Word: compressions
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...complete nonsense," says Syncronys president Rainer Poertner of c't's charge. "The compression algorithms are at the heart of our technology." Does SoftRAM 95 actually compress data held in memory chips? "Absolutely!" he insists. Poertner points out that a recent customer survey conducted by Dataquest, a market- research firm, showed that most SoftRAM 95 owners are quite satisfied...
DIED. SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR, 84, Nobel laureate in physics whose work led to the theory of black holes; in Chicago. Chandrasekhar, who studied the death throes of stars as their fuel is exhausted, calculated the Chandrasekhar limit (1.4 times the sun's mass), beyond which collapsing stars continue to compress indefinitely...
User who do not tidy up their inboxes after two warnings will have the contents of their inboxes transferred to their personal directories automatically. Mail privileges will not be revoked, and no mail will be lost in the process. But for users unfamiliar with the UNIX "compress" program, retrieving these messages may be an unpleasant experience...
...does not connect to individual homes; instead, the fiber-optic trunk lines branch into twisted pairs of copper wires, which carry far less information directly to the customer. That means the companies must either replace this so-called last mile with fiber-optic cable or find a way to compress the data through the thin copper openings...
...offer clear-eyed criticism of modern athletics, the players psych themselves up for a game by spitting in each other's mouths, and they define their love for the game as "goin' to war with the other guys. Settin' ourselves apart." When they work, sports films, like sports, compress the emotions and battles of life...