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Juancho
Nov 18, 2012, 7:25:01 AM11/18/12
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Someone sent me an email directing me to peruse some gjvggre post, which
supposedly was witty and funny. I proceeded to load the Firefox profile
I have for these occasions, the one without NoScript, so I can read
those web abominations full of 2.0 and ajax.
I knew that would be a mistake.
The gjvggre post was only mildly funny, and not too witty. But that is
besides the point. What I have now is the sinking realization that my
trusted and proven 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 Northwood CPU is unable to scroll a
gjvggre web page in any kind of decent way.
So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
supposedly was witty and funny. I proceeded to load the Firefox profile
I have for these occasions, the one without NoScript, so I can read
those web abominations full of 2.0 and ajax.
I knew that would be a mistake.
The gjvggre post was only mildly funny, and not too witty. But that is
besides the point. What I have now is the sinking realization that my
trusted and proven 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 Northwood CPU is unable to scroll a
gjvggre web page in any kind of decent way.
So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
Ralph Wade Phillips
Nov 18, 2012, 11:06:12 PM11/18/12
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On 11/18/2012 6:25 AM, Juancho wrote:
>
> So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
I dunno. They're only up to 32 now, aren't they? (16xHyperThreading).
>
> So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
RwP
Garrett Wollman
Nov 19, 2012, 12:29:00 AM11/19/12
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In article <k8cb7l$bqt$1...@dont-email.me>,
Which "they"? Tilera will sell you a hundred-core processor.
'Course, they're not very fast.
-GAWollman
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'Course, they're not very fast.
-GAWollman
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David Cantrell
Nov 19, 2012, 7:31:19 AM11/19/12
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Juancho wrote:
> So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
N+1, where N is the number you've got.
> So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
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Nov 19, 2012, 9:06:17 AM11/19/12
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In <k8ak2t$1jn$1...@dont-email.me>, on 11/18/2012
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at 01:25 PM, Juancho <jua...@notarealaddress.org> said:
>So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
Would that not be UI?
>So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
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er...@rail.eu.org
Nov 19, 2012, 9:15:17 AM11/19/12
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spam...@library.lspace.org.invalid> disait le 11/19/12 que :
> In <k8ak2t$1jn$1...@dont-email.me>, on 11/18/2012
> at 01:25 PM, Juancho <jua...@notarealaddress.org> said:
>
>>So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
>
> Would that not be UI?
I fail to see the link between U and gjvggre
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> In <k8ak2t$1jn$1...@dont-email.me>, on 11/18/2012
> at 01:25 PM, Juancho <jua...@notarealaddress.org> said:
>
>>So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
>
> Would that not be UI?
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Mark Ayliffe
Nov 19, 2012, 12:13:30 PM11/19/12
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On or about 2012-11-19,
David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> illuminated us with:
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David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> illuminated us with:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Juancho wrote:
>
>> So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
>
> N+1, where N is the number you've got.
Ah, an optimist.
>
>> So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
>
> N+1, where N is the number you've got.
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Erwan David
Nov 19, 2012, 1:44:12 PM11/19/12
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Mark Ayliffe <mark.see.sig.f...@ayliffe.invalid> disait le 11/19/12 que :
> On or about 2012-11-19,
> David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> illuminated us with:
>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Juancho wrote:
>>
>>> So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
>>
>> N+1, where N is the number you've got.
>
> Ah, an optimist.
No, if you replace N with N+m it's still N+1 (the new N)
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> On or about 2012-11-19,
> David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> illuminated us with:
>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Juancho wrote:
>>
>>> So, how many cores are needed to smoothly scroll a gjvggre web page?
>>
>> N+1, where N is the number you've got.
>
> Ah, an optimist.
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Peter Corlett
Nov 19, 2012, 2:00:21 PM11/19/12
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Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote:
[...]
fast enough for what I wanted to do with it. And then 1991 rolled round, and
with it, the invention of CPU-sucking web browsers.
[...]
> No, if you replace N with N+m it's still N+1 (the new N)
I remember the happy day when I realised that my computer was now more than
fast enough for what I wanted to do with it. And then 1991 rolled round, and
with it, the invention of CPU-sucking web browsers.
Maarten Wiltink
Nov 20, 2012, 5:59:23 PM11/20/12
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"Garrett Wollman" <wol...@bimajority.org> wrote in message
news:k8cg2s$18tn$1...@grapevine.csail.mit.edu...
>> [...] They're only up to 32 now, aren't they? (16xHyperThreading).
it had like seven hundred cores. Fast, too. But small.
Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink
news:k8cg2s$18tn$1...@grapevine.csail.mit.edu...
>> [...] They're only up to 32 now, aren't they? (16xHyperThreading).
>
> Which "they"? Tilera will sell you a hundred-core processor.
> 'Course, they're not very fast.
The last time I read something vaguely technical about a video card,
> Which "they"? Tilera will sell you a hundred-core processor.
> 'Course, they're not very fast.
it had like seven hundred cores. Fast, too. But small.
Tebrgwrf,
Maarten Wiltink
Brian Kantor
Nov 20, 2012, 9:23:15 PM11/20/12
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Maarten Wiltink <usene...@mfw.dds.nl> wrote:
>The last time I read something vaguely technical about a video card,
>it had like seven hundred cores. Fast, too. But small.
Last week I got to install and play a little bit with a Tesla GPU
>The last time I read something vaguely technical about a video card,
>it had like seven hundred cores. Fast, too. But small.
card that has some four-mumble-hundred cores. It does the spinning
cube so fast it's a spherical blur. I have no idea what they're
going to use it for, but it's quick. Generates a lot of heat too.
- Brian
Garrett Wollman
Nov 20, 2012, 11:02:31 PM11/20/12
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In article <k8hduj$jdh$1...@karoshi.ucsd.edu>,
Brian Kantor <br...@karoshi.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>Last week I got to install and play a little bit with a Tesla GPU
>card that has some four-mumble-hundred cores. It does the spinning
>cube so fast it's a spherical blur. I have no idea what they're
>going to use it for, but it's quick.
Cracking passwords, what else?
>Last week I got to install and play a little bit with a Tesla GPU
>card that has some four-mumble-hundred cores. It does the spinning
>cube so fast it's a spherical blur. I have no idea what they're
>going to use it for, but it's quick.
TimC
Nov 21, 2012, 12:23:15 AM11/21/12
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On 2012-11-21, Garrett Wollman (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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you only have to climb it once. -- unknown
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> In article <k8hduj$jdh$1...@karoshi.ucsd.edu>,
> Brian Kantor <br...@karoshi.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>Last week I got to install and play a little bit with a Tesla GPU
>>card that has some four-mumble-hundred cores. It does the spinning
>>cube so fast it's a spherical blur. I have no idea what they're
>>going to use it for, but it's quick.
>
> Cracking passwords, what else?
Probably by modeling a quantum computer...
> Brian Kantor <br...@karoshi.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>Last week I got to install and play a little bit with a Tesla GPU
>>card that has some four-mumble-hundred cores. It does the spinning
>>cube so fast it's a spherical blur. I have no idea what they're
>>going to use it for, but it's quick.
>
> Cracking passwords, what else?
--
TimC
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you only have to climb it once. -- unknown
Kevin Goebel
Nov 21, 2012, 1:58:44 AM11/21/12
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On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:25:01 +0100, Juancho <jua...@notarealaddress.org>
wrote:
That sounds like an investigative job for the Shakespearian-typing monkeys!
Kevin Goebel
wrote:
Kevin Goebel
Richard Gadsden
Feb 11, 2013, 3:06:00 AM2/11/13
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In article <k8hjon$2n09$1...@grapevine.csail.mit.edu> on Wed, 21 Nov 2012
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04:02:31 +0000 (UTC), wol...@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) wrote:
> In article <k8hduj$jdh$1...@karoshi.ucsd.edu>,
> Brian Kantor <br...@karoshi.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >Last week I got to install and play a little bit with a Tesla GPU
> >card that has some four-mumble-hundred cores. It does the spinning
> >cube so fast it's a spherical blur. I have no idea what they're
> >going to use it for, but it's quick.
>
> Cracking passwords, what else?
BitCoin mining?
> In article <k8hduj$jdh$1...@karoshi.ucsd.edu>,
> Brian Kantor <br...@karoshi.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >Last week I got to install and play a little bit with a Tesla GPU
> >card that has some four-mumble-hundred cores. It does the spinning
> >cube so fast it's a spherical blur. I have no idea what they're
> >going to use it for, but it's quick.
>
> Cracking passwords, what else?
--
Richard Gadsden
"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death
your right to say it" - Attributed to Voltaire
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