck" with DDR than you were before you bought it.
It's a terrific board at an incredible price. The only reason I didn't buy one is that it's reportedly tough to install current Linux versions on it.
AIUI, a scheduling challenge with hyperthreading was ensuring that two simultaneous threads didn't compete for the same types of execution units [int or fp or vector?] at the same time. That wouldn't be a problem with separate cores, each with their own execution units.
So you'd rather run two cores at 1.7GHz and 1.2V instead of one core at 2.4GHz and 1.4V and one core at 1GHz and 1.4V.
If you have a single thread going flat out, you'll be sacrificing performance if you throttle its core down to achieve voltage parity with a second mostly idle core. Instead of having idle cores drag the speeds down, maybe active cores should push the speeds up.
You're right about Unix/Xenix having long existed in both 32-bit and 16-bit. I was just referring to the long delay between the debut of the 386 in 1986 and OS/2 2.0 in 1992 and WinNT in 1993.
For my entire career (since 1983), hardware has outrun software, and OS software in particular.
Seriously. How many years after the introduction of the 386 did we have to wait for a real 32-bit OS? [QEMM didn't count.] And Win95 was still largely based on 16-bit code.
what the usage graph will look like on actual consumer machines with typical currently available software?
I'm betting that 99% of the time when the user's running some CPU-intensive application it'll look exactly like the image in TFA: One core busy with a single-threaded app, one core slightly occupied with background system tasks, and the other two cores twiddling their thumbs with nothing at all to do.
Sure will be nice when we have more software that can make use of two or more cores!
Core 2 Duo has much higher IPC than Athlon 64. A better comparison would be the $370 E6600 to the $830 FX-62.
There's also the Conroe-capable ASRock 775Dual-VSTA which can be had for $62 delivered. Not a top-performing board, but a great choice for a budget or transition system with support for DDR/DDR2 and AGP/PCI-E.
You didn't pay for feedback, you paid for your item. There's no obligation on eBay for buyers and sellers to leave each other feedback. eBay is not in the personal validation business.
You can decline to buy from sellers who aren't forthcoming with feedback, but really you're only denying yourself the opportunity of some good deals.
Dunno why parent is modded funny. The basic approach is entirely plausible, and it may well be both cheaper and more efficient in the future to ship humongous pre-recorded libraries rather than depend on the constant availability of superwide network pipes.
and to continue on this new thread would be feeding the troll
I'm not trolling, just trying to convince you that another group's attainment of full equality doesn't harm you. It might threaten your comfort with the status quo, but change happens and progress is a good thing!
The word "marriage" refers to a religious ceremony. It "grew" to mean the current government-managed tax break clusterfsck referred to today.
No. The definition of marriage has changed dramatically and historically has often had nothing at all to do with religion. In many times it was arranged by the parents as strictly a business proposition or by heads of state to form international alliances. Polygamy has been common in many societies and was practiced by major biblical figures. In some places children could be married. Interracial marriage was long forbidden in the US.
By the original meaning, gays don't have the right to get married in a Catholic Church. BFD. Neither do I.
Religious marriage is totally distinct from civil marriage, the latter being what federal & state legislation regulates and what activists on both sides are trying to affect. When someone's married by a justice of the peace, there's no religious authority blessing the union. Couples who have that done sometimes also have a separate church ceremony.
I agree with you that the state has no business telling the Catholic Church whom they must marry, but no laws attempt to do that. It's up to Catholics alone to change the practices of their own church. But it's improper for religious authorities to attempt to prevent other people from participating in legal civil marriages.
As a white, educated, het male, I've got no recourse when some jackoff redneck, militant feminazi, or rabble-rousing minority mouthpeice "offends me." I've got to "suck it up, they've got Freedom of Speech," after all. You want to tell me again about "double standards?"
There are people out there fighting to keep their families together in the face of legal persecution which in many cases allows their children to be taken away solely because their parents are gay, and you're complaining that you're the real victim because it's okay to offend you? Do you know how bizarre that sounds?
I do, however, consider any group with "Hate speech protection" to be receiving special treatment.
Once again, there are people who are denied entire categories of basic human rights that you take for granted, and your main concern is that you're no longer as free to disseminate animosity against them. I agree that political correctness has a dark side that can stifle legitimate dialogue, but I wish you could look past that and agree that gay/les/bi/trans people ought to have all the same freedoms, rights, and responsibilities that everyone else has.
As an aside, if you're ever invited to a gay/lesbian couple's wedding or civil union, go! You might be pleasantly surprised to witness a very warm, loving, pro-family event.:)
Again, all of which are just as often applied to any of the other marriages I listed and you carefully ignored.
When was the last time you heard about anybody trying to prevent Asians or Baptists from being able to marry? Gays aren't asking for anything special, they're asking -- or demanding -- that they not be denied the same freedoms everybody else has.
"Agitation and activism" is no the same thing as "bitching loudly then whining when it bites you in the ass."
Would you remain silent if you or those you care about were legally treated as sub-human? Me neither!
I understand that you're disturbed by all the attention paid to gay issues, but you still haven't given any reasons to justify the notion that gays don't deserve the same rights you have.
Just a guess, but I suspect many VMware users only install memory-hungry firewall / anti-virus / anti-spyware programs in the host OS and keep their guest OS installations lean and mean.
Nothing on the computer tells you that you've opened one too many things
Actually there is. If your hard disk activity LED is blinking like crazy when you switch applications, that's a hint that you're dipping too deeply into swap space and need to install more RAM to run the loaded applications smoothly.
I gave three examples, but there are many more. When straight people want to marry, they're being responsible citizens, but when gay people do the same, they're "destroying the institution of marriage". When straight couples have children or adopt it's to produce a loving family, but when gay couples do the same it's "using innocent children to score political points".
by insisting on pushing it to the forefront of people's minds, they draw more NEGATIVE attention, which only serves to fuel the whole persecution complex
How else is progress ever achieved? Without agitation and political activism, women wouldn't have the vote, blacks would still be slaves, and the US would still be a British colony.
Lot of people are afraid of change and fight it ferociously. But here in Massachusetts we're all discovering that having married gay/lesbian neighbors does nothing to threaten our own marriages.
C'mon, if everybody were saying "that's so Christian" as their favorite generic insult then Christians would rightly object. Not because they're unhappy or too sensitive, but because it's not too much to expect basic civility from other people.
Nor should anyone else be forced to know far too much information about any other given person.
A straight person who wears a wedding ring, displays a photo of their spouse on their desk, or mentions their significant other in conversation is accepted and affirmed. But a gay person who does any of these same things is accused of forcing unwanted information on others.
The only thing gay folks want is an end to that kind of double standard. That's not any kind of "special" treatment.
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Uh-oh, hope Pete Best has an alibi :-/
Guess I don't understand. You nudge your case rather harshly many times? Why would anybody do that and be surprised when something fails?
Maybe the real problem was poor quality CD media, or a burner with firmware issues, or BurnProof wasn't enabled and the machine couldn't keep up with the data stream (possibly because DMA wasn't configured for the controller).
Don't get me wrong: I still have occasional maintenance jobs that require a floppy, but would much rather use CD/flash.
That's an argument that nobody makes. Sure, optical media can become scratched or warp if mishandled, and they're not truly archival. But floppy disks are notorious for becoming unreadable 5min after you've copied files onto them. For every unreadable CD burned by an 'out of balance' burner, there are probably 100 floppies that died because of the phase of the moon.
RAID 1 will slow writes by a full 50% when mirroring across master and slave on the same IDE channel.
RAID 1 will show no read improvements at all on systems which lack optimizations to interleave reads across devices.
There are lots of other cases where real-world RAID performance won't match a naive estimation. For example, it only takes three drives to fully saturate an Ultra 320 SCSI bus these days.
Performance/Watt or Performance/$$$ matters, what difference does it make how many cycles are required to accomplish a given task?
A native AGP motherboard chipset supporting a PCI-Express bridge will lose some performance when running PCI-E video cards. A board like the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA with only x4 active lanes will be bottlenecked by the bus whenever it tries to pass more than 1000MB/s in either direction where an x1 lane is good for about 250MB/s. Probably more noticeable at higher resolutions.
Just not at the same time as DDR. ASRock site And besides, if you already have DDR and then you buy this board, you're no more "stuck" with DDR than you were before you bought it.
It's a terrific board at an incredible price. The only reason I didn't buy one is that it's reportedly tough to install current Linux versions on it.
AIUI, a scheduling challenge with hyperthreading was ensuring that two simultaneous threads didn't compete for the same types of execution units [int or fp or vector?] at the same time. That wouldn't be a problem with separate cores, each with their own execution units.
You're right about Unix/Xenix having long existed in both 32-bit and 16-bit. I was just referring to the long delay between the debut of the 386 in 1986 and OS/2 2.0 in 1992 and WinNT in 1993.
what the usage graph will look like on actual consumer machines with typical currently available software?
I'm betting that 99% of the time when the user's running some CPU-intensive application it'll look exactly like the image in TFA: One core busy with a single-threaded app, one core slightly occupied with background system tasks, and the other two cores twiddling their thumbs with nothing at all to do.
Sure will be nice when we have more software that can make use of two or more cores!
Core 2 Duo has much higher IPC than Athlon 64. A better comparison would be the $370 E6600 to the $830 FX-62.
There's also the Conroe-capable ASRock 775Dual-VSTA which can be had for $62 delivered. Not a top-performing board, but a great choice for a budget or transition system with support for DDR/DDR2 and AGP/PCI-E.
You didn't pay for feedback, you paid for your item. There's no obligation on eBay for buyers and sellers to leave each other feedback. eBay is not in the personal validation business.
You can decline to buy from sellers who aren't forthcoming with feedback, but really you're only denying yourself the opportunity of some good deals.
That's a good point. I was alluding to the old advice not to underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
Dunno why parent is modded funny. The basic approach is entirely plausible, and it may well be both cheaper and more efficient in the future to ship humongous pre-recorded libraries rather than depend on the constant availability of superwide network pipes.
I'm not trolling, just trying to convince you that another group's attainment of full equality doesn't harm you. It might threaten your comfort with the status quo, but change happens and progress is a good thing!
No. The definition of marriage has changed dramatically and historically has often had nothing at all to do with religion. In many times it was arranged by the parents as strictly a business proposition or by heads of state to form international alliances. Polygamy has been common in many societies and was practiced by major biblical figures. In some places children could be married. Interracial marriage was long forbidden in the US.
Religious marriage is totally distinct from civil marriage, the latter being what federal & state legislation regulates and what activists on both sides are trying to affect. When someone's married by a justice of the peace, there's no religious authority blessing the union. Couples who have that done sometimes also have a separate church ceremony.
I agree with you that the state has no business telling the Catholic Church whom they must marry, but no laws attempt to do that. It's up to Catholics alone to change the practices of their own church. But it's improper for religious authorities to attempt to prevent other people from participating in legal civil marriages.
There are people out there fighting to keep their families together in the face of legal persecution which in many cases allows their children to be taken away solely because their parents are gay, and you're complaining that you're the real victim because it's okay to offend you? Do you know how bizarre that sounds?
Once again, there are people who are denied entire categories of basic human rights that you take for granted, and your main concern is that you're no longer as free to disseminate animosity against them. I agree that political correctness has a dark side that can stifle legitimate dialogue, but I wish you could look past that and agree that gay/les/bi/trans people ought to have all the same freedoms, rights, and responsibilities that everyone else has.
As an aside, if you're ever invited to a gay/lesbian couple's wedding or civil union, go! You might be pleasantly surprised to witness a very warm, loving, pro-family event. :)
When was the last time you heard about anybody trying to prevent Asians or Baptists from being able to marry? Gays aren't asking for anything special, they're asking -- or demanding -- that they not be denied the same freedoms everybody else has.
Would you remain silent if you or those you care about were legally treated as sub-human? Me neither!
I understand that you're disturbed by all the attention paid to gay issues, but you still haven't given any reasons to justify the notion that gays don't deserve the same rights you have.
Just a guess, but I suspect many VMware users only install memory-hungry firewall / anti-virus / anti-spyware programs in the host OS and keep their guest OS installations lean and mean.
Actually there is. If your hard disk activity LED is blinking like crazy when you switch applications, that's a hint that you're dipping too deeply into swap space and need to install more RAM to run the loaded applications smoothly.
True. P-Pro did have cache running at full CPU speed, which made it faster than some P-II with half-speed cache. Same with the famous Celeron 300A.
I gave three examples, but there are many more. When straight people want to marry, they're being responsible citizens, but when gay people do the same, they're "destroying the institution of marriage". When straight couples have children or adopt it's to produce a loving family, but when gay couples do the same it's "using innocent children to score political points".
How else is progress ever achieved? Without agitation and political activism, women wouldn't have the vote, blacks would still be slaves, and the US would still be a British colony.
Lot of people are afraid of change and fight it ferociously. But here in Massachusetts we're all discovering that having married gay/lesbian neighbors does nothing to threaten our own marriages.
C'mon, if everybody were saying "that's so Christian" as their favorite generic insult then Christians would rightly object. Not because they're unhappy or too sensitive, but because it's not too much to expect basic civility from other people.
A straight person who wears a wedding ring, displays a photo of their spouse on their desk, or mentions their significant other in conversation is accepted and affirmed. But a gay person who does any of these same things is accused of forcing unwanted information on others.
The only thing gay folks want is an end to that kind of double standard. That's not any kind of "special" treatment.
Dunno, my gaydar's never been very accurate. PDAs don't bother me as long as they don't frighten the horses!