Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 23:22:31 +0200 From: usleepless@gmail.com To: "Gary Kline" <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Another slightly OT q... Message-ID: <c39ec84c0705081422k626219b3v8ed982505d9378df@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070508210531.GA39659@thought.org> References: <20070508170501.GA35731@thought.org> <c39ec84c0705081216n25c6b919l466bebf20bbf1a7b@mail.gmail.com> <20070508210531.GA39659@thought.org>
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Gary, On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, usleepless@gmail.com wrote: > > On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <kline@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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