Strange, I've seen about the same error levels in both at the college level here.
Spellchecked papers have errors out the wazoo unless they read over it. Unspellchecked papers have errors out the wazoo unless they read over it.
Checked papers (as in someone reading over it) tend to have 0 errors or so.
*shrugs* Doesn't help that the (US at least) education system destroys any want of knowledge from most students. Why would someone WANT to learn how to spell correctly?
Maybe it would be a better idea to just instill the idea that learning is fun in your children. Then you can give them such tools like a spellchecker and calculator and they will fiddle around with them until they learn more about it.
It drives me up the wall seeing posts like the parent. If you have kids that are driven to learn, they WON'T take the easy way out, they will voluntarily learn on their own (on top of school, assuming you have good teachers and such). You aren't forcing your kid to learn, you are restricting his/her ability to learn!
But what do I know, I was just someone that grew up with computers and never lost the art of learning.
Wasn't that hard for the simple stuff for me. Of course, back then the only coding I was doing was in BASIC and I couldn't do much beyond a simple menu driven program, but for 5ish years old, that isn't bad.:P
Mowing lawns doesn't make enough to buy a laptop you know.
TFA was talking about kids in middle school. Last I checked, it was illegal for kids that age in most areas of the US and Western Europe at least to work a job beyond mowing lawns.
Not like it makes a difference. Most adults that grew up without spellcheck can't spell, what makes you think access to spellcheckers makes it better?
Then again, I was one of those backwards kids that grew up with a computer in the home my entire life. That means I can't spell, right? Wait, I haven't touched a spellchecker in years....
Last I checked, 33 was greater than 30. Other than that, congrats, you found one chip I didn't see before - hardly surprising when I haven't paid much attention to processor stats recently.
Still uses more power than the 27W of the P-M at max load though.
Also, performance per clock? Um... show me a benchmark that pits the P-M against those Winchester AMDs. I haven't seen one yet, but going against the benchmarks over on Toms, it doesn't look like it is as efficient to me...
Disclaimer: I'm going off of stats, specs, and what others have said. I don't actually own one.
Picture the idea of a processor that uses less than 30W max (give you a hint, no other current processor comes close), and outperforms similarly speced processors without overclocking. And at least according to Tom's Hardware, with overclocking it easily outperforms every processor on the market in most areas.
We're talking about a processor that produces so little heat that you can ditch all of those loud and/or expensive solutions on heat dispersion and run a slow fan and/or even none (although that takes effort).
Equivilent in the software world: Microsoft throwing out all of the code in windows and making Windows CE run 4 times as fast and still run the same programs somehow, but cost slighty more.
Yep. They increase the prices of textbooks for the US. A lot of us more economically inclined (read: cheap) students go online and buy international versions of the books, which are pretty much identical (except most times they are softcover - even then, not always!) and cost less than half the cost as a normal US version.
Of course, the bookmakers don't like that and try their hardest to forbid it, but... yeah...
*points to the thermodynamics textbook that was international and cost 30 USD new in my closet*
*points to the same textbook only at the Uni bookstore for 200 USD*
You'd be recalling incorrectly. MSC files don't exist in 9x OSes (95/98/ME). MSConfig does, but there aren't really "services" for ME like there are for NT/2000/XP.
Second, Windows really only gives admins one toolset. The GUI. If you can't do something from there, you might be able to hack around with the registry, but that's never a good idea. It's too easy to break things.
um... you know XP Pro and 2003 Server can do pretty much everything both GUI based and CLI based, right? That was one of the objectives of both OSes.
... did you honestly just try to pull a bait and switch? You just compared Microsoft's worst OS to date (agreed upon by roughly everyone, Linux users and Windows users alike) to Linux, then in the same breath said that 2000 was stable under a VM. You know, one of Microsoft's most stable OSes (again, agreed upon by roughly everyone).
Of course it is stable in a VM, it is stable in reality as well. It isn't a 9x that you have to reboot once every 39 days or whatever it was.
But then again, this is coming from a Windows Admin who also runs linux boxes. Supposedly I don't exist, so I shouldn't be one to comment.
Do a google search for a program called dellater.exe - it does just what it says. It marks a file for deletion at the next reboot. Command line utility. Simple and it works.
Windows 3.1 didn't have a default "My Documents" folder type of thing. Windows 95, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that. Windows 98, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that. Windows ME, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that. Windows NT 4, c:\winnt\profiles\username\My Documents if I remember right, not sure. Home directory would be one level above. Windows 2000, c:\documents and settings\username\My Documents. Home directory would be one level above. Windows XP, c:\documents and settings\username\My Documents. Home directory would be one level above.
Now, how long as OSX been out? Since 2001 was it? Wouldn't that mean it isn't as old as Windows 2000? Gee, that'd make it where as long as OSX has been out, the My Docs directory under Windows has been the same, shouldn't it?
Look, if you are going to troll Windows subjects, at least get it right...
Minor one, but I thought I'd point it out anyway. CRTs are measured by total diagonal length - a 17" CRT may only have a 15.7" viewable screen. LCDs are measured by viewable diagonal length - a 17" LCD has a 17" viewable screen.
So when you compare prices, it is more accurate to compare 19" CRTs to 17" LCDs.
At least none on this machine, running 1.0 GB of RAM and no pagefile. 'course, this machine is about as far from a typical windows machine as one can get while still having windows installed, but still.
You haven't built enough computers then. It is really easy to build your own machine much much cheaper than what you can get from Dell - as long as you don't buy from brick retail stores.
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Strange, I've seen about the same error levels in both at the college level here.
Spellchecked papers have errors out the wazoo unless they read over it.
Unspellchecked papers have errors out the wazoo unless they read over it.
Checked papers (as in someone reading over it) tend to have 0 errors or so.
*shrugs*
Doesn't help that the (US at least) education system destroys any want of knowledge from most students. Why would someone WANT to learn how to spell correctly?
Maybe it would be a better idea to just instill the idea that learning is fun in your children. Then you can give them such tools like a spellchecker and calculator and they will fiddle around with them until they learn more about it.
It drives me up the wall seeing posts like the parent. If you have kids that are driven to learn, they WON'T take the easy way out, they will voluntarily learn on their own (on top of school, assuming you have good teachers and such). You aren't forcing your kid to learn, you are restricting his/her ability to learn!
But what do I know, I was just someone that grew up with computers and never lost the art of learning.
Wasn't that hard for the simple stuff for me. Of course, back then the only coding I was doing was in BASIC and I couldn't do much beyond a simple menu driven program, but for 5ish years old, that isn't bad. :P
Mowing lawns doesn't make enough to buy a laptop you know.
TFA was talking about kids in middle school.
Last I checked, it was illegal for kids that age in most areas of the US and Western Europe at least to work a job beyond mowing lawns.
Not like it makes a difference. Most adults that grew up without spellcheck can't spell, what makes you think access to spellcheckers makes it better?
Then again, I was one of those backwards kids that grew up with a computer in the home my entire life. That means I can't spell, right? Wait, I haven't touched a spellchecker in years....
No... FAT16 and below would be considered DOS's file system.
:P
FAT32 would be Windows 95 OSR2.x, Windows 98, and Windows ME's file system.
Oh, and Windows', not Window's. The program is called "Windows".
Last I checked, 33 was greater than 30. Other than that, congrats, you found one chip I didn't see before - hardly surprising when I haven't paid much attention to processor stats recently.
Still uses more power than the 27W of the P-M at max load though.
Also, performance per clock? Um... show me a benchmark that pits the P-M against those Winchester AMDs. I haven't seen one yet, but going against the benchmarks over on Toms, it doesn't look like it is as efficient to me...
Disclaimer: I'm going off of stats, specs, and what others have said. I don't actually own one.
Picture the idea of a processor that uses less than 30W max (give you a hint, no other current processor comes close), and outperforms similarly speced processors without overclocking.
And at least according to Tom's Hardware, with overclocking it easily outperforms every processor on the market in most areas.
We're talking about a processor that produces so little heat that you can ditch all of those loud and/or expensive solutions on heat dispersion and run a slow fan and/or even none (although that takes effort).
Equivilent in the software world: Microsoft throwing out all of the code in windows and making Windows CE run 4 times as fast and still run the same programs somehow, but cost slighty more.
Music CDs are around 75-100% the cost of THIS game however.
Yep. They increase the prices of textbooks for the US. A lot of us more economically inclined (read: cheap) students go online and buy international versions of the books, which are pretty much identical (except most times they are softcover - even then, not always!) and cost less than half the cost as a normal US version.
Of course, the bookmakers don't like that and try their hardest to forbid it, but... yeah...
*points to the thermodynamics textbook that was international and cost 30 USD new in my closet*
*points to the same textbook only at the Uni bookstore for 200 USD*
'nuf said.
You answered your own question - keeping down cost.
However, I end up with the 140 USD softcover textbooks that want to make me twitch and fall over frothing at the mouth...
You'd be recalling incorrectly. MSC files don't exist in 9x OSes (95/98/ME). MSConfig does, but there aren't really "services" for ME like there are for NT/2000/XP.
*checks task manager on my work machine* 99% idle, including Task Manager. While having multiple applications open, just not doing anything.
Me thinks something is up with your computer...
Second, Windows really only gives admins one toolset. The GUI. If you can't do something from there, you might be able to hack around with the registry, but that's never a good idea. It's too easy to break things.
um... you know XP Pro and 2003 Server can do pretty much everything both GUI based and CLI based, right? That was one of the objectives of both OSes.
... did you honestly just try to pull a bait and switch?
You just compared Microsoft's worst OS to date (agreed upon by roughly everyone, Linux users and Windows users alike) to Linux, then in the same breath said that 2000 was stable under a VM. You know, one of Microsoft's most stable OSes (again, agreed upon by roughly everyone).
Of course it is stable in a VM, it is stable in reality as well. It isn't a 9x that you have to reboot once every 39 days or whatever it was.
But then again, this is coming from a Windows Admin who also runs linux boxes. Supposedly I don't exist, so I shouldn't be one to comment.
Do a google search for a program called dellater.exe - it does just what it says. It marks a file for deletion at the next reboot. Command line utility. Simple and it works.
Bad comparison, LCDs and CRTs aren't measured the same.
LCDs are always measured with viewable diagonal size, CRTs with total diagonal size.
20.1" LCD vs. 22" CRT would be more accurate. Still similar arguement though, but honestly I'd rather have the LCD.
You'd be wrong then.
Windows 3.1 didn't have a default "My Documents" folder type of thing.
Windows 95, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that.
Windows 98, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that.
Windows ME, c:\My Documents; No real home directory other than that.
Windows NT 4, c:\winnt\profiles\username\My Documents if I remember right, not sure. Home directory would be one level above.
Windows 2000, c:\documents and settings\username\My Documents. Home directory would be one level above.
Windows XP, c:\documents and settings\username\My Documents. Home directory would be one level above.
Now, how long as OSX been out? Since 2001 was it? Wouldn't that mean it isn't as old as Windows 2000? Gee, that'd make it where as long as OSX has been out, the My Docs directory under Windows has been the same, shouldn't it?
Look, if you are going to troll Windows subjects, at least get it right...
80s and 90s, and they were on TV in the US as well.
Running XP on a P3-450 with 256M of RAM (PC100 at that) downstairs. Runs just fine.
I think you need to look more into what services are running.
I think you are thinking about trademarks, not patents. Hence why submarine patents are such a big problem.
Minor one, but I thought I'd point it out anyway.
CRTs are measured by total diagonal length - a 17" CRT may only have a 15.7" viewable screen.
LCDs are measured by viewable diagonal length - a 17" LCD has a 17" viewable screen.
So when you compare prices, it is more accurate to compare 19" CRTs to 17" LCDs.
Indeed you are correct, and other than a slight amount of overhead, there really isn't any difference in this.
At least none on this machine, running 1.0 GB of RAM and no pagefile. 'course, this machine is about as far from a typical windows machine as one can get while still having windows installed, but still.
You haven't built enough computers then. It is really easy to build your own machine much much cheaper than what you can get from Dell - as long as you don't buy from brick retail stores.