While I agree that it's probably a good thing that the processor has limits so it won't overheat itself, I think the problem most people are having is Intel pushing a 1.5 GHz chip that doesn't run at 1.5 GHz. If I buy a fast chip, I want that speed when it's needed most, during intensive operations. If my chip will always cut its speed in half when I need it the most, that's not very good. There's no problem with a chip doing this when that's what it's designed and advertised to do, as with their mobile processors and SpeedStep. However, Intel is advertising this chip as a 1.5 GHz chip, period (not 1.5GHz some of the time). I would rather buy a 1.3 GHz chip that's engineered well enough in other ways NOT to need this power cut during peak loads, and will therefore run at 1.3 GHz all the time.
If you buy a car that gets 30 miles to the gallon, that's good. But if this car really only gets 30 miles to the gallon when traveling at speeds under 10 mph, and otherwise gets half that...then that's not very good. As long as this mechanism won't ever kick in for the majority of the people and the majority of the systems, then that's fine, but if it turns out to be kicking in on any mildly intensive application, then that's a serious problem.
If Russia contributes an equal amount of time, money, and supplies, then they should get an equal share in it. Russia should actually have less of a share than America, because we've had to save its ass a few times just to get a decent living space for the crews up there. ---------------
Maybe not a bug as in a manufacturing defect that only affects a few runs of the device, but a bug as in a design flaw. Yes, the buttons are wired that way, and that's how they're wired in all iPaqs, but it would be better for gaming to have a setup that allows multiple buttons at once. ---------------
1. fscking is not an adjective it's a verb - it has to do with checking your file systems for errors. File systems are something that computers have not human beings. I know you find Europeans strange and all but we are still human!
While 'fscking' may not be a true adjective, it can be either the progressive form of the verb 'fsck,' or a verbal: a gerund, that acts as a noun, or a particple, which can act as an adjective or an adverb. His use of fscking as an adjective is correct, grammatically, even though its original meaning may not fit in the sentence. ---------------
I use physics every day. Without it, I couldn't move, walk, live. Therefore, everything that lives, and indirectly or directly uses the results of some physicists work are now physicists.
I realize that the headline and last sentence of the article weren't really the point of the article, but they still made me take what the author said with a grain of salt. Basically, he said that many fields of science are using computers these days, nothing more revolutionary than that. Perhaps the headline was just an attention grabber, or just a grossly uninformed statement. ---------------
That article was written in September, 2000. At that time, AOL was using the ad space only to advertise AOL/AIM/Winamp, etc. Now however, I see ads for other companies taking up the ad space more than I see AOL ads. Not that all this really matters, the ads are small and unobtrusive, and I don't spend all day looking at my buddy list. ---------------
But Napster users, even technically literate ones, gain a great advantage from the software being dummy-friendly: the more people who use the software, the larger the selection is, and the more likely it is for you to find a song that you like and get it. If a P2P filesharing system excluded less intelligent users, then that eliminates a large base of possible diversity to improve the quality and amount of the content.
Unless a Napster successor is as user-friendly as Napster currently is, it will not gain wide acceptance among the masses, and will not be as good for its users, who have to search longer and harder to find the files they want. ---------------
But jammers are hardly available now. The ones that can be bought (black market, international trade, whatever), are not exactly as portable as the cellphones themselves. I suppose that a mugger could plug one in inside his house and then mug people right outside, but then you're committing a crime in front of your house, and it's probably a lot easier to find you when a witness watches you step inside your door than when you run away and somebody calls the police on their cell phone. ---------------
Keiretsu: "A network of businesses that own stakes in one another as a means of mutual security, especially in Japan, and usually including large manufacturers and their suppliers of raw materials and components." (Dictionary.com)
Zaibatsus are large, traditionally family-owned corporations, while the keiretsus are just monopolistic corporate giants -- Zaibatsus are tighter-knit, and often act as one corporation, whereas the keiretsus are more of a trade ring of companies cooperating for a common goal, often with a large bank at the core. ---------------
I was going to say that, even though you mention the SAT requiring rudimentary vocabulary (which is not grammar, for one), you didn't claim to do well on it. I could have said that the Bar exams test your rudimentary knowledge of the law, and in doing so, somehow break the law, but that wouldn't be too ironic, because I'm not a lawyer and don't aspire to be one, nor to do well on the Bar exam.
(Sorry, I'm bored, tired, and cynical at the moment) ---------------
No, this guy is right... Yahoo! stands for Yet Another Heirarchical Officious Oracle, according to The Silicon Boys by David Kaplan. However, this acronymization was after the fact - it was initially named after the ruffians in Gilliver's Travels. ---------------
The law of conservation of energy does say that energy can neither be created or destroyed. However, the universe is losing energy at a slow rate, and entropy (disorder/randomness/chaos/etc.) is increasing. This, however, is not enough to significantly affect thermodynamic studies done even on what we perceive to be a large scale. ---------------
According to a few stories from local (to me) newspapers and television stations, I am led to believe that the discovery was at the state university about 5 minutes from where I live, West Chester University (Pennsylvania). This is somewhat surprising because WCU is mainly a school for teachers and musicians, and doesn't have a very strong science program. ---------------
How does this program tell the difference between an intruder modifying files using a real/spoofed login and a normal user modifying his own files that he should be modifying? Or is this program not designed to catch that? ---------------
Grr, I am only 15 now, yet your stereotypical views do not predate even me. -I don't get the Backstreet Boys. Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, J.S. Bach, Eric Clapton...all these and many others surpass the "boy-band" craze by far.
-While having no significant recollection of either of those eras, I do recall that Reagan was shot, and remember Bush's election.
-I may have been prepubescent, but I was cognizant of the Persian Gulf war.
-I have often feared Nuclear war. While it is not as direct a threat these days as it was during the 70's, the weaponry can still destroy the world a few times over.
-CCCP are not just a bunch of Cyrillic characters to me, I have learned what they mean, I was aware at the time of the breakup, and the obsolecence of old maps.
-T-Shirts I wear have neither designer names nor sports teams on them, instead they are plain white, colored, or have the name of a restaurant or message on them.
-I recollect the fall of the Berlin wall, as well as the longer wall dividing Eastern and Western Germanies. I in fact have a significant piece of the wall in my room.
-Tiannamen Square means a lot to me, while I did not experience it any MORE than people not in Beijing at the time, I have seen the news coverage you have...
-I know of Qadahfi, why do you ask?
-Hrmm, I got quite a few polio shots as a laddy. Don't they still have them now, just in combinations with other vaccines?
-Hehe, Bottles were glass, but were often twist top, even though not all are now.
-I have a large personal collection of Vinyls, as does my brother, and the both of us have at least one record player (he has 2, I have 1)
-I used to play Pac-Man and Pong at the local arcades, owned an Atari 2600 and played often on that.
-Star Wars special efefcts pathetic? Blasphemy! They are far better than those in movies such as Titanic, touted for their FX.
-While I don't remember Beige specifically, I remember blue ones being new...for crying out loud that was what, two years ago?
-Seen & Heard, and I still have more cassettes than CD's.
-Hrmm, don't remember the exact number, but I remember Stamps at around 24 cents, I was surprised one day that they all of a sudden were 29, then seemingly immediately 32.
-I still don't know the last four digits in my ZIP code, as I doubt many people do...they're wholly unnecessary.
-Never had an answering machine, ahd computers for the last 6 years or so, less than Half of my life...
-Don't own a beeper, have a cell-phone though, and it sure isn't a toy.
-I have a TV in my room that only gets 13 channels in black and white...that's all I need though, CBS,NBC,ABC and PBS.
-I was never good at roller skating, starded Ice skating before inline though...
-Heard of PanAM:)
-To tell you the truth, I've never watched the Tonight show.
-Why not experience the originals? Go to a thrift store, you get good clothes cheap...
-I have cooked popcorn in a microwave once.
-Seen the Colts, the North Stars, the Kings.
-All of the above are expansion teams, especially the hockey teams, since that is the only sport I follow. And you left out the Mighty Ducks, who came to the NHL in the same expansion as Florida.
-I've seen Larry Bird play, I was a big Celts fan. Isn't Kareem a basketball player?
-I've often swam while thinking of Jaws...stayed very shallow.
-Vietnam was much later than WWII, by no means ancient history.
-I knew that Americans were held hostage in Iran, about the Shah and all that.
-I started w/ hard contact lenses, my dad still uses them.
-Mork, from Mork and mindy...don't remember where he's from but I still remember nanu-nanu, and that big black face at the end...
-I've seen RJR's original advertisements for Camel...don't forget, "The Camels are Coming"
-Seen Cosby, Miami Vice, and the Love Boat (no, not the new one)
-I realize we didn't know, remember that they were looking and finally found it.
-I listen to Kansas, Chicago, Boston, and America farily regularly...I have their vinyls, so:p
-McDonalds was sstupid to switch to paper...styrofoam was how I got my first hamburger.
-No, I don't feel old. I can't vote, am not going to college, can't get my License for another year (exactly) permit for 6 months, the list goes on... ---------------
If I were to accept a free/low-cost computer from my employer, I would make sure there was some sort of privacy agreement guaranteeing such a thing as this could not be done. In addition, I would probably format the hard drive and start anew, so they can't have any pre-installed key-capture software or Back-Orifice style programs. This is something anybody buying a computer should have the freedom to know, whether you get it from freepc.com, from your employer, or pay full price at CompUSA... ---------------
FS: I've read some earlier interviews where you said you were into bombs and stuff. You were a miscreant kid, right?
John: Yeah in a lot of ways...I looked back and I was an arrogant little jerk when I was a teenager. I matured over the years and when I look back now, I don't think THAT highly of myself as a teenager. I mean, I was really smart, I was already programming computers in a lot of ways. But I was amoral at many times.
This doesn't exactly HELP those of us who are in school and being prejudiced against because of our geeky ways...
It's also nice to see that the money can come not only to a diabolical, evil, Bill Gates type, but also to the cool, small-team programmer type like Carmack, just so long as you have good ideas and pull them off well.
In fact, the original story of Quake was supposed to be an RPG, well not an RPG exactly, but a fantasy game.
Heehee, think about how THAT would've changed the world of first person shooters as we know them today...
Right now, I'm spending more of my time in this lull or break, working on some things in Linux. One of the things I've done is written two 3D drivers for Linux or done a good chunk of the coding on them. ... There are a lot of zealots in the Linux space that just don't have rationality in their viewpoints, but there is some truth behind the hype on how good it [Linux] actually is.
Comments like this, and programmers like Carmack bode well for the future of Linux as a desktop OS.
All in all, this was a very thorough and interesting article. I suggest anyone who hasn't clicked through the link yet to do it. You'll find it interesting, even if you aren't a hardcore, or even casual gamer. ---------------
eXtreme Diving -- Complete with simulated vertigo!
Rollercoaster Tycoon II -- Now you can take your park for a spin.
NASA Space Camp -- Take a virtual ride in the Vomit Comet
M$ Flight Simulator 1901 -- Before the Y2K patch, you can do 3 flips until you realize there are no planes and start a simulated downward spiral. ---------------
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While I agree that it's probably a good thing that the processor has limits so it won't overheat itself, I think the problem most people are having is Intel pushing a 1.5 GHz chip that doesn't run at 1.5 GHz. If I buy a fast chip, I want that speed when it's needed most, during intensive operations. If my chip will always cut its speed in half when I need it the most, that's not very good. There's no problem with a chip doing this when that's what it's designed and advertised to do, as with their mobile processors and SpeedStep. However, Intel is advertising this chip as a 1.5 GHz chip, period (not 1.5GHz some of the time). I would rather buy a 1.3 GHz chip that's engineered well enough in other ways NOT to need this power cut during peak loads, and will therefore run at 1.3 GHz all the time.
If you buy a car that gets 30 miles to the gallon, that's good. But if this car really only gets 30 miles to the gallon when traveling at speeds under 10 mph, and otherwise gets half that...then that's not very good. As long as this mechanism won't ever kick in for the majority of the people and the majority of the systems, then that's fine, but if it turns out to be kicking in on any mildly intensive application, then that's a serious problem.
If Russia contributes an equal amount of time, money, and supplies, then they should get an equal share in it. Russia should actually have less of a share than America, because we've had to save its ass a few times just to get a decent living space for the crews up there.
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Maybe not a bug as in a manufacturing defect that only affects a few runs of the device, but a bug as in a design flaw. Yes, the buttons are wired that way, and that's how they're wired in all iPaqs, but it would be better for gaming to have a setup that allows multiple buttons at once.
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1. fscking is not an adjective it's a verb - it has to do with checking your file systems for errors. File systems are something that computers have not human beings. I know you find Europeans strange and all but we are still human!
While 'fscking' may not be a true adjective, it can be either the progressive form of the verb 'fsck,' or a verbal: a gerund, that acts as a noun, or a particple, which can act as an adjective or an adverb. His use of fscking as an adjective is correct, grammatically, even though its original meaning may not fit in the sentence.
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I use physics every day. Without it, I couldn't move, walk, live. Therefore, everything that lives, and indirectly or directly uses the results of some physicists work are now physicists.
I realize that the headline and last sentence of the article weren't really the point of the article, but they still made me take what the author said with a grain of salt. Basically, he said that many fields of science are using computers these days, nothing more revolutionary than that. Perhaps the headline was just an attention grabber, or just a grossly uninformed statement.
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That article was written in September, 2000. At that time, AOL was using the ad space only to advertise AOL/AIM/Winamp, etc. Now however, I see ads for other companies taking up the ad space more than I see AOL ads. Not that all this really matters, the ads are small and unobtrusive, and I don't spend all day looking at my buddy list.
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But Napster users, even technically literate ones, gain a great advantage from the software being dummy-friendly: the more people who use the software, the larger the selection is, and the more likely it is for you to find a song that you like and get it. If a P2P filesharing system excluded less intelligent users, then that eliminates a large base of possible diversity to improve the quality and amount of the content.
Unless a Napster successor is as user-friendly as Napster currently is, it will not gain wide acceptance among the masses, and will not be as good for its users, who have to search longer and harder to find the files they want.
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Hmm...we must not be talking about the same state. The Pennsylvania I know has a 6% sales tax, as listed in #5 on this page.
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But jammers are hardly available now. The ones that can be bought (black market, international trade, whatever), are not exactly as portable as the cellphones themselves. I suppose that a mugger could plug one in inside his house and then mug people right outside, but then you're committing a crime in front of your house, and it's probably a lot easier to find you when a witness watches you step inside your door than when you run away and somebody calls the police on their cell phone.
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Umm...not to be a jerk, but PA sales tax was only 6% last I checked :) That 1% saves you about 44 cents...
Cheers
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Use & for the ampersand, then you have < which turns into < :)
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Keiretsu: "A network of businesses that own stakes in one another as a means of mutual security, especially in Japan, and usually including large manufacturers and their suppliers of raw materials and components." (Dictionary.com)
Zaibatsus are large, traditionally family-owned corporations, while the keiretsus are just monopolistic corporate giants -- Zaibatsus are tighter-knit, and often act as one corporation, whereas the keiretsus are more of a trade ring of companies cooperating for a common goal, often with a large bank at the core.
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Sorry, enter became submit for some reason :)
I was going to say that, even though you mention the SAT requiring rudimentary vocabulary (which is not grammar, for one), you didn't claim to do well on it. I could have said that the Bar exams test your rudimentary knowledge of the law, and in doing so, somehow break the law, but that wouldn't be too ironic, because I'm not a lawyer and don't aspire to be one, nor to do well on the Bar exam.
(Sorry, I'm bored, tired, and cynical at the moment)
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It doesn't seem particularily ironic. You weren't correcting anybody's grammar in your post, so your error is just an error.
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No, this guy is right... Yahoo! stands for Yet Another Heirarchical Officious Oracle, according to The Silicon Boys by David Kaplan. However, this acronymization was after the fact - it was initially named after the ruffians in Gilliver's Travels.
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No, lawyers just downloaded Napster and searched for "Metallica," then started copying down user names. It didn't take logging.
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The law of conservation of energy does say that energy can neither be created or destroyed. However, the universe is losing energy at a slow rate, and entropy (disorder/randomness/chaos/etc.) is increasing. This, however, is not enough to significantly affect thermodynamic studies done even on what we perceive to be a large scale.
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We started chipping away last January, at the turn of the millenium.
Wow, you coded all this in ten days? We need more programmers like you!
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According to a few stories from local (to me) newspapers and television stations, I am led to believe that the discovery was at the state university about 5 minutes from where I live, West Chester University (Pennsylvania). This is somewhat surprising because WCU is mainly a school for teachers and musicians, and doesn't have a very strong science program.
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How does this program tell the difference between an intruder modifying files using a real/spoofed login and a normal user modifying his own files that he should be modifying? Or is this program not designed to catch that?
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Well, it was open source so to speak. You go to view->source and you have the source :)
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Grr, I am only 15 now, yet your stereotypical views do not predate even me.
:)
:p
-I don't get the Backstreet Boys. Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, J.S. Bach, Eric Clapton...all these and many others surpass the "boy-band" craze by far.
-While having no significant recollection of either of those eras, I do recall that Reagan was shot, and remember Bush's election.
-I may have been prepubescent, but I was cognizant of the Persian Gulf war.
-I have often feared Nuclear war. While it is not as direct a threat these days as it was during the 70's, the weaponry can still destroy the world a few times over.
-CCCP are not just a bunch of Cyrillic characters to me, I have learned what they mean, I was aware at the time of the breakup, and the obsolecence of old maps.
-T-Shirts I wear have neither designer names nor sports teams on them, instead they are plain white, colored, or have the name of a restaurant or message on them.
-I recollect the fall of the Berlin wall, as well as the longer wall dividing Eastern and Western Germanies. I in fact have a significant piece of the wall in my room.
-Tiannamen Square means a lot to me, while I did not experience it any MORE than people not in Beijing at the time, I have seen the news coverage you have...
-I know of Qadahfi, why do you ask?
-Hrmm, I got quite a few polio shots as a laddy. Don't they still have them now, just in combinations with other vaccines?
-Hehe, Bottles were glass, but were often twist top, even though not all are now.
-I have a large personal collection of Vinyls, as does my brother, and the both of us have at least one record player (he has 2, I have 1)
-I used to play Pac-Man and Pong at the local arcades, owned an Atari 2600 and played often on that.
-Star Wars special efefcts pathetic? Blasphemy! They are far better than those in movies such as Titanic, touted for their FX.
-While I don't remember Beige specifically, I remember blue ones being new...for crying out loud that was what, two years ago?
-Seen & Heard, and I still have more cassettes than CD's.
-Hrmm, don't remember the exact number, but I remember Stamps at around 24 cents, I was surprised one day that they all of a sudden were 29, then seemingly immediately 32.
-I still don't know the last four digits in my ZIP code, as I doubt many people do...they're wholly unnecessary.
-Never had an answering machine, ahd computers for the last 6 years or so, less than Half of my life...
-Don't own a beeper, have a cell-phone though, and it sure isn't a toy.
-I have a TV in my room that only gets 13 channels in black and white...that's all I need though, CBS,NBC,ABC and PBS.
-I was never good at roller skating, starded Ice skating before inline though...
-Heard of PanAM
-To tell you the truth, I've never watched the Tonight show.
-Why not experience the originals? Go to a thrift store, you get good clothes cheap...
-I have cooked popcorn in a microwave once.
-Seen the Colts, the North Stars, the Kings.
-All of the above are expansion teams, especially the hockey teams, since that is the only sport I follow. And you left out the Mighty Ducks, who came to the NHL in the same expansion as Florida.
-I've seen Larry Bird play, I was a big Celts fan. Isn't Kareem a basketball player?
-I've often swam while thinking of Jaws...stayed very shallow.
-Vietnam was much later than WWII, by no means ancient history.
-I knew that Americans were held hostage in Iran, about the Shah and all that.
-I started w/ hard contact lenses, my dad still uses them.
-Mork, from Mork and mindy...don't remember where he's from but I still remember nanu-nanu, and that big black face at the end...
-I've seen RJR's original advertisements for Camel...don't forget, "The Camels are Coming"
-Seen Cosby, Miami Vice, and the Love Boat (no, not the new one)
-I realize we didn't know, remember that they were looking and finally found it.
-I listen to Kansas, Chicago, Boston, and America farily regularly...I have their vinyls, so
-McDonalds was sstupid to switch to paper...styrofoam was how I got my first hamburger.
-No, I don't feel old. I can't vote, am not going to college, can't get my License for another year (exactly) permit for 6 months, the list goes on...
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If I were to accept a free/low-cost computer from my employer, I would make sure there was some sort of privacy agreement guaranteeing such a thing as this could not be done. In addition, I would probably format the hard drive and start anew, so they can't have any pre-installed key-capture software or Back-Orifice style programs. This is something anybody buying a computer should have the freedom to know, whether you get it from freepc.com, from your employer, or pay full price at CompUSA...
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FS: I've read some earlier interviews where you said you were into bombs and stuff. You were a miscreant kid, right?
John: Yeah in a lot of ways...I looked back and I was an arrogant little jerk when I was a teenager. I matured over the years and when I look back now, I don't think THAT highly of myself as a teenager. I mean, I was really smart, I was already programming computers in a lot of ways. But I was amoral at many times.
This doesn't exactly HELP those of us who are in school and being prejudiced against because of our geeky ways...
It's also nice to see that the money can come not only to a diabolical, evil, Bill Gates type, but also to the cool, small-team programmer type like Carmack, just so long as you have good ideas and pull them off well.
In fact, the original story of Quake was supposed to be an RPG, well not an RPG exactly, but a fantasy game.
Heehee, think about how THAT would've changed the world of first person shooters as we know them today...
Right now, I'm spending more of my time in this lull or break, working on some things in Linux. One of the things I've done is written two 3D drivers for Linux or done a good chunk of the coding on them.
...
There are a lot of zealots in the Linux space that just don't have rationality in their viewpoints, but there is some truth behind the hype on how good it [Linux] actually is.
Comments like this, and programmers like Carmack bode well for the future of Linux as a desktop OS.
All in all, this was a very thorough and interesting article. I suggest anyone who hasn't clicked through the link yet to do it. You'll find it interesting, even if you aren't a hardcore, or even casual gamer.
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eXtreme Diving -- Complete with simulated vertigo!
Rollercoaster Tycoon II -- Now you can take your park for a spin.
NASA Space Camp -- Take a virtual ride in the Vomit Comet
M$ Flight Simulator 1901 -- Before the Y2K patch, you can do 3 flips until you realize there are no planes and start a simulated downward spiral.
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