In article <3e71e290$1@news.povray.org>, "Greg M. Johnson" <gregj:-
)565### [at] aolcom> says...
> I got a new WinXP PC with a 2.8 GHz chip.  I ran the benchmark.pov scene
> this PC and an old one with 1 GHz.  Both boxes are WinXP.
> 
> Results:
>   2.8 GHz  13361  secs
>   1.0 GHz    5315 secs.
> 
> Comments:
> 
> 1) This *does* play in to my cynicism that advances in hardware are going to
> be taken up by the demands of the operating system for ads,  checks on the
> internet for Windows bugifixes every other minute, etc...
> 
Well, I seem to remember someone once saying that, "if you idiot proof 
things enough, only an idiot will want to use them." I think in some 
respects Windows is starting to approach that level. The blasted OS 
already liked to do incomprehensibly useless things in Win98 (like 
letting some programs spawn 20 dial-up connection wizards if they 
couldn't access the internet), now it does even more stuff behind your 
back in XP. lol

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void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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