Dreamweaver has a nifty "strip MS-word type tags from document" you might find handy when converting to html. I would recommend converting to XHTML format actually, that way your files can be processed using an xml parser as well.
The real problem with home users is that 0.04% of them (read morons) actually buy the stuff being solicited. Talk about a minority rule. The best anti-spam algorithm is thus: "Don't buy their shit".
No monitor? No modem? So, not only can you not connect to the internet, but you cannot see what it is you're not doing. Surely they could have slapped together a $249 tag including monitor/modem and from what I gather a better free (beer) distro.
So how exactly does the rate of increase in computing power realate to the increase in spam? We are almost expecting spammers to be as clever as chip manufacturers. No chance there.
In fact, the rate at which the gap between the increase in spam and Moore's law opens, will increase expnonentially. Meaning, of course, that spammers become relatively dumber. In conclusion, being a spammer makes you stupid.
Remember, though, that a Java app can be loaded from the server (ie Applets or Java Web Start technology), so there is absolutely no need for client-side installs (aside from the once-off JVM install). So slight degradation of performance can be offset by the huge advantage of running a thin client. Not to mention the inherited distributed (ie EJB) and security features Java offers. Not a perfect solution, but nothing compares atm.
Not sure about the "Java runs better on Linux" claim either, but seeing as though Linux code is open source, and M$ is not, I imagine writing compiler and JVm interpretor code is possibly more efficient in Linux than Java. I am sure M$ does what it can with each new release of Windoze to hinder a JVM's performance, just a hunch.
It may also be likely that Java runs more efficiently on RISC (ie hp/ux power-pc) machines than CISC (ie intel). Why? Well RISC machines process the most common cpu instructions very fast, so I imagine your friendly Java compiler/interpretor writers take advantage of this. However i would like to see some statistics here.
Of course they are trying to "push" it, as they have invested in linux succeeding, but they are not tied down as to how they push it, so any IT solutions provider can "push" Linux to suit their (and their client's) needs, without having to cow-tow to one big boss. So Linux will succeed on it's own merits, because it is a good solution, not because it's the "only" solution, which M$ try to be.
It's never a bad day for blatant M$ bashing. Bash away I say. In fact, this site should become a decicated M$ bashing forum. God only knows there's enough demand for it.
He really thinks this is revolutionary, some kind of cloak and dagger secret development, where in fact he's got together a bunch of Romanian hackers (ie CHEAP) to send dodgy popups via windows messaging. What a TOOL.
He's either being conned or is a total looohoooseheeeeeeer!!!! (or both). Yes, you heard me: LOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOSEHHHHHHEEEEEEER. (And before you smirk Mr Lasky Pasky, we know you're mortgaged to the hilt.
But Marcus Allen, the British publisher of Nexus magazine and a long-time advocate of the theory, said photographs of the lander would not prove that the US put men on the moon. "Getting to the moon really isn't much of a problem - the Russians did that in 1959," he said. "The big problem is getting people there."
I suppose those flags were put there by mice to mark their favourite cheese spots? What a jip, these losers really do need a life. (Unlike all of us;) )
Why don't we just let microsoft implant our memories as well. Why bother going through all that life stuff, just download it to your brain from the M$ website, everyone gets all fluffy about Bill Gates, who then goes on to rule the world and starts handing out Soma to his faithful subjects.
Microsoft only needs to stop and see it's life passing before its very eyes. Now that'll be a show worth watching. Especially those early 80's hairdo's
It all smells of target marketing to me, call me a cynic if u like. Build a complete profile of your consumer, then sell it to the corporate marketing dweebs for a "tailored solution".
Good point, how hard can it be to find a bunch of spam? Sounds like they just couldnt be bothered digging anything up themselves, so go out and get the community to do the leg work.
Anyway, seems a shame to just use it for anti-spam algorithm research, why not put it to good use and create API's from the database, then email apps can update definitions on a regular basis, similar to anti-virus software. Now that would make sense.
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Dreamweaver has a nifty "strip MS-word type tags from document" you might find handy when converting to html. I would recommend converting to XHTML format actually, that way your files can be processed using an xml parser as well.
The real problem with home users is that 0.04% of them (read morons) actually buy the stuff being solicited. Talk about a minority rule. The best anti-spam algorithm is thus: "Don't buy their shit".
They obviously don't work for my company.
In Soviet Russia, Poland was not a part of the Soviet Union.
Actually, global warming is really happening. It's largely coming from hot air from fat Americans.
Won't the resulting evaporation just return the water back to the poles anyway???
No monitor? No modem? So, not only can you not connect to the internet, but you cannot see what it is you're not doing. Surely they could have slapped together a $249 tag including monitor/modem and from what I gather a better free (beer) distro.
A prank? A hoax? WELL DUH!
So how exactly does the rate of increase in computing power realate to the increase in spam? We are almost expecting spammers to be as clever as chip manufacturers. No chance there.
In fact, the rate at which the gap between the increase in spam and Moore's law opens, will increase expnonentially. Meaning, of course, that spammers become relatively dumber. In conclusion, being a spammer makes you stupid.
I predict 2012 will be a great year for wine.
Remember, though, that a Java app can be loaded from the server (ie Applets or Java Web Start technology), so there is absolutely no need for client-side installs (aside from the once-off JVM install). So slight degradation of performance can be offset by the huge advantage of running a thin client. Not to mention the inherited distributed (ie EJB) and security features Java offers. Not a perfect solution, but nothing compares atm.
Not sure about the "Java runs better on Linux" claim either, but seeing as though Linux code is open source, and M$ is not, I imagine writing compiler and JVm interpretor code is possibly more efficient in Linux than Java. I am sure M$ does what it can with each new release of Windoze to hinder a JVM's performance, just a hunch.
It may also be likely that Java runs more efficiently on RISC (ie hp/ux power-pc) machines than CISC (ie intel). Why? Well RISC machines process the most common cpu instructions very fast, so I imagine your friendly Java compiler/interpretor writers take advantage of this. However i would like to see some statistics here.
Of course they are trying to "push" it, as they have invested in linux succeeding, but they are not tied down as to how they push it, so any IT solutions provider can "push" Linux to suit their (and their client's) needs, without having to cow-tow to one big boss. So Linux will succeed on it's own merits, because it is a good solution, not because it's the "only" solution, which M$ try to be.
It's never a bad day for blatant M$ bashing. Bash away I say. In fact, this site should become a decicated M$ bashing forum. God only knows there's enough demand for it.
what is wrong with that?
I'd like to part him with a warm house. ie prison.
He really thinks this is revolutionary, some kind of cloak and dagger secret development, where in fact he's got together a bunch of Romanian hackers (ie CHEAP) to send dodgy popups via windows messaging. What a TOOL.
He's either being conned or is a total looohoooseheeeeeeer!!!! (or both). Yes, you heard me: LOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOSEHHHHHHEEEEEEER. (And before you smirk Mr Lasky Pasky, we know you're mortgaged to the hilt.
But Marcus Allen, the British publisher of Nexus magazine and a long-time advocate of the theory, said photographs of the lander would not prove that the US put men on the moon. "Getting to the moon really isn't much of a problem - the Russians did that in 1959," he said. "The big problem is getting people there."
;) )
I suppose those flags were put there by mice to mark their favourite cheese spots? What a jip, these losers really do need a life. (Unlike all of us
Can you try and spot my nail clippers? I must have dropped them somewhere near the lander. Cheers, Buzz.
I resemble that remark!
Go wireless.
Why don't we just let microsoft implant our memories as well. Why bother going through all that life stuff, just download it to your brain from the M$ website, everyone gets all fluffy about Bill Gates, who then goes on to rule the world and starts handing out Soma to his faithful subjects.
Microsoft only needs to stop and see it's life passing before its very eyes. Now that'll be a show worth watching. Especially those early 80's hairdo's
It all smells of target marketing to me, call me a cynic if u like. Build a complete profile of your consumer, then sell it to the corporate marketing dweebs for a "tailored solution".
Good point, how hard can it be to find a bunch of spam? Sounds like they just couldnt be bothered digging anything up themselves, so go out and get the community to do the leg work.
Anyway, seems a shame to just use it for anti-spam algorithm research, why not put it to good use and create API's from the database, then email apps can update definitions on a regular basis, similar to anti-virus software. Now that would make sense.
So, are you agreeing with me here?