This sounds too good to be true..

[CHHAS]

but I hope it's not a hoax

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/2990

That's some serious compression.

[VJ]

The articel is quite old (2001); it was not very well covered in the Belgian press (e.g. only Teletekst on national TV, not in the news broadcasts or in the papers). IIRC, compression was quite intense (couple of hours); decompression went in realtime (e.g. for playback of video)

The link to which is pointed doesn't seem to work now.

Strange thought that if the technology is *that* feasible, we still haven't heard more from it.


Jörg

[Gurm]

I hear all kinds of stuff:

"He died and took the secret with him!"

"It's possible, but only in theory!"

Frankly, there are THEORETICAL compression schema that will allow you to put an entire dictionary into one longish prime number.

The problem is that decompression takes as long, if not longer, than compression. And we're talking DAYS here, and although you can store the compressed image on a floppy, you need an inconveniently large terabyte hard disk to store the working data for decompression.

As pointed out in some of the comments on this article, his claim that he uses "letters instead of just 1's and 0's" are bizarre, since computers... last I checked... still run on binary.

Gpar_

[Rakido]

Sounds a lot like the Zeosync compression

http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,79223,00.asp

The details of how exactly ZeoSync's technology works are murky. In its press release announcing the "breakthrough", the West Palm Beach, Florida-based company provided a complex explanation, saying that the technology "intentionally randomizes naturally occurring patterns to form entropy-like random sequences" and then "encodes these singular-bit-variance strings within complex combinatorial series to result in massively reduced ... equivalents."

Don't click on the Zeosync link ( ), the site is gone


Rakido

[thop]

All bullshit! You can quote me

[KeiFront]

All bullshit!

[Byock]

Originally posted by KeiFront
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All bullshit!

I will quote KeiFront, quoting you.

[Helevitia]

"I may not have morals, but I have standards."

I'm quoting Byock's quote

[az]

Who is he quoting anyway? (Or must it be "whom..."?)

AZ

[Goc]

Total BS... And now, someone can quote me...

[Jon P. Inghram]

Bah, I've designed a compression system that can compress an entire dictionary into a single bit! True, the compression software is a tad bloated, and only works well in very tightly defined applications (compressing/decompresing a specific dictionary for example .)