On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:22:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Gary,
>
> On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Yes. As far as I know, on my father's side, I'm .5 German and .5
Hollander. But I'm also a linguistic moron. So I'm infinitely
grateful that so many folk are speak English.. ....
>
> >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.
Aha! Were these "smartcards" like microprint? One of my favorite
philsophy texts has 400+ pages and is compressible into one small
thinfilm. *Or*, by smartcard do you mean something non-optical?
>
> 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.
So it *was* a hoax? Rats. Some weeks ago on Public
Broadcasting, a few sentences were spoken on the potential of
fractal geometry to achieve [I'm guessing] data-compression on
the order of what Sloot was claiming. So far, no one has figured
it out. It may be a dream... .
>
> >But this is the
> > kind of leap forward that would save, oh, a few measly
> > $Billions. And give millions of us faster and broader access.
>
> good luck!
>
> regards,
>
> usleep
Same! and bedankt;
ciao,
gary
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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