Similar, but not the one the GGP and I were thinking of. That one was "Volcano: Nature's Inferno" (1990). It's 16 years old and I still remember the Krafft guy getting his hands burned by sulfuric and carbonic acid.
I couldn't care less if they want to keep distribution rights to crummy modern music
Fine. But they also want to keep the distribution rights to some of the best music ever recorded.
Really, I'm not joking. For every pop album made by the RIAA, there are probably a dozen interesting rock and jazz albums. The RIAA certainly loves money. But they do love music too. Pop artists subsidize the rest of the industry. Just visit allmusic.com and browse a bit.
I'm not sure what I'm saying here. The RIAA obviously needs to cut back on the bully tactics, but its members provide a very valuable service.
This is pretty much how I have my music collection organized, but I still use iTunes. I just have to remember to turn off the automatic directory "organization" mechanism before I import my music directory.
iLike iTunes because searching for imusic in the isame interface as it is played is nice.
What I really wish is that iTunes would search through the comment id3 tag. Then I could just give each song a bunch of keywords (or write a script to pull them from AllMusic.com) and search by "mood". Funnily enough, Spotlight searches the comment field, but there's no easy (read automatic) way make playlists based on the search results.
It's been done. I saw it on Beyond 2000 like 10 years ago. They recorded all sorts of engine noises from various high performance cars. The system was basically a sampling synthesizer controlled by various accelerometors and sensors. I think they tracked like 15 variables to get the "right" sound playing at the right time.
I remember that same video. I think it was for National Geographic's old show on TBS. Or maybe it was just a PBS Nova special. That was a damn long time ago.
Guiness is just a stout. It's not a particularly good stout, at that. Nor is it very bitter. Try Arrogant Bastard if you want something bitter (and with almost twice the alcohol by volume as Guiness).
The popular press uses "Chaos theory" as a blanket term for what mathematicians and engineers call Dynamic Systems theory, cybernetics, and a few other related fields. The field that corresponds to calculating the mode of destruction of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is called Catastrophe theory.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory. I don't like their treatment, as I prefer it presented in terms of complex functions. (In the complex function case, a catastrophe is a singularity on a meromorphic function.)
Yeah, but I proved that your proof is flawed, so nyyyyyyaaah.:P
Seriously though, please read this and respond to anything you disagree with.
Honestly, fuck that. I'm not going to waste my time decyphering the argument supporting your claim when I already know it's false. That sort of thing can be instructive, but only if the flawed argument is essentially insightful. This isn't.
Some flaws I gleamed with a quick scan:
One-to-one compression ratios are trivial. The identity function works just fine.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that using multiple transcendentals is going to incur a hefty overhead.
Bit-length of a sane implementation should be good enough. There's a specific definition in terms of Turing machines, but as far as I know, it is only used to establish that the concept is well-defined.
Left bent? Only if you follow local media. The nationals are just right of center. They just seem leftist in comparison to the likes of Fox News and the National Vanguard (a white supremacist paper).
To fully disprove the method, you'd have to show that there are counterexamples in an arbitrary number of transcendental numbers.
Or just use the pigeon-hole principle...
Easy as pie. Suppose that there is an algorithm that can (reversibly) compress any string of n bits to a string of n-1 bits. There are 2^n strings of n bits. There are 2^(n-1) strings of n-1 bits. No function from a set of 2^n elements to a set of 2^{n-1} elements is injective, hence not bijective. Contradiction. If you really must, proceed by induction to prove cases where the algorithm maps from sets of cardinality 2^n to sets 2^(n - j).
The same reasoning explains why you can't make a constant size cryptographic hash function that never repeats itself.
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Similar, but not the one the GGP and I were thinking of. That one was "Volcano: Nature's Inferno" (1990). It's 16 years old and I still remember the Krafft guy getting his hands burned by sulfuric and carbonic acid.
Fine. But they also want to keep the distribution rights to some of the best music ever recorded.
Really, I'm not joking. For every pop album made by the RIAA, there are probably a dozen interesting rock and jazz albums. The RIAA certainly loves money. But they do love music too. Pop artists subsidize the rest of the industry. Just visit allmusic.com and browse a bit.
I'm not sure what I'm saying here. The RIAA obviously needs to cut back on the bully tactics, but its members provide a very valuable service.
That's a good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
iLike iTunes because searching for imusic in the isame interface as it is played is nice.
What I really wish is that iTunes would search through the comment id3 tag. Then I could just give each song a bunch of keywords (or write a script to pull them from AllMusic.com) and search by "mood". Funnily enough, Spotlight searches the comment field, but there's no easy (read automatic) way make playlists based on the search results.
I like the boredoms.
I was going to comment that "sex offender" doesn't end in '-ism', until I realized it ends in jism.
You get mod points and mod it up.
It's been done. I saw it on Beyond 2000 like 10 years ago. They recorded all sorts of engine noises from various high performance cars. The system was basically a sampling synthesizer controlled by various accelerometors and sensors. I think they tracked like 15 variables to get the "right" sound playing at the right time.
I remember that same video. I think it was for National Geographic's old show on TBS. Or maybe it was just a PBS Nova special. That was a damn long time ago.
Care to give us some more of your brilliant legal insights?
Guiness is just a stout. It's not a particularly good stout, at that. Nor is it very bitter. Try Arrogant Bastard if you want something bitter (and with almost twice the alcohol by volume as Guiness).
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory. I don't like their treatment, as I prefer it presented in terms of complex functions. (In the complex function case, a catastrophe is a singularity on a meromorphic function.)
But these "Windows computers" don't actually compute windows, do they? They compute computations.
If you really want technical precision, you should call them x86 based personal computers running Microsoft Windows. That's a bit of a mouthful.
No, he's just autistic.
Fuck off. That was really lame.
Because even your proposed kernel could be easily modified (http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/).
Because your BIOS could be modified, and such modifications could be undetectable to any OS.
HIBT? Probably. HAND.
By this metric, Fascism is effective and modern, and democracy fails.
Seriously though, please read this and respond to anything you disagree with.
Honestly, fuck that. I'm not going to waste my time decyphering the argument supporting your claim when I already know it's false. That sort of thing can be instructive, but only if the flawed argument is essentially insightful. This isn't.
Some flaws I gleamed with a quick scan:
I wouldn't trust them, but this isn't unfeasible.
Bit-length of a sane implementation should be good enough. There's a specific definition in terms of Turing machines, but as far as I know, it is only used to establish that the concept is well-defined.
I already proved that it won't work. Your argument is obviously flawed.
The American left has been marginalized by the FBI.
Left bent? Only if you follow local media. The nationals are just right of center. They just seem leftist in comparison to the likes of Fox News and the National Vanguard (a white supremacist paper).
It's not funny at all. Family Guy sucks.
Or just use the pigeon-hole principle...
Easy as pie. Suppose that there is an algorithm that can (reversibly) compress any string of n bits to a string of n-1 bits. There are 2^n strings of n bits. There are 2^(n-1) strings of n-1 bits. No function from a set of 2^n elements to a set of 2^{n-1} elements is injective, hence not bijective. Contradiction. If you really must, proceed by induction to prove cases where the algorithm maps from sets of cardinality 2^n to sets 2^(n - j).
The same reasoning explains why you can't make a constant size cryptographic hash function that never repeats itself.