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Given British Telecom's ridiculous criteria for only installing ADSL where there is 'sufficient demand'

I suspect that BTs refusal probably has more to do with their dislike of haggis.

Obligatory haggis joke now over, we return you to your normal programming.

Haggis for everyone!!!!

Let's eat!!!

Dolemite

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RAMRaid is HERE

After a typical LossySoft HSV compression cycle you achieve a 16:1 compression ratio, or

9 gigabytes = approx 600 megabytes. You've compressed your data on your very expensive hard drive into a size that will fit on an average 2 gigabyte hard drive with PLENTY of room to spare.

Here's where the REAL excitement comes in - let's run the compression cycle TEN TIMES!

Cycle Size in bytes

9,663,676,416 (9 gigs, it takes a huge hard drive to hold)
603,979,776 (approx 600 megs, fits on an Iomega Jaz disk, a Syquest SyJet disk, or a CD-R)
37,748,736 (approx 35 megs, fits on an Iomega Zip disk, a Syquest Ezflyer disk, or a LS-120 disk)
2,359,296 (approx 2 megs, transfers fairly quickly on a 28.8K or faster modem)
147,456 (approx 150K, fits on all current removable media)
9,216 (9K - wow!)
576 (just over HALF a K!)
36 (that's BYTES, folks!)
2.25 (incredible, isn't it?)
0.140625 (AMAZING!)
Current technology can't split bytes very well, so the minimum you can compress any disk to is 1 bit.

(Note: future LampreySoft products will use advanced features of quantum mathematics to reduce the lowest unit of information measure to sub-bit levels)

LampreySoft has held this patent for some time. Lossy compression has been in full effect since 1998.

LampreySoft has held this patent for some time. Lossy compression has been in full effect since 1998.

My experience with the Sims was rather negative. I started out by creating my character and playing for a few hours... I got bored with it, as I tend to do with games, and started haxx0ring it.

I h4xx0r3d myself up a ton of money, and set to work building "The Sims Skinner Box!"

I put a 'fridge on one end, boxed the people in with it, and made a complex maze leading up to a toilet.

My Sims all died, standing in puddles of their own urine. Poor bastards. If only they could navigate a maze, that terrible tragedy could have been avoided.

I then attempted to create an M.C. Escher-esque house, but the game's structure was too rigid. Why CAN'T I have stairs coming out of the walls, leading to nowhere? Damn Maxis. They stifle my creativity at every turn.

A friend of mine had his own magical "The Sims" experience, which he chronicled at this URL:
The Secret of Happiness, Sims-style

This is all old news. LampreySoft came out with a much better version of user-sensing software long ago. Forget MS, these guys really have it all figured out.

This is all old news. LampreySoft came out with a much better version of user-sensing software long ago. Forget MS, these guys really have it all figured out.

Check out:

Geeks Into The Streets

and

The GITS Agape House Project

To see what you can do in your own neighborhood.

GITS was started by Jeff Covey (of freshmeat fame) and is currently supported by the UMBC-LUG. This is something that you can do in your own neighborhood with very little assistance.

-p.