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- mattearle, on 05/21/2009, -12/+361Does anybody actually have a job in this world?
- MrSmileGuy, on 05/21/2009, -37/+364A picture no longer says 1000 words. Twitter is even ruining proverbs now.
- TedwardRoberts, on 05/21/2009, -18/+338Clever, but also slightly pointless.
- zeblith, on 05/21/2009, -7/+233It doesn't -say- 1000 words, it's -worth- 1000 words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_picture_is_worth_a_ ...
Twitter isn't ruining the proverbs - you are. :P - inactive, on 05/21/2009, -12/+223Just like twitter.
- whipnet, on 05/21/2009, -15/+161Wow!!! Something useless for something useless!!
* - Kryptenx, on 05/21/2009, -2/+123Rough translation of the Chinese characters used for the picture (courtesy of mikeg626):
The whip is war
that easily comes
framing a wild mountain.
Hello, you in the closet,
singing--posing carved peaks
of sound understanding.
Upon a kitchen altar
visit a prostitute--
an ugly woman saint--
who decoys.
Particularly
lonesome mountain valley,
your treasury: a dumb corpse and
funeral car, idle choke open.
Reclassification:
exactly what you would call nervous.
Well, do not suggest recalcitrance
those who donated sad.
The smell of a rugged frame
strikes cement block once.
Where you?
Cape. Cylinder. Cry. - trizzleatl, on 05/21/2009, -7/+122No, you've got it backwards. A picture does say 1,000 words, hence the reason a 140 character twitter entry cannot quite accurately display a picture.
- kierucom, on 05/21/2009, -30/+141Pro Tip: No one gives a crap about Twitter.
- str1fe, on 05/21/2009, -1/+93__̴ı̴̴̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡̡.__
- jeexbit, on 05/21/2009, -4/+93Mona Lisa <--- 9 characters and it created a picture perfect image in your mind.
- Innuendo24, on 05/21/2009, -6/+82Why does no one here get the fact that this man is not trying to do this practically. He is showing of data compression methods for images setting an upper threshold of characters and trying to obtain the highest fitness rating within a reasonable amount of time. This study has applications for data compression formats like Jpeg and the like. His color blending for instance is rather clever and allows him to use less data to store more information quickly.
Stop saying this is backwards tech, this is very future thinking tech. - mrno, on 05/21/2009, -26/+991. twitter buried
2. backward technology
a. 140 characters based email that i need others to be a friend before i send message.
b. most mail servers can receive 10megs attachment. what the ***** is this?
c. try to explain something complex under 140 characters. imagine a tech support nightmare.
d. i can stay more productive with an instant messaging. i can file transfer unlimited size, no text limit, temporarily blocking, change status based on different users, video, and audio chats.
3. it is only a SMS disguises as a free tool that requires a computer or mobile phone. this isn't a break through technology. it is a FAD. - superherofive, on 05/21/2009, -19/+90I'll be happy when the twitter trend dies out.
- LeonFlux, on 05/21/2009, -3/+69I think you mean this...
Yo dawg! I heard you liked things that are useless, so I made something useless for something useless so you can waste time while you waste time! - alpha88, on 05/21/2009, -6/+69Remember that recession thingy?
- DOUBLEZER00, on 05/21/2009, -5/+66This isn't about ***** twitter. Weather you like/use it or not is irrelevant - this article is about someones personal project to further compression methods. I remember when Diggers used to get excited over new technologies.
- alexweej, on 05/21/2009, -6/+62Or just use Facebook which lets me post /actual pictures/.
Having said that, it's awesome stuff, I love the random mutations idea. Genetic programming FTW! - vvvladut, on 05/21/2009, -0/+51Beautiful. Thus a new form of poetry is born. And at the same time it's Mona Lisa. What can we ask more from science, or art for that matter?...
- alpha88, on 05/21/2009, -0/+36"Hello, you in the closet"
Did you just call me gay? - serif69, on 05/21/2009, -7/+41It's like watching scrambled porn.
- bigplrbear, on 05/21/2009, -3/+37I can do ASCII art in less than 140 chars-
▲▲▲▲▲▲▲ . [___][___][___]__/b/___} . ▲▲▲▲▲▲ . All aboard the fail train! - alpha88, on 05/21/2009, -0/+27Protip: Ignore them.
- SpectralSounds, on 05/21/2009, -0/+27I'll be happy when the trend of saying that dies out.
- Elranzer, on 05/21/2009, -7/+31Twitter sucks.
- Zippo, on 05/21/2009, -3/+26Neat proof of concept. I hate all these people who are decrying this because it's "pointless".
Putting Linux on random devices is often "pointless", too... but it's fun to test out things and tinker. See what you can do with the limitations laid out in front of you.
Why do things like this? Because you can. It doesn't matter if it's useless... it's geeky. - BrendanJB, on 05/21/2009, -6/+29Yeah, but Twitter is still lame.
- Dea7hleprachaun, on 05/21/2009, -1/+24Who?
- nothin2g, on 05/21/2009, -7/+26No, he created just a highly optimized vector format. Not pointless at all.
- GamerX, on 05/21/2009, -2/+21Did Cradle of Filth release a new CD?
- imikedaman, on 05/21/2009, -0/+18http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programm ...
Seems like this guy did it first. - yocouchdigga, on 05/21/2009, -1/+19I *****' lold.
- had3l, on 05/21/2009, -0/+16Clearly it is a poem about a Chinese woman who had her house invaded during the second world war by Japanese forces. In order to save her children, she offered herself to the enemy forces, who raped and whipped her repeatedly while her daughters hid in the closet. Being disfigured by the abuse, she was shunned by her society as an ugly prostitute and had to move to the mountains and live alone. Eventually she committed suicide with a kitchen knife, and years later younger generations realized their mistake and reclassified her as a "Saint". Now her house stands abandoned in ruins in the mountains, all that is left are blocks of cement that have a distinct odor of injustice and a cape flying lonesome in the wind. Where were you when this happened? Did even cry for her or did you just play with your cylinder instead?
The picture formed is not Mona Lisa, but the shunned Chinese prostitute. - immatellyouwhat, on 05/21/2009, -1/+17Mine has a mustache
- str1fe, on 05/21/2009, -2/+18If that's actually accurate, then that's more awesome than the mona lisa lookalike itself.
EDIT: This is what Google Translate puts out for that Chinese, for what it's worth. Above translation looks like the translate is all he did, adding "a"s and "the"s to make it make more sense - more extraneous Chinese characters in there:
婂allopurinol圑 whip恄幖is怤hatch怴搝war娻屗easily come唭frame奊唀Chuai峔Wild Mountain埯S hi廇嗕closet who sing嚵Posing壛carved peaks墥sound understanding壋kitchen altar喿fascine奰Xiao-Lun恛visit a prostitute Jie姴啷嬂ugly woman saint嫤triazine娐pharyngeal峈decoy嬻particularly愰啴屽嶍屽lonesome mountain valley喿嶐treasury唥dumb corpse彐Qixiang帄funeral car啯idle choke open嗙Reclassification唅exactly what憛Qi Zhe悐You call幮nervous Well do not suggest惐recalcitrant啹donated戠Xiao sad olfactory rugged frame strike拀唹Cement block嵄single彠Where You囏庰抂唋岰媮Cape夣宐彋媀恦cylinder彐cry姩宔嬀 - trizzleatl, on 05/21/2009, -4/+19They.
- kerouac906, on 05/21/2009, -5/+20Or you could just upload the image to flickr and share the link via bit.ly - This is just going backwards to the day you used to have to compile code from multi part bulletin board messages. And we all know how fun it was downloading 12 messages over 33.6k, running a conversion program, just to see a woman with a wine bottle in her %&^...
- writh3n, on 05/21/2009, -6/+20It isn't supposed to be a replacement for email or for instant messenger. It is microblogging, you don't share all of your IM's or your emails with the rest of the world. This is intended to be public. The reason why it is popular is because many times you'll think -- "Gee, that'd make a good blog post" -- however, you'll be too lazy or it'll take too much time to write. With twitter you can just write the headlines and skip the story -- that's all anyone reads anyways.
- hydehk, on 05/21/2009, -3/+17Actually, the whole thing does not mean anything, every word is on its own and does not construct any sentence.
- hotpuck6, on 05/21/2009, -0/+13better than the actual picture!
- blackjack75, on 05/21/2009, -0/+13Reduce any picture to one pixel and it'll look just like Mona Lisa (color aside).
- Innuendo24, on 05/21/2009, -2/+15Yeah, you have to think that man can bring this up in an interview for instant gold
- Vodd9, on 05/21/2009, -1/+13Postmodern poetry.
- ArgusWatch, on 05/20/2009, -4/+16It's not Ascii art it's an external program which encodes/decodes an image only from the information contained in a 140 character string.
- jrizzo, on 05/21/2009, -2/+14That comment was more entertaining than the article.
- hotpuck6, on 05/21/2009, -0/+12uh oh, we're getting dangerously close to an endless loop here.
- Aadain, on 05/21/2009, -1/+13THANK YOU! What has happened to Digg??? We use to be interested in anything technical or new ways of approaching old problems (in this case, compression). You never know some really cool new compression idea might arise from playing around with this that could lead to smaller pictures on the web and better mobile web surfing.
Sometimes the best things are found just by asking "what if..." and running with it. - Zippo, on 05/21/2009, -1/+12Wow... it's like reading song lyrics. Brilliant.
- Lanlost, on 05/21/2009, -0/+11http://rageblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ema ...
Ladies and Gentlemen,
EMAIL.. TO.. JACK!!!!
But really, dawg. - cor315, on 05/21/2009, -1/+12What are you talking about? Everyone wants to know what I'm having for breakfast and what my pee smells like.
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