Another slightly OT q...
usleepless at gmail.com
usleepless at gmail.com
Tue May 8 21:22:34 UTC 2007
Gary,
On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> 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.
that seems to be German, in Dutch "Bedankt" would be appropiate. i
appreciate the effort though.
> I found the english wkik entry so I could understand the
> piece. Since Sloot is dead, no way of knowing.
actually there is. the Dutch wiki-article has much more detail about the case.
this Sloot guy claimed he could compress any movie into 1kb ( 1024
bytes ). he stored this 1kb movies on smartcards, which he would feed
into his magic machine to show the movies.
in The Netherlands there was press-coverage about this, and he was
able to attract investors and even a ( up to then ) reputable IT-guru
assiocated with Philips to back him. they found silicon-valley
investors who were interested.
he died / killed himself / was murdered before his hoax could be uncovered.
sounds a lot like the perpetuum mobile stories.
> 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.
good luck!
regards,
usleep
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