My question would be why you're playing such a game in the first place...
GTA III. You pick up a hooker in your car, go somewhere like a park, then although you don't see anything graphic the car moves around indicating you're having sex with the hooker, it makes you gain back health, and lose money, so to get that money back you kill the hooker.
You see, a game in which you have sex with a hooker and then kill her doesn't have to be as bad as you might have thought.
Violence is only violent if there is some aspect of realism.
It seems that I don't have anyone agreeing with me on this, but to me, violence is only violent if you feel it, in other words, it's primarily about what it makes you feel than its nature.
I think I express everybody's concern when I say I hope this means Episode 2 will be longer than Episode 1. Episode 1 was so short that I finished it the day after I begun, and I was even going fast, more like saving/loading all he time to save ammo and HP, and a bit for fun too:-). And I must say that I never finished such a game before, even in weeks.
In her place, I would have swapped my hard disk with one from another of my computers that doesn't not contain any copyrighted material. There's no way in the world they could find that the copyrighted material they're looking for has been deleted, and it looks right if you have an OS on it with quite some stuff done on it, like, not a fresh and clean install of Ubuntu.
The other good thing is that you don't have to wipe your original hard drive:-P
Similarly, an embryo is a *potential* future human
Similarly, a spermatozoid is the half of a *potential* future human. Sould I be convicted for genocide for killing millions of potential future humans on a daily basis?
You can also say that there are as many actual potential future humans (after all potential doesn't mean "in production" or anything) as ovules, that's about 25 billion potential humans a year that don't make it. A chance we don't consider them as such, because after all if you isolate a spermatozoid and an ovule, even if you don't make them meet each other you still have a potential future human with as much potential as an embryo;-)
Not on YouTube yet? Unless my searching skills are to blame, it's a bit surprising. I was about to upload it myself but I don't really care about that whole story...
But unlike everyone else, we're not searching for skilled programmers. Instead, we're simply looking for the greatest ideas
The greatest ideas.. oh yeah! I found one! so uh, it would be a game, and it would be about bricks of different shape stacking up each other, and when you got a full line of bricks it disappears! oh wait I have another great idea incoming! It would be a lil yellow character, in a maze, eating pills and ghosts/monsters.
Damn it's too easy for me to come up with the greatest ideas, I only hope they didn't mean the greatest *original* ideas!
This being said, if the experience proves successful by having great thinkers connected with great developpers, maybe will we see the advent of a new type of site where people would post their ideas, get their ideas rated/favourites/commented and people in need of ideas would go there and get in touch with the people with the original idea in order to implement it. That would be great, we would live in a world where people with great ideas and no means to make them come true and people with big means but no ideas could collaborate to make the world a better place.
I would make the website right now, if only I wasn't that lazy
Didn't immediately understand the issue when I read the summary because I'm french and in french Pluto is Pluton, so the 'new word' meant Pluto to me. Just to point out that it's not such a great choice according to me, I think they should have chosen a word a bit more different from Pluto than that, like, Plutonian body, Plutonesque body or more simply Keplerian planet, since it's all about big round keplerian objects.
I have the feeling that it's not her the problem, the reason for that is that it was her who scaled eBay from a company of 30 lazy workers to the eBay we know today with its 200 million eBayers. I don't know the problem very well but I'm sure that one could hardly find a replacement for her as she knows and has managed eBay so well so far, and fix the problem at the same time.
So finally a Definitive Answer! Until someone bothers to look at a larger sample set,, finds dimmer stars, and they have to lower the minimum again.
I'd rather say, finally a definitive answer, period. The reason why stars cannot be smaller than that limit is theorical, and the observation allows us to find that limit. A larger sample set will not lower the minimum, ever. It will only reduce the margin of error. The dimmest star you could ever find is comprised in the margin of error we got.
Let's see the good side of things, maybe Ceres with its new status will gain some more interest, *maybe* even enough for it to have the honour to be probed by us. Would surprise me a bit tho.
Edit : seems that there's already a probe destinated to Ceres (among others) nammed Dawn
Edit #2 : yeah I know, you can't actually edit your posts
If you read this user's other searches, you'll find out that he most likely lives in public housing projects in NYC, probably in Harlem, and although he probably wants to "exterminate blk negroes in all boros in nyc", he's pretty much likely black or partially black. Considered his love for jazz going as far back as the 1940's, he might be pretty old, and even maybe fed up with the youth of his own colour, maybe a bit like Bill Cosby. This being said, it seems like his name might be Joseph Wendell Johnson Jr., and even that he might live at the 2871 on the 8th avenue in NYC, and that apparently he is disrepected and bullied by 'harlem negroes'.
This is all pretty scary and pathetic if you ask me.
For me it's because of SessionSaver. When I restart Firefox, all my tabs that were previously open are opened again as Firefox reloads. And as I can often keep this way about 80 tabs open all the time during several weeks, if I got a few of these tabs being a google search (as I do right now) then it will 'count' this as a new search, and will put me in the obsessive category. It can be annoying too when you're on a page using post data, like a BBMMORPG, as it will post the data again.
However as for AOL, yeah, it seems that you got the point and that people do that instead of bookmarking
If they really log it, I really hope they use a compression that checks the redundancy of messages, considered all the porn spam bot messages. Oh well that probably mostly affects AIM (to the point there isn't even any conversation ever going on anymore, I recently tried, blocked all the bots and waited, and lurking during half an hour all you could see was a couple of 14 year old girls saying hello and leaving as soon) but if they log AOL chatrooms why wouldn't they log AIM too?
This being said, I'll never understand how they can let the spam bots eat away that much bandwidth while letting them literally eradicate life from these chatrooms, I'll also never understand why spam bot owners keep doing that since they chased people away, it's like a TV channel with nothing but crappy commercials on like 24/7, why even keep running it or even put your commercial on it if nobody watches anymore..
Well... maybe. It depends a lot on what data you are trying to compress.
Well yes and no. Either your data is the decimals of PI, as you just said, or it is some particular case that is extremely unlikely to happen. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would have about 1 chance out of 8 to gain a byte in your index data (or, for example, you would have about 1 chance out of 1 billion to save 10 bytes, out of 100 MB, well that's if I didn't make any mistake)
I think the GP poster has quite got the point tho. The problem isn't the IEEE-754 floating point, the problem is people not getting it right, in other words, people not understanding the binary precision of the mantissa when brought back to decimal. In school we were taught not to trust the IEEE-754 floats because it may represent 0.37 like 0.369999998, but the thing is that in real-life problems, well at least my real-life problems, that type of thing doesn't matter to me because my numbers wouldn't be particularly round in the decimal base. This being said, if you got a problem with getting 0.369999998 when you expect 0.37, then round off to the number of decimals you want, other than that, there is no problem once you trully understand how the thing works.
The way I see it, there's mainly one good way to compress text (Disclaimer : I do not know if this idea has ever been used before, but if it has i'd be glad to know about it). Let's say you index the values of the most frequently used characters, and that you keep a 'joker' value to insert a custom character after, let's say that it sums up to about 45 characters for these indexed characters. You replace each character by its indexed value, and instead of having it in base 256, you calculate it all in base 45.
If we consider that the unfrequent bytes' weight is unsignificant, we go from 100 MB of text (or HTML, the characters for the tags aren't that many), we get 100/256*45 = 17.5 MB. I guess that one top of that you could compress it using some traditional algorithm, although most of the job must have been done with it.
Is there a major flaw in my reasoning or does it sound like a suitable idea?
The only problem is that your index will be as big as your original file.
Let's say you want to store your ten-digit phone number using that PI technique. A ten-digit phone number will be found at an average index of 10^10, or 10,000,000,000, the problem is that index is 11 digits long, so your really not winning. In this particular case, you could hope to find your index around 8^100,000,000, which would take 100,000,000 bytes (or 100 MB, the original size) to store.
Presently, a majority of camera LCDs only display multimedia at a resolution of 320x240 -- significantly lower in quality than Samsung's new LCD. In layman's terms, expect significantly brighter, more detailed LCD displays, which will enable you to review your photography more thoroughly after you take an exposure. This innovation will make it easier to spot blurry images and ensure your photo is framed properly
Am I the only one feeling that those few sentences were unneeded and even inappropriate for Slashdot? I mean, come on, even if a few of us wouldn't have figured this out by themselves, this is Slashdot..
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My question would be why you're playing such a game in the first place ...
GTA III. You pick up a hooker in your car, go somewhere like a park, then although you don't see anything graphic the car moves around indicating you're having sex with the hooker, it makes you gain back health, and lose money, so to get that money back you kill the hooker.
You see, a game in which you have sex with a hooker and then kill her doesn't have to be as bad as you might have thought.
Violence is only violent if there is some aspect of realism.
It seems that I don't have anyone agreeing with me on this, but to me, violence is only violent if you feel it, in other words, it's primarily about what it makes you feel than its nature.
I think I express everybody's concern when I say I hope this means Episode 2 will be longer than Episode 1. Episode 1 was so short that I finished it the day after I begun, and I was even going fast, more like saving/loading all he time to save ammo and HP, and a bit for fun too :-). And I must say that I never finished such a game before, even in weeks.
In her place, I would have swapped my hard disk with one from another of my computers that doesn't not contain any copyrighted material. There's no way in the world they could find that the copyrighted material they're looking for has been deleted, and it looks right if you have an OS on it with quite some stuff done on it, like, not a fresh and clean install of Ubuntu.
The other good thing is that you don't have to wipe your original hard drive :-P
Similarly, an embryo is a *potential* future human
Similarly, a spermatozoid is the half of a *potential* future human. Sould I be convicted for genocide for killing millions of potential future humans on a daily basis?
You can also say that there are as many actual potential future humans (after all potential doesn't mean "in production" or anything) as ovules, that's about 25 billion potential humans a year that don't make it. A chance we don't consider them as such, because after all if you isolate a spermatozoid and an ovule, even if you don't make them meet each other you still have a potential future human with as much potential as an embryo ;-)
Not on YouTube yet? Unless my searching skills are to blame, it's a bit surprising. I was about to upload it myself but I don't really care about that whole story...
iPod rival doesn't mean iPod killer, and mod me down for this if you want, but this one definitly does not look like one iPod killer.
But unlike everyone else, we're not searching for skilled programmers. Instead, we're simply looking for the greatest ideas
The greatest ideas.. oh yeah! I found one! so uh, it would be a game, and it would be about bricks of different shape stacking up each other, and when you got a full line of bricks it disappears! oh wait I have another great idea incoming! It would be a lil yellow character, in a maze, eating pills and ghosts/monsters.
Damn it's too easy for me to come up with the greatest ideas, I only hope they didn't mean the greatest *original* ideas!
This being said, if the experience proves successful by having great thinkers connected with great developpers, maybe will we see the advent of a new type of site where people would post their ideas, get their ideas rated/favourites/commented and people in need of ideas would go there and get in touch with the people with the original idea in order to implement it. That would be great, we would live in a world where people with great ideas and no means to make them come true and people with big means but no ideas could collaborate to make the world a better place.
I would make the website right now, if only I wasn't that lazy
Didn't immediately understand the issue when I read the summary because I'm french and in french Pluto is Pluton, so the 'new word' meant Pluto to me. Just to point out that it's not such a great choice according to me, I think they should have chosen a word a bit more different from Pluto than that, like, Plutonian body, Plutonesque body or more simply Keplerian planet, since it's all about big round keplerian objects.
I have the feeling that it's not her the problem, the reason for that is that it was her who scaled eBay from a company of 30 lazy workers to the eBay we know today with its 200 million eBayers. I don't know the problem very well but I'm sure that one could hardly find a replacement for her as she knows and has managed eBay so well so far, and fix the problem at the same time.
So finally a Definitive Answer! Until someone bothers to look at a larger sample set,, finds dimmer stars, and they have to lower the minimum again.
I'd rather say, finally a definitive answer, period. The reason why stars cannot be smaller than that limit is theorical, and the observation allows us to find that limit. A larger sample set will not lower the minimum, ever. It will only reduce the margin of error. The dimmest star you could ever find is comprised in the margin of error we got.
Apprently the parent poster is a reposting troll. original post
Let's see the good side of things, maybe Ceres with its new status will gain some more interest, *maybe* even enough for it to have the honour to be probed by us. Would surprise me a bit tho.
Edit : seems that there's already a probe destinated to Ceres (among others) nammed Dawn
Edit #2 : yeah I know, you can't actually edit your posts
It begins in a trailor park in Kentucky
If you read this user's other searches, you'll find out that he most likely lives in public housing projects in NYC, probably in Harlem, and although he probably wants to "exterminate blk negroes in all boros in nyc", he's pretty much likely black or partially black. Considered his love for jazz going as far back as the 1940's, he might be pretty old, and even maybe fed up with the youth of his own colour, maybe a bit like Bill Cosby. This being said, it seems like his name might be Joseph Wendell Johnson Jr., and even that he might live at the 2871 on the 8th avenue in NYC, and that apparently he is disrepected and bullied by 'harlem negroes'.
This is all pretty scary and pathetic if you ask me.
For me it's because of SessionSaver. When I restart Firefox, all my tabs that were previously open are opened again as Firefox reloads. And as I can often keep this way about 80 tabs open all the time during several weeks, if I got a few of these tabs being a google search (as I do right now) then it will 'count' this as a new search, and will put me in the obsessive category. It can be annoying too when you're on a page using post data, like a BBMMORPG, as it will post the data again.
However as for AOL, yeah, it seems that you got the point and that people do that instead of bookmarking
If they really log it, I really hope they use a compression that checks the redundancy of messages, considered all the porn spam bot messages. Oh well that probably mostly affects AIM (to the point there isn't even any conversation ever going on anymore, I recently tried, blocked all the bots and waited, and lurking during half an hour all you could see was a couple of 14 year old girls saying hello and leaving as soon) but if they log AOL chatrooms why wouldn't they log AIM too?
This being said, I'll never understand how they can let the spam bots eat away that much bandwidth while letting them literally eradicate life from these chatrooms, I'll also never understand why spam bot owners keep doing that since they chased people away, it's like a TV channel with nothing but crappy commercials on like 24/7, why even keep running it or even put your commercial on it if nobody watches anymore..
you mean that Huffman encoding is all about indexing values? I would have rather thought it was mainly about eliminating redundancy.
Well... maybe. It depends a lot on what data you are trying to compress.
Well yes and no. Either your data is the decimals of PI, as you just said, or it is some particular case that is extremely unlikely to happen. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would have about 1 chance out of 8 to gain a byte in your index data (or, for example, you would have about 1 chance out of 1 billion to save 10 bytes, out of 100 MB, well that's if I didn't make any mistake)
try log2(45)/log2(256) instead ... you'll actually get about a 25% reduction (rounding log2(45) to 6).
Excuse me but I don't quite understand what you're trying to say. What one should do log2(45)/log2(256) for?
I think the GP poster has quite got the point tho. The problem isn't the IEEE-754 floating point, the problem is people not getting it right, in other words, people not understanding the binary precision of the mantissa when brought back to decimal. In school we were taught not to trust the IEEE-754 floats because it may represent 0.37 like 0.369999998, but the thing is that in real-life problems, well at least my real-life problems, that type of thing doesn't matter to me because my numbers wouldn't be particularly round in the decimal base. This being said, if you got a problem with getting 0.369999998 when you expect 0.37, then round off to the number of decimals you want, other than that, there is no problem once you trully understand how the thing works.
The way I see it, there's mainly one good way to compress text (Disclaimer : I do not know if this idea has ever been used before, but if it has i'd be glad to know about it). Let's say you index the values of the most frequently used characters, and that you keep a 'joker' value to insert a custom character after, let's say that it sums up to about 45 characters for these indexed characters. You replace each character by its indexed value, and instead of having it in base 256, you calculate it all in base 45.
If we consider that the unfrequent bytes' weight is unsignificant, we go from 100 MB of text (or HTML, the characters for the tags aren't that many), we get 100/256*45 = 17.5 MB. I guess that one top of that you could compress it using some traditional algorithm, although most of the job must have been done with it.
Is there a major flaw in my reasoning or does it sound like a suitable idea?
Very simple way to win this contest:...
The only problem is that your index will be as big as your original file.
Let's say you want to store your ten-digit phone number using that PI technique. A ten-digit phone number will be found at an average index of 10^10, or 10,000,000,000, the problem is that index is 11 digits long, so your really not winning. In this particular case, you could hope to find your index around 8^100,000,000, which would take 100,000,000 bytes (or 100 MB, the original size) to store.
Couldn't be easier! ;^)
hehehe, right.
You just roll over the link to the article your comment is attached to, and you look at the URL. The first number is the year.
Presently, a majority of camera LCDs only display multimedia at a resolution of 320x240 -- significantly lower in quality than Samsung's new LCD. In layman's terms, expect significantly brighter, more detailed LCD displays, which will enable you to review your photography more thoroughly after you take an exposure. This innovation will make it easier to spot blurry images and ensure your photo is framed properly
Am I the only one feeling that those few sentences were unneeded and even inappropriate for Slashdot? I mean, come on, even if a few of us wouldn't have figured this out by themselves, this is Slashdot..
This is the first time I've posted to Slashdot in nearly 5 years.
The first? According to your user page it's more like your 14th.