Benchmarks typically measure the performance of the bottlenecks in your system. Benchmarks of your car measure its speed
Ugh okay I don't often whine about grammar or writing because generally I don't care, even though I'm an M.A. Lit. Whining about grammar/spelling isn't very popular.
But okay.... A Benchmark is a criterion. A single point of reference to compare different data with. A benchmark is a measurement, a benchmark does not itself measure anything.
@Pope John Peeps II: Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his posts to get views, well I do, so fuck him and fuck you too, you think I give a damn about some grammar, half of you critics can't even punctuate, let alone clamor.
@Pope John Peeps II: Grammar correction is justifiable if the correction changes not only the writer's delivery/syntax but the audience's understanding or mimicked behavior, methinks.
@Pope John Peeps II: Aaargh. "A single point of reference to compare different data with." I don't know how you can call that a sentence. There's a loose rule against using prepositions at the end of sentences, and I would hope that, given the pedantic nature of your post, you'd try to follow it. Regardless, your construction is more of a subordinate clause, at best. May I suggest "A benchmark is a criterion: a single point of reference used to compare different data." If you're going to call yourself a grammarian, at least set a good example.
@ninjagin: The difference is, my good gentleman jackass, that my work isn't being published officially. I'm just commenting here so I can be as fuckin slang as I want. And I don't generally nitpick grammar for precisely the reason that I'd end up looking like you. And to be accurate I'm not, in fact, nitpicking grammar but am simply picking at the BASIC DEFINITION OF A WORD.
@Pope John Peeps II: you're wrong. sorry to be a straight dick about it, but the rule does exist. in fact the word itself states the rule in its etymology. The prefix pre- would imply before and the root -position would ... well I think you've probably caught on by now. if this rule did not exist, would the word not in fact be omniposition?
@thetiminator69: Don't be an idiot. The preposition modifies the noun and pronoun, and often comes before them when indicating place or relation, but that is by no means a rule of any sort. A rule means that there is a categorical guide to use. It changes with each sentence and with each usage, and always changes to enforce the clarity of the sentence. There are plenty of sentences that would sound idiotic were they forced to not end with a preposition. Thus, Churchill's famous quote ""This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put", when an editor changed one of his speeches to avoid that "error".
@dingus:
That's why all benchmarks that are designed to make Macs look better than PCs go straight to Photoshop (which is tailored to Mac architecture), while all benchmarks that are designed to do the opposite go straight to games (knowing that what few games do get ported over to Mac are more likely to be shoe-horned in).
@Anonymoose: I purchased a video card about DirectX7 or 8
And I yelled to the Best Buy employee 'Yo homes don't you sell DirectX9 or later'
I looked at my card
I was finally there
To shit on Best Buy as the Prince of Bel Air
@GitEmSteveDave_@Gmail.comNeedsAWaveInvite: Serves you right. Etching "SD <3 Cartesian Coordinate System" into the bench with a sharpened graphing calculator is just plain wrong. Sick and wrong.
I can't help but think that all of this benchmarking, quality of rendering and Ultimate Answers to the Ultimate Questions (Will it play [insert meme-grade game here]?) won't help me recall the same giddy pleasure I used to get when I used to fire up the old NES to play Super Mario Bros.
It looks like an umbrella that resembles the umbrella in RE.
What I mean is, were I to see someone walking down the street with it, I'd just figure that a company had come up with the same design by happenstance.
They could at least throw in a hanging air freshener of whats-her-name in that paper gown or something. (SANS NEEDLES).
I have several rain umbrellas (pop ups are most convenient) but my fav is a huge grey and white golf umbrella that I use to shade myself from sun durung the summer. OK, so maybe I look like a dork but better to look like a dork than sun poisoning patient.
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The second graph states that actual HDD speed is the same as theoretical HDD speed for SATA 150 and 300.
What happened there?
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Ugh okay I don't often whine about grammar or writing because generally I don't care, even though I'm an M.A. Lit. Whining about grammar/spelling isn't very popular.
But okay.... A Benchmark is a criterion. A single point of reference to compare different data with. A benchmark is a measurement, a benchmark does not itself measure anything.
Woo that felt good. Sigh.
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Just so you're aware! :)
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That's why all benchmarks that are designed to make Macs look better than PCs go straight to Photoshop (which is tailored to Mac architecture), while all benchmarks that are designed to do the opposite go straight to games (knowing that what few games do get ported over to Mac are more likely to be shoe-horned in).
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*gets jiggy with the article*
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And I yelled to the Best Buy employee 'Yo homes don't you sell DirectX9 or later'
I looked at my card
I was finally there
To shit on Best Buy as the Prince of Bel Air
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What I mean is, were I to see someone walking down the street with it, I'd just figure that a company had come up with the same design by happenstance.
They could at least throw in a hanging air freshener of whats-her-name in that paper gown or something. (SANS NEEDLES).
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includes a flexible, black wrist strap, which is valuable when you're swinging it as a bludgeon against invading zombie hordes. You know. Like you do.
It just doesn't get any better than this, kids.
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