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A super majorly serious look at data compression

This little comic is the result of a conversation that I had with one of my smarty-pants friends today. He told me not to mention him by name, so I won't. I don't see what the big deal is, though - I mean, there's only about a 75% chance that I'll write something about your ding-a-ling if I mention you on my blog, so whatever... Some people are really uptight.

Enjoy, people.

I'm most of the way through the next installment of “If they were coders,“ and thought that this might tide all y'allz over (not that people are banging my door down for it or anything (probably because you don't know where my door is (it's attached to my apartment, stupid))).


 

 

 

 

Published Sunday, January 18, 2004 4:26 AM by Rory

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Stuart said:

Wow, I'm gonna implement that right away!

Er, I mean...

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January 18, 2004 4:38 AM
 

TJ said:

LOL, Its not unusual to write code with anyone. Tom Jones is the best.

Damn Rory this should be a pay site, you got great content.
January 18, 2004 4:53 AM
 

Rory said:

TJ -

"Damn Rory this should be a pay site"

Then send me some money, dammit!

Just kidding, of course :)

(but no, really, send me some money (you can mail it to my computar))
January 18, 2004 5:36 AM
 

Ron Green said:

I used your compression algorithm on the money I was going to send you. You will receive 0 dollars in compressed format real soon.
January 18, 2004 6:05 AM
 

Rory said:

"I used your compression algorithm on the money I was going to send you."

That's awesome :)

Not the berry nicest thing, but awesome...
January 18, 2004 6:08 AM
 

0 said:

0
January 18, 2004 9:43 AM
 

John said:

Not sure if its better to admit to crazy compression schemes or that I am uptight!
January 19, 2004 4:06 AM
 

John said:

Man oh man oh man
You are the funniest guy in the world
January 19, 2004 10:08 AM
 

Ryan Farley said:

Rory,

I do think that you're not being fair to your readers about just how far back you and Tom really go:

http://www2.ryanfarley.com:82/blog/posts/280.aspx
January 19, 2004 6:43 PM
 

Ian said:

You strange,strange man!
when I stopped laughing I remembered this joke:

Man goes into the doctors surgery and says
"Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. I'm really worried, what's wrong with me?"
The Doc says "Oh thats, easy - you've got Tom Jones disease"
The guy says "Oh, is that common?"

And the Doc says, wait for it...

"Well, it's not unusual"

<cough> back to work then.
January 19, 2004 10:45 PM
 

Rory said:

"when I stopped laughing I remembered this joke"

You know what's funny?

I really *haven't* been able to stop singing "The Green, Green Grass of Home" for the past couple of weeks.

Hm.

I guess I've got The Illness...
January 19, 2004 10:52 PM
 

Graeme Foster said:

Further smallerization can be achieved by viewing from a greater distance.
January 20, 2004 1:01 PM
 

Old diabetic alcoholic fat programmer said:

<stolen from Dilbert>

Back in my day we didn't have any of the sissy icons and windows! All we had were 0's and 1's. And sometimes we didn't have 1's!
January 27, 2004 9:56 PM
 

Catbert said:

Reminds me of the time my teacher in mathmatecal algorhytms was telling us about an experiment he did with compression on different formats.

He took a large number of 0's and put them in a word document and then he went on and compressed it.

What would you know, he got more than 90% compression, who could have guessed :|
April 2, 2004 11:58 PM
 

Dude said:

Wow.
April 3, 2004 4:35 PM
 

auden carrasco said:

August 7, 2004 7:09 AM
 

auden carrasco said:

be careful how you use compression! maybe you can truely change the computer in fact be almost crash proof using compression alone....but only those that have vision, and willing to change the rules will ever discover innovations that other don't....and watch big bother after all they spend billions making sure they own it!

Always watching,
Auden Carrasco
August 7, 2004 7:14 AM
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