Just like coca cola is subset of drink containers. Nope. Cola is subset of drinks. A dirty ugly mug is subset of drink containers.
Communism is about economy. Totalitarism is about politics.
If you drink Cola from a dirty mug, with hairs and dirt and pieces of pasta, it's sure you will dislike it. That's about what totalitarian governments were serving by forcing people to accept communism.
You might have a problem convincing the Kulaks Uncle Joe killed of that, or maybe the victims of the Khmer Rouge, or the protesters of Tiannamen Square or those that starved to death in Mao's "Great Leap Forward", or the victims of biological and chemical experimentation on humans in North Korea, or thise living in a stagnant economy and repression in Cuba.
Err, let me correct myself before a flame war emerges. US is [b]supposed to be[/b] capitalism in economy, democracy in politics. What it really is, due to all patent issues, corporate influences, lobbies, hidden powers etc is beyond me. Certainly not democracy or capitalism as dictionaries defines them.
Soviet Union was communism in economy, totalitarism in politics. US is capitalism in economy, democracy in politics.
Microsoft is capitalism in economy, totalitarism in politics. Free Software is communism in economy, democracy in politics.
Communism is a good thing, unfortunately it appears way too often accompanied by totalitarism which wastes all profit communism could provide, and gives otherwise very good ideals a really bad name.
...and will keep doing so till it dies natural death. The only difference between "low-yield" and "high-yield" cartridges is that "low-yield" are sold half-empty anyway.
I actually like that fact that Xerox doesn't seem to ship the low-yield variant.
Spend $20 on low-yield, $30 on 3 "double" refill sets till cartridge dies. Cost: $50, print: 6.5 cartridgefuls of ink. Spend $40 on high-yield, $30 on 3 "double" refill sets till cartridge dies. Cost: $70, print: 7 cartridgefuls of ink.
Fuck you!!! Fuck you all dammit ! Stick a porcupine up your ass! You know you love it! Now stick a pineapple up your ass! You know you love it! Now stick a pinecone up your ass! You know you love it! You are all stuck up mama's boys!! heeyah!!!!
You work for Xerox, don't you? Wasn't that you, by a chance, who designed that pieces of crap the guy removed to insert the cartridges?
yeah... Buy a new Canon bundled with 2 cartridges (1 color, 1 black). Print 5 pages. Go, buy new cartridges. The ones that came with the printer are empty.
Yeah, that's what they do: New printer comes with almost empty cartridges.
Think buying a new car with not enough fuel to get to the nearest gas station.
Not per liter. Per standarised printout page in "normal" quality. This design would prefer ineffective, dumb printers that squirt out whole cartridge in 50 pages, over those that save ink and on a cartridge the same size can print 500 pages in even better quality. Say, they charge 50% less for 1 liter of ink, but they use 300% more of it.
re:different ink. That's why you have all that "adjust" settings. Scan a photo and print it on the same multi-function machine, with original ink and photo-paper. It will be FAR from original. Not necessarily bad, but different. Using originals doesn't grant exact duplicating of original colors any more than using 3rd party replacement cartridges. You just always need to tweak stuff by hand.
RFID are ranged devices. Scenario 1. Put 3rd party cartridge into printer, place original, old cartridge on top of the printer. The printer works, receiving ID from old cartridge, drawing ink from the new one. Scenario 2. two printers of different brand, each with original cartridge, on one desk. One printer receives ID from 2 different cartridges and thinking you try to cheat it like in scenario 1, locks up.
Of course if it was implemented on-chip in the cartridge, read through wires...
1) Convert to Hex. 2) Map onto some letters. With redundancy (2+ letters to one number) 3) Map letters into words containing them. Create sentences. 4) Map sentences into sequences of images (just imagine things described by sentences). May be very abstract/ridiculous, no problem. 5) Store images in memory.
Reverse order to recover data.
Re:just find a clever encoding scheme
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But... that IS what they do! They encode the data into easily rememberable kind they don't compress it, but rather expand - creating stories, images, pictures, sentences, through the "mnemotechnic memory" technique. Then they decode it just the same way.
Say, you have a memory medium that can remember arbitrary values from 0 to 256, it has a plenty of room, but it tends to float lightly, i.e. 128 may become 120 or 140 or 100, but not 20 or 210. So for your purpose instead recording byte values, you recode them to binary and record every "1" as two 255's and every "0" as two 0's, then record them. You need 16 bytes of your diskspace to store 1 byte, but it will NOT get lost - only really strong corruption could change the results...
...unless you introduce some your own "proprietary" way of mangling. Say, you attach _ at the end of every password of yours, or use , instead of . and you waste every dictionary-based attack, even being VERY close to the right password doesn't matter. Not in dictionary - won't happen. And the number of possible substitutions... too big.
I prefer passwords written down on stuff. Typing this from a Toshiba laptop, with sticker "Contains: Nickel-Cadmium, Nickel-Metal Hybride, and/or Lithium Ion battery" on the bottom. The root password is c:n-c,n-mh Yeah, find my IP and get through NAT.:P
The Picture/story method is the more common (it's not easy to make up rhymes at once) but the trick is the picture has nothing in common with the object you want to remember!
Think you want to remember in pronounciation: R=4 G,K=6 S=0 V=8 D=1 So number 46408116 can be represented by sentence: RoGeR iS VooDoo DucK
Now imagine your friend Roger covered with feathers, with lots of pins in his body. Ridiculous? Yes, but hard to forget. And then using the same key as for creating the words, you recover the number from the sentence describing the ridiculous image/story.
Take some poem, lyrics of a song, some text you know by heart. Pick all first (last) letters of each word. Include all punctation marks when needed. Convert to 31337 H4X0R speech. On some specific pattern (i.e. first letter of every verse) add Shift. Trivial to make up on the fly.
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Just like coca cola is subset of drink containers.
Nope. Cola is subset of drinks.
A dirty ugly mug is subset of drink containers.
Communism is about economy.
Totalitarism is about politics.
If you drink Cola from a dirty mug, with hairs and dirt and pieces of pasta, it's sure you will dislike it. That's about what totalitarian governments were serving by forcing people to accept communism.
Confusing again.
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Economics systems:
Communism
Socialism
Capitalism
Feuda
Political systems:
Democracy
Nasism
Fascism
(the two being some of kinds of Totalitarism)
Monarchy
Every country needs both. Some combinations are impossible or cause awful twists of connected systems.
You might have a problem convincing the Kulaks Uncle Joe killed of that, or maybe the victims of the Khmer Rouge, or the protesters of Tiannamen Square or those that starved to death in Mao's "Great Leap Forward", or the victims of biological and chemical experimentation on humans in North Korea, or thise living in a stagnant economy and repression in Cuba.
Confusing communism with totalitarism. Yet again.
Err, let me correct myself before a flame war emerges.
US is [b]supposed to be[/b] capitalism in economy, democracy in politics.
What it really is, due to all patent issues, corporate influences, lobbies, hidden powers etc is beyond me. Certainly not democracy or capitalism as dictionaries defines them.
Soviet Union was communism in economy, totalitarism in politics.
US is capitalism in economy, democracy in politics.
Microsoft is capitalism in economy, totalitarism in politics.
Free Software is communism in economy, democracy in politics.
Communism is a good thing, unfortunately it appears way too often accompanied by totalitarism which wastes all profit communism could provide, and gives otherwise very good ideals a really bad name.
Tell us so we could avoid buying their products!
...and will keep doing so till it dies natural death. The only difference between "low-yield" and "high-yield" cartridges is that "low-yield" are sold half-empty anyway.
I actually like that fact that Xerox doesn't seem to ship the low-yield variant.
Spend $20 on low-yield, $30 on 3 "double" refill sets till cartridge dies. Cost: $50, print: 6.5 cartridgefuls of ink.
Spend $40 on high-yield, $30 on 3 "double" refill sets till cartridge dies. Cost: $70, print: 7 cartridgefuls of ink.
Yeah. Remove a useless piece of plastic. "Circumvention of copy-protection device".
Fuck you!!! Fuck you all dammit ! Stick a porcupine up your ass! You know you love it! Now stick a pineapple up your ass! You know you love it! Now stick a pinecone up your ass! You know you love it! You are all stuck up mama's boys!! heeyah!!!!
You work for Xerox, don't you?
Wasn't that you, by a chance, who designed that pieces of crap the guy removed to insert the cartridges?
yeah...
Buy a new Canon bundled with 2 cartridges (1 color, 1 black).
Print 5 pages.
Go, buy new cartridges. The ones that came with the printer are empty.
Yeah, that's what they do: New printer comes with almost empty cartridges.
Think buying a new car with not enough fuel to get to the nearest gas station.
USB driver and two superb optical encoders too!
Not per liter. Per standarised printout page in "normal" quality.
This design would prefer ineffective, dumb printers that squirt out whole cartridge in 50 pages, over those that save ink and on a cartridge the same size can print 500 pages in even better quality. Say, they charge 50% less for 1 liter of ink, but they use 300% more of it.
re:different ink. That's why you have all that "adjust" settings. Scan a photo and print it on the same multi-function machine, with original ink and photo-paper. It will be FAR from original. Not necessarily bad, but different. Using originals doesn't grant exact duplicating of original colors any more than using 3rd party replacement cartridges. You just always need to tweak stuff by hand.
RFID are ranged devices.
Scenario 1.
Put 3rd party cartridge into printer, place original, old cartridge on top of the printer. The printer works, receiving ID from old cartridge, drawing ink from the new one.
Scenario 2. two printers of different brand, each with original cartridge, on one desk. One printer receives ID from 2 different cartridges and thinking you try to cheat it like in scenario 1, locks up.
Of course if it was implemented on-chip in the cartridge, read through wires...
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2004/03/06.html
http://www.groklaw.net/
Just compare and tell who stole whose webdesign, or maybe which template does it come from?
Ian Holm (Bilbo) or Ian McKellen (Gandalf)???
1) Convert to Hex.
2) Map onto some letters. With redundancy (2+ letters to one number)
3) Map letters into words containing them. Create sentences.
4) Map sentences into sequences of images (just imagine things described by sentences). May be very abstract/ridiculous, no problem.
5) Store images in memory.
Reverse order to recover data.
But... that IS what they do!
They encode the data into easily rememberable kind they don't compress it, but rather expand - creating stories, images, pictures, sentences, through the "mnemotechnic memory" technique. Then they decode it just the same way.
Say, you have a memory medium that can remember arbitrary values from 0 to 256, it has a plenty of room, but it tends to float lightly, i.e. 128 may become 120 or 140 or 100, but not 20 or 210. So for your purpose instead recording byte values, you recode them to binary and record every "1" as two 255's and every "0" as two 0's, then record them. You need 16 bytes of your diskspace to store 1 byte, but it will NOT get lost - only really strong corruption could change the results...
...unless you introduce some your own "proprietary" way of mangling.
Say, you attach _ at the end of every password of yours, or use , instead of . and you waste every dictionary-based attack, even being VERY close to the right password doesn't matter. Not in dictionary - won't happen. And the number of possible substitutions... too big.
I prefer passwords written down on stuff. :P
Typing this from a Toshiba laptop, with sticker "Contains: Nickel-Cadmium, Nickel-Metal Hybride, and/or Lithium Ion battery" on the bottom.
The root password is
c:n-c,n-mh
Yeah, find my IP and get through NAT.
The Picture/story method is the more common (it's not easy to make up rhymes at once) but the trick is the picture has nothing in common with the object you want to remember!
Think you want to remember
in pronounciation:
R=4
G,K=6
S=0
V=8
D=1
So number 46408116 can be represented by sentence:
RoGeR iS VooDoo DucK
Now imagine your friend Roger covered with feathers, with lots of pins in his body. Ridiculous? Yes, but hard to forget. And then using the same key as for creating the words, you recover the number from the sentence describing the ridiculous image/story.
> do you actually need to memorize random strings of numbers
PIN codes, phone numbers, ID numbers, passwords, registration numbers.
They are hardly ever as long as 150 digits but they are EXTREMELY common.
> Instead, our brains are much better suited to recognizing patterns
RTFA, that's what the whole concept is based on. Just associate symbols with patterns/images and then create a story/image based on the set created.
Take some poem, lyrics of a song, some text you know by heart.
Pick all first (last) letters of each word. Include all punctation marks when needed.
Convert to 31337 H4X0R speech.
On some specific pattern (i.e. first letter of every verse) add Shift.
Trivial to make up on the fly.
Open source program for training mnemotechnic memory:
Mnemesis
The rim hits the ground.
The magnet gets powdered.
Goodbye, wheel. Whole rim with the magnet needs to be replaced.