wrong, "kilometers" is shorter than "1000 meters".
NASA writes "kilometers" instead of "km" because they are trying to target as wide of an audience as possible, and there still are many people in the US who have NO IDEA that "km" means "kilometer."
Yes, ISPs do not use Bayesian filters. Those are rare and spammers do not care about them.
Random strings of text are used to get through the internal checks that large ISPs run on their message traffic.
Yahoo, Hotmail, etc have "bulk email" type folders. In addition to using spamassasin type techniques, the filter scripts that put messages in these folders will check to see if the same message is being sent to multiple addresses. If this is so, it raises a flag and someone checks to see if its a genuine mailing list. If it is, the list gets whitelisted internally. If it is spam, it gets moved into all the users' bulk mail folder and gets used to improve the bulk mail folder's automatic filters.
Random strings of text in messages get around this because the filter has a harder time detecting these mass spams, since each individual message will show up as being slightly different.
Can you demonstrate figures that OSS in general is more solid that closed source software? And I'm not talking point comparisons between single pieces of software - I'm talking solid research that examines a statistically valid sample of software.
To answer a question with a question:
Can you demonstrate figures that closed source software in general is more solid than OSS? And I'm not talking point comparisons between single pieces of software - I'm talking solid research that examines a statistically valid sample of software.
Heh, okay, the real answer is that such a demonstration is way beyond the scope of my post:)
More like an understatement. Like it or hate it, American culture has become so widespread, it is more like the de-facto "human culture." And believe it or not, the largest catalyst is Hollywood.
I say this based upon more than mere heresay. I've lived in Argentina for 10 years, USA for 7, costa rica for 8 months, and I've visited various European countries, Congo, and South Africa.
From what I gather, the only significant holdouts are the Arabs and Asians. But even that is changing, especially in Japan and the industrialized Middle East.
Whole computers for less than a grand? Thats hardly significant or impressive these days. I can build one for $400 for common office tasks. Or for $600 for an average family that wants to play a few good games. Or for $800 for an intermediate guy that wants something more serious.
For $1000 I can get you a 9800 pro, Athlon64 3000, 1gb ram, a 120gb sata drive, and a suitable mid-range motherboard, along with a decent looking case and reliable PSU. Thats a high-end computer IMO. Anything beyond is more like "ultra" and is a waste of money for the needs of 99% of the population.
> $300.. my graphic card alone cost that much.. getting ripped off from Nvidia and ATI here.
Who modded this insightful? It is obviously a troll.... if you are paying $300 for a graphics card, you are getting a premium product, at a premium price.
Why should this be surprising?
$300 NV/ATI offerings are years ahead of anything S3 has to offer. Here is a massive benchmark that includes (presumably) the best S3 has to offer.
If you want something superior to that S3, look at NV/ATI's offerings in the $100-200 range. There's pleny of options for any need.
If you want a recommendation, based on current market prices, I would go with either a 9200 (for casual gaming/video) or a 9600 pro (for moderate gaming).
9800 would be a step up if you have a need for it, but really only necessary if you want to do 1600x resolution with the latest games.
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With the average male thinking about sex every seven minutes, I don't know if their brain should be controling a machine that goes Mach X
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It is a popular Sci-Fi concept that female pilots will come to dominate.
This could be the start...
Easier than making a .deb package would be to have a shell script that apt-gets things like less
wrong, "kilometers" is shorter than "1000 meters".
NASA writes "kilometers" instead of "km" because they are trying to target as wide of an audience as possible, and there still are many people in the US who have NO IDEA that "km" means "kilometer."
If you had a glorified RC car that worked 40 million miles away, I'd be jealous.
Yes, ISPs do not use Bayesian filters. Those are rare and spammers do not care about them.
Random strings of text are used to get through the internal checks that large ISPs run on their message traffic.
Yahoo, Hotmail, etc have "bulk email" type folders. In addition to using spamassasin type techniques, the filter scripts that put messages in these folders will check to see if the same message is being sent to multiple addresses. If this is so, it raises a flag and someone checks to see if its a genuine mailing list. If it is, the list gets whitelisted internally. If it is spam, it gets moved into all the users' bulk mail folder and gets used to improve the bulk mail folder's automatic filters.
Random strings of text in messages get around this because the filter has a harder time detecting these mass spams, since each individual message will show up as being slightly different.
if thats really your style...
Bad analogy, the alcohol is still a problem in this case because Spam is never a good thing, even "if done in moderation."
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From the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB):
choice n. The power, right, or ability to select a product or solution from a wide variety of Microsoft partners.
IBM seems to have developed a fair amount of respect for Linux
I saw several commercials of theirs during the playoffs this saturday: link
After such talk, how do you suppose this "Giant" is going to turn around and step on us?
Uh, no. Thats a horrible analogy, as software has nothing to do with it.
A better way to think of it is this:
All jumpers are bridges but not all bridges are jumpers.
You see, jumpers are ordinary bridges with pins sticking up that allow the end-user to change them (relatively) easily.
Can you demonstrate figures that OSS in general is more solid that closed source software? And I'm not talking point comparisons between single pieces of software - I'm talking solid research that examines a statistically valid sample of software.
:)
To answer a question with a question:
Can you demonstrate figures that closed source software in general is more solid than OSS? And I'm not talking point comparisons between single pieces of software - I'm talking solid research that examines a statistically valid sample of software.
Heh, okay, the real answer is that such a demonstration is way beyond the scope of my post
>> American culture
> Best oxymoron ever.
More like an understatement. Like it or hate it, American culture has become so widespread, it is more like the de-facto "human culture." And believe it or not, the largest catalyst is Hollywood.
I say this based upon more than mere heresay. I've lived in Argentina for 10 years, USA for 7, costa rica for 8 months, and I've visited various European countries, Congo, and South Africa.
From what I gather, the only significant holdouts are the Arabs and Asians. But even that is changing, especially in Japan and the industrialized Middle East.
Long live the melting pot!
> Open Source isn't about innovation - it's about copying... no driving force except playing catch up.
Its true, OSS doesn't have much of an R&D budget.
But our code is more solid and most of all, free and open. Therin lies the main attraction.
It does not take a lot of rendering power to do 640x TV resolutions.
These days the default for computer games is usually 1024x. Factor in FSAA and things of that sort, and there really is no comparison.
PC hardware has allways been years ahead of consoles.
As for those "great fucking games", that is another debate for another time. We are discussing video hardware, not the quality of availeable games.
> The smart people with low ID numbers left long ago because they got sick of the trolls.
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OSDN fundraising idea: auction off low, unused
Whats your point? I prefer www.froogle.com and just plain www.newegg.com
Pricewatch used to be great, but froogle is better now for my purposes.
Whole computers for less than a grand? Thats hardly significant or impressive these days. I can build one for $400 for common office tasks. Or for $600 for an average family that wants to play a few good games. Or for $800 for an intermediate guy that wants something more serious.
For $1000 I can get you a 9800 pro, Athlon64 3000, 1gb ram, a 120gb sata drive, and a suitable mid-range motherboard, along with a decent looking case and reliable PSU. Thats a high-end computer IMO. Anything beyond is more like "ultra" and is a waste of money for the needs of 99% of the population.
> $300.. my graphic card alone cost that much.. getting ripped off from Nvidia and ATI here.
Who modded this insightful? It is obviously a troll.... if you are paying $300 for a graphics card, you are getting a premium product, at a premium price.
Why should this be surprising?
$300 NV/ATI offerings are years ahead of anything S3 has to offer. Here is a massive benchmark that includes (presumably) the best S3 has to offer.
If you want something superior to that S3, look at NV/ATI's offerings in the $100-200 range. There's pleny of options for any need.
If you want a recommendation, based on current market prices, I would go with either a 9200 (for casual gaming/video) or a 9600 pro (for moderate gaming).
9800 would be a step up if you have a need for it, but really only necessary if you want to do 1600x resolution with the latest games.
> That information can be contained inside a constant and compiled into the final executable.
Can, yes, can. But they wouldn't be very useful.
> What about a program which calculates pi or runs some kind of simulation?
Ok, so maybe he failed to specify that such a program would be *relatively* useless.
What good is a program that calculates pi if you cannot specify how many digits?
What good is a simulation if you cannot specify which parameters to use, and how long you want to run it?
Answer: not very good
how does a UID 7000 post something so retarded?
> You forget: Step 5. PROFIT!
Does these mean we've finally discovered what the "????" step before "PROFIT!" is?
Put those .torrent files somewhere safe (so you can resume the download if necessary) Then run them through the Official Bittorrent
But I recommend this particular client.
Looks pretty good. All it needs is a rackmount.