How about this for spam - it got through our spam filter, but I read it and thought, WTF!
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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:36:27 +0300
Subject: 1
Black market is online again !
1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form.
2. Rocket fuel and Tomohawk rockets (serious enquiries only).
3. Other rockets (Air-to-Air), orders in batches of 10.
4. New shipment of cocaine has arrived, buy 9 grams and get 10th for free.
5. We also offer gay-slaves for sale, we offer only such service on the NET,
you can choose the one you like, then get straight to business.
6. Fake currencies, such as Euros and US dollars, prices would match competition.
7. Also, as always, we offer widest range of child pornography and exclusive lolita
galleries, to keep out clients busy.
Everyone is welcome, be it in States or any other place worldwide.
ATTENTION. Clearance offer. Buy 30 grams of heroin, get 5 free.
Prepay your batch of rockets (air-to-air) and recieve a portable rocket-lacuncher.
For security reasons, please email me if you want to get address of our online shop.
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Could this be for real? Some of it seems as if it could be real, but then 'prepay for your air-to-air rockets and get a free rocket launcher' seems a bit "WTF!" The 'clearance offer' on heroin seems a bit odd as well. Do drug dealers do clearance offers???
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WTF Spam!
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RE: WTF Spam!
@GettinSadda said:
You do realise that the only meaningful type of rocket launcher for an air-to-air missile - is a fighter plane!
No, I hadn't noticed that... My eyes were reading air-to-air, but my brain was seeing 'surface-to-air'
I suppose some strong springs might count as well!
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RE: Windows Vista WTF
I have two PCs running Vista Ultimate as well as a few running XP.
My laptop running Vista is faster than my wife's slightly older laptop running XP. Battery life is similar.
My desktop running Vista (dual core 2.6GHz) is considerably faster than my previous one running XP (single core with hyperthreading 3.2GHz). OK, it has a much faster graphics card on it as well. The Vista 'Usability score' is 5.9 so it's pretty high spec. I built it for Supreme Commander which is a real CPU/resource hog, and it works fine on Vista - whereas if Vista was running at half the speed of XP, it would be awfully slow.
I think you'd need to know what benchmarks were run. If you were checking UI things like dragging windows, on a low-end graphics card, then it's pretty obvious that XP is going to be considerably faster than Vista, because it doesn't have all the eye-candy like the translucent window frames etc, so an XP windows move is a simple graphics card blit, whereas a Vista windows move is a lot more complex. For people who have to have it as fast as possible, you can always turn this off.
'Behind the scenes' stuff runs at pretty much similar speeds. For our software development I have two VMWare setups, one with Vista and one with XP, running on the same host system. You'd be struggling to find any difference in the performance of our software on the two systems.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of these 'Vista is half the speed of XP' benchmarks are done on low-end PCs with the 'eye candy options' all turned on and then are testing UI stuff.