Quote: Originally Posted by Cody Dawg I guess the best diamond substitute is the Diamond Nexus gemstone according to this Link. Diamond Nexus Site. Notice how all of the co…

Quote: Diamond prices are ... not a fair reflection of diamond scarcity. WTF?! Is the price of any product sold in the US solely a reflection of the scarcity o…

Quote: Originally Posted by Troll Notice how all of the companies listed in that article are American. What's really going on here? Yeah it's a conspiracy! BTW, does this …

Quote: Trollbait The sense of entitlement to other people's resources is so damn ingrained in the psyche that Cody Dawg feels some kind of entitlement to diamonds at cos…

Yes, Troll has a bad habit of confusing his belief or projections to be absolute fact.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kevin Yes, Troll has a bad habit of confusing his belief or projections to be absolute fact.

Quote: Originally Posted by Cody Dawg I just thought it was a great article since I live in an area where flaunting wealth vis-a-vis jewelry is de rigeur. That's a complete …

Hi there! What should the benchmarks for a Dual-2.7 GHz G5 be? My benchmarks improved a lot after installing the alpha 5.2 worker, but they're still only half of what the top Powe…

Ok, found it. ;-) Installing the beta client helped resolve the problems mentioned above.

those Top Macs are Quad CPU, so they should score way higher then your Dual machine

Quote: Originally Posted by TiloProbst those Top Macs are Quad CPU, so they should score way higher then your Dual machine I was talking about the PowerMac7,3, not about t…

Quote: Originally Posted by phantomac I was talking about the PowerMac7,3, not about the PowerMac11,2, which is the 4 CPU machine. A dual 2.7 GHz G5 should still be the second …

I've still yet to see results from a DC2.3. Anyone have one to try it?

I was quite dissapointed of dual 2.7ghz performance. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_...hostid=1789945 My DC 2.3ghz's outperforms that easily. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sh…

Yeah, the 2.7 seems to be suffering from a clash between the RAMs and the FSBs speeds.

Interesting... Your 2.7 gets about what my 2.5 does. Actually, a little worse in some cases. It should do a bit better but....what kind of ram? My 2.5 has PC3200-30330 ram…

Don't expect any of these machines to scale linearly in performance with clock speed. The determining factor here is definitely L2 cache and memory bandwidth, although the clock sp…

What I notice most of all is that there seems to be large variation even between machines of the same type. I ponder whether some G5 chips work better than others for reasons of…

Hello everyone, I'm about to start getting into programming. I had some Java lessons at school, so I thought I'd start off with that. So, are there any really good books to start o…

Quote: Originally Posted by SteveJobs Hello everyone, I'm about to start getting into programming. I had some Java lessons at school, so I thought I'd start off with that. So, a…

Xcode works as well if you don't want to spend upward of $200 to learn to program…

Quote: Originally Posted by SteveJobs And is XCode ok even in the long run or would Eclipse (or something else?) be a better choice? -- Or should I try to start getting going in…

If you're still in school, and future classes will be taught in Java, I would personally recommend sticking with Java...at least for awhile longer. IMHO, it is a real good idea to…

Steve, I'm coming from an academic standpoint. I'd say learn Scheme or LISP as a first language, because they are truly excellent, beautiful languages. After spending some time wit…

Hey everyone, thanks for all the answers. I'll specify my point of view by commenting on some of your remarks. I am no longer attending any kind of school, so I don't get any Java…