Anand is full of bull. Pentium M at 2.0 is about on a par performancewise with Pentium M at 3.4 or so, at a fraction of the power and with much quieter cooling fans. That includes gaming. It lags somewhat for scientific floating point crunching, but not hopelessly so.
Anand is not full of bull. Have you read his review? He's one of the most thorough and objective reviewers out there.
Yes, the Pentium M uses less power and generates less heat, but that's not so important on the desktop.
And as you pointed out, the floating point performance isn't that great. That's fine for using MS Word and browsing the internet, but for things like games and encoding video, the floating point performance is very important.
Anand reviewed the Pentium M on the desktop and found that it couldn't compete with dedicated desktop chips. While it was energy efficient, it just didn't have the power to compete against less-energy efficient chips on the desktop.
In other words, it's great for laptops, but a bit slow for a desktop.
That's easy to see. Compare the death rates. Alcohol is the ONLY drug where withdrawls can kill you. Lots of things can be OD'd on, but alcohol is the only one where you can die if you don't get it.
What about food? People get addicted to that, but when they stop eating they always seem to die.
Here in Toronto, it is Chinese immigrants, as well as other immigrants, who are funding new development, starting new buisnesses, creating most of the new jobs, and adding to the economic and cultural wealth of everyone. And it is the white upper-class who are constantly trying to stop development or growth by using these "community standards" arguments. Of course, a wealthy white person doesn't need to worry about creating new jobs and buisnesses (because they are happy to have their established buisness have no competition, and they already have a job). Rich white people own most of the rental housing, so do they want to see new development of housing that lowers prices and competes with them? No.
Stop blaming white people for all the world's problems. You might it sound like there's some vast white conspiracy aimed at keeping everyone else down. When a minority succeeds, you consider him "successful". When a white person succeeds, you consider him an "oppressor".
For example, here in Toronto there is a group that wants to "protect" certain "lovely Victorian neighborhoods". Now, who feels nostalgic about the Victorian era? An era of racist imperialist conquering, an era of horrible sexual repression? Clearly this is the values of white upper class people feeling nostalgic about an era when they ruled the world.
Ah yes, it's the white man that's keeping you down. Blame whitey for all your problems. If whites want to keep their neighborhood looking nice, it must be wrong and racist. However, when Chinese people want to keep developers from building public buildings in Chinatown, the resistance is applauded because they want to preserve the Chinese culture in Chinatown.
When people want to keep white trash out of their town, again you complain. Who wants a sloppy redneck living next door with old cars laying on his lawn? It's going to lower the property value of your house.
Well said. I've always hated that line of reasoning that states, "I realize it, therefore it no longer applies", as if realizing their limitations somehow negates them.
Seriously, what is it with Slashdot and this common grammatical error? It seems as if the majority of people on this site use the wrong form of verbs when referring to a company or organization.
My take on it is that they're trying to sound proper, but they aren't really that familiar with the proper rules of grammar.
When referring to the company or organization as an entity, it is a singular noun. Rarely will it be a plural noun. I see this incorrect usage in nearly every thread. Simply looking at the company's webpage and seeing how they refer to themself would give you a pretty good idea of the proper usage.
"No...not six, I said seven. No one's coming up with six. Who works out in six minutes. You won't even get your heart going, not even a mouse on a wheel. Sevens the key number here. Think about it. Seven doors. Seven-Eleven. Seven. Seven little chipmunks twirling on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' of gorgonzola when it's clearly bree time baby. Step into my office...cuz you're fuckin' fired!"
" Material is a cathartic and can cause serious diarrhea. Nausea and vomiting may also occur and possibly abdominal cramping. "
Sounds like Taco Bell.
Taco Bell wouldn't work very well because the heat transfer rate of a burrito isn't very good. Even with a nachos supreme thrown in, it wouldn't provide adequate cooling.
Right, but this doesn't address the vegan argument that somehow nobody on earth would starve to death if we didn't use animals for food.
This is a totally specious argument! People aren't having nutritional problems because we can't produce enough food. Christ, the US government pays farmers not to produce crops. They're even talking about using corn for fuel now because that makes more sense than paying farmers not to produce it.
You're confused about the terms. It's not that plants have more energy than meat, it's that you're getting the energy directly from them instead of eating an animal that spent its whole life eating plants and expended much of that energy walking around, eating, etc.
Meat has a far higher energy to size ratio than plants. A large carnivore like a lion only has to eat every several days after a large kill. It only needs to eat about 11 lbs of meat a day. A similar sized grazer needs to eat many times that amount in grass every day.
So you're not getting less energy from eating predators, it's that the total amount of energy consumed in the food chain up until you eat the predator (which includes everything the prey ate) is far greater than energy contained in the predator itself.
Don't confuse the video card's video memory with VRAM. They are not synonymous. I've had a card in the past that had VRAM, but most newer cards do not. Most use standard SDRAM.
This card is intended for and marketed towards hard core gamers. If it had something to do with Tiger's release, it would have been worthy of mention and ATI would have mentioned it in their press release.
And on the link you provided, Apple used incorrect terminology. They call the memory on the video card "VRAM", which is incorrect. The video memory on all the cards they listed is SDRAM, none of those cards have VRAM. My old Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM had VRAM on it. VRAM is a particular type of specialized high-speed memory, not used much (if at all) anymore.
I read the whole blachford.info article, and it's worthless. It reads like a conspiracy nut's page first of all, and the information is inaccurate second of all. None of that is surprising if you look around on his website, you'll see that he is in fact a loon.
I can picture myself playing a prank on these guys, showing up to the event in a homemade silver jumpsuit from the "future", only to be met by every other geek there with the same idea.
I'll bring a copy of Duke Nukem Forever as evidence and play it on a laptop with an Elbrus 6000 processor and a BitBoys Oy GPU.
Hm, first time that the wikipedia detractors make sense to me - I know they take their NOPV thing seriously, but shouldn't there be some sort of "stupid hoax considered a stupid hoax until proven otherwise" rule?
I was thinking the exact same thing when I read the Wikipedia entry on that. They seemed to lend his hoax way too much legitimacy. I know people want the point of view to be neutral, but I think that common sense should play a role also.
If you take a look at the time my post was posted, it was at the same time as the other AAA posts. They all were posted within seconds of each other at 11:40AM.
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Anand is full of bull. Pentium M at 2.0 is about on a par performancewise with Pentium M at 3.4 or so, at a fraction of the power and with much quieter cooling fans. That includes gaming. It lags somewhat for scientific floating point crunching, but not hopelessly so.
Anand is not full of bull. Have you read his review? He's one of the most thorough and objective reviewers out there.
Yes, the Pentium M uses less power and generates less heat, but that's not so important on the desktop.
And as you pointed out, the floating point performance isn't that great. That's fine for using MS Word and browsing the internet, but for things like games and encoding video, the floating point performance is very important.
Anand reviewed the Pentium M on the desktop and found that it couldn't compete with dedicated desktop chips. While it was energy efficient, it just didn't have the power to compete against less-energy efficient chips on the desktop.
In other words, it's great for laptops, but a bit slow for a desktop.
That's easy to see. Compare the death rates.
Alcohol is the ONLY drug where withdrawls can kill you. Lots of things can be OD'd on, but alcohol is the only one where you can die if you don't get it.
What about food? People get addicted to that, but when they stop eating they always seem to die.
(this was a joke)
Here in Toronto, it is Chinese immigrants, as well as other immigrants, who are funding new development, starting new buisnesses, creating most of the new jobs, and adding to the economic and cultural wealth of everyone. And it is the white upper-class who are constantly trying to stop development or growth by using these "community standards" arguments. Of course, a wealthy white person doesn't need to worry about creating new jobs and buisnesses (because they are happy to have their established buisness have no competition, and they already have a job). Rich white people own most of the rental housing, so do they want to see new development of housing that lowers prices and competes with them? No.
Stop blaming white people for all the world's problems. You might it sound like there's some vast white conspiracy aimed at keeping everyone else down. When a minority succeeds, you consider him "successful". When a white person succeeds, you consider him an "oppressor".
Quit your whining.
For example, here in Toronto there is a group that wants to "protect" certain "lovely Victorian neighborhoods". Now, who feels nostalgic about the Victorian era? An era of racist imperialist conquering, an era of horrible sexual repression? Clearly this is the values of white upper class people feeling nostalgic about an era when they ruled the world.
Ah yes, it's the white man that's keeping you down. Blame whitey for all your problems. If whites want to keep their neighborhood looking nice, it must be wrong and racist. However, when Chinese people want to keep developers from building public buildings in Chinatown, the resistance is applauded because they want to preserve the Chinese culture in Chinatown.
When people want to keep white trash out of their town, again you complain. Who wants a sloppy redneck living next door with old cars laying on his lawn? It's going to lower the property value of your house.
Well said. I've always hated that line of reasoning that states, "I realize it, therefore it no longer applies", as if realizing their limitations somehow negates them.
Can you really not tell a dominant or submissive guy when you see one?
To me it's clear as day. You can try to rationalize away reality and pretend that it's no longer valid, but it still doesn't change reality.
On the ends of the spectrum you have the alpha-male type and the sissy-boy type. You can pretend that they don't exist, but they do.
Thanks for the info.
Seriously, what is it with Slashdot and this common grammatical error? It seems as if the majority of people on this site use the wrong form of verbs when referring to a company or organization.
My take on it is that they're trying to sound proper, but they aren't really that familiar with the proper rules of grammar.
When referring to the company or organization as an entity, it is a singular noun. Rarely will it be a plural noun. I see this incorrect usage in nearly every thread. Simply looking at the company's webpage and seeing how they refer to themself would give you a pretty good idea of the proper usage.
In NASA's case:
http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/index.html
NASA is, NASA has, etc. Singular.
7 bluetooth controllers? Why 7? not 8?
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"No...not six, I said seven. No one's coming up with six. Who works out in six minutes. You won't even get your heart going, not even a mouse on a wheel. Sevens the key number here. Think about it. Seven doors. Seven-Eleven. Seven. Seven little chipmunks twirling on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' of gorgonzola when it's clearly bree time baby. Step into my office...cuz you're fuckin' fired!"
http://www.moviequotes.com/fullquote.cgi?qnum=381
" Material is a cathartic and can cause serious diarrhea. Nausea and vomiting may also occur and possibly abdominal cramping. "
Sounds like Taco Bell.
Taco Bell wouldn't work very well because the heat transfer rate of a burrito isn't very good. Even with a nachos supreme thrown in, it wouldn't provide adequate cooling.
Right, but this doesn't address the vegan argument that somehow nobody on earth would starve to death if we didn't use animals for food.
This is a totally specious argument! People aren't having nutritional problems because we can't produce enough food. Christ, the US government pays farmers not to produce crops. They're even talking about using corn for fuel now because that makes more sense than paying farmers not to produce it.
I agree.
Advanced research has found that when you're hungry, you'll tend to eat *anything* that keeps you alive. Who woulda thunk it?
I frequently hear vegetarians say how they don't eat meat, but they do eat fish.
Fish *is* meat. You are eating the muscle of an animal. Just because it swims instead of walks doesn't mean it's not meat.
I've known quite a few vegetarians and I can say they have 2 things in common:
1. They looked horrible, like a heroin junky. They had sunken in eyes and were built like a bag of bones.
2. They all thought they looked just *great* and healthier than everyone else.
You're confused about the terms. It's not that plants have more energy than meat, it's that you're getting the energy directly from them instead of eating an animal that spent its whole life eating plants and expended much of that energy walking around, eating, etc.
Meat has a far higher energy to size ratio than plants. A large carnivore like a lion only has to eat every several days after a large kill. It only needs to eat about 11 lbs of meat a day. A similar sized grazer needs to eat many times that amount in grass every day.
So you're not getting less energy from eating predators, it's that the total amount of energy consumed in the food chain up until you eat the predator (which includes everything the prey ate) is far greater than energy contained in the predator itself.
The Earth is not naturally hospitable to human beings.
Yeah, as opposed to all those other perfectly hospitable places in our galaxy such as, uh, hmm...
On second thought, your comment made no sense.
Don't confuse the video card's video memory with VRAM. They are not synonymous. I've had a card in the past that had VRAM, but most newer cards do not. Most use standard SDRAM.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/video/techVRAM-c.html
"Note: Don't confuse VRAM with the generic term "video RAM" or "video memory", which just refer to the memory in the video subsystem in general."
This card is intended for and marketed towards hard core gamers. If it had something to do with Tiger's release, it would have been worthy of mention and ATI would have mentioned it in their press release.
And on the link you provided, Apple used incorrect terminology. They call the memory on the video card "VRAM", which is incorrect. The video memory on all the cards they listed is SDRAM, none of those cards have VRAM. My old Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM had VRAM on it. VRAM is a particular type of specialized high-speed memory, not used much (if at all) anymore.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/video/techVRAM-c.html
Hmm, you mean like this: "Your session has timed out after a period of inactivity. Please return to the Store Menu to continue shopping."
At least we can make sense of/proove the physics and mathematics. The wacky religious beliefs are indefensible.
I read the whole blachford.info article, and it's worthless. It reads like a conspiracy nut's page first of all, and the information is inaccurate second of all. None of that is surprising if you look around on his website, you'll see that he is in fact a loon.
I can picture myself playing a prank on these guys, showing up to the event in a homemade silver jumpsuit from the "future", only to be met by every other geek there with the same idea.
I'll bring a copy of Duke Nukem Forever as evidence and play it on a laptop with an Elbrus 6000 processor and a BitBoys Oy GPU.
Hm, first time that the wikipedia detractors make sense to me - I know they take their NOPV thing seriously, but shouldn't there be some sort of "stupid hoax considered a stupid hoax until proven otherwise" rule?
I was thinking the exact same thing when I read the Wikipedia entry on that. They seemed to lend his hoax way too much legitimacy. I know people want the point of view to be neutral, but I think that common sense should play a role also.
If you take a look at the time my post was posted, it was at the same time as the other AAA posts. They all were posted within seconds of each other at 11:40AM.