Another slightly OT q...

Gary Kline kline at tao.thought.org
Tue May 8 21:02:50 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, usleepless at gmail.com wrote:
> On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> >
> >	Hey Guys,
> >
> >	Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest
> >	in compression technology?  I've got a very thin ISDL link
> >	so pulling streams over is like looking at postage-stamp images.
> >
> >	There were whispers about fractal-compression as being the golden
> >	goal, but I can't find much about this one.  Anybody have any
> >	clues here?
> >
> >	thanks up front,
> >
> >	gary
> 
> see: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sloot
> 
> about the " Sloot Digital Coding System". great stuff.
> 

	Danke.  I found the english wkik entry so I could understand the
	piece.  Since Sloot is dead, no way of knowing.  But this is the
	kind of leap forward that would save, oh, a few measley
	$Billions.  And give millions of us faster and broader access.

	cheers!

	gary




> regards,
> 
> usleep

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