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The Blu Ray Cosmic Super Duper DTS AC3 DOLBY (insert more acronymos here...) thread

In case you were missing it... this is where our "friend" Technology setup shop now.. haha
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=50788

NRGZ28 said:
In case you were missing it... this is where our "friend" Technology setup shop now.. haha
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=50788
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Man I couldn't read the whole thing He makes it sound like you can set up the phone to almost hd quality video watching.

well my brain hurts again...

Exactly.... So glad I don't have to read that everyday in this forum anymore.

Geez... I didn't realize this thread was a parody of his posts at first. I got all frustrated for a few seconds there. But that was classic!

what did he actually do to get banned? i mean he did spam, but all those apps work didnt they?

y'know...I definitely dont miss him but it sure is quiet in here now

yeah well he also was Wizzstar @ the old dashsmartzone or mobile smartzone.
Definitely one of a kind

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y'know...I definitely dont miss him but it sure is quiet in here now
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It is... but that's just cause there's no new ROMs... Hehe

if you are really trying to simulate a tech post, you will need to bump it a few times every day to self promote.
"this is the greatest uber-cool playa hatas edition mega supreme 2.15463"
"you didnt read the directions, this is the best player ever (for this week)"
"if the video is not as clear as blueray, you screwed something up"
and my favorite "you stole my player that I stole and rebadged fair and square" (paraphrasing, but not much!)

gospeed.racer said:
if you are really trying to simulate a tech post, you will need to bump it a few times every day to self promote.
"this is the greatest uber-cool playa hatas edition mega supreme 2.15463"
"you didnt read the directions, this is the best player ever (for this week)"
"if the video is not as clear as blueray, you screwed something up"
and my favorite "you stole my player that I stole and rebadged fair and square" (paraphrasing, but not much!)
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'don't be asking questions you don't know the answer to! bluray cosmic hd dvd autoeject glactic autotuner amoeba-like energy self-sufficient silicon-based entity NO. #1!!!!!!"
did he ever use this answer to any questions? am i trippin or did i see taht somewhere?

Holy Moly
£uck me... i nearly killed myself trying to read that.....

he made it sound sooo fricking amazing and super complicated that you think you're defusing a bomb or something. And what does he mean by outer space technology and mars ,nasa and sattelites , star wars blablablablabla.. . We minus well return all our hd tvs and our bluray players, and just use our phones from now on..

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he made it sound sooo fricking amazing and super complicated that you think you're defusing a bomb or something. And what does he mean by outer space technology and mars ,nasa and sattelites , star wars blablablablabla.. . We minus well return all our hd tvs and our bluray players, and just use our phones from now on..
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I don't know I saw that too but I just skimmed over the whole post as it was all garble to me. I think he was implying that the "Ultra-Mega Sonic Blu-Ray all the fruity colors of the rainbow Dolby surround sound heat seeking killer media player sent from SKYNET" was sent from outer space by aliens from Mars, and was released by NASA or something! Initially it was developed by the aliens as software for an ultra-pulsating anal probe but when that failed they decided to make a few tweaks and BAM !!! - the Ultra-Mega Sonic Blu-Ray player thingy was born! We should all sit back and behold this most awesome piece of alien technology! Woooooow!!!

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I don't know I saw that too but I just skimmed over the whole post as it was all garble to me. I think he was implying that the "Ultra-Mega Sonic Blu-Ray all the fruity colors of the rainbow Dolby surround sound heat seeking killer media player sent from SKYNET" was sent from outer space by aliens from Mars, and was released by NASA or something! Initially it was developed by the aliens as software for an ultra-pulsating anal probe but when that failed they decided to make a few tweaks and BAM !!! - the Ultra-Mega Sonic Blu-Ray player thingy was born! We should all sit back and behold this most awesome piece of alien technology! Woooooow!!!
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when i saw the post thru the link of where technology is now, i noticed that the first 5 posts underneath it had no comments at all about the integrity of the post itself. is it just us, or are those members effed up?

Could very well be.... Looks like the aliens got to them through the subliminal message contained in Technology's post...

johnambler41577 said:
Could very well be.... Looks like the aliens got to them through the subliminal message contained in Technology's post...
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who knows maybe technology is the alien

REQ: Tipulator

Hi has anyone seen the Iphone ad running in the UK at the moment which has a handy app on it called the tipulator.
This is a simple calculator in which you type in the total amount of your restaurant bill then how much in percentage how much you want to tip then choose how many people you want to split the bill between and it tells you what each person has to pay.
I'm sure this would be pretty simple to build on the WM platform - has anyone seen anything like this?

Ye I second that. Would be a good idea.

I just use me brain. Time I got the HD app to do it, I'd have figured it out in my head!!

Just wondering if you even searched on Google? Because in less than 2 minutes i found these.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-tips-calculator-v1-0.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-tip-calculator-and-bill-splitter-1-0.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-simple-tip-calculator-v1-0.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-tip-pro-v1-0.html

Or just the normal calculator...

Hmmm sounds like another excuse for iPhone owners to get their phone out and bore people stupid with how wonderful they think its is... the resturant as well as the pub now...
I'll stick to me head.... probably good but how difficault is 10%?

Fallen Spartan said:
I just use me brain. Time I got the HD app to do it, I'd have figured it out in my head!!
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Same here.
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wow - you need a special application to calculate total bill x 1.1 / people? What's wrong with the calculator?
I knew iPhone users can't think for themselves but we're supposed to be the smart ones.

SiliconS said:
wow - you need a special application to calculate total bill x 1.1 / people? What's wrong with the calculator?
I knew iPhone users can't think for themselves but we're supposed to be the smart ones.
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lol
Some people are obviously very lazy...

there is an iphone app for absolutely everything , and most of it is pointless, like the spirit level which is actually just the gsensor calibrate screen on the touch hd , there may be apps but good quality apps is what matters so let them have there mass load of rubbish, once we get a few 3d games we'll be laughin

We have freekin excel in our pockets you can calculate almost anything!

F Me! You are a miserable bunch of b*stards
I think its a pretty good idea. There are plenty of people out there who do not know how to reprogram a WM phone. Sory I'll rephrase - not SAD enough to know how to reprogram a WM phone!
So a neat little app like the tipulator is probably quite appealing.
"Oh we can't have that *geeky chortle chortle* why can't you write a few formulae in MS pocket excel" - Jeez, give me strength!
If I went out for a meal with a group of people and someone used excel to calculate the split, I'd think they were a complete tosser, and tell them so.
But then most of you aren't old enough to go into a pub let alone go out for a meal and not have your parents pay for it.
So I'll "third" the proposal.

stop making waves!
of course i am not expecting from someone that is preaching us about laziness to bother and make a search so i did and found in less than 15 seconds this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=499829&highlight=tip+calculator
see, i used the search button and made the great effort of typing 2 words: tip calculator. well, i'll do anything for a little peace and order in this forum

hurst75 said:
F Me! You are a miserable bunch of b*stards
I think its a pretty good idea. There are plenty of people out there who do not know how to reprogram a WM phone. Sory I'll rephrase - not SAD enough to know how to reprogram a WM phone!
So a neat little app like the tipulator is probably quite appealing.
"Oh we can't have that *geeky chortle chortle* why can't you write a few formulae in MS pocket excel" - Jeez, give me strength!
If I went out for a meal with a group of people and someone used excel to calculate the split, I'd think they were a complete tosser, and tell them so.
But then most of you aren't old enough to go into a pub let alone go out for a meal and not have your parents pay for it.
So I'll "third" the proposal.
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Firstly if your asking for help then ask for it don't assault the people who could be programming this for you!
Secondly excel does exactly what you want it to do, if your too stupid to write a simple percentage calculation then your too thick to own a WM phone!
Thirdly I'm a comfortable programmer, I do it as part of my job, but I do have a life, I'm surrounded by good, intelligible friends, I enjoy power kiting and surfing, I probably have a much better life than you!
Fourthly if you think someone's a tosser for using a WM application (Excel) to calculate the tip then you MUST think they would be a tosser for using an identical application that someone's put on their device but with pretty pictures so rambling buttock scrapings like yourselve can use it without confusion!
Finally learn to use the search facillity it's really very simple, I also hear Google do these searches aswell!
So don't sign up to a developer forum calling all the developers misserable Bas*ards!
Don't retalliate with a barrage of insults when people try to help you!
And don't post without searching!
Oh yeh and I'm 22 more than old enough to drink in this country!
Just realised hurst didn't start this, sorry to the thread starter and hurst you're a gimp!

@joey
don't feed the troll! an undeserved effort to try and explain something to "his kind".
he doesn't know to use google and u are asking him to use excel??!! imagine asking him to make the calculation using his head....lol! another rude a..s hole!

did you guys miss my post in the previous page? I posted a bunch of tip programs.

I dont think anyone really wants a "tipulator" cos its useless. More useful would be the bill splitting thing that they showed on the iphone advert. I know its another thing from the iphone n stuff....but that is actually gd unlike half the apps from the apple store.
Has anyone got anything like that already? if yes then pls share with us!

Did the quality of apps just take a nosedive?

Is it just me that's noticing this? Nowadays most of the new apps are just terrible. For example "IM Buddy", I can't fathom how this piece of shift passed certification. It's mind boggling.

If you think that's bad, just look at 90% of the iPhone's app store! This is why quantity doesn't trump quality.
iPhone and Android users keep quoting the NUMBER of apps in their stores as being somehow the best indicator of how a store is doing, but in the end a store with 4,000 top quality apps is far better than a store with 300,000 rotten eggs.
I mean, does the music business tout how many records they have? Is Sony BMG better than EMI because they've put out more music? Of course not. It's all down to the quality of the artists.
Same with apps.
All app stores will end up with some dross. I pray the WP7 store will end up with less of it. All the dross does it make the cream harder to find.

This is the problem now that MS has where they are being judged by quantity when it comes to apps more than quality so they will put stuff through that they otherwise would not had the media let up on the bashing. Though its worth noting that android has a lot worse and is flooded with pure rubbish.

Glad I'm not the only one that thinks the marketplace is full of mostly crap-ware. Other than games, I haven't bought a single thing from the marketplace. The majority of the apps on there regurgitate stuff you could find by doing a simple goobing search. Most of the decent stuff is freeware anyway, like YouTube, Facebook, IMDB, Adobe Reader.
And how many tip-calculators are there!! Do people really calculate their tips based on how much they paid, how many people there are and what percentage tip they want to leave?? You could just calculate how much your meal was and then round the figure off like every other completely sane person.
Solutions looking for problems if you ask me.

masadav said:
And how many tip-calculators are there!! Do people really calculate their tips based on how much they paid, how many people there are and what percentage tip they want to leave?? You could just calculate how much your meal was and then round the figure off like every other completely sane person.
Solutions looking for problems if you ask me.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
sometimes it's really difficult to calculate a 10% tip.. i have 5 tip calculators just in case one of them messes up.

I'm hoping that once a month or something, they get their interns over there at MS to go through the apps and delete the crap/ duplicate apps and notify the developer that they need to up their game.
Do we really need 8 different live-book apps from the same guy, one of which is about a bridge they put up near him?

pillsburydoughman said:
Is it just me that's noticing this? Nowadays most of the new apps are just terrible. For example "IM Buddy", I can't fathom how this piece of shift passed certification. It's mind boggling.
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I don't think it's any worse than it's been from the start. It's always a lot of crap and some good stuff. I can't agree with the guy who said he'd never purchase anything that's not a game. I've purchased Pictures Labs, Stocks Tile, Cocktail Flow, iKamasutra, Personal Shopping Assistant, Word Explorer Dictionary, and I'll give the $3 to Seymour whenever the trial asks me to. I have another 20 or so free apps installed that are pretty good, too.

i don't think we should be worried about what apps go in. what really needs to happen is that the market place itself needs a bit of a revamp in terms of functionality. Possible things that could be put in which would easily make the market place stand up above all rivals are... an advanced search for it, change logs, friends using app, trial/buy ratio, most downloaded/purchased in last day/week/month, feature requests (with rating for request), dev interactions (someway that the dev can get feedback on a particular feature), app beta testing (e.g. one of us makes an app, and we want just the xda community to beta test it before we ship it out for the masses).
all of these are just little ideas that could easily improve the market, help devs bring better products, and ultimately separate the crapware from the awesomeware.

Where I have spent $$$ on apps..
Games: Many - mostly XBL but a couple not XBL worth buying (try a game called Decent... it's really great looking and fun)
Apps: YomoMedia - it's a good RSS feeder and reader... Converter Pro... very cool app for converting everything including currency. Thumba 2 - best image editor on WP7... bar-none. Morfo - because it's retarded and fun. Metro Web Browser - it's cool but it was kind of a waste - it does add some novel features to browsing but not having it integrated is kinda well... worthless. Collage - another great picture app. Picture Frame - another good one for displaying pictures. Picture Labs... not as good as Thumba. Presenter - cool way to control my powerpoints alas not the best solution without Bluetooth however!

Let's think for a minute. The iPhone App Store is filled largely with...garbage apps. Same with Android Market (perhaps more so). What made you guys think that Windows Marketplace wasn't going to suffer the same fate?

wish they would let US, the community, screen the apps i.e. which gets approved or which gets trashed. just wishful thinking

hboos said:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
sometimes it's really difficult to calculate a 10% tip.. i have 5 tip calculators just in case one of them messes up.
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Only if u had a 3rs grade education.
Just move the decimal one place to the left... It's not hard and involves really no math skills.
I can't believe you posted this crap...
Tip calculators are useless.
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N8ter said:
Only if u had a 3rs grade education.
Just move the decimal one place to the left... It's not hard and involves really no math skills.
I can't believe you posted this crap...
Tip calculators are useless.
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Hehehe, N8ter, I think he's just posting a sarcastic or joke about tip calculators

N8ter said:
Only if u had a 3rs grade education.
Just move the decimal one place to the left... It's not hard and involves really no math skills.
I can't believe you posted this crap...
Tip calculators are useless.
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thanks n8ter. i never knew you could do that. what if there is no decimal to move to the left? but if you move the decimal to the left and the left way is right and the right way is wrong what is left is just the wrong way through the centre and it all becomes mind bottling...
i know it's sometimes difficult to sense sarcasm but you'd think that common sense would factor in somewhere..
but seriously...
there are lots of useless apps in any marketplace but you need that base of useless apps which draws in more users (just because of publicized numbers of apps) and this in turn will attract more developers.
so i welcome all these useless/junk apps.. i won't be using them but they are good for inflating the number of apps in WP7

There was nothing in that post to indicate sarcasm. No emoticon or anything. If you were being sarcastic, you failed at indicating it.
If you actually read this forum, you'll notice that lots of people say lots of things you may think is sarcastic, but they actually mean it.

N8ter said:
There was nothing in that post to indicate sarcasm. No emoticon or anything. If you were being sarcastic, you failed at indicating it.
If you actually read this forum, you'll notice that lots of people say lots of things you may think is sarcastic, but they actually mean it.
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I clocked it as sarcasm but you're from the USA aren't you? I think Americans don't get or use sarcasm as much as we do in the UK. Or something.
But anyway, yeah it was definitely sarcasm.

sometimes it's really difficult to calculate a 10% tip.. i have 5 tip calculators just in case one of them messes up.
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that line screams sarcasm imo..

Agreed. That was a very successful troll.
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Well, I'm going to add three QUALITY apps to the Norwegian market as soon as it opens. Might even have to release them as free apps on the american/english markets until the Norwegian one opens, as licenses are bound to the country you buy it from. So...if I sell through foreign market, users will lose their license when they move to the domestic one :S

Crap apps are easy to make
Good apps take time
This is why there were good apps at launch, but now you see more crap. Give it another month or so, and the tides will turn. Keeping the Zune market from being plagued like the Ios store and Android store, that will be hard to do.

New WP7 ad

AT&T has a new ad for WP7 and i think its the best one so far. it finally shows off what the phone can do. What do you guys think of the ad.
here is the link
YouTube - New Windows Phone Ad: What if?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrhpXQqS3Is

Best wp7 ad I have seen so far...I hope sprint can come up with something like this

It's amazing. This add attracts peoples attention for WP7.

For me, also the best ad i have seen. Here in Germany, the ads of WP7 are not very good (my opinion).

nice marketing ! the graphics pouring into the phones is sharp !
too bad you can't share any of those movies, pictures, or files with a friends phone.

ohgood said:
nice marketing ! the graphics pouring into the phones is sharp !
too bad you can't share any of those movies, pictures, or files with a friends phone.
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lol sharing movies.... yup the MPAA would love that

cbebop7 said:
lol sharing movies.... yup the MPAA would love that
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I wouldn't promote any of the mpaa's trash by sharing it. home movies, youtube downloads, dirtbike vids, rips of vhs from 20 years ago... movies does not equal mpaa.

ohgood said:
nice marketing ! the graphics pouring into the phones is sharp !
too bad you can't share any of those movies, pictures, or files with a friends phone.
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Why are you even on these boards? You come here just to ***** about wp7?? Do you really have that little going on in your life?

Great ad.. Bravo! I'm thinking of buying an omnia 7 next month.
I Swyped this on my Galaxy S

Nice video

DaRkMyk said:
Great ad.. Bravo! I'm thinking of buying an omnia 7 next month.
I Swyped this on my Galaxy S
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I remember coming from an Omnia 2 I thought I'd miss swype so very much. I do, but just know that the wp7 keyboard is utterly fantastic. I can't get over how quick it is. Very "smart".

sure haven't said:
Why are you even on these boards? You come here just to ***** about wp7?? Do you really have that little going on in your life?
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I think you have answered your question. Does he even own a Windows Phone? You have to question someone's motivations, maturity, or mental development. Or all 3.

def. the best ad so far, finally they aren't playing those stupid ones about that idiot skydiving who has a dedicated hw camera button or that dumbass who keeps looking at his phone, looks like MS finally found a decent marketing strategy (or is this ATT's doing?)

Another ad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHkPiU9YAQk&feature=player_embedded

JuWa said:
Another ad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHkPiU9YAQk&feature=player_embedded
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Thats a fan made add, its pretty damn good though.
His work has been referd to the marketing department within Microsoft, hope they do the smart thing and hire him haha

JuWa said:
Another ad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHkPiU9YAQk&feature=player_embedded
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This ad was cool... the other one was ok. I am currently on a break from my Focus waiting for the update and playing with Gingerbread on my Nexus One, but that makes me want to switch back now..

Chain Reaction - another good little game

Found another addicting, simplistic game to try. It's free and super easy. But it's time-passingly fun.

Hmm... What is the purpose of this "game" (except showing ads)? Funny popping sound?

One of my all-time favorites (from it's Facebook days).
The purpose is to figure out a way to create a chain reaction of explosions (hence the name ). The longer the chain, the higher the score you receive. The catch is that you only get one tap to start the reaction. If you don't explode enough of the balls on any level, you have to try again - you can't move on to the next level.

hello
whats the name of game?

Chain Reaction (it's in the thread title ).

I also found two more new games that seem to be pleasant: Enigmo, an XBOX Live title, and FlagSpotting.

RoboDad said:
The purpose is to figure out ... <skipped>
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You don't understood my irony (I'm already tried that game before posting).
This game requires no skills, no reaction, no intelligence, u just can play with your eyes closed. Deferentially not my game...

sensboston said:
You don't understood my irony (I'm already tried that game before posting).
This game requires no skills, no reaction, no intelligence, u just can play with your eyes closed. Deferentially not my game...
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I'm sure there are plenty of other, challenging, games for you to be satisfied with. They all don't have to be for you.

Woohooo! Beat all 30 levels of Chain Reaction!

Thanks for the great comments!
Thanks for all the kind words regarding our newest game! It is doing better than we ever could have hoped for and really appreciate all of the support. We will try to keep the game fresh with new levels, and maybe even a couple of unexpected features. Any feedback anyone here has would be greatly appreciated.
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lynxinteractive said:
Thanks for all the kind words regarding our newest game! It is doing better than we ever could have hoped for and really appreciate all of the support. We will try to keep the game fresh with new levels, and maybe even a couple of unexpected features. Any feedback anyone here has would be greatly appreciated.
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You're doing a super excellent job with this wonderful little game. I don't know if the save feature was there prior to the last update, but I had call to use it recently and was appreciated.

MartyLK said:
You're doing a super excellent job with this wonderful little game. I don't know if the save feature was there prior to the last update, but I had call to use it recently and was appreciated.
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The save feature has actually been there since version 1.0. It would automatically save your game any time the game "tombstoned" (Press the Windows key, get a text message, etc.). However, we realized that people would have no way of knowing this since it was not an advertised feature. That is why we added in the save game and exit button on the pause menu so that everyone would know that they could do that. Plus, with the 40 level "Insane" mode, it can take you a little while to work all the way through it. Maybe not something everyone wants to do in one sitting.
We can't say thank you enough for everyone making Chain Reaction such a hit! Look for our next game Pooping Pigeons to hit the marketplace later this week. Check out this page for some screenshots of it:
lynxinteractive.com/poopingpigeons.htm
(I would link it for you, but since we are new to the XDA forums it will not let me post links yet. Some kind of anti-spam measure.)
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