From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T09:36:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: What Linux distribution to choose for learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> Not lucky -- your needs are more commonplace than mine. I use
> highly-optimized chip-level numerical and symbolic libraries and
> applications, play around with all the exotic languages, and just in
> general try to break stuff that most folks can't even spell. ;)
> 
> Back in 1990 they told me I'd have a supercomputer on my desktop and I
> scoffed. Well, the biggest thing you could get back then was around 10
> GFlops, and that's just about what I get out of my dual-core Athlon64
> right now. But the biggest thing you can get now is about a petaflop.
> And so it goes ...
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heh,
you should check out

http://www.trekunited.com/community/index.php?showtopic=14814

26.25 gigaflops for $2500