Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:25:24 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:07:02AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> You're thinking single-application again. Systems run more than one >> thing at once.
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:07:55AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > Then explain why hyperthreading is turned off by default in Windows.
I don't follow M$ stuff and am not interested in much about it. cc: someone@microsoft.com and have them tell the others.
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:07:02AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> That's neither sufficient information about those two companies nor a >> sufficient number of companies to make a proper empirical statement >> about this. I really don't care for a stock market update, but I'm just >> not going to believe anything this sketchy (from either source, actually).
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:07:55AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > Translation: "I don't like your data so I'm ignoring it". > How you can look at those two companies and not see what is obvious is > beyond me but everyone is entitled to their opinion. It's nice when your > opinion is based on data, not religion.
Restating the above in slow motion:
(a) economic arguments make me want to puke in the face of the presenter (b) I don't believe either of you jokers giving someone else's bottom line (c) Sun's in the toilet anyway, try comparing Dell to a healthy vendor
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