At the bottom of the page I see today's fortune is ""The Street finds its own uses for technology." -- William Gibson" which sounds too perfect of a coincidence.
He's not telling you what to do with your code.
From the same interview:
"Some people love the BSD license. Some people love the proprietary licenses. I understand that. If you want to make a program and you want to feed your kids, it makes a lot of sense to have a proprietary license and sell binaries. I think it makes less sense today, but I really understand the argument. I don't want to judge. I'm just giving my view on licensing."
This topic might have warranted a video, considering it's a demo. It would sure beat all the "some dude talks about something for flipping forever" videos Slashdice keeps trying to dump on us instead.
What are the criteria used by the author to make the list? It seems to me that a lot of the sites are related just to modern developments in technology, a lot less connected with (not contemporary) sciences...
What the poster wrote is not compression. I could easily create a 4K program that can generate every possible 1MB long byte sequence (it may take a while to run). Heck, I can write that in well under 64 bytes. The rest of the 4K can be used for hueristics to stop the counter when needed and run the resulting program.
Your failure is you assumed the poster meant to compress every 1MB program into a 4K one.
Of course stopping at an arbitrary one is a problem. But of all 1MB sequences the one you may want to stop at could perhaps be identified using some heuristic or other identifier, making the original posters idea still valid.
This whole post seems to me an odd and convolute definition of compression...
BTW, information entropy prevents just what you are talking about (most of the times)
So? I understood it this way:
4 KB -> 4 KBytes
4 kb -> 4 kbits
(let forget about decimal(1000)/binary(1024) for a moment)
The GP was saying 4096 bytes... the rest is left as an exercise on obviousness for the reader
Uh, French Guiana is part of the French Republic and is part of European Union... so it's a South American territory of the European Union.
Politics vs. Geography 1 - 0:-)
Governor Schwartz, when asked for comment said "Youu continant sizzed eloments think you're all thaat? Califooornia is just one state and we haf an eloment named after ous"
You should have tried someone from Copenhagen.... they have Hafnium, and they are just a city. Don't know any toughies from there, though;)
Think of Ytterby, Sweden.
A village with 3 (three!!!) elements named from it: terbium, erbium and ytterbium ( see here )
Because the Loongson 2F is powerful enough (+/- same performance of an Atom of double frequence), but has limited enough power consumption. Also, being at 90 nm is cheaper to fab.
Incidentally, just from late '97 I managed to have a "stable" dial-up connection...
Back "in the grand old days" was just evident that "not-yet-called geek" would have RULED THE WORLD! /rant
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At the bottom of the page I see today's fortune is ""The Street finds its own uses for technology." -- William Gibson" which sounds too perfect of a coincidence.
is there a UK-owned equivalent to ARM left in the tech industry?
Imagination Technologies, developer of PowerVR GPUs and owner of MIPS
"Some people love the BSD license. Some people love the proprietary licenses. I understand that. If you want to make a program and you want to feed your kids, it makes a lot of sense to have a proprietary license and sell binaries. I think it makes less sense today, but I really understand the argument. I don't want to judge. I'm just giving my view on licensing."
How can someone misspell descent three times in two sentences?
Missing a descent spell check?
This topic might have warranted a video, considering it's a demo. It would sure beat all the "some dude talks about something for flipping forever" videos Slashdice keeps trying to dump on us instead.
As I already pointed out in a different post, there are some video interviews on Numberphile:
:-)
https://www.youtube.com/playli...
Ok, it's not a Slashdot video but hey
Brady Haran on Numberphile has a series of interviews with Persi Diaconis: https://www.youtube.com/playli...
Just for reference, Linus' reply to that:
"Maybe we could some day remove EISA support too.."
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/1...
Just out of curiosity, is there a reason to choose that particular asteroid?
GUI versus CLI
The flames! The flames!!! :-)
General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
Oh, man... the irony
Too much Windows open, too much currents = low battery :-P
Venus as point of light with a 8" telescope ??? I can see Venus phases without problems using my 4.5" newtonian telescope.
What are the criteria used by the author to make the list? It seems to me that a lot of the sites are related just to modern developments in technology, a lot less connected with (not contemporary) sciences...
What the poster wrote is not compression. I could easily create a 4K program that can generate every possible 1MB long byte sequence (it may take a while to run). Heck, I can write that in well under 64 bytes. The rest of the 4K can be used for hueristics to stop the counter when needed and run the resulting program.
Your failure is you assumed the poster meant to compress every 1MB program into a 4K one.
Of course stopping at an arbitrary one is a problem. But of all 1MB sequences the one you may want to stop at could perhaps be identified using some heuristic or other identifier, making the original posters idea still valid.
This whole post seems to me an odd and convolute definition of compression...
BTW, information entropy prevents just what you are talking about (most of the times)
By the way, the article says it is 4 KB not 4 kb.
So? I understood it this way:
4 KB -> 4 KBytes
4 kb -> 4 kbits
(let forget about decimal(1000)/binary(1024) for a moment)
The GP was saying 4096 bytes... the rest is left as an exercise on obviousness for the reader
Reply to undo wrong mod, sorry
Sorry to correct - but D&D, now up to version 4.0, is owned by Wizards of the Coast - not Hasbro, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_of_the_Coast
Sorry to correct - but Wizards of the Coast is a subsidiary of Hasbro since 1999 (see the Wikipedia article you linked).
European Union != Europe.
I was assuming that "European" can have the same meaning of "pertaining European Union",
so "European spaceport" = "European Union's spaceport"
Uh, French Guiana is part of the French Republic and is part of European Union... so it's a South American territory of the European Union. :-)
Politics vs. Geography 1 - 0
Think of Ytterby, Sweden. A village with 3 (three!!!) elements named from it: terbium, erbium and ytterbium ( see here )
Ops, I forgot some more... It seems that Ytterby originated 4-8 names...
Take that, Americium!
Governor Schwartz, when asked for comment said "Youu continant sizzed eloments think you're all thaat? Califooornia is just one state and we haf an eloment named after ous"
You should have tried someone from Copenhagen.... they have Hafnium, and they are just a city. Don't know any toughies from there, though ;)
Think of Ytterby, Sweden. A village with 3 (three!!!) elements named from it: terbium, erbium and ytterbium ( see here )
sorry, wrong mod
PDF has been around since 1993. That's what, six months or so after we switched from coal-fired data furnaces to vacuum tubes, right?
No, but it was just in time for the eternal September coming...
Because the Loongson 2F is powerful enough (+/- same performance of an Atom of double frequence), but has limited enough power consumption. Also, being at 90 nm is cheaper to fab.
Incidentally, just from late '97 I managed to have a "stable" dial-up connection...
/rant
Back "in the grand old days" was just evident that "not-yet-called geek" would have RULED THE WORLD!