Hrmph..Is this really a limitation of mySQL or the hardware?
Although it would be slow, it would probably be reachable if one dropped the SQL interface to the file system in favour of pure filesystem access, yes. But the ease of development and reduction in maintenance is obviuosly more important than withstanding a/. now and then. I'd do the same.
the only time a computer is used (well) for socializing is possibly a lan party and (more remotely) email/aim.
LAN parties are hardly socializing. It's all about playing games. And there's hardly any girls at all.
Computer parties, on the other hand, are. I guess they've more or less died out in the US, but at least in Scandinavia, they're alive'n'kicking.
How nice. Why don't you share instead of producing the following marketing pitch?:
and whether you could do anything with it by delivering highly functional enterprise applications quickly and cheaply with it. Give it a go - you'll be surprised.
...but we've had this in a subway station in Oslo for a while now.
To be honest, you actually have to focus to see what's going on. I don't think i'll last long. Or maybe they'll redefine "prime time" to mean periods with long delays.:)
It would not work because after a thousand spams in English, a legitimate English mail arrives and gets marked as spam. And as I said, "SENDING ME KOREAN MAIL IS POINTLESS ANYHOW". That means IT DOESN'T MATTER. gah.
This is a nice concept. His algorithm works because spam uses the same repetive syntax. Because so many spam/emails are sent out - it can be flagged by pattern recognition... based on the assumption that it is written in English! It would also probably flag Spam parodies written by friends, or marketing information you were actually subscribed to...
My primary concern comes from the fact that most of the spams I recieve are either Korean or English, while most of the legitimate mails are in Norwegian. Sending me Korean mail is pointless anyhow, but I fear that simply the _use_ of English will make his scheme produce lots of false positives.
Oh well, I'll probably make my own authentification scheme. It does seem like the way to go. Or, of course, I could subscribe to a few mailing lists just to give his algorithm more entropy to work with.
I'm guessing here that the inclusion of a single image tag in the html is unlikely to trigger the spam filter, and supplying a wealth of evidence that the email is 'not' spam in the unseen alternate text will let the letter through.
That won't be a problem for me, since I never read HTML mails in any event.
It's oversimplistic reactions to the problems that came from tech spending in the 90's. Many people were creating products that were full of pizazz that didn't work for crap and people bought them because they thought technology was their salvation.
*dons his flame suit*
What do you mean, _were_? People are _still_ using C++. Not to mention XML.
No matter how you slice it, you'll never be able to make a machine do what a translator does. Why is it that these things are always made by people who aren't multilingual?
Really? Keep in mind that the human brain is a terrible computer - not designed for linguistics at all. Languages have very precise definitions, and it is possible to make programs that translate any language into logic, see aristotle for an example.
Of course, the tricky part is to make such a program aware of all local variations. In Norwegian, the direct translation of "foot" can mean anything from "foot" to "below the hips".
It says Dell can't sell a computer with "NO OS".
What prevents Dell from simply making a floppyfw option? i.e. where does it say it has to me a MS operating system?
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In C code, this is how to do it binary, according to /usr/share/computers/fortune
:)
n = ((n >> 1) & 0x55555555) | ((n << 1) & 0xaaaaaaaa);
n = ((n >> 2) & 0x33333333) | ((n << 2) & 0xcccccccc);
n = ((n >> 4) & 0x0f0f0f0f) | ((n << 4) & 0xf0f0f0f0);
n = ((n >> 8) & 0x00ff00ff) | ((n << 8) & 0xff00ff00);
n = ((n >> 16) & 0x0000ffff) | ((n << 16) & 0xffff0000);
-- C code which reverses the bits in a word.
Of course, all of this can be represented with division and modulus, although it would grow bigger and uglier.
How nice. Why don't you share instead of producing the following marketing pitch?
...but we've had this in a subway station in Oslo for a while now.
:)
To be honest, you actually have to focus to see what's going on. I don't think i'll last long. Or maybe they'll redefine "prime time" to mean periods with long delays.
It would not work because after a thousand spams in English, a legitimate English mail arrives and gets marked as spam. And as I said, "SENDING ME KOREAN MAIL IS POINTLESS ANYHOW". That means IT DOESN'T MATTER. gah.
My primary concern comes from the fact that most of the spams I recieve are either Korean or English, while most of the legitimate mails are in Norwegian. Sending me Korean mail is pointless anyhow, but I fear that simply the _use_ of English will make his scheme produce lots of false positives.
Oh well, I'll probably make my own authentification scheme. It does seem like the way to go. Or, of course, I could subscribe to a few mailing lists just to give his algorithm more entropy to work with.
well, although I din't guess the right OS, I did see it coming: here so there :P
*dons his flame suit*
What do you mean, _were_? People are _still_ using C++. Not to mention XML.
It says Dell can't sell a computer with "NO OS". What prevents Dell from simply making a floppyfw option? i.e. where does it say it has to me a MS operating system?