I've known more than my fair share of mormons (being raised as mormon, until I stopped attending at age 17), and unless they keep it REALLY damn quiet, I have never known/heard of any mormons practicing polygamy.
However, there are at least a couple of different churches that have taken some mormon beliefs and went off on a tangent (Mormon Fundamentalist, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). But as far as the original (complete with Book of Mormon-toting door-to-door missionaries) Mormons preach, no polygamy has been church-sanctioned since mid 1800s. (And when they were practicing polygamy, it was for repopulation. Apparenly mucking about in the desert isn't easy.)
And I'm not being argumentative, just relaying what I was taught as a child/teen. I'm not much of a religious person.
Open an encyclopedia or a browser tab. Mormons haven't practiced polygamy since the 1800s.
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Not that I'm a PS3 Fanboy myself (I'll allow Excited Potential Next-gen Console Owner. I still don't have my own PS2 or XBox...My desktop is sufficiant.), but I don't think we saw much, if any, real footage from either console.
Also, a greater number of TFlops for one machine over another doesn't make it a better video game machine, but greater potential for being a better video game machine.
I know you're being sardonic with your notion of PS2/PS3 being listed in the Top500, but that's just an incredibly silly notion. A video game console isn't going to be listed, much less running Linpack.
Sony didn't create the Cell processor alone. It was an alliance between Sony, IBM, and Toshiba. Sony doesn't even associate itself with building supercomputers (although their own supercomputer listed on the Top500 is comprised of 568 IBM procs). IBM's technology comprises 17 of the top 30 Supercomputers (including #1). NEC was responsible for only 1 of the top 30 (#3).
Also, both consoles' TFlops numbers are so high (although I'm not completely sold they are accurate) because the hardware isn't general purpose, it's highly specialized. This is the reason why you need a computer roughly 3 times the power of the original console to run an emulator and have the game perform decently.
Personally, I am still waiting for footage from actual renders from both consoles to allow my mouth to begin watering.
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I've known more than my fair share of mormons (being raised as mormon, until I stopped attending at age 17), and unless they keep it REALLY damn quiet, I have never known/heard of any mormons practicing polygamy.
However, there are at least a couple of different churches that have taken some mormon beliefs and went off on a tangent (Mormon Fundamentalist, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). But as far as the original (complete with Book of Mormon-toting door-to-door missionaries) Mormons preach, no polygamy has been church-sanctioned since mid 1800s. (And when they were practicing polygamy, it was for repopulation. Apparenly mucking about in the desert isn't easy.)
And I'm not being argumentative, just relaying what I was taught as a child/teen. I'm not much of a religious person.
Open an encyclopedia or a browser tab. Mormons haven't practiced polygamy since the 1800s.
Not that I'm a PS3 Fanboy myself (I'll allow Excited Potential Next-gen Console Owner. I still don't have my own PS2 or XBox...My desktop is sufficiant.), but I don't think we saw much, if any, real footage from either console.
Also, a greater number of TFlops for one machine over another doesn't make it a better video game machine, but greater potential for being a better video game machine.
I know you're being sardonic with your notion of PS2/PS3 being listed in the Top500, but that's just an incredibly silly notion. A video game console isn't going to be listed, much less running Linpack.
Sony didn't create the Cell processor alone. It was an alliance between Sony, IBM, and Toshiba. Sony doesn't even associate itself with building supercomputers (although their own supercomputer listed on the Top500 is comprised of 568 IBM procs). IBM's technology comprises 17 of the top 30 Supercomputers (including #1). NEC was responsible for only 1 of the top 30 (#3).
Also, both consoles' TFlops numbers are so high (although I'm not completely sold they are accurate) because the hardware isn't general purpose, it's highly specialized. This is the reason why you need a computer roughly 3 times the power of the original console to run an emulator and have the game perform decently.
Personally, I am still waiting for footage from actual renders from both consoles to allow my mouth to begin watering.