To me, I'd rather have a high-performance computer system packed in a bland beige box rather than some 'artsy fartsy' case because when it comes to my personal computing....
Performance matters....Appearances are secondary.....
I don't know about Intel/AMD CPU performance NOW but I have a little story about Intel/AMD CPU performance THEN....
I have 2 old PCs with the same amount of RAM in them. One has a 500 MHz Intel Pentium CPU and the other has an AMD 750 MHz CPU.
I could turn both of them on simultaneously and they'd both boot into their operating systems pratically simultaneously.
To this day I still wonder why that is.
Could somebody give me a detailed explanation as to why this is?
It looks like the CPU architecture of the Intel CPU is more efficient than the AMD CPU. Presumably, if the AMD CPU was run at 500 MHz, the overall chip performance would be less than the Intel CPU running at 500 MHz. Is this correct reasoning?
One other point. After doing some serious cryptographic research and programming in the past, I have insight into why the Feds treat encryption and fast computers as 'munitions'....
I wonder if the Feds will allow Intel to make these 4 GHz CPUs available to the public at large.
If they do, it is a certainty PCs containing them will find their way into the hands of 'our enemies'....
Doing that will make them unblockable since the ads and the content are being served from the same IP address. However, there is nothing to stop someone with coming up with a clever HTML rewriter plugin/browser to strip out the content (readable text and meaningful binary content files) and make a simplified version of the (likely ad-ridden) original page.
My firewall program cannot detect deliberately broken up 'SCRIPT' tags via the document.write Javascript function--otherwise Google's AdSense advertising would be blocked too. If I didn't need Javascript, I could turn it off at the browser level and kill these ads as well.
Simple, HTML-only, text-based ads for me, thank you very much (works for Google)--I am on 'sessioned', time-limited dailup and cannot waste time downloading an (animated) ad banner image, or an (obnoxious, animated) shockwave ad.
And found a challenging videogame from 1979 with laughably primitive graphics compared to today's braindead fighting/shooting/driving games with their fantastic, lifelike graphics....:P
The Flash animation in question accurately and lovingly captures the style of the old Monty Python animated bits Gilliam used to make.
The animation is showing the two sides of the American bipartisan political machine in a satiricaly accurate fashion so that is ultimately what all the fuss is probably about.
I've been looking about for some LOTR/MATRIX 'material' such as this.
THIS IS CROSSOVER/PARODY DONE *RIGHT!*
Maybe out there, someone is insane/crazy enough to mix the two film trilogies together into a fanfic possibly titled:
The Lord Of The Matrix
I'll bet they got rid of any evidence of Mr. Weaving doing 'Agent Smith' while in character as Elrond on the LOTR shoot.
I keep expecting some paparazzi pic to show up online somewhere with Weaving done up as Elrond between takes wearing his Matrix sunglasses to filter out the harsh New Zeland sunlight.... XD:o) (^_^)
I wonder what is better about the bond scheme, compared to the challenge-response idea that circulated a while ago, where sending e-mail is simply computionally expensive enough (unless you're on the recipient's whitelist).
This might be better.
It is spam filtering that uses the existing SMTP/POP3 infrastructure and is low cost shareware/freeware.
often advertisers don't necessarily lie but rather manipulate through sub-conscious phrases, incomplete truths, and meaningless words. think of many famous advertising campaigns (soda comes to mind) and it's just kind of empty propaganda.
Product differentiation is driven by superlatives--adjectives and adverbs. Strip out the adjectives and adverbs and all advertisements for the same kind of item from different manufactureres are essentially identical. For example, a Chevette will get you from point A to point B as will the high end 'Vette, the Corvette. They both have four wheels, an engine, and a body. The only difference between the two is the sticker price and the performance of the vehicles.
So I'd love for you to cite some specific examples of having been explicitly lied to by advertisements. And please be specific. I am honestly curious about your perceptions.
It's still 20 million dollars. Ask any investor what he'd think about his company losing 20 million dollars for not catching a bug like what happened in that post.
When the stock market crashed hard back on October 19, 1987, Sam Walton said that he lost billions...on paper. Didn't seem to worry him a bit.
He didn't jump out of a window like they did on October 29, 1929.
As such, I found his remark notworthy because of his attitude toward the volatility of the stock market...nowadays just one small step above a casino....
The solutions to these types of problems is simple coding practices and a *FULL* backup of the software system and all data before the new system is put into use. If the code was painfully simple and obvious, the bug might have been found in time.
However, what is 20 million dollars to a company 'worth' maybe 10,000 times that or so....
Funny you should say that given the events chronicled in Apollo 13 (1995).
If possible, there will probably be a Slashdot post about it on April 11, 2005 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of that ill-fated space mission....
True Story: John Debney's Cutthroat Island score.
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Some music just isn't good, or not good enough, to warrant the price it is set at. So really, the issue really a relation of quality vs cost. A really good CD might warrant purchase at a higher cost. An average CD might not warrant purchase until cost has declined.
A number of years back, I had a chance to buy the Cutthroat Island (1995) score on CD as an expensive import item. I was reluctant to buy it because it was so expensive....
But I took a chance and heeded the praise other people heaped on this movie score and bought the score....
It was a memorable purchase as I am enjoying the music from that film to this very day! Debney captured 'lightning in a bottle' when he composed that score!
The bold, dynamic closing bars of music on the last CD track of the score should become as famous as the opening four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony!
SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- A small company called Acacia Research Corp. went after some of the biggest names in broadcasting last month, suing nine companies for an estimated $100 million for allegedly violating its patent on streaming video.
That earned Acacia a spot on what the Electronic Frontier Foundation considers a top 10 list of intellectual property ignominy: patents the online civil liberties group is seeking to strike down as unwarranted and harmful to innovation.
"Good luck," said Paul Ryan, Acacia's chief executive. "Their chances are pretty remote."
It is the extremely pecuinary attitude such as this that caused poor contries to make their own generic AIDS medicine rather than pay the exorbitant royalties that originate from AIDS medicine patents held by rich pharmaceutical companies. I've heard that some of the medicine companies decided to 'look the other way' and let the generic AIDS medicine be made to benefit the indigenous population so long those medicines were not 'exported for sale'.
A challenger must find written evidence, called "prior art" in patent parlance, showing others developed the technology before the patent application was filed -- a formidable task that consumes a cottage industry of patent researchers and lawyers.
To make it easier on the overworked patent examiners I added the following text:
The ideas inside these two software computer programs are hereby declared patent free. These two software computer programs are publication of said ideas and thus said ideas become 'prior art' and are unpatentable either in whole or in part.
Copyright 2004 Bryan Taylor -- All Rights Reserved -- http://www.cf13.com/ Last Update: Tuesday, July 06, 2004, 11:19 Universal Coordinated Time
Revalations 13:16-17 [16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revalations 13:16-17 [16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
I just made the 2nd and (hopefully) last update to fix a couple of bugs to handle a case that violates the MIME RFCs and the other to close the door on spammers sending sing 'submarine' file attachments in emails. After that, I should be done. No featuritis for me if I can help it....
This post describes two programs I coded that will eliminate lots of spam and malware for Window's systems if used widely. Both programs, when used together properly, make it effectively impossible for a user to receive spam or malware by email.
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How much is a company really worth when all the BS is stripped away?...
To me, I'd rather have a high-performance computer system packed in a bland beige box rather than some 'artsy fartsy' case because when it comes to my personal computing....
Performance matters....Appearances are secondary.....
I don't know about Intel/AMD CPU performance NOW but I have a little story about Intel/AMD CPU performance THEN....
I have 2 old PCs with the same amount of RAM in them. One has a 500 MHz Intel Pentium CPU and the other has an AMD 750 MHz CPU.
I could turn both of them on simultaneously and they'd both boot into their operating systems pratically simultaneously.
To this day I still wonder why that is.
Could somebody give me a detailed explanation as to why this is?
It looks like the CPU architecture of the Intel CPU is more efficient than the AMD CPU. Presumably, if the AMD CPU was run at 500 MHz, the overall chip performance would be less than the Intel CPU running at 500 MHz. Is this correct reasoning?
One other point. After doing some serious cryptographic research and programming in the past, I have insight into why the Feds treat encryption and fast computers as 'munitions'....
I wonder if the Feds will allow Intel to make these 4 GHz CPUs available to the public at large.
If they do, it is a certainty PCs containing them will find their way into the hands of 'our enemies'....
Doing that will make them unblockable since the ads and the content are being served from the same IP address. However, there is nothing to stop someone with coming up with a clever HTML rewriter plugin/browser to strip out the content (readable text and meaningful binary content files) and make a simplified version of the (likely ad-ridden) original page.
My firewall program cannot detect deliberately broken up 'SCRIPT' tags via the document.write Javascript function--otherwise Google's AdSense advertising would be blocked too. If I didn't need Javascript, I could turn it off at the browser level and kill these ads as well.
Simple, HTML-only, text-based ads for me, thank you very much (works for Google)--I am on 'sessioned', time-limited dailup and cannot waste time downloading an (animated) ad banner image, or an (obnoxious, animated) shockwave ad.
And found a challenging videogame from 1979 with laughably primitive graphics compared to today's braindead fighting/shooting/driving games with their fantastic, lifelike graphics.... :P
I have coded shareware/freeware alternatives.
I use one of them myself to check my email and
automatically delete unwanted email.
Do they qualify as 'Great Hacks'?
You decide.
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers.
The Flash animation in question accurately and lovingly captures the style of the old Monty Python animated bits Gilliam used to make.
The animation is showing the two sides of the American bipartisan political machine in a satiricaly accurate fashion so that is ultimately what all the fuss is probably about.
Use what I wrote and use and avoid the hassle/security risks of malware and phishing:
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers.
Brilliant!
:o) (^_^)
I've been looking about for some LOTR/MATRIX 'material' such as this.
THIS IS CROSSOVER/PARODY DONE *RIGHT!*
Maybe out there, someone is insane/crazy enough to mix the two film trilogies together into a fanfic possibly titled:
The Lord Of The Matrix
I'll bet they got rid of any evidence of Mr. Weaving doing 'Agent Smith' while in character as Elrond on the LOTR shoot.
I keep expecting some paparazzi pic to show up online somewhere with Weaving done up as Elrond between takes wearing his Matrix sunglasses to filter out the harsh New Zeland sunlight.... XD
If this is the case, it will be an interesting thing to see from a socioeconomic and geopolitical standpoint....
This might be better.
It is spam filtering that uses the existing SMTP/POP3 infrastructure and is low cost shareware/freeware.
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers.
Here is the blank one to use.
My checklist at:
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers.
Product differentiation is driven by superlatives--adjectives and adverbs. Strip out the adjectives and adverbs and all advertisements for the same kind of item from different manufactureres are essentially identical. For example, a Chevette will get you from point A to point B as will the high end 'Vette, the Corvette. They both have four wheels, an engine, and a body. The only difference between the two is the sticker price and the performance of the vehicles.
Drop dead easy.
All tobacco advertising 'out there' before 'this landmark 1964 U.S. Government report' was released.
The tobacco industry suppressed the truth and made billions.
Tobacco consumption == drug addiction, disease, and death.
And eliminate the possibility of loading objectionable images....
See:
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers
It's still 20 million dollars. Ask any investor what he'd think about his company losing 20 million dollars for not catching a bug like what happened in that post.
When the stock market crashed hard back on October 19, 1987, Sam Walton said that he lost billions...on paper. Didn't seem to worry him a bit.
He didn't jump out of a window like they did on October 29, 1929.
As such, I found his remark notworthy because of his attitude toward the volatility of the stock market...nowadays just one small step above a casino....
The solutions to these types of problems is simple coding practices and a *FULL* backup of the software system and all data before the new system is put into use. If the code was painfully simple and obvious, the bug might have been found in time.
However, what is 20 million dollars to a company 'worth' maybe 10,000 times that or so....
Funny you should say that given the events chronicled in Apollo 13 (1995).
If possible, there will probably be a Slashdot post about it on April 11, 2005 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of that ill-fated space mission....
A number of years back, I had a chance to buy the Cutthroat Island (1995) score on CD as an expensive import item. I was reluctant to buy it because it was so expensive....
But I took a chance and heeded the praise other people heaped on this movie score and bought the score....
It was a memorable purchase as I am enjoying the music from that film to this very day! Debney captured 'lightning in a bottle' when he composed that score!
The bold, dynamic closing bars of music on the last CD track of the score should become as famous as the opening four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony!
It is the extremely pecuinary attitude such as this that caused poor contries to make their own generic AIDS medicine rather than pay the exorbitant royalties that originate from AIDS medicine patents held by rich pharmaceutical companies. I've heard that some of the medicine companies decided to 'look the other way' and let the generic AIDS medicine be made to benefit the indigenous population so long those medicines were not 'exported for sale'.
To make it easier on the overworked patent examiners I added the following text:
To:
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers
If the above text doesn't stop junk patents
derived from the info at the above URL, nothing
will!
King James Bible at umich.edu
King James Bible at umich.edu
Here's one: (me)
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers
I just made the 2nd and (hopefully) last update to fix a couple of bugs to handle a case that violates the MIME RFCs and the other to close the door on spammers sending sing 'submarine' file attachments in emails. After that, I should be done. No featuritis for me if I can help it....
Atak vs. SpamByte: Game Over Spammers/Crackers
mfh (56): What guarantee do we have that spammers won't evolve past any thwarting mechanism developed?
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers...
This post describes two programs I coded that will eliminate lots of spam and malware for Window's systems if used widely. Both programs, when used together properly, make it effectively impossible for a user to receive spam or malware by email.