Very well put. I have lost entire days in the 'zone', starting at 10am and ending after dark, not even realizing that other in the office have left.. It's kind of like time travel :)
Looks interesting, but isn't number of cores, OS, 32/64 bit, and swap space configuration/hit ratio information pertinent to this benchmark to make it usable?
At the very least, I'd like to know what type of Amazon instance is being used.
I think that if enough people run the script that will make it a very useful dataset. Its not particularly useful with just my own three tests that I ran personally.
Doesn't 613MB RAM identify the Amazon instance? Its the free one.
Almost all of the VPSs provide 4 virtual processors, but this will only test one.
Most people are using 64bit, but the idea is to make it easy to get several datapoints (possibly using slightly different configurations) so that you can get an idea of the average performance of the provider.
Inasmuch as the thought of it, and the guilt you feel for supporting it, affects your decision to buy, yes. Otherwise, no.
The USA is NOT responsible for the working conditions in any other country, even though Apple clearly condones it. If Americans really cared, they'd eschew Apple for other brands, but they'd probably find pretty quickly that those other brands have similar work situations in their suppliers camps.
Additionally, even though China is not as freely capitalistic as we are, those workers still have the God given right to not engage in that work, or to seek work elsewhere.
Based on what I've heard from friends in China, the workers know going in that they will be pretty much held hostage working for just enough to pay for food and housing provided by the companies they work for.
Choosing to do so is still a choice, and if they have choice, they can still say no.
I have two of these machines. One is a quad-core laptop, and the other is a dual-core E-350 server.
In both cases, the driver provided by AMD was horrific. The drivers that came with LinuxMint and Ubuntu (not the non-free drivers, the default ones) were fantastic and very fast.
I am very happy and run both machines on dual 24" monitors @ 1920x1200 and they scream.
Sadly in my case, default driver does not work with HDMI and it does not recognize my 24" monitor. The ATI official driver does recognize and it does use 1900x1200 resolution but only with large black border.
For what it's worth, the AFLCIO doesn't list themselves in their list. Their CEO, Richard Trumka, makes over $300K/year... More than 5x the average worker, and he got a $50K raise in the past 3 years while his memberships incomes lagged.
How much does the Economic Policy Institute pay him to be on the board of directors?
How much is his net worth?
How is it possible that the AFL/CIO represents their membership, when 100% of 2010 political contributions went to Democrats, and none to Republicans? It's not even statistically possible that it MIGHT be representative.
(source : http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cmte=C00003806... )
Agreed... they are not publicly traded, but they shouldn't be pointing any fingers.
As for the politics, shouldn't one who cries fiscal foul be judged for their own fiscal idiocy? I'm suggesting you consider the messenger when you look at their purely marketing-message-related website.
The point of posting was simply to show that a database of this information exists. Nothing more.
EDIT: If it bothers you so much that this information is tied to the AFLCIO website, I'll pull the proxies myself along with the companies' change in market cap for the period the pay figures represent, and I will throw it up into a website. Then it will just be a database of CEO pay and stock performance.
