It's not like you can trust the PC hardware web sites any more than you can trust the vendors anyways.
nor do the benchmark developers make things any easier. for example, Ziff-Davis' Business Winstones and Content Creation Winstones changed so often (sometimes every year), that there was no way to compare systems from other generations. let's say you have an older system and are considering upgrading it, and you want to know how much faster the newest P4s or AMDs are. so you look up the benchmark scores for the new systems, and guess what, they have been tested with an incomparable version to what last year's systems were tested with! Bapco is just as guilty too.
Of course, this makes it really hard to see when real world system level performance is doubling (it's probably greater than eighteen months...).
funny cause my land line is never used for phone calls anymore, just internet. cancelled all long distance service, no call waiting, etc, and voila, very cheap internet! not too fast though, but hey, i ain't downloading movies or swapping files, so ain't not big thing.
i wonder what would happen if we could tap the jet stream? i don't know how we would do it, but i'm sure someone will come up with a crazy idea. but i bet that would surely disrupt the global weather!
just don't tell RIAA they can't, heheh.
lol, of course it is ridiculous! every time i read about something involving RIAA, i am usually amazed at their audacity. i was just kidding, but what usually goes through my mind when it comes to RIAA, is "You've got to be kidding!"!!!
like amino acids: just 23 different amino acids can make more unique protiens than there are stars in the universe, and the protien length doesn' even need to be that long. and our 26 letters of the alphabet can make an infinite number of words.
these guys http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ are using self adapting and darwinian technology to evolve the structure of the web, strengthening or weakening links, automatically, or even creating new links, based on usage patterns. they are comparing it to biological neural networks. they are trying to make the net actually work like a "global brain"... their project also has the best name: Principia Cybernetica
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if everyone that owns a website or has a blog published tracker links, RIAA could not shut them all down, and then they would have to give up, or die.
i was surprised to learn that france had their version of a free interconnected network for a long time now....
funny cause my land line is never used for phone calls anymore, just internet. cancelled all long distance service, no call waiting, etc, and voila, very cheap internet! not too fast though, but hey, i ain't downloading movies or swapping files, so ain't not big thing.
i wonder what would happen if we could tap the jet stream? i don't know how we would do it, but i'm sure someone will come up with a crazy idea. but i bet that would surely disrupt the global weather!
just don't tell RIAA they can't, heheh. lol, of course it is ridiculous! every time i read about something involving RIAA, i am usually amazed at their audacity. i was just kidding, but what usually goes through my mind when it comes to RIAA, is "You've got to be kidding!"!!!
RIAA will just try to tax CD blanks to about $15....
like amino acids: just 23 different amino acids can make more unique protiens than there are stars in the universe, and the protien length doesn' even need to be that long. and our 26 letters of the alphabet can make an infinite number of words.
these guys http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ are using self adapting and darwinian technology to evolve the structure of the web, strengthening or weakening links, automatically, or even creating new links, based on usage patterns. they are comparing it to biological neural networks. they are trying to make the net actually work like a "global brain" ... their project also has the best name: Principia Cybernetica