It is actually quite easy considering the silk screen used to print those material - the touch of plastic and the printed words are very different, and those visually handicapped has their touch skill trained really well. I've just tried to ask my friend next door if he can, and he definitely can tell me which side of it was printed.
It is kind of, but not totally archaic as we still often use the derivative of the mother form of this word (not in US, though). Just see what the degree people are getting for medicine and surgery, it's like 'MB BChir' or 'BM BCh', and the 'Ch' comes from the root of this word "Chirurgiae".
And that I don't agree that this is taught in Hong Kong English classes, as far as I know, we knew much less obscure words than those taking the SAT.
Ah, sorry, I misread the Lik-Sang article. If you look at the following pictures, it will be clear to you why industry analysits and members of the semiconductor industry estimate that Sony's is taking a US$ 250 (!) loss for every console they make an sell." It is just an estimate, and SONY never claimed that, the "semiconductor industry" (?) did. Oops. On a side note, I think Lik-Sang needs to invest in a spell checker.
Despite the spelling mistake 'analysits', note that the phrasing was supposed to be:
If you look at the following pictures, it will be clear to you why industry analysits and members of the semiconductor industry estimate that Sony's is taking a US$ 250 (!) loss for every console they make an sell.
emphasis mine
i personally think that it's usually not worth it to get to the touch. If it were for tracking, a neurotoxin-impregnated fake $100 bill that costs around $1 would do better.
You may say i'm overaggressive, but that's the way people should do towards these scammers, who targets people's savings - these may be life or dead stuff...
right, it is true that most fraud scheme falls into the nature of human greed. however, although this is exploiting the bad side of human being, it doesn't meant that it should be done - it's just as if a server has a old copy of apache containg a root exploit you shouldn't make use of that...
btw... if it sounds too good to be true, it probably _is_.
right, but then (A) if enough people get banned, they will be angry at those who are sending out nigerian spam - this is exactly how banning open relay works (open relay get banned, users complain, isp switch to closed mail service) and so on. (B) deny their whole domains altogether, as reasoned in (A) (C) or just do it as other block-lists, privately held.
quite often criminals are in fact geniuses - it is easy to kill, to batter or to make an assault, but to fraud, you need to be smart.
it is very simple logic, and from the rules of halves, that half of the people has less-than-average IQ and im sure that even if the 419eater.com crew try to fraud fellow citizens there would still be comparable success rate of being baited.....
I always think that these sort of people should be punished for making use of people's greed. Granted, we all know that without the greedy evil mind of the mark they would never succeed and this would also serve as a good rule for natural selection, but then these kind of fraud should not be tolerated and should be terminated.
as for how we should terminate these people - the easiest thing to do is to do a ye olde IP class BAN, which imposes ban on all IP that send nigerian 419 scams through - it is true that this would hurt more people than it should, but then this is far nicer than declaring nigeria as 'terrorist' nation and battering them with bombs.
If we can make block list due to open relay, why can't we do the same for nigerian scam? they are readily identifiable even for computers and they are all from several country, if not one or two.
the good thing about SMS spam is that it is related to phones - while overseas email does not cost any money (and so as SMS message through SMTP, but then this is not a big problem, so far.. because these address are hard to catch.) overseas SMS and overseas phone call costs a lot.
In China, Hong Kong and many places, SMS advertising is available at a flat rate...
We at hong Kong often receive messages from the cellphone providers and are very pissed off by them.. but then for some reasons they disappeared in these few months.
Is that (1) It is not easy to filter out, given the majority of people here now only uses phone that cannot be programmed easily (at least, not as easy as using the OE plugins or the MacosX Mail.app) (2) Usually they are more intrusive - nowadays people carry cell phones around and when you are bugged by SMS spam TOGETHER with important SMS.. it's friggin' bad... (3) They know where you read it... the positioning system of the GPS/w-cdma networks allow them to track your place...
the selection pressure posed to spam by spam filters makes spam become harder-to-filter one. the selection pressure posed to bacteria makes them harder-to-kill bacteria.
we then have to develop other spam filters, so as our antibiotics.
too much of a spam filter will result in adverse effect because you filter ham out. too much of an antibiotic will result in adverse drug effect because of toxicity to human cells (e.g. nephrotoxicity, ototoxicity etc.)
I'll suggest Grados (SR-125, SR-225) or Audio-technica (A900 possibly) rather than sennheiser. Sennheiser are good, but Audio-technica often gives a better build and equal sound with equal money, and Grados, though looking rather retro, gives better sound per dollar...
I agree with you that the 200 watts is its RMS rating - but the true problem lies on:
(1) what is the signal-to-noise ratio at the rated RMS load - Certainly not the quoted value of >100dB - if it was 85dB or above It'll have large names like JMLab or so killed.
(2) What is its frequency? Yes the quoted was 35-20k, yet what is the cutting margin? Whether it is a 3dB bracket or it is an 10dB bracket or its a 0.01 dB bracket (Mark Levinson Amps, eh-huh.) the amplification does matter.
(3) 200 Watts is REALLY a lot. Most audiophile speakers rates at around 100 Watts, and turning it at around 20W makes a really loud sound for music anyway.
(4) I would wonder if its amp's is Class A or Class AB.
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It is actually quite easy considering the silk screen used to print those material - the touch of plastic and the printed words are very different, and those visually handicapped has their touch skill trained really well. I've just tried to ask my friend next door if he can, and he definitely can tell me which side of it was printed.
It is kind of, but not totally archaic as we still often use the derivative of the mother form of this word (not in US, though). Just see what the degree people are getting for medicine and surgery, it's like 'MB BChir' or 'BM BCh', and the 'Ch' comes from the root of this word "Chirurgiae".
And that I don't agree that this is taught in Hong Kong English classes, as far as I know, we knew much less obscure words than those taking the SAT.
Despite the spelling mistake 'analysits', note that the phrasing was supposed to be:
If you look at the following pictures, it will be clear to you why industry analysits and members of the semiconductor industry estimate that Sony's is taking a US$ 250 (!) loss for every console they make an sell.
emphasis mine
you are too _mean_, man.
heh, standard /. joke? :p
i personally think that it's usually not worth it to get to the touch. If it were for tracking, a neurotoxin-impregnated fake $100 bill that costs around $1 would do better.
You may say i'm overaggressive, but that's the way people should do towards these scammers, who targets people's savings - these may be life or dead stuff...
right, it is true that most fraud scheme falls into the nature of human greed. however, although this is exploiting the bad side of human being, it doesn't meant that it should be done - it's just as if a server has a old copy of apache containg a root exploit you shouldn't make use of that...
btw... if it sounds too good to be true, it probably _is_.
this would work wonder if you post it as a slashdot story. im not sure if it would go through the editor though - nice piece for signature anyway.
hurting the scammers in this way (presumably slightly illegal) is good imho - make them costly. (just as spams)
right, but then
(A) if enough people get banned, they will be angry at those who are sending out nigerian spam - this is exactly how banning open relay works (open relay get banned, users complain, isp switch to closed mail service) and so on.
(B) deny their whole domains altogether, as reasoned in (A)
(C) or just do it as other block-lists, privately held.
quite often criminals are in fact geniuses - it is easy to kill, to batter or to make an assault, but to fraud, you need to be smart.
it is very simple logic, and from the rules of halves, that half of the people has less-than-average IQ and im sure that even if the 419eater.com crew try to fraud fellow citizens there would still be comparable success rate of being baited.....
it would be better if you noted down the bank account they are using and notify the bank that these accounts are being used for fraud.
this would help fellows that unfortunately falled into their trap.
I always think that these sort of people should be punished for making use of people's greed. Granted, we all know that without the greedy evil mind of the mark they would never succeed and this would also serve as a good rule for natural selection, but then these kind of fraud should not be tolerated and should be terminated.
as for how we should terminate these people - the easiest thing to do is to do a ye olde IP class BAN, which imposes ban on all IP that send nigerian 419 scams through - it is true that this would hurt more people than it should, but then this is far nicer than declaring nigeria as 'terrorist' nation and battering them with bombs.
If we can make block list due to open relay, why can't we do the same for nigerian scam? they are readily identifiable even for computers and they are all from several country, if not one or two.
oops, my fault. i wanted to type "GSM"...
the positioning system for the phone-company spam is by the receiver you are currently listening to.
the good thing about SMS spam is that it is related to phones - while overseas email does not cost any money (and so as SMS message through SMTP, but then this is not a big problem, so far.. because these address are hard to catch.) overseas SMS and overseas phone call costs a lot.
:)
thus you never get overseas telemarketers..
definitely, as said at the end of my post, the solution is - right - legislation.
In China, Hong Kong and many places, SMS advertising is available at a flat rate...
We at hong Kong often receive messages from the cellphone providers and are very pissed off by them.. but then for some reasons they disappeared in these few months.
Is that
(1) It is not easy to filter out, given the majority of people here now only uses phone that cannot be programmed easily (at least, not as easy as using the OE plugins or the MacosX Mail.app)
(2) Usually they are more intrusive - nowadays people carry cell phones around and when you are bugged by SMS spam TOGETHER with important SMS.. it's friggin' bad...
(3) They know where you read it... the positioning system of the GPS/w-cdma networks allow them to track your place...
now what? right - do it with legislation.
if i recalled correctly,
according to his book published around 1995-1996, the email should be askbill@microsoft.com....
or else you get aoeu, which is the row on a dvorak keyboard
some of us early netscape users may well recall marca@netscape.com... as the first message in INBOX...
actually spam is very analogous with bugs (bacteria)..
spam filters kills spams,
antibiotics kills bacteria.
we have spam filters,
we have antibiotics.
the selection pressure posed to spam by spam filters makes spam become harder-to-filter one.
the selection pressure posed to bacteria makes them harder-to-kill bacteria.
we then have to develop other spam filters,
so as our antibiotics.
too much of a spam filter will result in adverse effect because you filter ham out.
too much of an antibiotic will result in adverse drug effect because of toxicity to human cells (e.g. nephrotoxicity, ototoxicity etc.)
in our town we usually set him/her up an account in either mozilla or outlook express with all pr0n newsgroup...
but then we all use support@microsoft.com...
same here
I'll suggest Grados (SR-125, SR-225) or Audio-technica (A900 possibly) rather than sennheiser. Sennheiser are good, but Audio-technica often gives a better build and equal sound with equal money, and Grados, though looking rather retro, gives better sound per dollar...
I agree with you that the 200 watts is its RMS rating - but the true problem lies on:
(1) what is the signal-to-noise ratio at the rated RMS load - Certainly not the quoted value of >100dB - if it was 85dB or above It'll have large names like JMLab or so killed.
(2) What is its frequency? Yes the quoted was 35-20k, yet what is the cutting margin? Whether it is a 3dB bracket or it is an 10dB bracket or its a 0.01 dB bracket (Mark Levinson Amps, eh-huh.) the amplification does matter.
(3) 200 Watts is REALLY a lot. Most audiophile speakers rates at around 100 Watts, and turning it at around 20W makes a really loud sound for music anyway.
(4) I would wonder if its amp's is Class A or Class AB.
Nope, I can _hear_ it, and that is from a speech-and-hearing-professional.