compression

This is a theoretical question, so expect that many details here are not computable in practice or even in theory. Let's say I have a string s that I want to compress. The result should be a self-extracting binary (can be x86 assembler, but it can also be some other hypothetical Turing-complete low level language) which outputs s . Now, we can easily iterate through all possible such binaries and programs, ordered by size. Let B_s be the sub-list of these binaries who output s (of course B_s is uncomputable). As every set of positive integers must have a minimum, there must be a smallest

I am using eclipse to build application for Blackberry. I attached a zip file with my application. Please help me, I don't know how to retrieve data form the zip file in application development. In BlackBerry we can use two compression standarts: GZip and ZLib . Choose one, then compress your file and add to project. Then you should be able to open it as an resource. After that decompress it with GZIPInputStream or ZLibInputStream accordingly. Example (uncompress and print text from test.gz attached to project): try { InputStream inputStream = getClass().getResourceAsStream("test.gz");

I am in the process of creating a TCP remote desktop broadcasting application. (Something like Team Viewer or VNC) the server application will 1. run on a PC listening for multiple clients on one Thread 2. and on another thread it will record the desktop every second 3. and it will broadcast the desktop for each connected client. i need to make this application possible to run on a connections with a 12KBps upload and 50KBps download DSL connection (client's and server). so.. i have to reduce the size of the data/image i send per second. i tried to reduce by doing the following. I. first i