Mine too!! Also, trying to run the profile manager (win2K) opens the browser instead. Good to hear that installing 0.8 will restore everything. Will go back to 0.8 for now atleast.
First of all, the so called "arabic numerals" are actually Indian numerals. (The Arabs only popularised it). Now, considering that all Indian languages have scripts written from left to right, I cannot see any logic in your argument.
Pardon me if I am wrong, but I did not understand how exactly the compression is achieved. Considering you need to store some binary data, the following is what you need:
1. The beginning position of the data in the pi sequence.
2. The number of elements in the data.
You are telling that number in step 1 can be found out, on an average, within 70% of all the possible combinations of the data. Very good, but you still need to store this number somewhere for retrieving this info. As someone has already pointed out , this number can be longer than the actual data !
Also, I guess another thing you forgot to do is multiply your probabilities. You say that the chance for 30% compression in the first try is 0.5. Even if I assume that this is true, for the next compression, the chance for the compressed data to be 0.49 the size of the original data becomes 0.5*0.5=0.25. So for n compressions the probability of (1-0.7^n) compression is only 0.5^n
There's an Heinleinian phrase that occasionally gets said on slashdot: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL). Too bad that its wrong, since the universe is the biggest example of a free lunch in action.
If my memory serves me right, there are theories to explain this. Concepts such as anti-particles (having negative mass) and anti-universe have been put forward. According to such theories total energy and mass of the combined universe and anti-universe is zero.
I think I read about this in Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time"
Dont know if someone had posted this before, but,India, which has a much larger rural population is also experimenting something innovative. They are trying out motorbike riders who take laptops to rural areas !
More at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2 124000/2124712.stm
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Mine too!! Also, trying to run the profile manager (win2K) opens the browser instead. Good to hear that installing 0.8 will restore everything. Will go back to 0.8 for now atleast.
First of all, the so called "arabic numerals" are actually Indian numerals. (The Arabs only popularised it). Now, considering that all Indian languages have scripts written from left to right, I cannot see any logic in your argument.
Although not alive now, the Russian built space station spent fifteen years floating above us while the initial expectation was only for seven years.
Pardon me if I am wrong, but I did not understand how exactly the compression is achieved. Considering you need to store some binary data, the following is what you need: 1. The beginning position of the data in the pi sequence. 2. The number of elements in the data. You are telling that number in step 1 can be found out, on an average, within 70% of all the possible combinations of the data. Very good, but you still need to store this number somewhere for retrieving this info. As someone has already pointed out , this number can be longer than the actual data ! Also, I guess another thing you forgot to do is multiply your probabilities. You say that the chance for 30% compression in the first try is 0.5. Even if I assume that this is true, for the next compression, the chance for the compressed data to be 0.49 the size of the original data becomes 0.5*0.5=0.25. So for n compressions the probability of (1-0.7^n) compression is only 0.5^n
i = i +1; // increment i by 1
There's an Heinleinian phrase that occasionally gets said on slashdot: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL). Too bad that its wrong, since the universe is the biggest example of a free lunch in action.
If my memory serves me right, there are theories to explain this. Concepts such as anti-particles (having negative mass) and anti-universe have been put forward. According to such theories total energy and mass of the combined universe and anti-universe is zero. I think I read about this in Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time"
Dont know if someone had posted this before, but,India, which has a much larger rural population is also experimenting something innovative. They are trying out motorbike riders who take laptops to rural areas ! More at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2 124000/2124712.stm
If you are talking about the 1919 experiment, here is a page which doubts its authenticity: http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf126/sf126p03.ht m