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DropBox link to rtf file: [^]. About 2500 words.
Excerpt:Quote: "What is confusing you, my son ?"
"Menus and toolbars ... and so many dialogs and controls ... they confuse me ..."
"Do you not find them useful, my son ?"
"Oh yes ... yes, Oh Wise One ... they are so useful ... but ..."
"... something about them is confusing ... is it so ?"
"... I find it ... difficult ... hard ... to put into words."
"Take your time, my son ... the discovery of the truth is not without difficulty ..."
"Thank you"
"It is nothing ... there ... see ... that deep breath you just took ... where did that come from my son ... do you see how easy it is to relax ?"
"Yes ... my ... uhhh ... breath ... it came from ... mmm ... well, it's just natural isn't it !"
"Yes, natural ... and now that you are more relaxed ... let's take a look at that confusion of yours ... I want you to imagine you are walking along a beach ... feel your feet sinking into the cool, delicious wet sand ... the smell of salt spray ... a sound ... a gull’s cry as it wheels above the waves ..."
"Yes ... I can feel it ..."
"Now look along the beach ... what do you see on the beach ?"
"Driftwood ... a lot of driftwood ... piles of it ... little pieces ... pieces of iron sticking up out of the sand ... dried seaweed ..."
"Good ... I guess you have to walk around it ... is it so ?"
"Yes ... but I walk close to the edge of where the waves come up on the beach ... it is pretty clear there ..."
"Excellent ... now I want you to come back here with me ... let your mind return to this freezing cave with its overstuffed leather chairs and its 32 inch liquid crystal display Sony satellite television with Dolby Digital, THX and its robotic mini-bar which is even now mixing a fine batch of Margaritas to assist our further exploration of your confusion."
"Fantastic Margarita !"
"Yes, this mini-bar is the only one of its kind outside Japan."
"Wow"
"I saw it in Akhibara last year and I called up my old friend Nobu at the Ministry of Trade and Information and ... well ... let's say that I called in a few favors he owed me."
"mmm ..."
"Now ... let's explore what you saw on the beach ... the driftwood ..."
"Of course ... those are all the controls and menus and user-interface widgets that confuse the hell out of me ..."
"And the iron sticking out of the sand ..."
"Well, it had a kind of wonderful patina to it ... mmm ... aged ... it reminded me of when I was a kid and I used to go to the junkyard with my dad and I would go sit in some old clunker from the fifties while he looked for some part or other ... and I would fiddle with the wonderful over-sized knobs on the radio and heater controls."
"Those were the days ... "
"Yes, those were the days when the all-electric kitchen fascinated America ... kidney shaped swimming pools ... those contour chairs ... it was ... uhhh ... futuristic ... I guess ... to their minds ... but also organically influenced ..."
"So you have a positive feeling for that kind of ... call it ... interface."
"Yeah ... the iron pieces sticking up did seem friendly to me ... they weren't obstacles at all ..."
"But ... the driftwood ..."
"Well, that's the mess ... menus that do the same thing as buttons on a toolbar ... widgets that don't tell you what the hell they do ..."
"Until ?"
"Until you just get used to them ... until you've learned a hundred different ways to get through the driftwood obstacle courses and just take it for granted that you'll have to keep distracting yourself from your work to think about which particular route you need ... today ... through the driftwood."
"And the reason for all this driftwood ?"
"Oh, well ... uhhh ... historical accident ... enclaves of style like the Mac and the PC which have become landmarks in the public mind independent of issues like whether a two-button mouse is really all that useful ... or what's the best way ... if there is a best way ... to use keys on a keyboard to trigger special actions ..."
"You mean like the Apple key on the Mac, the Windows key ... the alt and control keys ... blah, blah, blah ..."
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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And still no book. Why are you not in my library?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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there is such a thing as too much of a good thing! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: too much of a good thing!
My psychic powers are on the fritz  You'll have to tell me what this means.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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too much driftwood!
I was thinking of the 10 rows of icons in VS 2005 or Word 2005
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Intel uses an ID scheme where significantly different CPUs may have the same ID, up to the last character(s), such as i7-11700K, i7-11700KF, i7-11700T and i7-11700F - and even a plain i7-11700 with no alphabetic suffix at all.
I take for granted that the suffixes are not chosen at random. The K, F and T (and several other suffixes on other chips) must have some specific meaning. Where can I find a complete list explaining the meaning of them?
Also: i3, i5, i7 and i9: Are these labels directly associated with a well defined set of properties, or is the rule simply that 'higher number is better'?
(When I bought my first i7, many years ago, one i7 characteristic was three memory channels - that certainly is no longer true!)
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Member 7989122 wrote: Where can I find a complete list explaining the meaning of them?
Most likely on Intel's website.
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Sure. Like "most likely on the Internet".
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Certainly. Without success. But the Intel website is large, and I would say: Not very intuitively structured. I may not have found the right search terms. Actually, I was considering phrasing my initial post like: What are the proper search terms to use on the Intel website to find information about ....?
That is like when you ask for som help, and the only help you get is like "Why don't you just *** google it?" Yeah, why didn't I just hide for myself in a corner, without disturbing anyone else? Every man is an island, or should learn to be. Fair enough. I am gradually learning by doing. ("Doing" in the sense: hoping for help from others.)
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OK, I'll go back to hide in my corner.
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Why? When you make a mistake in life (take it from someone who has made countless) use it as an opportunity to learn from it.
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An old warrior is fearsome not because he didn't make any error, but because he made many - and survived them all.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Well I am certainly old ...
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K: they have the overclock pin enabled, allowing for finer control on the inner clock at the risk of the user. They're the most prized amongst hardcore gamers.
F: no on-board GPU.
U: should be an old model with half the cores and less power consumption, they were used on laptops.
T: have lower base clocks to consume less power and require less cooling.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Thanks a lot! Exactly the kind of explanation I was looking for, but unable to find myself!
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I always thought that the suffixes defined in which units the CPU temperature was measured.
K -> Kelvin
F -> Fahrenheit
T -> Telsius
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Quote: Telsius
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- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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� Forogar � wrote: Telsius?
Subtract some number from the fahrenheit value, and divid by your shoe size. 
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...and to the power of the length of your nose. Measured in Tentimeters.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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For temperature it would be Tentigrade?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Exactly, That's what I meant! Telsius. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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