That's easy. Let's say you have a text file that consists of 14,000 instances of the word "begat". This compresses to a file that simply indicates "repeat 14,000 'begat '".
Now, after you scrmable it, it's got equal quantities of begat, beagt, baget, baegt, bgeat, and bgaet. It's not so easy to compress any more.
Essentially, you're increasing the entropy of the file by a fair amount. Truly random data is not so easy to compress as english, because english has lots of order. Added disorder or entropy means compression is just not as easy.
These batteries kick serious booty. In my digital camera, a single charge outlasts even the best disposable batteries by a factor of 2 or 3. In about a year I've already saved more in disposable battery cost than I spent on the charger and cells.
Definitely worth the investment. I have Panasonic brand, but only because that's what they had at Costco. I doubt that there is a big difference between brands of similarly-rated cells.
This doesn't explain why other organizations use other fiscal years. My company uses a fiscal year that is identical to the calendar year, but the US government uses a fiscal year that begins in October and ends in September.
For some reason known only to accountants and PHBs, many corporations base their 'fiscal' year off of a different quarter than the calendar year. In general, the fiscal year number is the number of the highest calendar year that forms part of the fiscal year.
So, for id/Activision, fiscal year 2004 runs from April 2003 to March 2004.
You are incorrect - the tubes have only a partial vacuum. In a hard vacuum, the motion stops. Only with a very delicate instrument can you get a radiometer to function in a hard vacuum, because radiation pressure is a much smaller effect than the complicated gas phenomenon really behind it, and in fact you'll notice that a Crooke's Radiometer spins the wrong way - it spins away from black, where a radiation pressure effect would spin away from white.
For a complete explanation of Crooke's radiometer, see: http://www.stillmoving.ca/physics/usenetFAQ. php?mo de=1&faqID=42
Civil Disobedience is taking your laptop down to the courthouse and sharing/downloading warez with a big sign on your back saying "I'm running Kazaa!"
Here's a good test: If you are openly inviting arrest/prosecution for your activities, it's civil disobedience. If you don't want to be arrested and try to hide your activities, it's just convenience.
Downloading stuff in your living room is not civil disobedience.
First VirtualPC, and cease-and-desisting RealPC, now this. Seems Microsoft is intent on continuing their tried and true strategy
1. Find company that sells something that enables use of other platforms besides Wintel/Palladium 2. Purchase said company with change found in Bill's sofa 3. Shut down offending product line 4. Enjoy complete immunity from antitrust regulation in the U.S.
Fortunately, this leads to a great new business model, especially in countries with IP laws that the RIAA finds not-so-friendly: 1. Create a product that enables use of a platform other than Wintel 2. Sell company to Microsoft 3. Dig backup CDR of source code out from behind bookshelf 4. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Let's now wait and see if Microsoft maintains the RAV Anti-virus for mail servers product for all the non-Microsoft environments. Anyone care to place a wager?
All you have to do is record the stream to a file, wait for the information to show up on yes.net, and then categorize the data. I can't schedule per-song recording in advance, but I can put in a wish list, or just record every song played on the radio and file it away.
This could just sit and accumulate MP3 files and throw out duplicates or things I don't care about all day long.
Big deal - this is like a digital tape recorder. To be a true PAR it would need at least these features: - Guide service. Imagine a recorder that knows what song is playing on the radio right now and saves this 3:26 chunk of audio to "BritneySpearsHotGrits.mp3" for you. At the very least it needs show-based guide service. VCRs have had timers since like 1982. - Pause live radio (as noted by the review) - Wishlisting (Find me songs by Aretha Franklin.)
I don't think radio stations advertise what songs they will play ahead of time, but you could imagine that you could scrape the "currently playing" track off the station web site and retroactively label the audio. If the PAR is constantly recording a station, and then it sees a track by Aretha Franklin, it saves that last song for you.
Until something works like this, it's about as useful as a cassette player with a timer.
Sure, spammer X knows that someone who spells out their email address in an attempt to avoid spam is not going to buy anything.
But, many spammers exist solely to sell other spammers email addresses. So, an obscured email address is just as valuable to such a spammer as any other email address.
Of course, they won't tell their spammer clients that the email address is for a spam-averse user, they'll collect their.003 cents for the email address for each spammer they sell to and buy a silk kimono and leather slippers and sleep until 1 PM. Bastards.
None of this puts a chill into Childs, who said he has nothing to fear from anti-spammers. "I don't ask for understanding from anybody. I follow the law." And as for angry e-mails and junk mail, he said, "I can give as good as I get."
Geez, I sure hope he's right. It sure would be a shame if his physical mailbox overflowed with a gazillion free catalogs.
Did anyone explain to him what happened to Alan Ralsky?
BTW, as testament to it's goodness, you see original copies of M.U.L.E. clear $35 on eBay. I've tried to get a copy, just for the manual and been outbid a number of times.
Don't you hate that, when at the last minute the guy moves his joystick and runs away from you and you're like "Wait Wait! I'll pay more!" and you keep running and running but you just can't catch him and then bang the auction is over.
Slashdot Mirror
Um, robots.
/firstlady/iraq thing.
And boy are they pissed off about this
ICANN grows a pair
That's easy. Let's say you have a text file that consists of 14,000 instances of the word "begat". This compresses to a file that simply indicates "repeat 14,000 'begat '".
Now, after you scrmable it, it's got equal quantities of begat, beagt, baget, baegt, bgeat, and bgaet. It's not so easy to compress any more.
Essentially, you're increasing the entropy of the file by a fair amount. Truly random data is not so easy to compress as english, because english has lots of order. Added disorder or entropy means compression is just not as easy.
See also Jargon File: Imminent Death of the Net Predicted! and Brad Templeton's classic timeline.
Yes, that was 1989. Same old same old...
I've always wondered what that was for.
So, when you read his comment above and see
don't ignore the & character.
See also Schwa
These batteries kick serious booty. In my digital camera, a single charge outlasts even the best disposable batteries by a factor of 2 or 3. In about a year I've already saved more in disposable battery cost than I spent on the charger and cells.
Definitely worth the investment. I have Panasonic brand, but only because that's what they had at Costco. I doubt that there is a big difference between brands of similarly-rated cells.
This doesn't explain why other organizations use other fiscal years. My company uses a fiscal year that is identical to the calendar year, but
the US government uses a fiscal year that begins in October and ends in September.
I had to dig this up, thought I'd save you the trouble.
a d_id=20376&noise=show#89229
http://www.theserverside.com/home/thread.jsp?thre
It appears to be the CTO of THOUGHT accusing an open source software project of patent violations. Classic.
For some reason known only to accountants and PHBs, many corporations base their 'fiscal' year off of a different quarter than the calendar year. In general, the fiscal year number is the number of the highest calendar year that forms part of the fiscal year.
So, for id/Activision, fiscal year 2004 runs from April 2003 to March 2004.
by the fact that Starbuck is played by
Katee Sackhoff.
Yummy.
He just woke up from a coma and still thinks Reagan is president.
I think there is a typo in this matrix. The bottom line should read:
Final Score: FATALITY!
You can find an article explaining the long history of Crooke's Radiometer explanations at:
? mo de=1&faqID=42
http://www.stillmoving.ca/physics/usenetFAQ.php
The true answer is more complicated than either radiation pressure or the "hot side bounces air molecules" explanations.
You are incorrect - the tubes have only a partial vacuum. In a hard vacuum, the motion stops. Only with a very delicate instrument can you get a radiometer to function in a hard vacuum, because radiation pressure is a much smaller effect than the complicated gas phenomenon really behind it, and in fact you'll notice that a Crooke's Radiometer spins the wrong way - it spins away from black, where a radiation pressure effect would spin away from white.
. php?mo de=1&faqID=42
For a complete explanation of Crooke's radiometer, see:
http://www.stillmoving.ca/physics/usenetFAQ
Please tell me you meant urologist. I don't wanna see the proctologist who gets those kinds of emails.
Civil Disobedience is taking your laptop down to the courthouse and sharing/downloading warez with a big sign on your back saying "I'm running Kazaa!"
Here's a good test: If you are openly inviting arrest/prosecution for your activities, it's civil disobedience. If you don't want to be arrested and try to hide your activities, it's just convenience.
Downloading stuff in your living room is not civil disobedience.
First VirtualPC, and cease-and-desisting RealPC, now this. Seems Microsoft is intent on continuing their tried and true strategy
1. Find company that sells something that enables use of other platforms besides Wintel/Palladium
2. Purchase said company with change found in Bill's sofa
3. Shut down offending product line
4. Enjoy complete immunity from antitrust regulation in the U.S.
Fortunately, this leads to a great new business model, especially in countries with IP laws that the RIAA finds not-so-friendly:
1. Create a product that enables use of a platform other than Wintel
2. Sell company to Microsoft
3. Dig backup CDR of source code out from behind bookshelf
4. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Let's now wait and see if Microsoft maintains the RAV Anti-virus for mail servers product for all the non-Microsoft environments. Anyone care to place a wager?
Actually, that's perfect.
All you have to do is record the stream to a file, wait for the information to show up on yes.net, and then categorize the data. I can't schedule per-song recording in advance, but I can put in a wish list, or just record every song played on the radio and file it away.
This could just sit and accumulate MP3 files and throw out duplicates or things I don't care about all day long.
Big deal - this is like a digital tape recorder. To be a true PAR it would need at least these features:
- Guide service. Imagine a recorder that knows what song is playing on the radio right now and saves this 3:26 chunk of audio to "BritneySpearsHotGrits.mp3" for you. At the very least it needs show-based guide service. VCRs have had timers since like 1982.
- Pause live radio (as noted by the review)
- Wishlisting (Find me songs by Aretha Franklin.)
I don't think radio stations advertise what songs they will play ahead of time, but you could imagine that you could scrape the "currently playing" track off the station web site and retroactively label the audio. If the PAR is constantly recording a station, and then it sees a track by Aretha Franklin, it saves that last song for you.
Until something works like this, it's about as useful as a cassette player with a timer.
GPL Public License
Sure, spammer X knows that someone who spells out their email address in an attempt to avoid spam is not going to buy anything.
.003 cents for the email address for each spammer they sell to and buy a silk kimono and leather slippers and sleep until 1 PM. Bastards.
But, many spammers exist solely to sell other spammers email addresses. So, an obscured email address is just as valuable to such a spammer as any other email address.
Of course, they won't tell their spammer clients that the email address is for a spam-averse user, they'll collect their
Geez, I sure hope he's right. It sure would be a shame if his physical mailbox overflowed with a gazillion free catalogs.
Did anyone explain to him what happened to Alan Ralsky?
Don't you hate that, when at the last minute the guy moves his joystick and runs away from you and you're like "Wait Wait! I'll pay more!" and you keep running and running but you just can't catch him and then bang the auction is over.
I hate that.
That's really strange.
Can you link me to your sourceforge discussion thread? Or did you give up on POPfile?