Re: Overview Of New Intel Core i7(Nehalem) Processor

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:38:34 -0700, JosephKK wrote:

Would that this were true in practice. There are plenty of standard
libraries that are well tested and developed by experts NAGLIB for
instance being a very old example. But there are also no end of
programmers that try to roll their own code without understanding any of
the intricacies. Your fixed seed N-R sqrt being a case in point.

To really rub the point home, look at proliferation of HTTP based
download managers (read data pirates) that are being created instead
of using safe, well tested, reliable, and restartable FTP which is
included on all current major OS's. What are those webheads thinking?

If you want to download a single file, FTP offers no advantages over HTTP,
is more complex, has more overhead, and makes it harder to secure both the
server and the network. Also, the lack of metadata with FTP can be a
problem for non-English locales.


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