I believe you can configure a Bayesian filter to only look at the first chunk of words. So if a spammer inserts random texts at the beginning, the commercial messages will be badly hampered.
Similarly, if a spammer inserts a whole bunch of random URLs in the message, then the real URL will be diluted. (provided that the real URL is not standing out in any way, or if it does, the filter can identify it)
>Legacy is just something someone else leaves you.
Legacy is something someone else leaves you - in a WILL. i.e. when that someone dies. People mentally associate the word "legacy" with "things of the past", i.e. "old".
"old" is not bad per se, but if the context is Technology, then yes, old IS bad. Doesn't have anything to do with gerontophobia.:rolleyes:
KDE needs to stop calling non-KDE apps "legacy" applications. This word used to be an euphemism for "old" (thus, "worse") and due to overuse, the word itself has become derogatory.
To this day I have not seen a KDE editor that is better than GVim.
The word "legacy" embeds some negative attitudes you don't really want to associate yourself with - so grow up - just call them what they really are: "non-KDE" applications.
It depends on how big your turbo is. The smaller it is, the less lag you have (of course, there'll be less power to be obtained).
But at a point, there exists an ideal turbo size that when given to a 4 banger, it blows most 6 cylinders out of the water in BOTH low AND high RPM.
The stocker VW 1.8T makes 180 HP at the top, and 174 lb ft - read this - from 1950 RPM to 5500 RPM, flat.
I challenge you to list 6 cylinders that can do that - and for each one you list, I'll list at least 3 that cannot.
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In your original post nowhere did you mention a modded GTO - and I believe it was what you meant, because you said 350 hp.
I concur, if you slap a turbo on the GTO you'll get more power - of course - more displacement, same way to breathe (FI).
Similarly, if you compare 2 engines with the same displacement, different ways to breathe (one with FI and one without), you'll arrive at a similar conclusion.
That is why chipping and FI have a point, even on 4 bangers like Civic - especially when we're talking about streeting those cars - since on the street, even a mere 300 HP at the crank is powerful enough.
An increase of say 170 HP to 220 HP given by a chip on those Audis may mean nothing on the track, but on the road (no, not street racing, just ordinary driving), it makes a world of differences.
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LOL. Disclaimer: I don't drive a Honda.
First, there is no stock turbo Civic. All turbo Civics are modded, thus all of them have to be remapped. So your word "chip-modded" is bogus, since all of them must be.
Second, a moderately modded turbo Civic with nitrous can EASILY hand the new 350hp GTO its ass, consistently. Why? Because most probably the Civic weighs less and makes more power (is 300 whp good enough?)
The Cuda is interesting tho - with its 425 bhp maybe it'll beat that GTO and stand a chance with a "turbo Civic with nitrous". But that new Pontiac does not hold a candle.
Emissions Inspection? Nah.
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Emissions Inspections are designed for monster SUVs and F150s to pass.
Small cars with modded ECU? Not a problem.
I'm eagerly waiting for the day my modded ECU car fails an emissions test - it is also the day where we see SUVs disappear on the road.
New business model: 1. Open web business 2. Keep doing innocent things that make people think you're a GOOD company instead of an EVIL one 3. Start advertising 4. Profit!
NX has nothing to do with DRM or Palladium. It is a mechanism that prevents data to be treated as executables, i.e. executed. It has been around for a loooong time.
Palladium does something like the converse of NX. It prevents executables to be read like data. Many programs like SoftICE, and probably MS's own kernel debugger, won't work on a Palladium system. Of course, we hackers will just run things on emulators (but without Palladium emulation) and continue to produce cracks and such.;)
anything that takes the driver out of the equation. automated driving, while useful in some really limited environments (e.g. exploration), is a pretty dumb idea on everyday streets.
if it is a dumb system, we'll end up having something like public transport - then why buy a car?
if it is a smart system, decisions are bound to be fuzzy, and they'll never match human performance until computers pass the Turing test.
either way it's not going to work - on top of that, it takes the fun out of driving.
this idea *might* catch on *after* we've exhausted all fossil fuel. before that, not a chance.
I'm constantly (negatively) amazed by the recent trend of the implementation of "non-discriminating" policies by a lot of universities by lowering entrance requirements, making courses easier, etc.
Not having an entrance bias based on height, colour, sex, etc. is reasonable. However, universities should discriminate on intelligence.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ELITISM???
People who back away from mathematics should have NOTHING to do with Computer Science. The current system is giving them too much false hope, and as a result their career, and our reputation, is hurt.
Less people is a good thing, because it probably means higher quality. I'll say, on top of this, all universities should restore a "gifted" class of sorts, where the best people will receive special, accelerated educations.
What good does it do to you? Maybe nothing, but is there harm in doing so? If not, it seems to me that you may as well hop around your room for one minute, perhaps there is something to be gained that you cannot predict. Who knows?
Companies only act when they can at least predict to gain something. "Perhaps" is not the right word if you have to spend $ on resources to do things, like, making something opensource.
>But making the process free of charge is >ridiculous on its face. There's no such thing >as free -- either the party seeking copyright >protection pays a small fee (last I checked, >approximately $20, well below the cost of >electricity required to operate computer >equipment for the length of time necessary to >develop a non-trivial piece of software worth >copyright protection), or the taxpayers pay for >the clerical costs.
If it means taxpayer money, so be it. The public gets more public domains in return in the long run.
It is the annoyance, that needs to be addressed. People who forget to copyright their work should still get the protection if it is their intention. Because people should not get punished or discriminated because of being a bit forgetful.
My opinion is, sure, there are problems to be addressed. But abandoning the practice of giving a default copyright is not the solution.
It all boils down to, when you create something, does it defaults to being a public domain or your private property?
I firmly believe that personal instead of public gain is the driving force of most creations (you may believe differently), therefore, a newly created work should default to being "copyrighted" instead of "public domain".
A good alternative is a default automatic copyright for a relatively short time, let's say 5 years, and then it has to be renewed to obtain full protection, the 75+ year thingie.
It is not the "market". It is the nature of these applications potentially making the OS irrelevant.
That's why MS wants them. Money is a short term thing, and they don't really care about short term benefits. It is a long term _CONTROL_ that they're looking for.
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I believe you can configure a Bayesian filter to only look at the first chunk of words. So if a spammer inserts random texts at the beginning, the commercial messages will be badly hampered.
Similarly, if a spammer inserts a whole bunch of random URLs in the message, then the real URL will be diluted. (provided that the real URL is not standing out in any way, or if it does, the filter can identify it)
Intel employee A: Here's the spec AMD gives us. Use it.
Intel employee B: Yee Hah!! I've almost figured out how they do this last opcode!
Intel employee A: Yeah, it's on page 183 of this. Read it.
Intel employee B: Leave me alone!! Specifications are for weenies! I'll reverse engineer it. You can keep the specs, thanks.
>Legacy is just something someone else leaves you.
:rolleyes:
Legacy is something someone else leaves you - in a WILL. i.e. when that someone dies. People mentally associate the word "legacy" with "things of the past", i.e. "old".
"old" is not bad per se, but if the context is Technology, then yes, old IS bad. Doesn't have anything to do with gerontophobia.
KDE needs to stop calling non-KDE apps "legacy" applications. This word used to be an euphemism for "old" (thus, "worse") and due to overuse, the word itself has become derogatory.
To this day I have not seen a KDE editor that is better than GVim.
The word "legacy" embeds some negative attitudes you don't really want to associate yourself with - so grow up - just call them what they really are: "non-KDE" applications.
It depends on how big your turbo is. The smaller it is, the less lag you have (of course, there'll be less power to be obtained).
But at a point, there exists an ideal turbo size that when given to a 4 banger, it blows most 6 cylinders out of the water in BOTH low AND high RPM.
The stocker VW 1.8T makes 180 HP at the top, and 174 lb ft - read this - from 1950 RPM to 5500 RPM, flat.
I challenge you to list 6 cylinders that can do that - and for each one you list, I'll list at least 3 that cannot.
In your original post nowhere did you mention a modded GTO - and I believe it was what you meant, because you said 350 hp.
I concur, if you slap a turbo on the GTO you'll get more power - of course - more displacement, same way to breathe (FI).
Similarly, if you compare 2 engines with the same displacement, different ways to breathe (one with FI and one without), you'll arrive at a similar conclusion.
That is why chipping and FI have a point, even on 4 bangers like Civic - especially when we're talking about streeting those cars - since on the street, even a mere 300 HP at the crank is powerful enough.
An increase of say 170 HP to 220 HP given by a chip on those Audis may mean nothing on the track, but on the road (no, not street racing, just ordinary driving), it makes a world of differences.
LOL. Disclaimer: I don't drive a Honda.
First, there is no stock turbo Civic. All turbo Civics are modded, thus all of them have to be remapped. So your word "chip-modded" is bogus, since all of them must be.
Second, a moderately modded turbo Civic with nitrous can EASILY hand the new 350hp GTO its ass, consistently. Why? Because most probably the Civic weighs less and makes more power (is 300 whp good enough?)
The Cuda is interesting tho - with its 425 bhp maybe it'll beat that GTO and stand a chance with a "turbo Civic with nitrous". But that new Pontiac does not hold a candle.
Emissions Inspections are designed for monster SUVs and F150s to pass.
Small cars with modded ECU? Not a problem.
I'm eagerly waiting for the day my modded ECU car fails an emissions test - it is also the day where we see SUVs disappear on the road.
If low RPM torque is the ticket, then a chipped 1.8T is going to absolutely blow any 6 cylinder.
We're talking about 200 lb ft of torque at 2500 RPM and 240 lb ft at 3000 RPM.
90% of all 6 cylinder engines (3.5L or less) do worse than that.
Exactly.
This whole story sounds like "the moon is round" to me.
It only SOUND similar to a BSD license.
But in fact it limits you to redistribute under the CPL - so unlike BSD licensed code, you cannot relicense the code under the GPL.
Sounds like the anti-GPL OSS license to me.
2500 years of life in isolation is not that neat, but with luck, they'll provide us with some good meat. Yum...
New business model:
1. Open web business
2. Keep doing innocent things that make people think you're a GOOD company instead of an EVIL one
3. Start advertising
4. Profit!
Mod Parent Down.
;)
NX has nothing to do with DRM or Palladium. It is a mechanism that prevents data to be treated as executables, i.e. executed. It has been around for a loooong time.
Palladium does something like the converse of NX. It prevents executables to be read like data. Many programs like SoftICE, and probably MS's own kernel debugger, won't work on a Palladium system. Of course, we hackers will just run things on emulators (but without Palladium emulation) and continue to produce cracks and such.
anything that takes the driver out of the equation. automated driving, while useful in some really limited environments (e.g. exploration), is a pretty dumb idea on everyday streets.
if it is a dumb system, we'll end up having something like public transport - then why buy a car?
if it is a smart system, decisions are bound to be fuzzy, and they'll never match human performance until computers pass the Turing test.
either way it's not going to work - on top of that, it takes the fun out of driving.
this idea *might* catch on *after* we've exhausted all fossil fuel. before that, not a chance.
It wasn't there when the parent post were made. I specifically looked for it.
Check out www.google.com.
Then go to froogle.google.com.
Then go to gmail.google.com.
What do you notice? Right, no "TM" at the corner of the logo!
I don't think their lawyers would be this foolish if it were meant to be real.
>since technically, it is illegal for me to go to
>Japan, buy a PS2, XBox, or GameCube, then bring
>it back into the country with assorted games.
Can you elaborate this a bit and tell us which country you live in?
I don't see the illegality. People buy from foreign retailers all the time.
It sort of already exists...the name is "Bit Torrent"...
If an *OFFICIAL* package is available, then package.
If not, then make your own package from source.
So at the end of the day, all I have to manage are packages. Either official ones or my own.
I'm constantly (negatively) amazed by the recent trend of the implementation of "non-discriminating" policies by a lot of universities by lowering entrance requirements, making courses easier, etc.
Not having an entrance bias based on height, colour, sex, etc. is reasonable. However, universities should discriminate on intelligence.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ELITISM???
People who back away from mathematics should have NOTHING to do with Computer Science. The current system is giving them too much false hope, and as a result their career, and our reputation, is hurt.
Less people is a good thing, because it probably means higher quality. I'll say, on top of this, all universities should restore a "gifted" class of sorts, where the best people will receive special, accelerated educations.
Hop around your room for one minute, NOW.
What good does it do to you? Maybe nothing, but is there harm in doing so? If not, it seems to me that you may as well hop around your room for one minute, perhaps there is something to be gained that you cannot predict. Who knows?
Companies only act when they can at least predict to gain something. "Perhaps" is not the right word if you have to spend $ on resources to do things, like, making something opensource.
>But making the process free of charge is
>ridiculous on its face. There's no such thing
>as free -- either the party seeking copyright
>protection pays a small fee (last I checked,
>approximately $20, well below the cost of
>electricity required to operate computer
>equipment for the length of time necessary to
>develop a non-trivial piece of software worth
>copyright protection), or the taxpayers pay for
>the clerical costs.
If it means taxpayer money, so be it. The public gets more public domains in return in the long run.
It is the annoyance, that needs to be addressed. People who forget to copyright their work should still get the protection if it is their intention. Because people should not get punished or discriminated because of being a bit forgetful.
My opinion is, sure, there are problems to be addressed. But abandoning the practice of giving a default copyright is not the solution.
It all boils down to, when you create something, does it defaults to being a public domain or your private property?
I firmly believe that personal instead of public gain is the driving force of most creations (you may believe differently), therefore, a newly created work should default to being "copyrighted" instead of "public domain".
A good alternative is a default automatic copyright for a relatively short time, let's say 5 years, and then it has to be renewed to obtain full protection, the 75+ year thingie.
It is not the "market". It is the nature of these applications potentially making the OS irrelevant.
That's why MS wants them. Money is a short term thing, and they don't really care about short term benefits. It is a long term _CONTROL_ that they're looking for.
RTFA before blathering. Kahle seeks to force registration for copyright protection.