I sometimes wonder if everyone else lives in a world where 1 is 0 and up is down.
SCO wants to see more, because they are clutching at straws, yes you can say "IBM ordered to" but this is probably the judge giving SCO one last shot before he brings our the red hot castrating irons.
It is wrong to setup a voluntary "I pledge to rape an SCO lawyer if they win" campaign? Then we can screw them instead of them screwing everyone else.
He made a complaint, it isn't illegal to complaint to an ISP, even if you are LYING THROUGH YOUR TEETH.
If the ISP takes action, based on thier investigation into your claims, then the ISP is liable, EXCEPT the ISP has in thier nice TOS that they can shaft a splintery wooden pike into your rear end and taunt you while dressing you in pink clothes, and you still can't do anything about it. Oh, and they can terminate your service at any time.
So, the spammers had better KY up if they are taking this to court.
Now, like I said, you can lie through your teeth, and it is the ISP's job to say, hey dude, shut up, you are lying, and if you are a customer of thiers, probably pull the plug on you.
So spammers, go to heck!! I should have been a lawyer, but I would have raped the judged eye socket and shit in the jurors seats if they things were looking bad for me.
Google suggest actually PULLS DOWN results and thier number of hits, in real time, while you type. It is FSCKING AWESOME. As you type, br, it highlights britney spears 32459823745972395723957 hits, or brocolli pie 32459823745972395723957 + 1 hits.
Here is the link because it is twatish to find:
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&complete=1
And for the dude complaining about pr0n images, they already have an image search ok, and that has content filter ok, and there you go, quit complaining.
That is like saying, Ford's new car is out, but shit, what if I hit someone with it? i.e. this doesn't change the playing field for image seach at all, and the images ARE not a big part of this.
They are just integrating all thier tabs. I like the complete thingy they do. Nice javascript works in FF too.
If it is voice activated, then songs that contain:
"next" "forward" "back" "stop" "go"
and are played on the in car system would have to be filtered out (i.e. check what was just played, and cancel that from the microphone) this will also allow you to whisper to it even when playing aqua at volume 11.
Referencing going postal, the semaphor towers would be the 'optical fibre' in discworld they erect a canvas sheeting to block the LOS between two towers, and:
a) send a sequence of messages to jam the machanics (a 'woodpecker' ala a buffer overflow worm) b) send a creepy posthumous message
I am sure after they spend loads on quantum cryptography, and tell all theit employees that QUANTUM is protecting them, it will be easier than ever to call up and ask for the email they just received over quantum to be faxed to your office, because your 'damned' quantum line is down again.
I do care about the proposed formats and raw formats (regarding adobes plight to make thier own raw digital camera format, even though they do not even *make* digital cameras!!
A digital camera is a commodity, the data is important! I couldn't give a fsck or a fdisk how my camera works, just give me the damn bits at the end of it!
Do you care how your DVD player works? Mine was 25 squids are amazon... likewise I don't care how my usb drive works...
sometimes even a geek has to stop prodding!! (except when you are unlocking a $9 camera to download the pics by yourself!!!!:-)
Also: If you buy a decent enough camera, you can suggest that you are going ot be using it as is, with the wisom of the company, to make more money/have a better time, doing what you like, taking pictures, not stuck in a poorly lit room, with a screwdriver!!!
Do some people mark their head board with warranties broken rather than women they have scored with?:-)
The whole point is, a google bomb works. If you type cisco, and cisco come up first, it is because of a google bomb.
Google ranks a link with the same word linking to it higher, which makes sense.
Why do spammers use blogs to post comments? because they have a high pagerank, because many people link to them. If a spammer makes his own blog, then no matter how many times his link to www.viagra-for-goats.com he wont budge its page rank unless someone slashdots the twat (why doesn't slashdot add this by tomorrow? what does google browse at? +5 ??:-) )
I hope the whole of/. is no-follow actually, as/. doesn't need to be indexed by google.
Back to the point, spammers need high page rank sites to leech page rank off them, they cannot do it alone easily.
Now, I suggested way back that people install a server side url obfuscator that would fsck over google (it wouldn't read viagra-for-goats.com but mysite.com?golink=foo.blah) and kill google from hitting those links (on the no-follow of the redirect page)
this was working then, but peope are lazy to upgrade thier blog/site software.
I noticed now a few blogs are doing it, and by validating email addresses it stops people putting web urls as email addresses,with keywords as thier name (this should be highlighted to all devs as well).
spam I got today: Courtney Cox already has a rolax! Get yours! antisemitic
No it isn't. Huffman works well with small datasets, larger data sets it also works well, but you have to change the ganularity of the encoder.
Huffman is typically done on bytes, but using a multi-resolution view of the data (which maybe what arithmetic encoding does?) would achieve the better results.
In any lossless compression, how you view the data as discrete blocks matters, and entropy means the actual undeniable ammount of complexity in that data set. if you look at it in a different discrete block, then the entropy will change.
I agree with you because of one thing: story lines and characters are a part of the technical elements of a game!
I personally like games which give you a highly controllable environment, I think this defines a game.
Even manic miner, walking a dude around the place, the controll of the guy, that is what made me play that game.
So agree except for:...boobs are interesting to 14 year olds, but not me
Heck, I liked boobs at 14, and over a decade later, I like them even more!! I wouldn't say they are an aquired taste, but the more you auire, the more you taste!
Alas, as you get older, they do grow on you (*man boobs*, lol, how much fun can I have on/. in one day?)
XML: data storage format for file formats that contain data Program code: logic and conditions
Yes SVG can have logic, and yes XSLT is a logic language (with XPATH and stuff) written in XML.
But the problem is, XML is designed to be human READABLE (and independant in many ways because of its text structure) NOT intended (or designed!!) to be HUMAN WRITABLE.
Just because you can write SVG in xml, doesn't mean you should. Just because you could replace syntax optimised over 20 years for the depiction of logic, structure and behaviour, with the same essential thing but in XML, doesn't mean you SHOULD!!
You could make a middle ground XML structure that could XSS into.cpp or.java, but why would you want to?
Java 1.4 has a lovely XML codec framework, places any class in memory into an xml state. Lovely thing for massing around with presentation frameworks.
XML, Blogging and a host of other buzzwords are so mistreated and misunderstood, there should be a society setup to protect them from maliscious developers who want to write stuff on thier blogs, because they are cool.
[ot] Second of all, WTF is up with get fuzzy cartoon, why is that wuss dan carabarnaby... (get a real name, one that is easy to spell!) hidding his email address from his contact page?
I am all for frontier like 9 page reviews for wetting your knickers but:
All the reviews of Half-Life 2 that I've read go on and on about the gravity gun, the cool physics, the amazing water effects produced by the Source engine, and how good the level design is. Scarcely a word is mentioned about the potency of the urban dystopia so elegantly realized with City-17; about the brooding, ubiquitous Overwatch and the paranoia it foments; about humanity's growing despondency in the face of the Combine's relentless oppression
Give my jokes about godzilla and nerf gun pictorials over this!:-)
No, I agree that some games you just wanna take to bed and read with you, like GTA:SA, I woudl like to read a lot about that game, the technology, from a developer point of view.
So I would read gamasutra. If I ama game head, which i am not, I would read the tripe magazines, like the one your were interviewed for.
I can't believe you lost the chance to work somewhere with nerf gun fights. Now google is your only chance (until the adsense fraud gets them all hungry again!!:-(
Check my previus posts on this topic for a link to an arithmetic coder source.
Huffman coding isn't chubby. It is gives entropy + 1. Lossless coding is kind of bound by that.
However, compression can beat huffman coding using other advanced dictionary techniques, on larger blocks of data. (which effectively reduces entropy because you are treating the data more coarsly!)
The type of image data contained in a SIF file will be either a compressed JPEG, a compressed 24-bit image, or a compressed 8-bit indexed image. In addition to compressed image data, the SIF format will include a thumbnail of the stored image, plus an extendable set of image attributes (metadata) that could include such information as the type of camera the image was taken on, the resolution of the picture, or even camera specific information such as any custom settings that were active when the picture was taken.
blah blah, I bet they will break EXIF standard on this... silly if they do!
I realise camera manuf. will be interested in this, I would say keep an open mind. I might want to save $10 license costs of your camera, and buy a 1gb card instead of a 700mb card.
I noted that thier 'test' images were comrpessed at 50% quality to jpegs... are they good at compressing virtually lossless (large) jpegs? no word on it as yet.
Well thier white paper doesn't go into details beyond that... so thumbnail view will be normal quick, but viewing an image will still take 8 seconds on todays CPU's.
so, you cut 30% of a download time, but add 8 seconds to the viewing time...
you save bandwidth, but not time. I downloaded thier test image in 4 summat seconds.
Shave 30 percent off that. then add 8 seconds. then add the number you first thought of. I cannot see this making a splash in porn.
So jpeg2000 visible in 4 seconds, thiers in 10. Plus I have a million windows open on a pr0n site, each one takes 8 seconds of real time CPU. nice going. bye bye os. to be fair they list this use (intarwebnet, not pr0n) 3rd, after archiving and posting CD's... (imagine waiting 8 seconds to load each image of a family album (or even the thumbnail!! which is EXIF'd in the image! no more!! perhaps keep exif outside the arithmetic jizzness??)) a thumbnail view of a folder would take like FOREVARRR!!
If stuffit amend thier patent with the idea to embedd this in a jpeg, and not compress the EXIF, well, you read it here first.
I suppose bandwidth arguments are diminishing at the same rate as net usage is developing? so perhaps in the future the idea of a bandwidth hog will be redundant? (after all you choose what to serve on your connection).
I say the net is racing along faster than cpu speeds... but still I am interested from a backup point of view... why did they even tag this to JPEGs? yes that is one very important application of it... I hope the patent doesn't muddy itself with terms like jpeg...
http://sylvana.net/jpeg-ari/uncompressed/READ.tx t
This is basically a better entropy compressor. I am wary of stuffit... this smacks of a little hype. I am glad in one way that a patent means it will be published (anyone have link to patent submission?)
*thinks of other graphics/zip patens and thier success*
mmmm burn all gifs anyone? why do we have png, and are stuffit trying to patent a tweaked arithmetic encoder? Only time will tell.
Disadvantages:
- Waiting an extra 8 seconds to download an image (to decompress)
- no incremental downloads (blurry to refined)
- less redundancy in the data, more error prone
I say all good and stuff, but the patent leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
http://sylvana.net/jpeg-ari/uncompressed/READ.tx t this performs half as good as the stuffit, and the source if available NOW as a tar.gz. lets try and get 31% compression, and stuffit in thier pipe:-)
You couldn't zoom in farther. Fractal images cannot introduce data that isn't there.
Of course, you get a different visualisation of the coarse data set, rather than neat little bucket squares of data, you see the coarse break up of the DR boundaries (which as you say looks like brush strokes)
I remember compressing some nice small dolphins, took ages... on a small pic... on a 900mhz...
fractal is a theory, not an implementation. Within fractal here are hundreds of ways of describing similarities and tranformations between parts of an image. But the time goes up exponentially the more intelligence/operations you add.
Jpeg either uses a block based (8x8 or 16x16) DCT - discrete cosine transformation which basically takes all the importnat parts of the image, and piles them into the top corner (important == large changes, like edges) then it cuts out all the wussy less important changes. the big empty spaces then compress easy using huffman and run legnth encoding.
huffman takes the most frequent code byte, and replaces it with a single bit. huffman gaurantee entropy (ammount of information) +1 compression. the more redundant (human visually, or application dependant) entropy you can discard, the better the huff performance. RLE pre/post huffman works good too.
The reason jpeg2000 does work with dictionary compression is because they are so compressed anyway.
Fractal uses a domain and range scheme, which creates self referencing ranges within domain squares (32x32 and 8x8 perhaps) this referencing build relationships (the the x y type) with possible luminence and rotation offsets.
after one itertation you will basically have a grey screen, as you apply the 'relationship' algorithm in iterations, the relationship details actually BUILD the image!! that is right, true fractal compression store ZERO (0.0) of the original bitmap imagery!
My theory on stuffit? sceptical. I think they have managed to compress jpegs a lot, but not individual jpegs, only big groups of them. (i.e. you take 1 million similar jpegs, and like mjpg or mpeg compression, make a cross file dictionary for them)
If they have got a 30% compression on a SINGLE jpeg (bit lossless, not visually lossless) then I will wet myself.
I was not confusing what a light year was. I was assuming that the radio wave was travelling ~LS (isn't this the case?)
I realised after I posted that they would use galaxies 'that far away' to get a cross section, but then I thought, a cross section of what? radiation from those galaxies? radiation from galaxies behind?
actually, the 3d thingy did look like a FT.
Makes more sense... so they have tried to spot the ripples in the galxy distribution themselves?
not actually some wave that is passing through us right now?
It is all a bit mental to think about (the further away something is, the furthe rint he past it is etc).
the ability to make such judgement about our own intelligence.
I think environmental factors with females are still high to dissuade them from such geeky pursuits.
The problem is, even in the west of west civilisations, if a woman isn't married by 30 she is a liability unto herself.
Now, give that kind of social pressure to anyone, and see how much they like to grow a beard in a lab instead of settle to nesting.
Is this bourne out of control groups? if not, then I would say that the president of harvard has a natural tendancy for not being able to research anything properly.
he was discussing hypotheses based on the scholarly work assembled for the conference
Summers already faced criticism because the number of senior job offers to women has dropped each year of his three-year presidency.
He has promised to work on the problem.
yeah, like hire some freshman lasses into his office, oh yeah baby, come to poppp... pa... oops.
Seriously, who/why/what for are people trying to study such stupidity?
it is like someone with a intel 4 billion gigaherz, and an athlon 4billion+ (3.4billion ghz) running a spectrum emulator written in uberl33t compact assembler code with all the optimization flags, and then talking about how female thermal compound is better than male thermal compound.
i.e. we all use our brains as much as our asses (about once a day regular hopefully) so why fuss over it.
In other news, after reading this, the sexist dude from harvard says more research needs to be done into womens asses.:-)
I wanted to ask google, what happens if I click an ad twice... If I am on a nice site, I click all the google ads. You should do the same.
Why doesn't slashdot have any... *looks at ad block, feels guilty*... well they should put google ads up, i'd click them every day, and even look at the sites... doesn't google ads make sense on/.? (I am always in lynx mode... so maybe in funny ugly graphics mode there are some??)
Also, if I see a M$ related advert, I middle click a good twenty times, and then shut down my browser session.
Slashdot Mirror
I sometimes wonder if everyone else lives in a world where 1 is 0 and up is down.
SCO wants to see more, because they are clutching at straws, yes you can say "IBM ordered to" but this is probably the judge giving SCO one last shot before he brings our the red hot castrating irons.
It is wrong to setup a voluntary "I pledge to rape an SCO lawyer if they win" campaign? Then we can screw them instead of them screwing everyone else.
Something to meditate on as you play gta:sa
If you are going to an internal or IE only site, click your ie link, otherwise hit your intarwebnet link and hey ho up comes firefox...
/. EVAR!! :-)
do you need an application do help wipe your ass as well? This is the lamest ask
0xDECAFFBAD
0xCOFFEEACE
thanks
PS: did anyone spot the seinfeld reference ('right regular, left decaff') and which episode is it in? c'mon it is eeeasy!
He made a complaint, it isn't illegal to complaint to an ISP, even if you are LYING THROUGH YOUR TEETH.
If the ISP takes action, based on thier investigation into your claims, then the ISP is liable, EXCEPT the ISP has in thier nice TOS that they can shaft a splintery wooden pike into your rear end and taunt you while dressing you in pink clothes, and you still can't do anything about it. Oh, and they can terminate your service at any time.
So, the spammers had better KY up if they are taking this to court.
Now, like I said, you can lie through your teeth, and it is the ISP's job to say, hey dude, shut up, you are lying, and if you are a customer of thiers, probably pull the plug on you.
So spammers, go to heck!! I should have been a lawyer, but I would have raped the judged eye socket and shit in the jurors seats if they things were looking bad for me.
Google suggest actually PULLS DOWN results and thier number of hits, in real time, while you type. It is FSCKING AWESOME. As you type, br, it highlights britney spears 32459823745972395723957 hits, or brocolli pie 32459823745972395723957 + 1 hits.
Here is the link because it is twatish to find:
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&complete=1
And for the dude complaining about pr0n images, they already have an image search ok, and that has content filter ok, and there you go, quit complaining.
That is like saying, Ford's new car is out, but shit, what if I hit someone with it? i.e. this doesn't change the playing field for image seach at all, and the images ARE not a big part of this.
They are just integrating all thier tabs. I like the complete thingy they do. Nice javascript works in FF too.
*lick*
If it is voice activated, then songs that contain:
"next" "forward" "back" "stop" "go"
and are played on the in car system would have to be filtered out (i.e. check what was just played, and cancel that from the microphone) this will also allow you to whisper to it even when playing aqua at volume 11.
Except you might actually die.
Referencing going postal, the semaphor towers would be the 'optical fibre' in discworld they erect a canvas sheeting to block the LOS between two towers, and:
a) send a sequence of messages to jam the machanics (a 'woodpecker' ala a buffer overflow worm)
b) send a creepy posthumous message
I am sure after they spend loads on quantum cryptography, and tell all theit employees that QUANTUM is protecting them, it will be easier than ever to call up and ask for the email they just received over quantum to be faxed to your office, because your 'damned' quantum line is down again.
Oh I forgot: ----spoiler warning----
I do care about the proposed formats and raw formats (regarding adobes plight to make thier own raw digital camera format, even though they do not even *make* digital cameras!!
:-)
:-)
A digital camera is a commodity, the data is important! I couldn't give a fsck or a fdisk how my camera works, just give me the damn bits at the end of it!
Do you care how your DVD player works? Mine was 25 squids are amazon... likewise I don't care how my usb drive works...
sometimes even a geek has to stop prodding!! (except when you are unlocking a $9 camera to download the pics by yourself!!!!
Also: If you buy a decent enough camera, you can suggest that you are going ot be using it as is, with the wisom of the company, to make more money/have a better time, doing what you like, taking pictures, not stuck in a poorly lit room, with a screwdriver!!!
Do some people mark their head board with warranties broken rather than women they have scored with?
The whole point is, a google bomb works. If you type cisco, and cisco come up first, it is because of a google bomb.
:-) )
/. is no-follow actually, as /. doesn't need to be indexed by google.
Google ranks a link with the same word linking to it higher, which makes sense.
Why do spammers use blogs to post comments? because they have a high pagerank, because many people link to them. If a spammer makes his own blog, then no matter how many times his link to www.viagra-for-goats.com he wont budge its page rank unless someone slashdots the twat (why doesn't slashdot add this by tomorrow? what does google browse at? +5 ??
I hope the whole of
Back to the point, spammers need high page rank sites to leech page rank off them, they cannot do it alone easily.
Now, I suggested way back that people install a server side url obfuscator that would fsck over google (it wouldn't read viagra-for-goats.com but mysite.com?golink=foo.blah) and kill google from hitting those links (on the no-follow of the redirect page)
this was working then, but peope are lazy to upgrade thier blog/site software.
I noticed now a few blogs are doing it, and by validating email addresses it stops people putting web urls as email addresses,with keywords as thier name (this should be highlighted to all devs as well).
spam I got today: Courtney Cox already has a rolax! Get yours! antisemitic
Stupid spammers. I already have 3 rolaxs.
I was whisking myself up a cold chocolate milk drink to clear my head (sipping it without sugar actually works!!!)
I thought, mmm, some cinnamon.
I put a spoonful in, and drank half of it before I realised that it wasn't cinamon but fine ground 'turkish' coffee.
Fsck me, I couldn't sleep!!
No it isn't. Huffman works well with small datasets, larger data sets it also works well, but you have to change the ganularity of the encoder.
:-)
Huffman is typically done on bytes, but using a multi-resolution view of the data (which maybe what arithmetic encoding does?) would achieve the better results.
In any lossless compression, how you view the data as discrete blocks matters, and entropy means the actual undeniable ammount of complexity in that data set. if you look at it in a different discrete block, then the entropy will change.
So don't knock huffman!
I agree with you because of one thing: story lines and characters are a part of the technical elements of a game!
...boobs are interesting to 14 year olds, but not me
/. in one day?)
I personally like games which give you a highly controllable environment, I think this defines a game.
Even manic miner, walking a dude around the place, the controll of the guy, that is what made me play that game.
So agree except for:
Heck, I liked boobs at 14, and over a decade later, I like them even more!! I wouldn't say they are an aquired taste, but the more you auire, the more you taste!
Alas, as you get older, they do grow on you (*man boobs*, lol, how much fun can I have on
He suggests a definition of a programming language (not a programming language?) in xml.
.emacs"
That is even dumber. Code would compile differently depending on how you specify the language.
That is so dumb, the whole point of a language is STANDARDS, XML is a standard, but that doesn't mean every XML document is a standard.
Making my own Java like compiler spec to give me my fav shortcut is akin to saying:
"yes, my program compiles, if you have my
public static void ignoreArticle(){
return sanity;
}
I really hate that about the internet:
.cpp or .java, but why would you want to?
XML: data storage format for file formats that contain data
Program code: logic and conditions
Yes SVG can have logic, and yes XSLT is a logic language (with XPATH and stuff) written in XML.
But the problem is, XML is designed to be human READABLE (and independant in many ways because of its text structure) NOT intended (or designed!!) to be HUMAN WRITABLE.
Just because you can write SVG in xml, doesn't mean you should. Just because you could replace syntax optimised over 20 years for the depiction of logic, structure and behaviour, with the same essential thing but in XML, doesn't mean you SHOULD!!
You could make a middle ground XML structure that could XSS into
Java 1.4 has a lovely XML codec framework, places any class in memory into an xml state. Lovely thing for massing around with presentation frameworks.
XML, Blogging and a host of other buzzwords are so mistreated and misunderstood, there should be a society setup to protect them from maliscious developers who want to write stuff on thier blogs, because they are cool.
[ot]
Second of all, WTF is up with get fuzzy cartoon, why is that wuss dan carabarnaby... (get a real name, one that is easy to spell!) hidding his email address from his contact page?
I am all for frontier like 9 page reviews for wetting your knickers but:
:-)
:-(
All the reviews of Half-Life 2 that I've read go on and on about the gravity gun, the cool physics, the amazing water effects produced by the Source engine, and how good the level design is. Scarcely a word is mentioned about the potency of the urban dystopia so elegantly realized with City-17; about the brooding, ubiquitous Overwatch and the paranoia it foments; about humanity's growing despondency in the face of the Combine's relentless oppression
Give my jokes about godzilla and nerf gun pictorials over this!
No, I agree that some games you just wanna take to bed and read with you, like GTA:SA, I woudl like to read a lot about that game, the technology, from a developer point of view.
So I would read gamasutra. If I ama game head, which i am not, I would read the tripe magazines, like the one your were interviewed for.
I can't believe you lost the chance to work somewhere with nerf gun fights. Now google is your only chance (until the adsense fraud gets them all hungry again!!
Check my previus posts on this topic for a link to an arithmetic coder source.
:-) :-)
Huffman coding isn't chubby. It is gives entropy + 1. Lossless coding is kind of bound by that.
However, compression can beat huffman coding using other advanced dictionary techniques, on larger blocks of data. (which effectively reduces entropy because you are treating the data more coarsly!)
ok, that is all!
Which isn't even white! :-)
The type of image data contained in a SIF file will be either a compressed JPEG, a compressed 24-bit image, or a compressed 8-bit indexed image. In addition to compressed image data, the SIF format will include a thumbnail of the stored image, plus an extendable set of image attributes (metadata) that could include such information as the type of camera the image was taken on, the resolution of the picture, or even camera specific information such as any custom settings that were active when the picture was taken.
blah blah, I bet they will break EXIF standard on this... silly if they do!
I realise camera manuf. will be interested in this, I would say keep an open mind. I might want to save $10 license costs of your camera, and buy a 1gb card instead of a 700mb card.
I noted that thier 'test' images were comrpessed at 50% quality to jpegs... are they good at compressing virtually lossless (large) jpegs? no word on it as yet.
Well thier white paper doesn't go into details beyond that... so thumbnail view will be normal quick, but viewing an image will still take 8 seconds on todays CPU's.
Count to 8 from 0. 0 elephant 1 elephant....
Really?
so, you cut 30% of a download time, but add 8 seconds to the viewing time...
you save bandwidth, but not time. I downloaded thier test image in 4 summat seconds.
Shave 30 percent off that. then add 8 seconds. then add the number you first thought of. I cannot see this making a splash in porn.
So jpeg2000 visible in 4 seconds, thiers in 10. Plus I have a million windows open on a pr0n site, each one takes 8 seconds of real time CPU. nice going. bye bye os. to be fair they list this use (intarwebnet, not pr0n) 3rd, after archiving and posting CD's... (imagine waiting 8 seconds to load each image of a family album (or even the thumbnail!! which is EXIF'd in the image! no more!! perhaps keep exif outside the arithmetic jizzness??)) a thumbnail view of a folder would take like FOREVARRR!!
If stuffit amend thier patent with the idea to embedd this in a jpeg, and not compress the EXIF, well, you read it here first.
I suppose bandwidth arguments are diminishing at the same rate as net usage is developing? so perhaps in the future the idea of a bandwidth hog will be redundant? (after all you choose what to serve on your connection).
I say the net is racing along faster than cpu speeds... but still I am interested from a backup point of view... why did they even tag this to JPEGs? yes that is one very important application of it... I hope the patent doesn't muddy itself with terms like jpeg...
Here, arithmetic encoding explained:
x t
x t this performs half as good as the stuffit, and the source if available NOW as a tar.gz. lets try and get 31% compression, and stuffit in thier pipe :-)
http://sylvana.net/jpeg-ari/uncompressed/READ.t
This is basically a better entropy compressor. I am wary of stuffit... this smacks of a little hype. I am glad in one way that a patent means it will be published (anyone have link to patent submission?)
*thinks of other graphics/zip patens and thier success*
mmmm burn all gifs anyone? why do we have png, and are stuffit trying to patent a tweaked arithmetic encoder? Only time will tell.
Disadvantages:
- Waiting an extra 8 seconds to download an image (to decompress)
- no incremental downloads (blurry to refined)
- less redundancy in the data, more error prone
I say all good and stuff, but the patent leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
http://sylvana.net/jpeg-ari/uncompressed/READ.t
You couldn't zoom in farther. Fractal images cannot introduce data that isn't there.
Of course, you get a different visualisation of the coarse data set, rather than neat little bucket squares of data, you see the coarse break up of the DR boundaries (which as you say looks like brush strokes)
I remember compressing some nice small dolphins, took ages... on a small pic... on a 900mhz...
fractal is a theory, not an implementation. Within fractal here are hundreds of ways of describing similarities and tranformations between parts of an image. But the time goes up exponentially the more intelligence/operations you add.
I am keen to digest the white paper tonight.
Jpeg either uses a block based (8x8 or 16x16) DCT - discrete cosine transformation which basically takes all the importnat parts of the image, and piles them into the top corner (important == large changes, like edges) then it cuts out all the wussy less important changes. the big empty spaces then compress easy using huffman and run legnth encoding.
huffman takes the most frequent code byte, and replaces it with a single bit. huffman gaurantee entropy (ammount of information) +1 compression. the more redundant (human visually, or application dependant) entropy you can discard, the better the huff performance. RLE pre/post huffman works good too.
The reason jpeg2000 does work with dictionary compression is because they are so compressed anyway.
Fractal uses a domain and range scheme, which creates self referencing ranges within domain squares (32x32 and 8x8 perhaps) this referencing build relationships (the the x y type) with possible luminence and rotation offsets.
after one itertation you will basically have a grey screen, as you apply the 'relationship' algorithm in iterations, the relationship details actually BUILD the image!! that is right, true fractal compression store ZERO (0.0) of the original bitmap imagery!
My theory on stuffit? sceptical. I think they have managed to compress jpegs a lot, but not individual jpegs, only big groups of them. (i.e. you take 1 million similar jpegs, and like mjpg or mpeg compression, make a cross file dictionary for them)
If they have got a 30% compression on a SINGLE jpeg (bit lossless, not visually lossless) then I will wet myself.
I was not confusing what a light year was. I was assuming that the radio wave was travelling ~LS (isn't this the case?)
I realised after I posted that they would use galaxies 'that far away' to get a cross section, but then I thought, a cross section of what? radiation from those galaxies? radiation from galaxies behind?
actually, the 3d thingy did look like a FT.
Makes more sense... so they have tried to spot the ripples in the galxy distribution themselves?
not actually some wave that is passing through us right now?
It is all a bit mental to think about (the further away something is, the furthe rint he past it is etc).
Thanks for your additional insights!
the ability to make such judgement about our own intelligence.
:-)
I think environmental factors with females are still high to dissuade them from such geeky pursuits.
The problem is, even in the west of west civilisations, if a woman isn't married by 30 she is a liability unto herself.
Now, give that kind of social pressure to anyone, and see how much they like to grow a beard in a lab instead of settle to nesting.
Is this bourne out of control groups? if not, then I would say that the president of harvard has a natural tendancy for not being able to research anything properly.
he was discussing hypotheses based on the scholarly work assembled for the conference
Summers already faced criticism because the number of senior job offers to women has dropped each year of his three-year presidency.
He has promised to work on the problem.
yeah, like hire some freshman lasses into his office, oh yeah baby, come to poppp... pa... oops.
Seriously, who/why/what for are people trying to study such stupidity?
it is like someone with a intel 4 billion gigaherz, and an athlon 4billion+ (3.4billion ghz) running a spectrum emulator written in uberl33t compact assembler code with all the optimization flags, and then talking about how female thermal compound is better than male thermal compound.
i.e. we all use our brains as much as our asses (about once a day regular hopefully) so why fuss over it.
In other news, after reading this, the sexist dude from harvard says more research needs to be done into womens asses.
Correct, the common term for your example is a bread crumb trail, like in Hansel and Gretle.
Shinsen? I am just lucky you didn't ctrl-c ctrl-v something more incriminating!
Funny of the day: on a freeware games site, someone complaining about a german open source project documentation:
"What the hell is strg-c" (I think strg...)
I wanted to ask google, what happens if I click an ad twice... If I am on a nice site, I click all the google ads. You should do the same.
... well they should put google ads up, i'd click them every day, and even look at the sites... doesn't google ads make sense on /.? (I am always in lynx mode... so maybe in funny ugly graphics mode there are some??)
Why doesn't slashdot have any... *looks at ad block, feels guilty*
Also, if I see a M$ related advert, I middle click a good twenty times, and then shut down my browser session.
It is all good. I love google adsense.
black/blue bands with black text one them.
Brought to your by the select the text before you read it department.