Toms Hardware Reviews 65 CPU's, Past & Present 404
An anonymous reader writes "Toms Hardware has an interesting review of 65 processors ranging from 100 MHz to 3066 MHz. They spent more than 300 hours benchmarking and recording the scores. Worth a quick glance, especially for the Unreal Tournament 2003 scores on the 100 MHz pentium!" CT: Yeah yeah. It's a dupe. Funny that not a single reader emailed me in almost 2 hours to tell me.
Where's Cyrix? (Score:1, Interesting)
(ot) SLASHDOT, I CAN FIX YOUR PROBLEMS!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
I cannot guarantee 100% error correction, but I will stake my job on significantly decreased rates of grammar and spelling mistakes, and far fewer duplicate postings.
I would also like a T-shirt that says "I work for slashdot".
Please, for the sake of your readers, hire me. I want to help!
Re:Fastest Double Posting ever ? (Score:1, Interesting)
base to handle this. It's a very common
problem, and sooooo simple to fix.
Re:(ot) SLASHDOT, I CAN FIX YOUR PROBLEMS!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: NexGen Nx586? (Score:3, Interesting)
They have the K5 on there, which was AMD's bastardization of the Nx586 after they acquired NexGen.
NexGen was the first company to reverse engineer an Intel processor and produce a compatible version. They had some really fine people at that company, and it was their design work which brough us the AMD K6 and Athlon processors. Its unfortunate they don't get a lot of credit. No one seems to remember how terrible AMD used to be. Their acquisition of NexGen was one last ditch effor to do something other make 386 and 486 processors.
Incredible (Score:5, Interesting)
Waaaa waaaa, the people who I ignore as much as I can and who pay my salary refuse to do my job for me, waaa, waaa
If I had a breif spell of insanity and thought that Slashdot editors gave a crap about what anyone thought, or even for a moment believed that the editors listen to input, yeah, I might've written a mail. But it seems that everything else that people write Slashdot about, suggestions and complaints alike, is ignored as soon as possible. So why should anyone bother to write you Taco?
I like Slashdot, I like the people on Slashdot, I'm a Slashdot addict, I'll refresh the front page after I'm done writing this. But man, the staff running this place is unbelievable. No spell checking, ever. Dupes, trolls, fakes, bad URLs etc etc all find their way through to the frontpage way too often indicating that half the time the staff don't even read the article, much less check links or such. There is no staging or testing lab, it's quick hacks and patches on the live boxes which every now and then brings the site down or creates some other, ahem, interesting results.
In short, the Slashdot staff isn't even trying anymore. Complete stagnation.
Aaaah it feels good to burn some karma, of course, I'll never get to moderate anything after this rant though.
Re:Reposting?!? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Oh please.. (Score:5, Interesting)
-Sean
Apostrophe, schmapostrophe. (Score:2, Interesting)
The (US) Government Printing Office Style Manual states: "an apostrophe is used to indicate...the coined plurals of letters, figures, and symbols." GPO provides examples such as YMCA's and ABC's.
On the other hand, the 14th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style states: "So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numberals) form the plural by adding s alone." Provided examples include CODs and IOUs. Also according to this source, "Abbreviations having more than one period, such as M.D. and Ph.D., often form their plurals of an apostrophe and an s." Examples given include M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s. I particularly enjoy this excerpt for its anthropomorphism of words, ascribing the action of forming the plural to the words themselves rather than the writer.
Then, of course, there is the real definition of apostrophe, the first listed in Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
A figure of speech by which the orator or writer
suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his
discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some
person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's
apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of
``Paradise Lost.''
Thus, for one who considers processors as narrative, it is indeed likely that there might be an apostrophe in a CPU, for example, in the case of a cache miss....