AMD has been kicking Intel's butt for a long time, mostly because of their price for performance ratio. Intel's pricing has always been higher per performance unit (however you wish to measure it) than AMD. AMD has always been finding ways to boost performance and efficiency in order to stay ahead of Intel: Back when Athlon's first came out, their numbers were to signify that their processor were equivalent to an Intel of a certain speed (The Athlon 1800+ could keep up with an Intel 1.8GHz, but only ran at 1.53GHz) because of their architecture redesign.
That is an absolutely awesome idea - in fact, I was wishing that I'd had that kind of experience in college. I vaguely remember at least one professor doing something similar, but not on a whole program basis - ususally just a small chunk of code. Really good teachers are in short supply in this world, but really good ideas of how to teach are all over the place, just not in the places you expect to find them.
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iTunes is Malware?
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I'm an avid user of Firefox and use an extension called StumbleUpon. This recommends sites based on a list of preferences I filled out upon sigining up for an account. Through this, I found the website www.pandora.com which recommends music based on artists and songs that I enter into it and allows me to have a customized "radio station" with my favorite type of music all the time. This was exactly what I've been looking for, since I love music of many kinds and am always looking for new and different stuff. (BTW: I also highly recommend www.ampcast.com for this purpose)
If software I installed used this technique to market ads to me I wouldn't mind too much. At least they wouldn't be ads for stuff I am totally uninterested in. I'm no big fan of adware, but I believe iTunes may fall under a grey area, since it is a sort of marketing/ecommerce software to begin with. Also, I am not a user of iTunes, so I'm trying to stay on the general concept of the whole thing.
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AMD has been kicking Intel's butt for a long time, mostly because of their price for performance ratio. Intel's pricing has always been higher per performance unit (however you wish to measure it) than AMD. AMD has always been finding ways to boost performance and efficiency in order to stay ahead of Intel: Back when Athlon's first came out, their numbers were to signify that their processor were equivalent to an Intel of a certain speed (The Athlon 1800+ could keep up with an Intel 1.8GHz, but only ran at 1.53GHz) because of their architecture redesign.
That is an absolutely awesome idea - in fact, I was wishing that I'd had that kind of experience in college. I vaguely remember at least one professor doing something similar, but not on a whole program basis - ususally just a small chunk of code. Really good teachers are in short supply in this world, but really good ideas of how to teach are all over the place, just not in the places you expect to find them.
I'm an avid user of Firefox and use an extension called StumbleUpon. This recommends sites based on a list of preferences I filled out upon sigining up for an account. Through this, I found the website www.pandora.com which recommends music based on artists and songs that I enter into it and allows me to have a customized "radio station" with my favorite type of music all the time. This was exactly what I've been looking for, since I love music of many kinds and am always looking for new and different stuff. (BTW: I also highly recommend www.ampcast.com for this purpose) If software I installed used this technique to market ads to me I wouldn't mind too much. At least they wouldn't be ads for stuff I am totally uninterested in. I'm no big fan of adware, but I believe iTunes may fall under a grey area, since it is a sort of marketing/ecommerce software to begin with. Also, I am not a user of iTunes, so I'm trying to stay on the general concept of the whole thing.