If you are behind in benchmarks, avoid discussing it. (Look! GHz!)
Since 2001 there is a much better unit-of-measure than MHz. It's called Euros or dollars.
$320 (Intel) = solid performer for the next couple years.
$160 (AMD) = last year's typical $1500 complete system
$160 (Intel) = $90 (AMD)
$120 (Intel) = mistake
that Google might not be able to "pay for all those downloads"
Perhaps the Firefox lawyers included a contingency clause where they assume Google
day-to-day operations in the event that contractual payment arrangements are not met.
--
Microsoft contractors, employees, and
their immediate families are urged to
download Firefox in every waking hour
Their methodology leaves quite a bit to be desired, but any "study" of this type will
usually work backwards from the results anyway -- and I suspect that here as well.
Whether you use statistics or quantify certain measurements, there is always the
reality check before you publish... ie., do your results correlate to common sense?
It wouldn't surprise me if the inclusion of budget processors made the results a joke.
Also, they couldn't use the crutch of "weighting" scores to skew toward real-world.
If you include either Sempron or Celeron you have to include the other. Supposedly,
both processors exist specifically to offer the most bang-for-the-buck to begin with.
What Intel tries to obscure with their latest nomenclature is most people can actually buy
processors the same way they purchase storage: cost per extra unit of what you really get.
When each additional 40GB of storage or 100MHz of processing costs say, twenty bucks,
move up until you reach the sudden jump of obviously diminishing returns for that last $20.
I considered it a reality check for Intel, that some people DO want to measure performance
rather than blindly rely upon "marchitecture" sales claims dressed up as white paper research.
What about workers? Will workers have the ability to move back and forth?
Cheap labor versus cheap O/S -- why would a demographic group offering services that are
10x cheaper *not* want to go with an operating system that is at least 10x cheaper up-front?
Although in 4000 years, the free alternatives for sex hasn't put street hookers out of business.
The Chinese market will be the decisive battle ground between Linux and Windows.
Except that Microsoft will still be getting nine out of every ten Dollars (or Yuans)
spent on operating systems whether they have 80% or 20% market share.
Bill Gates won't particularly care about his piece-of-the pie if there's double-digit
annual sales growth in that huge market.
Many ads are scripted to invade your privacy without a thank-you note
And they crawl all over your space and don't even kiss you goodbye.
We can surf productively any time at work except for Yahoo! searches --
the bosses can see the crawly stuff on screens from across the room.
Frito Lay employees used to dumpster-dive all the time to count how many chips
customers had left uneaten in bags of their various products at public events.
Market research interns: Using cheat sheets to remember how to average numbers.
"Product activation is a technology that protects users from pirated software... by limiting use of a product"
(according to Norton Internet Security 2005 dialog box, when it craps out 15 days after installation)
--
We totally stop working after 365 days and cannot
be removed from your system ( without upgrading )
to protect you from the Y2K6 bug that we made up.
DELL
is still running 'humorous' tv ads where a guy in bed
asks a Dell rep if their tech support will answer on various holidays
or after locust swarms (run laughtrack) or tsunamis (insert guffaws).
--
It's a joke when Dell reps talk about staying open on
Presidents Day, Columbus Day, and Cinco de Mayo.
Funny how Dell doesn't say Christmas & Labor Day.
If a spammer 1 time gave a real email address to thousands of marketing sites,
and published that same address in order to get UCE from other spammers...
couldn't the spammer build up 1000s of tokens with no computational effort?
While the surface area of the screen may be larger, I can't use AIM/Y!/ICQ/MSN
The experience I have with my userbase is they LOVED their Blackberrys (me too).
My Abacus 1-way wrist radio (FM) pushes my work calendar and receives MSN Messenger.
Who could ask for anything more...
Slashdot Mirror
Define 'very'
Since 2001 there is a much better unit-of-measure than MHz. It's called Euros or dollars.
$320 (Intel) = solid performer for the next couple years.
$160 (AMD) = last year's typical $1500 complete system
$160 (Intel) = $90 (AMD)
$120 (Intel) = mistake
"Don't worry your pretty little head that our 283ci V6 with 195 HP
doesn't compare on paper to *their* 454ci V8 with 350 horsepower."
"Just take it for a quick two block spin and you'll feel all the power..."
--
If you cannot measure it, then it's probably bogus.
Perhaps the Firefox lawyers included a contingency clause where they assume Google
day-to-day operations in the event that contractual payment arrangements are not met.
--
Microsoft contractors, employees, and
their immediate families are urged to
download Firefox in every waking hour
Their methodology leaves quite a bit to be desired, but any "study" of this type will
usually work backwards from the results anyway -- and I suspect that here as well.
Whether you use statistics or quantify certain measurements, there is always the ... ie., do your results correlate to common sense?
reality check before you publish
It wouldn't surprise me if the inclusion of budget processors made the results a joke.
Also, they couldn't use the crutch of "weighting" scores to skew toward real-world.
If you include either Sempron or Celeron you have to include the other. Supposedly,
both processors exist specifically to offer the most bang-for-the-buck to begin with.
What Intel tries to obscure with their latest nomenclature is most people can actually buy
processors the same way they purchase storage: cost per extra unit of what you really get.
When each additional 40GB of storage or 100MHz of processing costs say, twenty bucks,
move up until you reach the sudden jump of obviously diminishing returns for that last $20.
--
Mr. Bang, meet Buck.
Welcome to my world.
They report, you decide?
I considered it a reality check for Intel, that some people DO want to measure performance
rather than blindly rely upon "marchitecture" sales claims dressed up as white paper research.
--
Fast good
Slow bad.
Cheap labor versus cheap O/S -- why would a demographic group offering services that are
10x cheaper *not* want to go with an operating system that is at least 10x cheaper up-front?
Although in 4000 years, the free alternatives for sex hasn't put street hookers out of business.
Except that Microsoft will still be getting nine out of every ten Dollars (or Yuans)
spent on operating systems whether they have 80% or 20% market share.
Bill Gates won't particularly care about his piece-of-the pie if there's double-digit
annual sales growth in that huge market.
And they crawl all over your space and don't even kiss you goodbye.
We can surf productively any time at work except for Yahoo! searches --
the bosses can see the crawly stuff on screens from across the room.
Give a kid a fish and he eats for a day.
Give a kid a car, and he gets interested in everything *but* science and engineering...
--
Fourth post, Fourth post, Fourth post.
Mod me up from all these 0/1 comments.
Robots miss articles greater than one.
Maybe you'd have to pay an extra volume-license fee?
Frito Lay employees used to dumpster-dive all the time to count how many chips
customers had left uneaten in bags of their various products at public events.
Market research interns: Using cheat sheets to remember how to average numbers.
Everybody knows I am a coward!
And if you keep yelling like that, you are gonna owe Microsoft for a double volume license agreement...
"Product activation is a technology that protects users from pirated software ... by limiting use of a product"
(according to Norton Internet Security 2005 dialog box, when it craps out 15 days after installation)
--
We totally stop working after 365 days and cannot
be removed from your system ( without upgrading )
to protect you from the Y2K6 bug that we made up.
I'd say that the gov't should make these companies provide more authentication
Or the way privacy is going these days, charge a $0.01 setup fee payable only by credit card.
several different wifi adapters, and they all experience the problems
Maybe someone can bribe dish installers to put clandestine APs up high
in strategically placed neighborhood locations.
Perhaps the reward could be a new kind of non-infrastructure mode carrying ... or obviously, free pr0n for the customer tv feeds.
additional bandwidth
While Detroit has already sold their first 2006 Dodge Charger
drops an "OUTLOOK 2003" icon on desktops with OutlookLive for 2005
how long
DELL is still running 'humorous' tv ads where a guy in bed
asks a Dell rep if their tech support will answer on various holidays
or after locust swarms (run laughtrack) or tsunamis (insert guffaws).
--
It's a joke when Dell reps talk about staying open on
Presidents Day, Columbus Day, and Cinco de Mayo.
Funny how Dell doesn't say Christmas & Labor Day.
It's gotta hit version 3.0 before it'll topple Google
And it needs to spellcheck its own pages before it comes out as v2.0 --
http://support.msn.com/feedbacksearch.aspx
There was a nice 20K WIN32 program in 1995 that allowed for dual monitors, albeit VGA with an amber/greenscreen analog.
It required a true (foot long) Hercules graphics card, and the extra screen merely contained text from your clipboard.
It was mostly a solution in search of a problem -- and it made for petty coworkers also wanting a second screen with Windows95.
If a spammer 1 time gave a real email address to thousands of marketing sites,
and published that same address in order to get UCE from other spammers...
couldn't the spammer build up 1000s of tokens with no computational effort?
While the surface area of the screen may be larger, I can't use AIM/Y!/ICQ/MSN
The experience I have with my userbase is they LOVED their Blackberrys (me too). ...
My Abacus 1-way wrist radio (FM) pushes my work calendar and receives MSN Messenger.
Who could ask for anything more
Aside from pushing somebody's political agenda
To show the demographics here where nine out of every ten
parent threads against the topic get modded to 4+ points ?
That or else it's a public asshole detector to smoke out vile,
hateful people who simply must comment on EVERYthing.
Apple Computer on Friday issued an update to Mac OS X to address flaws
that security firms said could allow malicious code to be run on a Macintosh.
From the sounds of this NEWS.COM release, it sounded as if Apple blocked the ability to execute future Windows emulators...