No idea about the "bio-morse". I just told you about the "standard morse code". Variable length chars can be still encoded as bit stream - using i.e. the huffman algorithm. Say, you have 7-char set ABCDEFG where chars appear in proportions: 25%:25%:20%:10%:10%:5%:5% - split by probablity, roughly in half, one half "more frequent", the other "less" - assigning each branch a bit value:
AB - 0, CDEFG -1.
Porceed recursively appending new "split ID bits" till you have separate characters:
(0)0 - A, (0)1 - B, (1)0 - CD, (1)1 - EFG (00) - A, (01) - B, (10)0 - C, (10)1 - D, (11)0 - E, (11)1 - FG (00) - A, (01) - B, (100) - C, (101) - D, (110) - E, (111)0 - F, (111)1-G
Now you can write a continuous binary stream and as long as you know the offset of the first character and the above table, you can "decompress" it without need for any spaces - you just read till you reach one of "legal combinations" and cut at it. 10111000101011101101110 101 - D 110 - E 00 - A.... Unfortunately "Morse Code" isn't "complete" in the above sense - you can't arbitrarily concatenate its characters - "eee" would be equivalent to "s" etc. The problem with the above is that you can't tap in the middle of the stream, without knowing start position of a character, and one bit lost garbles whole stream.
Make the beacons more dense. Make them infinitely dense. You get the same thing. Actual conductor with two actual signals that have their local space-time properties that locally overlaying create some feature. Now the signals change in time that the feature appears continuously in different places at speed higher than light, but its appearing at one point of the conductor isn't result of it appearing at a different end of the signal.
Another lightspeed-exceeding experment. Simpler, faster and continuous. Take two lasers. Point them almost-paralell at the moon, so they meet on its surface in a single point. Now turn them towards each other so the point of intersection travels towards Earth. If you turn them fast enough, the intersection will travel much faster than light. It's definitely a distinguished feature (do the same with 1000 lasers of medium power and anything in the "traveling point" will get burned while things in single rays remain unharmed! Definitely a specific point!) and it "travels" faster than light. Still, you only "squeeze separate events together", you don't make one continuous transfer.
Note there's very little to the "gentoo way". It automates some boring tasks, while keeping others very "raw". You still manage stuff by editing config files, there are no "managers"... It's just that instead of "wget somewhere/package.tgz; tar -xvzf package.tgz ; cd package ;./configure ; make ; make install" you just type "emerge package" and if "package" requires "library" and it's not present in the system, it will be downloaded and compiled too. And many more such. If you want configure flags, compile time options, gcc parameters, still can be done easily. Gentoo is slack on steroids:)
Of course Debian is a different story. You can't even make install the kernel:)
The problem is the "travel" is ilusionary. It's that the same effect -appears- in different places at distance/time higher than light, but it's not traveling. Imagine this:
A probe going to Moon drops 100 "beacons" every 1% of the route. The beacons have light receptors, precise clocks and flashlights. Send a flash from earth. Each beacon upon receiving it, starts the clock. The signal gets reflected from the Moon, gets back to Earth, the return signal puts an "end mark" on the clocks. The beacon by Earth has almost 3s between start and end signal. The one by the Moon, almost none.
Now all the beacons reset their clocks forward by half the period between the signals. Technically, non-relativistically speaking, they all run at the same time (though if you travelled from one to another with a clock in hand, they would be all different, because of relativistic effects on you and your clock...)
Now set the flashlight timers to blink the flashlights in order from Moon to Earth with delay of 0.001s from each other. Effect: Observed from Mars or somewhere else far, the flash "wanders" at 10x the speed of light from Moon to Earth.
The problem with it is that the flash doesn't really travel. One flash isn't caused by the previous one, but by a separate events that get synchronised at speed of light or slower, Information won't get from Moon to Earth at speed higher than light and in fact from Earth you will see the beacon just by Earth to blink before the one by the Moon - because its light reaches you faster, even though it fired later.
Broken speed of light? No. The fact that things occur in distinct places independently in very short time doesn't imply anything travelled between these places at any speed.
According to Google: the speed of light = 670 616 629 miles per hour the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s the speed of light = 1.07925285 × 10^9 kilometers per hour
So, someone lost some zeros... (we'd be pretty screwed if light was 1000 times slower. Imagine some 10MHZ CPU max...
Slackware got mostly replaced by Gentoo on its position of "zealot distro", but Gentoo+Portage requires helluva horsepower under the hood unless you want to wait a week for OpenOffice upgrade. Slackware still is a viable choice for everyone who wants to learn the inner workings of Linux and uses some CPU running below 1GHZ.
Are you telling me that you think the US government outlawing spam would have zero effect on worldwide spam?
No, it would cause a great movement in outsourcing all the spam to Korea, Taiwan etc.
Or that if the governments of the world outlawed spam it would have no effect outside of America?
They won't. Not all of them. And even if one doesn't, spam will still exist.
if all the first world nations declared spam a serious crime...then all the spam would come from third world.
Things that affect the Internet start everywhere -- including:insert your country name here:. Yes, and that's the problem: Outlaw it in 95% of places, it will move to the remaining 5%. Outlaw it in 100% of places, it will come from 5% where the law isn't enforced. Best warez come from Russia.
If we all work together unilaterally, we all have a universal impact. That's the utopia. There's always a small percent of "rogue" people/countries/domains and they won't cooperate - and spam is one of effects that needs very little resources to affect everyone. Sure, this would decrease the amount of spam significantly. But as long as spam won't automatically launch a IP-to-geodata lookup and launch of earth-to-earth long range missile at the site found, spammers will keep spamming.
What would work though?
Make BUYING from a spammer a fellony in all first world countries. The rest of the world won't be enough to finance the spammers operations. And without cash flow, spam will wither away really quickly.
I keep business cards. Once a month I make my wallet 50% thinner by removing all the non-essential stuff like business cards, receipts etc. I put them in a bag and stuff it in a locker in my room. It usually takes 1-2 hours to find something there, luckily I hardly ever need to. Maintaining 800 entries in an electronic medium is easy. Do the same with business cards.
I pay bills by check, the checks are written out in ink.
Time to fill in an online form of internet banking - 4 minutes. Time to fill in a cheque - 2 minutes. Time to log in/ log out of the system: 1 minute. Drive to the offices of the corresponding service, wait in queue to hand over the bill and cheque - 40 minutes.
Financial records are all kept on paper. Syncing income/expenses to a computer is tedious. I used to scan invoices but that got tiresome
Now find an invoice from 6 years ago, where all you remember is second part of the company name...
About the most high-tech thing I do in business is ssh into a shell account to check my mail and update notes.
My boss would do that. But he was the first to get accelerated gfx card and fastest CPU for his computer. Never made use of them.
I'd rather call someone on the phone or have a secretary do the typing over sitting down and writing some email. Directing someone by phone takes 30 seconds. Writing an email usually takes much longer, and is much higher latency feedback.
Find the number and dial it - 20s. Wait for autoresponder to put you through to the operator (you don't know the ext). 30s. Talk to the operator: 10s. Wait for the person in question to pick up the phone: 10s. Talk: 30s. Say good-bye and hang up. Remember you had something important to add. Repeat all of the above, except talking will take 5s. Then at 4AM realize you probably didn't make yourself clear enough and the guy will screw it up. Actually he screws up because he didn't remember what you say.
Now find the email in addressbook - 5s. Click "compose", type in your message - 40s. Reread, fixing typos and checking if it's all clear and understandable. - 20s. Stop to think if you said all you were to say was said and add whatever is missing (15s). Click "send". Now the guy prints it out and has for a clear reference.
Most commercial software is mind-bogglingly complicated.
True. So get some of the minority (commercial or not) that does what you want efficiently without too much overhead.
Prefer to print documents out because ensuring that I always have a device that can read their electronic form wherever I can take the stack of paper with me is an annoyance.
For me it's annoyance to retype, rewrite, xero, carry around, search through the files...
Not exactly. Pause between chars, space are encoded as longer dealys. You can distinguish.-.- from.-.- but a byte can contain only 0101, no spaces between bits.
Gimp doesn't kick Photoshop ass. Gimp is a decent substitute. Given choice, get a raise or have commercially licensed Photoshop installed at your workplace (not essential but useful), what would you choose? I choose the raise and Gimp.
I had the "pleasure" of performing a heavy number crunching on a P4 laptop. Luckily it was winter and one of the rooms in my house is unheated. Leaving the laptop there (temp. about +3C) with bottom lifted off the floor by some books to allow free access to the built-in fan prevented it from entering thermal throttling mode and allowed it to run at full speed...
It's as right direction for protected digital music, as beating a girl till she's unconscious is the right direction for raping her without her disturbing.
Sorry. I don't see future for that. Yes, writing your own syntax rules with XML, okay. But as an editable compiler abstraction layer. Not as a part of the program itself
Arbitrarily picked. You work on your current task. You get tired, nervous, stressed. You make yourself a coffee and switch to your pet project. You calm down. once you calmed down, you go back to your current work. Repeat twice a day, for a hour.
Holy shit. Being fuckin'drunk near barfing all over my keyboard (without evem looking at the Gayes' pics) I seem to understand that site. (or at;east I think so).
Slashdot Mirror
No idea about the "bio-morse". I just told you about the "standard morse code".
....
Variable length chars can be still encoded as bit stream - using i.e. the huffman algorithm.
Say, you have 7-char set ABCDEFG where chars appear in proportions: 25%:25%:20%:10%:10%:5%:5% - split by probablity, roughly in half, one half "more frequent", the other "less" - assigning each branch a bit value:
AB - 0, CDEFG -1.
Porceed recursively appending new "split ID bits" till you have separate characters:
(0)0 - A, (0)1 - B, (1)0 - CD, (1)1 - EFG
(00) - A, (01) - B, (10)0 - C, (10)1 - D, (11)0 - E, (11)1 - FG
(00) - A, (01) - B, (100) - C, (101) - D, (110) - E, (111)0 - F, (111)1-G
Ready table:
00 - A, 01 - B, 100 - C, 101 - D, 110 - E, 1110 - F, 1111-G
Now you can write a continuous binary stream and as long as you know the offset of the first character and the above table, you can "decompress" it without need for any spaces - you just read till you reach one of "legal combinations" and cut at it.
10111000101011101101110
101 - D
110 - E
00 - A
Unfortunately "Morse Code" isn't "complete" in the above sense - you can't arbitrarily concatenate its characters - "eee" would be equivalent to "s" etc.
The problem with the above is that you can't tap in the middle of the stream, without knowing start position of a character, and one bit lost garbles whole stream.
Make the beacons more dense. Make them infinitely dense. You get the same thing.
Actual conductor with two actual signals that have their local space-time properties that locally overlaying create some feature. Now the signals change in time that the feature appears continuously in different places at speed higher than light, but its appearing at one point of the conductor isn't result of it appearing at a different end of the signal.
Another lightspeed-exceeding experment. Simpler, faster and continuous.
Take two lasers. Point them almost-paralell at the moon, so they meet on its surface in a single point. Now turn them towards each other so the point of intersection travels towards Earth. If you turn them fast enough, the intersection will travel much faster than light. It's definitely a distinguished feature (do the same with 1000 lasers of medium power and anything in the "traveling point" will get burned while things in single rays remain unharmed! Definitely a specific point!) and it "travels" faster than light. Still, you only "squeeze separate events together", you don't make one continuous transfer.
Note there's very little to the "gentoo way". It automates some boring tasks, while keeping others very "raw". You still manage stuff by editing config files, there are no "managers"... It's just that instead of "wget somewhere/package.tgz; tar -xvzf package.tgz ; cd package ; ./configure ; make ; make install" you just type "emerge package" and if "package" requires "library" and it's not present in the system, it will be downloaded and compiled too. And many more such. If you want configure flags, compile time options, gcc parameters, still can be done easily. Gentoo is slack on steroids :)
:)
Of course Debian is a different story. You can't even make install the kernel
The problem is the "travel" is ilusionary. It's that the same effect -appears- in different places at distance/time higher than light, but it's not traveling.
Imagine this:
A probe going to Moon drops 100 "beacons" every 1% of the route. The beacons have light receptors, precise clocks and flashlights. Send a flash from earth. Each beacon upon receiving it, starts the clock. The signal gets reflected from the Moon, gets back to Earth, the return signal puts an "end mark" on the clocks. The beacon by Earth has almost 3s between start and end signal. The one by the Moon, almost none.
Now all the beacons reset their clocks forward by half the period between the signals. Technically, non-relativistically speaking, they all run at the same time (though if you travelled from one to another with a clock in hand, they would be all different, because of relativistic effects on you and your clock...)
Now set the flashlight timers to blink the flashlights in order from Moon to Earth with delay of 0.001s from each other. Effect: Observed from Mars or somewhere else far, the flash "wanders" at 10x the speed of light from Moon to Earth.
The problem with it is that the flash doesn't really travel. One flash isn't caused by the previous one, but by a separate events that get synchronised at speed of light or slower, Information won't get from Moon to Earth at speed higher than light and in fact from Earth you will see the beacon just by Earth to blink before the one by the Moon - because its light reaches you faster, even though it fired later.
Broken speed of light? No. The fact that things occur in distinct places independently in very short time doesn't imply anything travelled between these places at any speed.
According to Google:
the speed of light = 670 616 629 miles per hour
the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s
the speed of light = 1.07925285 × 10^9 kilometers per hour
So, someone lost some zeros... (we'd be pretty screwed if light was 1000 times slower. Imagine some 10MHZ CPU max...
"I thought morality encompassed such things as the rights to life, liberty and property."
Yes. And much, much more, like not swearing, like going to church every Sunday, like not touching a woman -ever-...
The interest of state is just some commonly accepted, important parts of the general concept of morality. Not -all- of it.
Get arrested for farting because environmental care is the interest of the government? Maybe better limit the law to REALLY harmful emissions?
I believe it's -running- flawlessly.
But how long does "emerge world" with updated KDE, Mozilla and OpenOffice take?
Slackware got mostly replaced by Gentoo on its position of "zealot distro", but Gentoo+Portage requires helluva horsepower under the hood unless you want to wait a week for OpenOffice upgrade. Slackware still is a viable choice for everyone who wants to learn the inner workings of Linux and uses some CPU running below 1GHZ.
Are you telling me that you think the US government outlawing spam would have zero effect on worldwide spam?
...then all the spam would come from third world.
:insert your country name here:.
No, it would cause a great movement in outsourcing all the spam to Korea, Taiwan etc.
Or that if the governments of the world outlawed spam it would have no effect outside of America?
They won't. Not all of them. And even if one doesn't, spam will still exist.
if all the first world nations declared spam a serious crime
Things that affect the Internet start everywhere -- including
Yes, and that's the problem: Outlaw it in 95% of places, it will move to the remaining 5%. Outlaw it in 100% of places, it will come from 5% where the law isn't enforced. Best warez come from Russia.
If we all work together unilaterally, we all have a universal impact.
That's the utopia. There's always a small percent of "rogue" people/countries/domains and they won't cooperate - and spam is one of effects that needs very little resources to affect everyone.
Sure, this would decrease the amount of spam significantly. But as long as spam won't automatically launch a IP-to-geodata lookup and launch of earth-to-earth long range missile at the site found, spammers will keep spamming.
What would work though?
Make BUYING from a spammer a fellony in all first world countries.
The rest of the world won't be enough to finance the spammers operations. And without cash flow, spam will wither away really quickly.
Today. I don't know, chineese, japaneese, korean or whatever, but had a lot of these funny characters.
The only way for spam to finally be filtered and gone
Local government and local spammers won't filter and make foreign spam to be gone
The only way for spam to finally be filtered and gone would be for the government to make it a felony to send spam
Government of what? Of the Planet Earth?
Excuse me, but you, Americans, aren't the only nation in the world who sends spam.
I keep business cards.
Once a month I make my wallet 50% thinner by removing all the non-essential stuff like business cards, receipts etc. I put them in a bag and stuff it in a locker in my room. It usually takes 1-2 hours to find something there, luckily I hardly ever need to.
Maintaining 800 entries in an electronic medium is easy. Do the same with business cards.
I pay bills by check, the checks are written out in ink.
Time to fill in an online form of internet banking - 4 minutes.
Time to fill in a cheque - 2 minutes.
Time to log in/ log out of the system: 1 minute.
Drive to the offices of the corresponding service, wait in queue to hand over the bill and cheque - 40 minutes.
Financial records are all kept on paper. Syncing income/expenses to a computer is tedious. I used to scan invoices but that got tiresome
Now find an invoice from 6 years ago, where all you remember is second part of the company name...
About the most high-tech thing I do in business is ssh into a shell account to check my mail and update notes.
My boss would do that. But he was the first to get accelerated gfx card and fastest CPU for his computer. Never made use of them.
I'd rather call someone on the phone or have a secretary do the typing over sitting down and writing some email. Directing someone by phone takes 30 seconds. Writing an email usually takes much longer, and is much higher latency feedback.
Find the number and dial it - 20s. Wait for autoresponder to put you through to the operator (you don't know the ext). 30s. Talk to the operator: 10s. Wait for the person in question to pick up the phone: 10s. Talk: 30s. Say good-bye and hang up. Remember you had something important to add. Repeat all of the above, except talking will take 5s. Then at 4AM realize you probably didn't make yourself clear enough and the guy will screw it up. Actually he screws up because he didn't remember what you say.
Now find the email in addressbook - 5s. Click "compose", type in your message - 40s. Reread, fixing typos and checking if it's all clear and understandable. - 20s. Stop to think if you said all you were to say was said and add whatever is missing (15s). Click "send". Now the guy prints it out and has for a clear reference.
Most commercial software is mind-bogglingly complicated.
True. So get some of the minority (commercial or not) that does what you want efficiently without too much overhead.
Prefer to print documents out because ensuring that I always have a device that can read their electronic form wherever I can take the stack of paper with me is an annoyance.
For me it's annoyance to retype, rewrite, xero, carry around, search through the files...
I'm 24.
I'm quite a bit older than you.
Not exactly. Pause between chars, space are encoded as longer dealys. You can distinguish .- .- from .-.- but a byte can contain only 0101, no spaces between bits.
Gimp doesn't kick Photoshop ass. Gimp is a decent substitute.
Given choice, get a raise or have commercially licensed Photoshop installed at your workplace (not essential but useful), what would you choose?
I choose the raise and Gimp.
I guess Centrino beats P4 in speed of falling off the desk as well.
...with the fan attached or without?
I had the "pleasure" of performing a heavy number crunching on a P4 laptop. Luckily it was winter and one of the rooms in my house is unheated. Leaving the laptop there (temp. about +3C) with bottom lifted off the floor by some books to allow free access to the built-in fan prevented it from entering thermal throttling mode and allowed it to run at full speed...
Steve Ballmer!
He works really hard on Linux. That is, on destroying Linux.
It's as right direction for protected digital music, as beating a girl till she's unconscious is the right direction for raping her without her disturbing.
Just a few articles below.
Admit. Then bend over. Spanking time.
Whoever designed the angle brackets as delimeters for XML certainly didn't read the sacred Long Options manuscript.
Shame and Sin.
XML has one serious disadvantage: It's awfully verbose. You may argue what is more readable,
i++;
or
myIndex.math.increment();
but it's hard to argue about
<math operation="increment"><variable type="integer">i</variable></math>
Sorry. I don't see future for that.
Yes, writing your own syntax rules with XML, okay. But as an editable compiler abstraction layer. Not as a part of the program itself
Arbitrarily picked. You work on your current task. You get tired, nervous, stressed. You make yourself a coffee and switch to your pet project. You calm down. once you calmed down, you go back to your current work. Repeat twice a day, for a hour.
Holy shit. ;east I think so).
Being fuckin'drunk near barfing all over my keyboard (without evem looking at the Gayes' pics) I seem to understand that site. (or at
hippocampus - is that some kind of horse sex university?
(drinking the last of the russian spirit and passing out/off/away *always sucked at phrasal verbs at english*)