I agree with you. I have corrected people on this and their answers are almost invariably something to the extend of "I am not in school."
I did not realize school was simply the only point of an education. I thought it was so that those attending would learn and use what they had learned. I must be wrong.
I do believe that proper punctuation is indeed a grammar issue and not a syntax issue. Syntax is relative to the chosen words and their relation to the surrounding ones. Grammar comes into play with proper tenses as well as punctuation et al.
ahh, or inflating hollow MHz = speed myth propaganda to Joe Sixpack, that's better? Selling him a 1.3GHz P4 a few years ago instead of a 1GHz P3 that wiped the floor with it was somehow superior than to compete on a comparative scale? When AMD hit 1Ghz with their original Athlon, the Pentium 3, which was fairly close in per Mhz performance made the accomplishment something to brag about. I can run 10GHz frequency over a copper wire. That doesn't make it fast. A 2.4GHz phone is not FASTER than a 900Mhz phone. Sell someone a CPU that does less per clock and then brag about the clock speed. That makes as much sense as the corolla I saw at the mall. They put tiny tires on the front, big ones on the back and a razor blade wing....on a front wheel drive. Wow did that make that tiny thing fast, eh?
Hey, I did not hide behind an AC post. When someone goes out of their way to make themselves look like an idiot, frothing at the mouth about how they are right and are clearly wrong, they deserve a smack to get them back in order.
Hey dipshit, someone should teach you the difference between EPIC (Intel's IA64 instruction set) and EM64T, which is the kludge they strapped onto an overheated overpriced Pentium 4 (Called a Xeon). That is a bloody fact. Nobody was talking about Itanium. In fact, next to nobody is BUYING Itanium. This is why intel had to eat some of its own lunch and make a 64bit Xeon line. Go flame yourself, you crybaby.
intel did not design it from the ground up. They copied AMD's spec and tried to graft it onto a P4. They did not do a great job. Anybody who tells you that intel designed it from the ground up is just plain wrong
Joe Consumer will find this out. They may not know the nuts and bolts of what is going on, but when a tech explains to them that when their computer gets hot, it has to slow down to cool off, they will wonder about it. When that same tech (hopefully) tells them that other chips don't need this as much, he will feel cheated. It may not happen overnight, but it will happen.
The 64bit portions of intel's CPUs are a kludge compared to AMD's. While they maintain almost perfect compatibility with the spec as per AMD's definition, intel CPUs cannot address >4GB RAM the same way. They use pointers to address this. Read Redhat's documentation on how they futzed with the kernel for intel's "64bit" CPUs so they could handle >4GB w/o all kinds of problems. Intel's CPUs run hotter (and while you think this does not matter, it causes issues for the life of components as well as the user ending up with slower and possibly less stable hardware. Dust can cause severe problems for heat and in turn cause the CPU to throttle back and lower speed. Way to go overpriced CPU) AMD's offerings in that area are superior. The only things intel has in its favor is marketing and 3d party vendor support. The new Nvidia Nforce4 Pro chipsets make AMD's Opteron line only more attractive.
not really. All they would need to do is reduce the internet's usefullness. They could do this by developing software called "Operating Systems" and "Web Browsers." They would then make them very insecure and allow crap to exploit them and make using both "Operating Systems" and "Browsers" much less fun and much more irritating. As well, they could have a product for email that would execute all kinds of scripts and code. On top of this, people could send all kinds of adverts to this email, hindering its effectiveness as a communication tool. Then, nobody would want to use the internet except for porn... It almost sounds too easy, but it's only fiction.
And quad Xeons have been around a very long time? Don't even go there with the P2 and P3 based Xeons. They don't count. They were different architecture. You are going by marketing names, not actual development and testing.
Built like tanks, but with innards produced under license from Canon. HP should be scared when Canon starts making a push into printers on the same scale as HP.
The law was set up so that 10 guilty men would go free before 1 innocent would be unduly punished. For this reason, I am glad that idiots like yourself do not make laws (oh crap, they do).
So you had a right to use say "Game XYZ" before you purchased it? I don't see how the EULA takes away any more rights than the GPL. They are both giving something and taking something. I can modify the source if it is a GPL licensed item, however I cannot do something other than what the GPL says or I am in breach. The same goes for an EULA.
that is not correct. It states that any changes I make to it must be released. That is a restriction. It is not like the money analogy you used. It would be like saying "here is $10, if you make any money on this, tell other people how you did it"
the GPL restricts rights as well. It states that you must release your changes to source under given circumstances. The BSD license, however says "Use it, do what you want."
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you hire people. You rent cars and apartments. I don't care how the English try and get away with it. It's just wrong. ;)
I agree with you. I have corrected people on this and their answers are almost invariably something to the extend of "I am not in school." I did not realize school was simply the only point of an education. I thought it was so that those attending would learn and use what they had learned. I must be wrong.
I do believe that proper punctuation is indeed a grammar issue and not a syntax issue. Syntax is relative to the chosen words and their relation to the surrounding ones. Grammar comes into play with proper tenses as well as punctuation et al.
ahh, or inflating hollow MHz = speed myth propaganda to Joe Sixpack, that's better? Selling him a 1.3GHz P4 a few years ago instead of a 1GHz P3 that wiped the floor with it was somehow superior than to compete on a comparative scale? When AMD hit 1Ghz with their original Athlon, the Pentium 3, which was fairly close in per Mhz performance made the accomplishment something to brag about. I can run 10GHz frequency over a copper wire. That doesn't make it fast. A 2.4GHz phone is not FASTER than a 900Mhz phone. Sell someone a CPU that does less per clock and then brag about the clock speed. That makes as much sense as the corolla I saw at the mall. They put tiny tires on the front, big ones on the back and a razor blade wing....on a front wheel drive. Wow did that make that tiny thing fast, eh?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/
Hey, I did not hide behind an AC post. When someone goes out of their way to make themselves look like an idiot, frothing at the mouth about how they are right and are clearly wrong, they deserve a smack to get them back in order.
Hey dipshit, someone should teach you the difference between EPIC (Intel's IA64 instruction set) and EM64T, which is the kludge they strapped onto an overheated overpriced Pentium 4 (Called a Xeon). That is a bloody fact. Nobody was talking about Itanium. In fact, next to nobody is BUYING Itanium. This is why intel had to eat some of its own lunch and make a 64bit Xeon line. Go flame yourself, you crybaby.
intel did not design it from the ground up. They copied AMD's spec and tried to graft it onto a P4. They did not do a great job. Anybody who tells you that intel designed it from the ground up is just plain wrong
AMD64 is the real deal. EM64T is a kludge that is mostly compatible with AMD64. AMD64 has better performance and better handling of >4GB RAM.
If you stop teaching kids to read things outside a specialty they will have nothing to read about outside their specialty.
Joe Consumer will find this out. They may not know the nuts and bolts of what is going on, but when a tech explains to them that when their computer gets hot, it has to slow down to cool off, they will wonder about it. When that same tech (hopefully) tells them that other chips don't need this as much, he will feel cheated. It may not happen overnight, but it will happen.
The Opterons use 940. The Athlon64 FX (and later Athlon 64s) use 939. This is due to the trimming of one HPT lane, supposedly.
The 64bit portions of intel's CPUs are a kludge compared to AMD's. While they maintain almost perfect compatibility with the spec as per AMD's definition, intel CPUs cannot address >4GB RAM the same way. They use pointers to address this. Read Redhat's documentation on how they futzed with the kernel for intel's "64bit" CPUs so they could handle >4GB w/o all kinds of problems. Intel's CPUs run hotter (and while you think this does not matter, it causes issues for the life of components as well as the user ending up with slower and possibly less stable hardware. Dust can cause severe problems for heat and in turn cause the CPU to throttle back and lower speed. Way to go overpriced CPU) AMD's offerings in that area are superior. The only things intel has in its favor is marketing and 3d party vendor support. The new Nvidia Nforce4 Pro chipsets make AMD's Opteron line only more attractive.
not really. All they would need to do is reduce the internet's usefullness. They could do this by developing software called "Operating Systems" and "Web Browsers." They would then make them very insecure and allow crap to exploit them and make using both "Operating Systems" and "Browsers" much less fun and much more irritating. As well, they could have a product for email that would execute all kinds of scripts and code. On top of this, people could send all kinds of adverts to this email, hindering its effectiveness as a communication tool. Then, nobody would want to use the internet except for porn... It almost sounds too easy, but it's only fiction.
pssst, this story is about AMD not intel.
And quad Xeons have been around a very long time? Don't even go there with the P2 and P3 based Xeons. They don't count. They were different architecture. You are going by marketing names, not actual development and testing.
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Same story I heard about Itanium. (It will be really super turbo ultra fast if we rewrite everything and toss out everything we own. Niche detected
Built like tanks, but with innards produced under license from Canon. HP should be scared when Canon starts making a push into printers on the same scale as HP.
$3.40 doesn't sound too good to me. Now if they had made $3,400,000,000.00; that would have been scheweeet :)
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The law was set up so that 10 guilty men would go free before 1 innocent would be unduly punished. For this reason, I am glad that idiots like yourself do not make laws (oh crap, they do).
So you had a right to use say "Game XYZ" before you purchased it? I don't see how the EULA takes away any more rights than the GPL. They are both giving something and taking something. I can modify the source if it is a GPL licensed item, however I cannot do something other than what the GPL says or I am in breach. The same goes for an EULA.
that is not correct. It states that any changes I make to it must be released. That is a restriction. It is not like the money analogy you used. It would be like saying "here is $10, if you make any money on this, tell other people how you did it"
the GPL restricts rights as well. It states that you must release your changes to source under given circumstances. The BSD license, however says "Use it, do what you want."