Mon Feb 18 03:23:30 2002
When RiscRocket admonishes you with the retort, "You are simply being foolish," you know that it's instant comedy gold.
You just can't make this shit up.
Mon Feb 18 03:33:50 2002
I see that you've responded to him several times in that thread.
Do you feel as if you were talking to a brick wall, or something with even less intelligence? ;)
Mon Feb 18 03:42:38 2002
I have refused to read RR's stuff ever sense he went off like a madman when I likened Apple's commercial use of Harrisons Image to Necrophelia.
Mon Feb 18 03:54:48 2002
MY
GAD!
Mon Feb 18 04:32:20 2002
I see that you've responded to him several times in that thread.Do you feel as if you were talking to a brick wall, or something with even less intelligence?
It's hard to say. I have no idea what he means by "Photoshop Blueprints", for example, and his harping on the word "IMPOSSIBLE" is completely inexplicable. Plus, he doesn't seem to understand reverse engineering. But hey, it's mindless entertainment while I watch the Olympics...
Mon Feb 18 05:16:19 2002
(sigh)
It is a bit like talking to a brick wall...
Mon Feb 18 05:29:18 2002
Mon Feb 18 09:01:11 2002
has anyone actually read everything Bad Andy has written in a single post. Man he writes way to much. I can't be bothered to read it.
And why do you guys bother with stupid irrational posters?
I liked how Apple Ellite or whoever posted: "RR 1 and LB 0"
LOL!!!! I'm not agreeing with the score at all, i'm just laughing that there is a score in the first place.
Man some people have to little brains cells or just way to much time and not using it right.
Mon Feb 18 13:29:24 2002
Mon Feb 18 13:46:55 2002
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Mon Feb 18 16:01:20 2002
has anyone actually read everything Bad Andy has written in a single post. Man he writes way to much. I can't be bothered to read it.
I have a problem too, he's not easily understood. But he is interesting. :)
I've read all his Achaia threads to and may try to assertain his exact meaning soon.
Mon Feb 18 16:19:44 2002
But when he started claming that the Apple bake-off in question is completely valid and told he was wrong (!), I just had to read his posts. I expected that he'd be digging himself a large, cavernous hole that he won't be able to exit.
And he has.
And it's wonderfully hilarious in its utter stupidity.
OW: I have read some of BA's posts, but like you and others have mentioned, I often skip them if they're too verbose. His recent diatribe against IW didn't seem warranted, though.
Mon Feb 18 16:20:31 2002
from Imitation Gruel posted at 8:29 am on Feb. 18, 2002
When RiscRocket says more than a certain number of words I skip over his post. That number is zero.
Isn't that a Paul Hill or Venture quote? :biggrin:
He called someone (I think LB) a "weasel" in his argument. We're now in the realm of comedy platinum, folks.
(Edited by Harbinger at 11:21 am on Feb. 18, 2002)
Mon Feb 18 17:32:58 2002
Isn't that a Paul Hill or Venture quote?
I think it's actually from PeterB.
Mon Feb 18 18:18:36 2002
from Imitation Gruel posted at 12:32 pm on Feb. 18, 2002Isn't that a Paul Hill or Venture quote?I think it's actually from PeterB.
In any case, more truer words have never been spoken.
Mon Feb 18 18:56:59 2002
In any case, more truer words have never been spoken.
Well, it's likely possible to debate that, but...
A: I don't care
B: I'm monstrously lazy
C: The message speaks for itself
Tue Feb 19 02:44:37 2002
:confused:
Oh My.
Tue Feb 19 02:46:51 2002
Tue Feb 19 02:53:21 2002
Now, apparently, PSBench isn't a valid benchmark because it's not a benchmark at all, it's a DATABASE. ????
Of course Apple's Photoshop benchmarks are fine and perfectly acceptable and valid, because they are marketing benchmarks. :rolleyes:
The guy is, quite frankly, off his rocker. He's gone from being thickheaded to being completely loony.
Tue Feb 19 03:13:09 2002
Tue Feb 19 03:23:52 2002
The first has a lot of hard to predict branches, sorts, and a lot of controll flow operations. This makes it horribly serial in nature
The other has a lot of code behavior that is easy to predict a works with a lot of data that is easily computed in parallel.
Hmm
(Edited by AllYorBaseRBelong2Us at 9:24 pm on Feb. 18, 2002)
Tue Feb 19 03:55:30 2002
Tue Feb 19 06:39:55 2002
Databases are run on massively parallel machines and shared-nothing clusters.
This might suggests to me that your "horribly serial" comment is completely wrong. The only way to make "horribly serial" processes go faster is to raise the clockspeed (or instructions/cycle, etc.), which plainly isn't the route taken with databases.
Tue Feb 19 06:42:16 2002
Tue Feb 19 16:16:04 2002
from Jeremy Reimer posted at 1:42 am on Feb. 19, 2002
But does that make PSBench a database? :biggrin:
The more he posts in that thread (about the topic, at least), the more I'm convinced that he's bonkers. Some of the stuff he says is completely off the wall. Apple's comparison is not a benchmark?! :confused:
He zigged when he should have committed suicide.
Tue Feb 19 17:13:15 2002
Databases are run on massively parallel machines and shared-nothing clusters.This might suggests to me that your "horribly serial" comment is completely wrong. The only way to make "horribly serial" processes go faster is to raise the clockspeed (or instructions/cycle, etc.), which plainly isn't the route taken with databases.
Oops, you're right of course. ;)