The average MBNA affinity card has an interest rate of 16.5 percent, Dalphon said, while the nonaffinity credit cards charge only 9.9 percent. The average MBNA customer, who charged $3,482 on his card last year, according to an industry newsletter, generated $17.41 for the affinity group, if the bank passes on the typical 0.5 percent of charges, according to the news service.
Every time I'm anywhere near a bank I get this overpowering feeling like I'm about to be taken by P.T. Barnum... thanks MBNA for proving my instincts once again.
Considering that this card has a lower interest rate that the average. It seems safe to assume that the amount going to linux fund will be less also. If they don't mind I'll just send them a check for $20.00 a year a get a regular card.
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In Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson created a similar system, where people would submit intelligence information to the Library of Congress, and get paid money anytime someone downloaded it.
Maybe I'm missing the point of separating the GUI from the application but what in addition to being slower doesn't that make the entire program more unstable, in someone just cutting up the HTML file and destroying the interface? (Sorry but I code for Windows so protecting the user has been deeply engrained in my brain as the Prime Directive)
Those were for AMD's benchmarks that they have up on their own site of course their fake but the other reviews tell the same story albeit the numbers are a little less impressive then AMD's but still better. Nobody trust's a company's benchmark of it's own product.
Not to fan the conspiracy flames but it's kind of wierd that the companies they list by name are the same ones that have Slot-A boards? Then again maybe I'm just paranoid.
Technically no nothing forces Intel to do business with any other companies, however if they stop doing business with a company to pressure them into not doing business with a competitor then that's a violation of Anti-Trust Laws.
So will this software be banned in Kansas? Or will A-Life pages just have to put disclaimer on the front page sending people in Kansas to yahoo or something.
Artificial Life programs are alot less like "Life" and more like "Core Wars". In the AL projects I've read of the rules for the environment aren't things like "If surrounded by Three Squares do this...". The environment tends to be a more realistic world. And the bugs aren't just better programmed. They are designed to mutate for better or for worse. From there it's Darwinism.
What you're talking about is The Tierra Project (I assume). The idea wasn't to let them just run across the internet though. They would travel only to computers that were running the Tierra Virtual Machine, feeding off of unused Processor Cycles. Basically the idea was to let these programs mutate and then "harvest" ones that had mutated usefully to build into software. I never could decide how sound the idea really was but it was pretty cool. http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/tier ra/tierra.html
You say they are prohibited by custom from advertising on TV. I take that to mean that there is nothing other than the view's of their peers that keeps them from doing it. Technically that's how it is here too. Except that there's a large number of lawyers who are just in it for a quick buck and have as little respect for their profession as the rest of the population does. These are the ones you see on TV
Oh come on everybody knows that there's no money in this new fangled "on-line" thing. It'll go the way of them thar TV's and Auto-Mobiles. Come on people you're scientists get High-Tech
This is all assuming that the people housing these records are stupid enough to watch as their entire civilizations information goes the way of the dinosaurs... (Don't get me wrong, we've been that stupid before, but somehow I don't see it happening).
ASCII's been around alot longer than the dawn of the internet. And something like HTML is such a simple standard that it is bound to withstand the test of time enough to where if it is ever replaced it will be by something similar enough to facilitate a painless transfer.
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Come on people this is what ASCII was invented for. The x86 architecture can come and go. Aliens can wipe out most of the civilized life on the planet but as long someone with a 2nd grade education can make a simple look up table we can read a text file. And if you want to embed pictures than use HTML another perfectly good format for storing information that is easily converted to other formats. Besides no one was talking about not keeping any Hardcopies of these files just making them readily available to the entire public over the internet. The journals can still publish, and the AMA and other such groups will undoubtedly keep these on file also.
The only use of watermarking would be to mark groups of individuals, but even this seems to me to be rather useless since I would think it would take longer to check the DNA than to do a background check.
Oh... uh... that's just uh... inefficient data... yeah... SETI's just biased against Microsoft... yeah that's it. Or it's probably that you have to reboot twice to load a program in Windows.
You're protected from stolen signatures in a number of ways.
1. The signature isn't just your name or some arbitrary key. The signature is effectively the entire encrypted document or more importantly the fact that when the document decrypts using the sister key (public/private depending on the implementation) it proves that you wrote it for that person.
2. In theory impossible (well technically improbable) to crack an arbitrary private key. (theory==The mathematics are more advanced than anything I could probably hope to understand. But as I hear it factoring 200+digit numbers to primes isn't something computers like to do, or people for that matter.)
And who can forget the genius scheme of putting "3Dfx required" stickers on games that didn't even use Glide... panicing... hell, they're pissing their pants.
Of course I want to enable macros from this unknown recipient... enabling good... macro virus...? That's not related to enabling macros is it... what they spread through email...? I'd better email everyone and warn them that I've got this virus.
uh oh, there's a macro virus running around... Of course I want to enable macros...
>But of a freaked example, but in general this model doesn't work for more consumer oriented software. The >consumer doesn't want to develop it, he just wants to run it.
Right that's probably why everyone and their Grandmother doesn't program. However they also in general don't want to pay for a program that doesn't do what it's supposed to do until version 3.0 or the sixth patch. Answer: under Open Source the developers are less likely to hold to the attitude of "Just get it to compile" so the general quality of the code is higher.
Come on every country between Central America and the Middle East can have our old technology why can't China? It's not fair to pick and choose who get's a chance to blow us up.
Um actually if you lied under oath for a traffic ticket... 99% of the time they would just prove you were lying and then be done with it the truth having been shown. The other 1% accounts for the anal retentive judges who follow the letter of the law and view themselves as some version of Judge Dredd without a gun or kevlar who would simply fine you $100 or something. If we were to process everyone who lied on the stand and got caught for perjury do you realize how many murderers theives and other rapscallions would go free or have to wait years upon years for due process.
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Actually the MFC is completely open source. The only thing you don't have access to is the code for the Groundwork API's
Every time I'm anywhere near a bank I get this overpowering feeling like I'm about to be taken by P.T. Barnum... thanks MBNA for proving my instincts once again.
Considering that this card has a lower interest rate that the average. It seems safe to assume that the amount going to linux fund will be less also. If they don't mind I'll just send them a check for $20.00 a year a get a regular card.
In Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson created a similar system, where people would submit intelligence information to the Library of Congress, and get paid money anytime someone downloaded it.
Maybe I'm missing the point of separating the GUI from the application but what in addition to being slower doesn't that make the entire program more unstable, in someone just cutting up the HTML file and destroying the interface? (Sorry but I code for Windows so protecting the user has been deeply engrained in my brain as the Prime Directive)
Those were for AMD's benchmarks that they have up on their own site of course their fake but the other reviews tell the same story albeit the numbers are a little less impressive then AMD's but still better. Nobody trust's a company's benchmark of it's own product.
Not to fan the conspiracy flames but it's kind of wierd that the companies they list by name are the same ones that have Slot-A boards? Then again maybe I'm just paranoid.
Technically no nothing forces Intel to do business with any other companies, however if they stop doing business with a company to pressure them into not doing business with a competitor then that's a violation of Anti-Trust Laws.
So will this software be banned in Kansas? Or will A-Life pages just have to put disclaimer on the front page sending people in Kansas to yahoo or something.
Artificial Life programs are alot less like "Life" and more like "Core Wars". In the AL projects I've read of the rules for the environment aren't things like "If surrounded by Three Squares do this...". The environment tends to be a more realistic world. And the bugs aren't just better programmed. They are designed to mutate for better or for worse. From there it's Darwinism.
What you're talking about is The Tierra Project (I assume). The idea wasn't to let them just run across the internet though. They would travel only to computers that were running the Tierra Virtual Machine, feeding off of unused Processor Cycles. Basically the idea was to let these programs mutate and then "harvest" ones that had mutated usefully to build into software. I never could decide how sound the idea really was but it was pretty cool. http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/tier ra/tierra.html
You say they are prohibited by custom from advertising on TV. I take that to mean that there is nothing other than the view's of their peers that keeps them from doing it. Technically that's how it is here too. Except that there's a large number of lawyers who are just in it for a quick buck and have as little respect for their profession as the rest of the population does. These are the ones you see on TV
Oh come on everybody knows that there's no money in this new fangled "on-line" thing. It'll go the way of them thar TV's and Auto-Mobiles. Come on people you're scientists get High-Tech
This is all assuming that the people housing these records are stupid enough to watch as their entire civilizations information goes the way of the dinosaurs... (Don't get me wrong, we've been that stupid before, but somehow I don't see it happening).
ASCII's been around alot longer than the dawn of the internet. And something like HTML is such a simple standard that it is bound to withstand the test of time enough to where if it is ever replaced it will be by something similar enough to facilitate a painless transfer.
Come on people this is what ASCII was invented for. The x86 architecture can come and go. Aliens can wipe out most of the civilized life on the planet but as long someone with a 2nd grade education can make a simple look up table we can read a text file. And if you want to embed pictures than use HTML another perfectly good format for storing information that is easily converted to other formats. Besides no one was talking about not keeping any Hardcopies of these files just making them readily available to the entire public over the internet. The journals can still publish, and the AMA and other such groups will undoubtedly keep these on file also.
How exactly do they know that you have a TV to charge you the tax. Is there some form to fill out or does it just work more on the honor system.
The only use of watermarking would be to mark groups of individuals, but even this seems to me to be rather useless since I would think it would take longer to check the DNA than to do a background check.
I'd like to think that Borland, the company who defined the IDE on the PC would be worth a little more than 25 mil.
Oh... uh... that's just uh... inefficient data... yeah... SETI's just biased against Microsoft... yeah that's it. Or it's probably that you have to reboot twice to load a program in Windows.
You're protected from stolen signatures in a number of ways.
1. The signature isn't just your name or some arbitrary key. The signature is effectively the entire encrypted document or more importantly the fact that when the document decrypts using the sister key (public/private depending on the implementation) it proves that you wrote it for that person.
2. In theory impossible (well technically improbable) to crack an arbitrary private key. (theory==The mathematics are more advanced than anything I could probably hope to understand. But as I hear it factoring 200+digit numbers to primes isn't something computers like to do, or people for that matter.)
And who can forget the genius scheme of putting "3Dfx required" stickers on games that didn't even use Glide... panicing... hell, they're pissing their pants.
Thought Patterns of Everyone in my office:
Of course I want to enable macros from this unknown recipient... enabling good... macro virus...? That's not related to enabling macros is it... what they spread through email...? I'd better email everyone and warn them that I've got this virus.
uh oh, there's a macro virus running around... Of course I want to enable macros...
>But of a freaked example, but in general this model doesn't work for more consumer oriented software. The >consumer doesn't want to develop it, he just wants to run it.
Right that's probably why everyone and their Grandmother doesn't program. However they also in general don't want to pay for a program that doesn't do what it's supposed to do until version 3.0 or the sixth patch. Answer: under Open Source the developers are less likely to hold to the attitude of "Just get it to compile" so the general quality of the code is higher.
Come on every country between Central America and the Middle East can have our old technology why can't China? It's not fair to pick and choose who get's a chance to blow us up.
Um actually if you lied under oath for a traffic ticket... 99% of the time they would just prove you were lying and then be done with it the truth having been shown. The other 1% accounts for the anal retentive judges who follow the letter of the law and view themselves as some version of Judge Dredd without a gun or kevlar who would simply fine you $100 or something. If we were to process everyone who lied on the stand and got caught for perjury do you realize how many murderers theives and other rapscallions would go free or have to wait years upon years for due process.