What would be really fun to see is an assembly version of quicksort. It would probably finish in about 10ms for 24,000 items.
Guess what? I've just coded an assembly quicksort. And yes.. it takes < 150ms for 24,000 items (and 140ms for 1,000 items). I could probably improve the swapping method for the 'split'.
To sort 3000 bytes of random data it takes 5.4 seconds on a P4 1.8Ghz while running in debug.exe under Win2K. That's 1.6 million comparisons (of AL to AH) per second. I wonder how long that would take on a Javascript quicksort implementation!
I'll put my crudely coded Javascript quicksort algorithm against your finely honed 100% assembly bubblesort algorithm any day. Not only will my algorithm beat the pants off of your algorithm, but I'll also code it in far less time and with way fewer debugging sessions than you would.
You're on. After my exams are over, I'll code a bubblesort algorithm in assembly language. I wonder how large the dataset will have to be before you win? Mail me.
I think what they ment was without him, Hitler would be drinking tea at No.10, but he did have a pretty big impact.
Hitler was intending to use Oxford as his capital if he conquered England which is why the city was not bombed and why all the buildings are so well preserved.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (*) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (*) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (*) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (*) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (*) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (*) Asshats (*) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (*) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (*) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians (*) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (*) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck (*) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud (*) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (*) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (*) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
I think the best way to keep the RIAA out would be to have filesharing networks based upon social networks (like orkut). You trade with your 'trusted' friends and their 'trusted' friends. You could set how many hops you were willing to spread.
Feel free to use it however you like - I've added my e-mail address to the image.
I took pic of Ayres rock and overlayed the SCOX graph. Then in PSP4 (old school) I used the clone brush to modify the ridges.
I have no respect at all for SCO, or any company whose business model is litigation. Let's just hope their stock follows to the (excuse the pun) rock bottom - I didn't modify the image for the last two months.
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Cais, Pieroxy and tabacco where the first 3 to reply. They have all been sent GMail invitations (I even sent one to awkmayle the 4th poster).
In return I hope you guys send me an invite or two back in good time.
Have fun!
I'll give 3 GMail accounts to the first 3 people to reply to reply to this post (with an e-mail address to send the invite to).
POST NOW!
Guess what? I've just coded an assembly quicksort. And yes.. it takes < 150ms for 24,000 items (and 140ms for 1,000 items). I could probably improve the swapping method for the 'split'.
Looks like assembly Bubblesort beats javascript Qsort (under Opera/IE) for large (<24,000) datasets. Very interesting indeed.
Now back to revising...
US: But you did invade our property once. (Grenada)
UK: And you invaded ours (Grenada)
Datasize / Time
3,000 - 0.6s
12,000 - 2.5s
24,000 - 7.4s
On a P4-M 1.4GHz notebook, it takes 581ms while running in Opera under Windows XP
Not bad, you certainly owned the assembly Bubblesort. However your program only manages 40,000 comparisons (compared to my 16,000,000) per second.
To sort 3000 bytes of random data it takes 5.4 seconds on a P4 1.8Ghz while running in debug.exe under Win2K. That's 1.6 million comparisons (of AL to AH) per second. I wonder how long that would take on a Javascript quicksort implementation!
I'll put my crudely coded Javascript quicksort algorithm against your finely honed 100% assembly bubblesort algorithm any day. Not only will my algorithm beat the pants off of your algorithm, but I'll also code it in far less time and with way fewer debugging sessions than you would.
You're on. After my exams are over, I'll code a bubblesort algorithm in assembly language. I wonder how large the dataset will have to be before you win? Mail me.
I think what they ment was without him, Hitler would be drinking tea at No.10, but he did have a pretty big impact.
Hitler was intending to use Oxford as his capital if he conquered England which is why the city was not bombed and why all the buildings are so well preserved.
The sig is good, it just shouldn't be multi-line. Gotta love Red Dwarf :)
Here's a registration free link thanks to Google.
I think the main question that should be asked here, is who is behind the Hatchet Job? Best guesses are SCO and/or Microsoft.
Any further ideas?
The virus carries the following string within itself which is never displayed: "Shrug - roy g biv"
This presumably refers to the colours of the rainbow: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet.
Here's a registration free link thanks to Google.
It was not intended as a troll, it was meant to be humourous. The usual response to a spam fighting technique.
For those who wish to opt out...
OptInRealBig.com, LLC.
(303) 464-8164
info@optinbig.com
1333 W 120th AVE
Suite 101
Westminster, CO 80234
US
Shame to hear that the Chernobyl story is probably fake, even more so that Elena has a husband!
Website was featured in The Mail on Sunday - so much for background research.
Spammers lie, cheat and break the law. I can't see this being enforced succesfully.
Don't worry - I meta-moderated appropriately.
170 posts at the time of posting this, 7 at +4 but none at +5. Seems a bit strange?
I think the best way to keep the RIAA out would be to have filesharing networks based upon social networks (like orkut). You trade with your 'trusted' friends and their 'trusted' friends. You could set how many hops you were willing to spread.
Feel free to use it however you like - I've added my e-mail address to the image.
I took pic of Ayres rock and overlayed the SCOX graph. Then in PSP4 (old school) I used the clone brush to modify the ridges.
I have no respect at all for SCO, or any company whose business model is litigation. Let's just hope their stock follows to the (excuse the pun) rock bottom - I didn't modify the image for the last two months.
I like the one year graph better. It looks like Ayers Rock.
It looks a perfect fit