This is heartbreaking news. How can millions of people talk to themselves with so few characters. I guess they’ll all have to head back to the bus stops and park benches of the world.
Commentariat
Simple… some entrepreneur starts an alternative with more characters.
Bring back free enterprise, free markets, bring back choice bring back capitalism!
Let the two characters less guy lose market share.
Max Power
If one were to use “Western Union Universal Codebook” (1900, 1905) the data capacity of an SMS message would go up by about 3x to 5x per transmitted char.
Raw SMS without a codebook is not efficient.
Sadly, new codebooks would be needed to cope with URLs — and the char coding method would have to be indicated.
Yes, technically this is a loss of 2 chars — but codebook coding gives one a full paragraph of room with a URL.
Sadly, so many URLs are just way too long anyway.
Max Power
An SMS Universal Codebook that works across all languages is possible — but one would have to start with the WU-UC 1905 as base material.
ALL CODING FORMATS CAN BE USED AT THE SAME TIME
AA### : provides about 400 x 999 encoding space
A##AA : about 400 x 99 x 20 encoding space
A#### : about 20 x 9999
Yes, all that dictionary capacity without using groups of 6 chars.
Max Power
There is a standard ITU format for cipher machine format content transmission over wireless and wired networks :
AAAA _ AAAA _ …
“_” means ‘space’
This was a defacto practice by 1936, and numbers could be used in an equivalent manner.
During WWII some German land forces used
AAAA
or
AAAAAA
for cipher machine messages. However, this is about the only exception.
The VENONA one time pad messages were all letters that represented numbers, so the bridge between alpha and numeric representation will allways be a thin one with this tiny area of information theory analysis.
Bill Stewart
Hyperinflation in US hotel offerings : In the USA, you can now drink dead people in the hotels …
IT TOOK ~7+ days for the death to be detected, even after a drop in water pressure and dark initial water flows. Most US water supplies (and water systems, including metropolitan delivery) are in a state of general collapse — so it literally takes weeks to detect dead people or animals.
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Police are trying to determine if the death of a Canadian woman who was missing for weeks before her body was found wedged into a water tank atop a Los Angeles hotel was the result of foul play or an accident.
The body of 21-year-old Elisa Lam was discovered Tuesday by a maintenance worker at the downtown Cecil Hotel after guests complained of low water pressure.
Lam, of Vancouver, travelled to California alone on Jan. 26 and was last seen five days later by workers at the hotel.
Police initially called her disappearance suspicious. Investigators are now considering the possibility of foul play because of where the body was found. It was unclear what water from the tanks was used for.
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Max Power
The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever? It Might Be $47.30 For This Caffeine Monster
Last February we wrote about what was then the most expensive single-drink Starbucks order ever: A $23.60 caffeine monster that the orderer described as “tolerable, but not good.”
Now, one Washington man claims that he was rewritten the record books with a $47.30 order from Starbucks. It’s loaded up with add-ons, fruits, whipped cream and more, all poured in to a 52-ounce mug.
Stealth Inflation!!
http://d65852kwq1u8u.cloudfront.net/uploads/26_8479570581_07e0751d2c_h.jpg
This is heartbreaking news. How can millions of people talk to themselves with so few characters. I guess they’ll all have to head back to the bus stops and park benches of the world.
Simple… some entrepreneur starts an alternative with more characters.
Bring back free enterprise, free markets, bring back choice bring back capitalism!
Let the two characters less guy lose market share.
If one were to use “Western Union Universal Codebook” (1900, 1905) the data capacity of an SMS message would go up by about 3x to 5x per transmitted char.
Raw SMS without a codebook is not efficient.
Sadly, new codebooks would be needed to cope with URLs — and the char coding method would have to be indicated.
Yes, technically this is a loss of 2 chars — but codebook coding gives one a full paragraph of room with a URL.
Sadly, so many URLs are just way too long anyway.
An SMS Universal Codebook that works across all languages is possible — but one would have to start with the WU-UC 1905 as base material.
ALL CODING FORMATS CAN BE USED AT THE SAME TIME
AA### : provides about 400 x 999 encoding space
A##AA : about 400 x 99 x 20 encoding space
A#### : about 20 x 9999
Yes, all that dictionary capacity without using groups of 6 chars.
There is a standard ITU format for cipher machine format content transmission over wireless and wired networks :
AAAA _ AAAA _ …
“_” means ‘space’
This was a defacto practice by 1936, and numbers could be used in an equivalent manner.
During WWII some German land forces used
AAAA
or
AAAAAA
for cipher machine messages. However, this is about the only exception.
The VENONA one time pad messages were all letters that represented numbers, so the bridge between alpha and numeric representation will allways be a thin one with this tiny area of information theory analysis.
Hyperinflation in US hotel offerings : In the USA, you can now drink dead people in the hotels …
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/02/20/bc-elisa-lam-los-angelese.html
IT TOOK ~7+ days for the death to be detected, even after a drop in water pressure and dark initial water flows. Most US water supplies (and water systems, including metropolitan delivery) are in a state of general collapse — so it literally takes weeks to detect dead people or animals.
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Police are trying to determine if the death of a Canadian woman who was missing for weeks before her body was found wedged into a water tank atop a Los Angeles hotel was the result of foul play or an accident.
The body of 21-year-old Elisa Lam was discovered Tuesday by a maintenance worker at the downtown Cecil Hotel after guests complained of low water pressure.
Lam, of Vancouver, travelled to California alone on Jan. 26 and was last seen five days later by workers at the hotel.
Police initially called her disappearance suspicious. Investigators are now considering the possibility of foul play because of where the body was found. It was unclear what water from the tanks was used for.
[...]
The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Ever? It Might Be $47.30 For This Caffeine Monster
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-gilbert/local-man-pays-almost-50-dollars-for-coffee_b_2679300.html
Last February we wrote about what was then the most expensive single-drink Starbucks order ever: A $23.60 caffeine monster that the orderer described as “tolerable, but not good.”
Now, one Washington man claims that he was rewritten the record books with a $47.30 order from Starbucks. It’s loaded up with add-ons, fruits, whipped cream and more, all poured in to a 52-ounce mug.