Here's the thing iw44 has been around a LONG TIME. It's wavelet, basically on par with JPEG2000 amnd is used by DjVu, so it's pretty much readiably available. And it's free. So why isn't it being used?
This is not a good thing. Analysis of elections over the past eight years clearly indicates that optical scanners have been compromised more than any other form of voting. Why? Becuase the scanners report back to a central server via modem --the communications and the server are easy enough to hack. Plus, no one suspects them. The crooks keep you focused on paper trails for touch screens while the pull old-fashion wool over your heads.
You people floor me. You mash all day long about how poor the patent system is, and then when someone tries to uphold legitimate patents you label them money-grubbing losers. Doesn't anyone remember what happened? Transmeta comes along with a revolutionary new perspective and implementation of teh CPU based on the idea of power efficiency and the big wig Intel just cuts them out of the picture by copying them. Now, power efficiency is the new "MHz" and the company we have to thank for it is being kicked about and compared to scoundrels like SCO. This has all the same characteristics of Netscape vs. Microsoft, but we can see by the results of that case people really care about.
DjVu has been THE "PDF killer" for many years and has become increasingly open over the last few. Why none of the major OSS players have ever put their weight behind this technology is beyond comprehension. It is better then PDF in every way (and JPG to boot)!
I fear this says something about OSS --why in the long run it will be maginalized by monolopy's like Microsoft.
Damn straight! This is the real catch behind all of this. How nicely it all works out for them: Greed in the immediate leads to tyranically control in the future. Think about this. The World Wide Web is unprecedendent in it's ability to distribute information --grassroots information that the powerful might not like, reports on products, government activities, 9/11 videos, etc. etc. Their campigns of disinformation are only so effective and I would suspect are becoming less and less so e every day. So it's imperative that the get significant control back over these communication channels. Tiered service is their ticket to 1984.
Dissapointed. When I first read the headline I thought they were going to give every shot a CGI look and feel. Now that would be cool! A syntho-platic looking Captain Kirk grabbing the shoulders of a hot syntho-plastic alien chick. I'll watch!
I think every other "moon" has an gravitational center within the parameters of the planet. Charon is the only case, so I agree Charon and Pluto should be considered "binary planets". It you want to call them 'dwarf planets' too b/c they're are relatively small, that's fine too. But they're still planets. And I will still think of them as such, as well as any other object orbiting a star.
Plutons? Do we really need plutons? Are we naming subatomic particles here? I have a real simple solution:
If they orbit the sun (or any star) they are "planets", incluging moons. Then we can divy them up any way you like from there.
- 7 platonic planets (includes the Moon and Earth)
- 9 classical planets
- 12 major planets (spherical minus moons)
- 4 terrestial panets (5 if including Ceres)
- 4 gas-giant planets
- 41 kuiper planets (kuiper belt objects including pluto)
- ?? moon planets (planets whose primary orbit is not the sun)
Etc. Have a ball! Invent categories to your hearts content, like "3 blue planets": Earth, Uranus and Neptune.
Not to be concited, but I thought of that over a decade ago. I labeled it Transformation Theory. The theory essentially says, given an input and a desired output am explicit mapping can be drawn between the two and algorithms (and hence AI) derive from applying reductions to the mapping (eg. compression). I later dubbed it Reductionary Transformation Theory, so as not to confuse it with another meme by the same name.
Yep, I called it. Many moons ago I said if they rule it's a planet it means science is dead. Real science doesn't label something based on feel good social acceptance, but strives for as much exactness as possible.
As of now, the modern age is officially over and dystopic post-modern has begun.
UMD could have been successful, if Sony "opened" it up more. I think that's the heart of the matter. It's not that they have propretary formats. It''s just that they cling to them too tightly.
I would have been very interested in a UMD drive form my computer. Small, well protected. Burn my own PSP media. Very cool. It woud And a blu-ray based UMD disc later on (for PSP2) would have been the bomb. And if I could plug my PSP into my TV and watch the UMD like that would be very cool too. I actually wish Sony would retry with UMD, but this time do it right.
Yahoo sucks! They deleted all my mail! Then said I would have to pay a monthly fee if I wanted to protect it from deletion in the future. Word of warning: you have 90 days to check your email or they delete it. And logging into YAHOO itself doesn't count --you have to actually go into your email (appearently that was my "mistake").
I would like to sue them. I had very important emails backed up their and I purposfully made an effort to log into Yahoo every so often to ensure they stayed there. Now there gone for ever! *very mad*
Yes. The "catch and release" policy on pedophiles is sickening. I beleive they do this as a way to increase their power and money. I.e. As long as there is a problem, something "must be done" about it. What get's done then is the slow errosion of our rights and taxes.
Though the actions of pedophiles is sickening to contemplate, we should be careful about passing judgement. Obviously most of these people are being driven by some distorted sexual drive. I think the best thing to do is build a few micro-societies --small enclosed towns, where they must go live out their lives, and not be able to leave except under rare exception and supervision. This way, they can live productive lives, without children around to tempt them, and we do not have to foot the incarsiration bill.
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Here's the thing iw44 has been around a LONG TIME. It's wavelet, basically on par with JPEG2000 amnd is used by DjVu, so it's pretty much readiably available. And it's free. So why isn't it being used?
B/c, face it, people Sheep.
This is not a good thing. Analysis of elections over the past eight years clearly indicates that optical scanners have been compromised more than any other form of voting. Why? Becuase the scanners report back to a central server via modem --the communications and the server are easy enough to hack. Plus, no one suspects them. The crooks keep you focused on paper trails for touch screens while the pull old-fashion wool over your heads.
Geewiz, doesn't any government know what it's supposed to do any more?
You people floor me. You mash all day long about how poor the patent system is, and then when someone tries to uphold legitimate patents you label them money-grubbing losers. Doesn't anyone remember what happened? Transmeta comes along with a revolutionary new perspective and implementation of teh CPU based on the idea of power efficiency and the big wig Intel just cuts them out of the picture by copying them. Now, power efficiency is the new "MHz" and the company we have to thank for it is being kicked about and compared to scoundrels like SCO. This has all the same characteristics of Netscape vs. Microsoft, but we can see by the results of that case people really care about.
It makes me sick.
Transmeta's case has nothing to do with SCO.
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT WATCH the boxing episode.
DjVu has been THE "PDF killer" for many years and has become increasingly open over the last few. Why none of the major OSS players have ever put their weight behind this technology is beyond comprehension. It is better then PDF in every way (and JPG to boot)!
I fear this says something about OSS --why in the long run it will be maginalized by monolopy's like Microsoft.
Damn straight! This is the real catch behind all of this. How nicely it all works out for them: Greed in the immediate leads to tyranically control in the future. Think about this. The World Wide Web is unprecedendent in it's ability to distribute information --grassroots information that the powerful might not like, reports on products, government activities, 9/11 videos, etc. etc. Their campigns of disinformation are only so effective and I would suspect are becoming less and less so e every day. So it's imperative that the get significant control back over these communication channels. Tiered service is their ticket to 1984.
These are Greek names, not Roman!
Moreover, the person who discovered them should have every right to name them wahtever he/she wants. Elitism is unacceptable.
W00t!
It's doesn't even matter. (Shameless plug but...) This tells why:
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Dissapointed. When I first read the headline I thought they were going to give every shot a CGI look and feel. Now that would be cool! A syntho-platic looking Captain Kirk grabbing the shoulders of a hot syntho-plastic alien chick. I'll watch!
Come up dudes, get your imagine on!
Can anyone say "Monopoly?" How about "AntiTrust"? Do those terms apply to such an organization?
I think every other "moon" has an gravitational center within the parameters of the planet. Charon is the only case, so I agree Charon and Pluto should be considered "binary planets". It you want to call them 'dwarf planets' too b/c they're are relatively small, that's fine too. But they're still planets. And I will still think of them as such, as well as any other object orbiting a star.
Plutons? Do we really need plutons? Are we naming subatomic particles here? I have a real simple solution:
If they orbit the sun (or any star) they are "planets", incluging moons. Then we can divy them up any way you like from there.
- 7 platonic planets (includes the Moon and Earth)
- 9 classical planets
- 12 major planets (spherical minus moons)
- 4 terrestial panets (5 if including Ceres)
- 4 gas-giant planets
- 41 kuiper planets (kuiper belt objects including pluto)
- ?? moon planets (planets whose primary orbit is not the sun)
Etc. Have a ball! Invent categories to your hearts content, like "3 blue planets": Earth, Uranus and Neptune.
We have DNA. We win! ;)
Not to be concited, but I thought of that over a decade ago. I labeled it Transformation Theory. The theory essentially says, given an input and a desired output am explicit mapping can be drawn between the two and algorithms (and hence AI) derive from applying reductions to the mapping (eg. compression). I later dubbed it Reductionary Transformation Theory, so as not to confuse it with another meme by the same name.
Yep, I called it. Many moons ago I said if they rule it's a planet it means science is dead. Real science doesn't label something based on feel good social acceptance, but strives for as much exactness as possible.
As of now, the modern age is officially over and dystopic post-modern has begun.
It takes two to make a...
It takes two to make a...
It takes two to make a THz, YEA!
It takes two to make it out of sight!
UMD could have been successful, if Sony "opened" it up more. I think that's the heart of the matter. It's not that they have propretary formats. It''s just that they cling to them too tightly.
I would have been very interested in a UMD drive form my computer. Small, well protected. Burn my own PSP media. Very cool. It woud And a blu-ray based UMD disc later on (for PSP2) would have been the bomb. And if I could plug my PSP into my TV and watch the UMD like that would be very cool too. I actually wish Sony would retry with UMD, but this time do it right.
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Okay, great. But hey forget JPEG. Drum it up for IW44 and DJVU. I just converted a 3.5MB .jpg to a 400K .djvu and can't tell the difference.
Yahoo sucks! They deleted all my mail! Then said I would have to pay a monthly fee if I wanted to protect it from deletion in the future. Word of warning: you have 90 days to check your email or they delete it. And logging into YAHOO itself doesn't count --you have to actually go into your email (appearently that was my "mistake").
I would like to sue them. I had very important emails backed up their and I purposfully made an effort to log into Yahoo every so often to ensure they stayed there. Now there gone for ever! *very mad*
Yea, why? And why is no one using iw44?
(apt-get djvulibre-plugin)
Yes. The "catch and release" policy on pedophiles is sickening. I beleive they do this as a way to increase their power and money. I.e. As long as there is a problem, something "must be done" about it. What get's done then is the slow errosion of our rights and taxes.
Though the actions of pedophiles is sickening to contemplate, we should be careful about passing judgement. Obviously most of these people are being driven by some distorted sexual drive. I think the best thing to do is build a few micro-societies --small enclosed towns, where they must go live out their lives, and not be able to leave except under rare exception and supervision. This way, they can live productive lives, without children around to tempt them, and we do not have to foot the incarsiration bill.