From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 8 21:22:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6674C16A403 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 21:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2663613C43E for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 21:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from usleepless@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so2009582wra for ; Tue, 08 May 2007 14:22:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=l7UDnzluPZlm4Bq+G9LlNekZu1RjVXTwQjF8yE7l35riKQKl01ytjpqaqJffxfzJQR+wxevmr0W1o2N4HNx+DjaCUdHac42fHo/9EJizoZArVm+EB5V3HWI+rw738trBbi8agu1nBp/mLJ7K9wEpM/BZq+kRU3wMWyehItFYZsQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kZlJoJ8O3qfOjkf5FDij2lUIbzw9glQrF1yAbG9l56Z+gjn6frXWNEx2p9XChH1CTRkLlUr02j978MEyqWyo3mIxGmeLXRjz8mRuZTVNCw2DiQvRQK+OmFgsfYIsKpg11KxqIu8LAVmDYL/rSeU7+XtEm5tOoHJ+i3bBMALK26s= Received: by 10.114.184.16 with SMTP id h16mr665029waf.1178659351575; Tue, 08 May 2007 14:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.192.12 with HTTP; Tue, 8 May 2007 14:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 23:22:31 +0200 From: usleepless@gmail.com To: "Gary Kline" In-Reply-To: <20070508210531.GA39659@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070508170501.GA35731@thought.org> <20070508210531.GA39659@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Another slightly OT q... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 21:22:34 -0000 Gary, On 5/8/07, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, usleepless@gmail.com wrote: > > On 5/8/07, Gary Kline 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