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I judge processor speed stricly by clock speed. that means, i dont consider an AMD 3500+ to be "equivalent" to a 3.5 GHz, but rather 2.something whatever its clock spead is. Similarly, i dont care if a processor is single core, dual core, or even quad core. id rather have a high-end Pentium 4 3.6 or 3.8 GHz than a Core 2 Duo 2.16 or 2.33 GHz. am i wrong?. 00:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Yep, definetely. Although the clock speed may seem to be an easy indication on how fast a CPU performs, there are many, many other factors that need to be counted in. Without getting too complex, it is important to know that processors from Intel and AMD differ greatly in architecture, and you may have noticed that the new Core 2 Duos from Intel have had a dramatic drop in clock speed from its older generation Pentium 4s (using the 'Netburst' architecure')...yet perform so much better. This can be attributed to many different things, such as the L1 and L2 caches, FSB, number of cores, as well as the pipeline of the processor and how it arranges instructions to be processed. Additionally, it is important to realise that depending on the tasks you perform on the computer, you will get highly different results. As mentioned by QuantumEleven, it is a good idea to check out various sites and magazines to see how a selected processor performs compared to others. Ronaldh 11:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes you're wrong!!! Check out this processor. Only 1.6 ghz. Sucky right? Look closer- 25MB of processor cache. Dual 333mhz FSB. 2 cores, 2 threads PER CORE that switch back and forth to continue processing during a cache miss. An array of 3 or 4 pentium fours would still be outperformed by a single Montecito die. A good rule of thumb is to never, ever compare clock speeds across architectures. -- froth T C 23:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I am writing up a document using latex, right now, everytime I start a new section it starts off on a new page, I was wondering if there was some way to change that so the new section would continue on the same page as the last. I'm using the "article" document class. Thanks. - Akamad 02:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
\section
shouldn't start a new page in that class, but I'd believe that \part
(if it's even defined in article
) and/or \chapter
might. To actually change the commands would probably require an unpleasantly large host of \renewcommand
calls. --
Tardis 15:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)\include
command to put them into my main one. So it was actually the \include
that was putting them on new pages and not the \section
. I changed it to \input
and it works fine. Thanks anyway, Tardis. - 08:34, 13 September 2006 (UTC)I had a trial version of a Zip/Unzip program, but is there one that's just permanently free with full functionality ? StuRat 05:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the answers. :-) StuRat 10:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
I know it's a bad idea to transmit one's credit card details by email, but what about sending one's bank details (account number and sort code) by email? Is this a bad idea? What is the nature and magnitude of the risk involved? -- Richardrj talk email 06:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I would be even more concerned about possible identity theft.
Nobody who legitimatly needs that information would ask you to send it in an e-mail. They would want to use a secure method of communications. HighInBC 23:52, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
I know I may just be repeating what the others have said, but this is a well known scam. You get an email from what appears to be your bank (and they're REALLY good at the whole thing, they copy the logo, and sometimes even have a phony website that looks exactly like your bank's website) and they ask you to "confirm" "for security purposes" or something like that your account number and your PIN. It's actually one of the more sophisticated scams out there. By all means, DON'T REPLY AT ALL. And if you really want to make sure we're right, just call up you bank and ask them about it. They'll definitely tell you the same, and that they'd NEVER send such an email. Loomis 01:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
I occasionally see online vendors without secure websites suggesting that the buyer transmit their credit card details by email, but splitting the number into two emails. Is there any point to this? Surely, if a hacker can intercept one email, he can intercept two, and simply put them together. -- Richardrj talk email 06:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Is this recently-created article about a notable or a not notable neologism? -- Dweller 12:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I've been making an "interactive fiction" game using Inform 6, and I have an animate object that has a before property overriding the Take action, basically along the lines of:
before [;
Take:
move self to Player;
print_ret "You got the object! Good for you.";
];
So that the user can pick up the animate object instead of getting the "I don't suppose [animate object] would like that" message. However, the problem I've encountered is that if the object is on the ground or in a container, and the user types something like "give object to Bill", the interpreter first calls the Take action on that object (so that it's in the player object), then performs the Give action. However, with the Take action for that object in its before property, if the user tries to give the object when they aren't carrying it, they get the object using the before Take routine, but then the Give action is never called as it would be with any normal object. The only way the Give action will proceed correctly if the player isn't holding the object before trying to Give it to something is if I use print "You got ... you."; instead of print_ret. However, then the message for an animate object, "I don't suppose ..." comes up when the player is simply taking the object normally (i.e. "take object"), which I don't want. I've checked all the Inform FAQs I can find, looked through the library files (oddly enough, it doesn't look like the Give action ever calls the take action or is even set up to deal with cases where the player doesn't have the object), and tried using the after property, but I've been unable to figure this out. If anyone has an ideas or has been able to fix this problem in a game they did, I'd greatly appreciate the assistance. Thanks!
life
hook on the recipient seems like a good place, or perhaps trapping Give on the animate carryable. But it might be necessary to override the library's implementation of Give (I'm sure you can find it somewhere!) if none of these traps would run before the Take trap you already have. It's too bad that the before
routine isn't trivalent: "process this normally" (currently false
), "this action has already failed" (currently true
), or "this action has succeeded" (currently not available). Does this help at all? --
128.165.123.18 18:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)i had created a program in vc++.this program is used to control the speed as well as direction of dc motor(12v) .Now i want to simulate the program for realization.... how to simulate it?..is there any software to simulate it? refer complete details of program ...etc in " http://www.multyremotes.com/DC-motor-control-in-VC++.htm"
my reply:
sorry i had asked the question wrongly!
tardis said that "simulating the operation of motor"....how it will be?.. can anyone help me?
i had clicked the link "Tardis" for help...but it is not reachable!...help me!
I'm sorry to ask you really clever guys such a basic question, but I know next to nothing about HTML. I have just made (what I consider to be) a nice wikitable here:
I nicked it from various other tables of opinion polls for other elections. The problem is that Scotland has two votes (local constituency, plus regional), and thus two parameters are measured in (most of the) polls. How do I break the column for each party into "1st vote" and "2nd vote"?
(If I am asking this at completely the wrong page, please say!) Thanks. -- Mais oui! 18:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Poll | Dates | Lab | SNP | Con | LD | Grn | SSP | oth | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sunday Times/YouGov | 5-7 Sept 2006 |
30% | 27% | 29% | 29% | 14% | 14% | 18% | 15% | - | - | - | - | 10% | 15% |
with iTunes 7.0 out now i have heard that if you have an acount one one computer then install iTunes on a different one but then sign in to the account off the first computer; and then you plug your iPod into your new computer that it wont reset your iPod. is this true?
I recently bought and plugged in a PCI USB2 hub with a total of about seven ports. However, Windows XP says it had a problem during installation, USB devices I plug into it receive power but not data, and Device Manager lists "Ali PCI to USB Open Host Controller" three times, with a Code 10 (This device cannot start) error on each. I've tried uninstalling it and re-running Add Hardware, in which case the same error occurs; I've tried unplugging it and plugging it back in; and I've tried, in desperation, the Help Troubleshooter. As a second question, has anyone ever been helped by one of those troubleshooters?
Any Ideas? Any help would be very greatly appreciated. 84.66.1.88 21:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking for the HTML equivalent of Wikipedia's "nowiki" tags. In other words, I want to type the "<a href=..." business of making a link to another page, without actually making a clickable link. (It will be used on a non-wiki site) The goal is that people can look at the code, cut and paste it, and have the link work then. (Too garbled? Or do you see what I mean?) Joyous! | Talk 23:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Visit scenic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>.
Visit scenic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>.
Thanks to all! Joyous! | Talk 11:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
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I judge processor speed stricly by clock speed. that means, i dont consider an AMD 3500+ to be "equivalent" to a 3.5 GHz, but rather 2.something whatever its clock spead is. Similarly, i dont care if a processor is single core, dual core, or even quad core. id rather have a high-end Pentium 4 3.6 or 3.8 GHz than a Core 2 Duo 2.16 or 2.33 GHz. am i wrong?. 00:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Yep, definetely. Although the clock speed may seem to be an easy indication on how fast a CPU performs, there are many, many other factors that need to be counted in. Without getting too complex, it is important to know that processors from Intel and AMD differ greatly in architecture, and you may have noticed that the new Core 2 Duos from Intel have had a dramatic drop in clock speed from its older generation Pentium 4s (using the 'Netburst' architecure')...yet perform so much better. This can be attributed to many different things, such as the L1 and L2 caches, FSB, number of cores, as well as the pipeline of the processor and how it arranges instructions to be processed. Additionally, it is important to realise that depending on the tasks you perform on the computer, you will get highly different results. As mentioned by QuantumEleven, it is a good idea to check out various sites and magazines to see how a selected processor performs compared to others. Ronaldh 11:50, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Yes you're wrong!!! Check out this processor. Only 1.6 ghz. Sucky right? Look closer- 25MB of processor cache. Dual 333mhz FSB. 2 cores, 2 threads PER CORE that switch back and forth to continue processing during a cache miss. An array of 3 or 4 pentium fours would still be outperformed by a single Montecito die. A good rule of thumb is to never, ever compare clock speeds across architectures. -- froth T C 23:03, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I am writing up a document using latex, right now, everytime I start a new section it starts off on a new page, I was wondering if there was some way to change that so the new section would continue on the same page as the last. I'm using the "article" document class. Thanks. - Akamad 02:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
\section
shouldn't start a new page in that class, but I'd believe that \part
(if it's even defined in article
) and/or \chapter
might. To actually change the commands would probably require an unpleasantly large host of \renewcommand
calls. --
Tardis 15:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)\include
command to put them into my main one. So it was actually the \include
that was putting them on new pages and not the \section
. I changed it to \input
and it works fine. Thanks anyway, Tardis. - 08:34, 13 September 2006 (UTC)I had a trial version of a Zip/Unzip program, but is there one that's just permanently free with full functionality ? StuRat 05:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the answers. :-) StuRat 10:09, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
I know it's a bad idea to transmit one's credit card details by email, but what about sending one's bank details (account number and sort code) by email? Is this a bad idea? What is the nature and magnitude of the risk involved? -- Richardrj talk email 06:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I would be even more concerned about possible identity theft.
Nobody who legitimatly needs that information would ask you to send it in an e-mail. They would want to use a secure method of communications. HighInBC 23:52, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
I know I may just be repeating what the others have said, but this is a well known scam. You get an email from what appears to be your bank (and they're REALLY good at the whole thing, they copy the logo, and sometimes even have a phony website that looks exactly like your bank's website) and they ask you to "confirm" "for security purposes" or something like that your account number and your PIN. It's actually one of the more sophisticated scams out there. By all means, DON'T REPLY AT ALL. And if you really want to make sure we're right, just call up you bank and ask them about it. They'll definitely tell you the same, and that they'd NEVER send such an email. Loomis 01:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
I occasionally see online vendors without secure websites suggesting that the buyer transmit their credit card details by email, but splitting the number into two emails. Is there any point to this? Surely, if a hacker can intercept one email, he can intercept two, and simply put them together. -- Richardrj talk email 06:25, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Is this recently-created article about a notable or a not notable neologism? -- Dweller 12:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I've been making an "interactive fiction" game using Inform 6, and I have an animate object that has a before property overriding the Take action, basically along the lines of:
before [;
Take:
move self to Player;
print_ret "You got the object! Good for you.";
];
So that the user can pick up the animate object instead of getting the "I don't suppose [animate object] would like that" message. However, the problem I've encountered is that if the object is on the ground or in a container, and the user types something like "give object to Bill", the interpreter first calls the Take action on that object (so that it's in the player object), then performs the Give action. However, with the Take action for that object in its before property, if the user tries to give the object when they aren't carrying it, they get the object using the before Take routine, but then the Give action is never called as it would be with any normal object. The only way the Give action will proceed correctly if the player isn't holding the object before trying to Give it to something is if I use print "You got ... you."; instead of print_ret. However, then the message for an animate object, "I don't suppose ..." comes up when the player is simply taking the object normally (i.e. "take object"), which I don't want. I've checked all the Inform FAQs I can find, looked through the library files (oddly enough, it doesn't look like the Give action ever calls the take action or is even set up to deal with cases where the player doesn't have the object), and tried using the after property, but I've been unable to figure this out. If anyone has an ideas or has been able to fix this problem in a game they did, I'd greatly appreciate the assistance. Thanks!
life
hook on the recipient seems like a good place, or perhaps trapping Give on the animate carryable. But it might be necessary to override the library's implementation of Give (I'm sure you can find it somewhere!) if none of these traps would run before the Take trap you already have. It's too bad that the before
routine isn't trivalent: "process this normally" (currently false
), "this action has already failed" (currently true
), or "this action has succeeded" (currently not available). Does this help at all? --
128.165.123.18 18:32, 12 September 2006 (UTC)i had created a program in vc++.this program is used to control the speed as well as direction of dc motor(12v) .Now i want to simulate the program for realization.... how to simulate it?..is there any software to simulate it? refer complete details of program ...etc in " http://www.multyremotes.com/DC-motor-control-in-VC++.htm"
my reply:
sorry i had asked the question wrongly!
tardis said that "simulating the operation of motor"....how it will be?.. can anyone help me?
i had clicked the link "Tardis" for help...but it is not reachable!...help me!
I'm sorry to ask you really clever guys such a basic question, but I know next to nothing about HTML. I have just made (what I consider to be) a nice wikitable here:
I nicked it from various other tables of opinion polls for other elections. The problem is that Scotland has two votes (local constituency, plus regional), and thus two parameters are measured in (most of the) polls. How do I break the column for each party into "1st vote" and "2nd vote"?
(If I am asking this at completely the wrong page, please say!) Thanks. -- Mais oui! 18:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Poll | Dates | Lab | SNP | Con | LD | Grn | SSP | oth | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sunday Times/YouGov | 5-7 Sept 2006 |
30% | 27% | 29% | 29% | 14% | 14% | 18% | 15% | - | - | - | - | 10% | 15% |
with iTunes 7.0 out now i have heard that if you have an acount one one computer then install iTunes on a different one but then sign in to the account off the first computer; and then you plug your iPod into your new computer that it wont reset your iPod. is this true?
I recently bought and plugged in a PCI USB2 hub with a total of about seven ports. However, Windows XP says it had a problem during installation, USB devices I plug into it receive power but not data, and Device Manager lists "Ali PCI to USB Open Host Controller" three times, with a Code 10 (This device cannot start) error on each. I've tried uninstalling it and re-running Add Hardware, in which case the same error occurs; I've tried unplugging it and plugging it back in; and I've tried, in desperation, the Help Troubleshooter. As a second question, has anyone ever been helped by one of those troubleshooters?
Any Ideas? Any help would be very greatly appreciated. 84.66.1.88 21:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking for the HTML equivalent of Wikipedia's "nowiki" tags. In other words, I want to type the "<a href=..." business of making a link to another page, without actually making a clickable link. (It will be used on a non-wiki site) The goal is that people can look at the code, cut and paste it, and have the link work then. (Too garbled? Or do you see what I mean?) Joyous! | Talk 23:29, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Visit scenic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>.
Visit scenic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>.
Thanks to all! Joyous! | Talk 11:08, 13 September 2006 (UTC)