dnoyeB
Ferrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI
|  This trash again.
"At the time of the company's first press release, it took more than a day to squash a random 128-bit file--about 16 letters in ASCII, the most basic computer font--into just 100 bits. "
emphasis mine.
Does anyone need to read any further to know this guy does not know what the hell he is talking about?
Why did cnet write up this useless article. It contains NO new information. I wasted 5 minutes of my day reading that garbage.
cnet deserves to be spammed for posting this un-news. Clearly they must be on the take.
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dnoyeB
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man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard. " Ecclesiastes
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Curious
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join:2001-10-07
Quincy, MA
| So far, you're true and thats a 21% decrease in size. So it takes a day, the programs got some bugs, but add some tweaks and more intelligentcomputer lines and you've got yourself a WinZip Clone.
I don't get it though, Winzip made a 4mg folder into 345kb in 4 seconds, isnt the percentage there greater than 128 bit and 100 bit compression? Yes, 1024 bits make a byte but still it doesnt really seem clear how this is really signfaciant.
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RayW
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join:2001-09-01
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| said by CutandWaste:
Yes, 1024 bits make a byte but still it doesnt really seem clear how this is really signfaciant.
Just being picky but the last I heard, 8 bits made a byte (now being called an octet in some circles). A word is made up of some number of bits.
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JustInit
join:2001-07-20
South Jordan, UT
| reply to dnoyeB
said by dnoyeB:
"At the time of the company's first press release, it took more than a day to squash a random 128-bit file--about 16 letters in ASCII, the most basic computer font--into just 100 bits. "
emphasis mine.
Does anyone need to read any further to know this guy does not know what the hell he is talking about?
Why did cnet write up this useless article. It contains NO new information. I wasted 5 minutes of my day reading that garbage.
cnet deserves to be spammed for posting this un-news. Clearly they must be on the take.
I don't know whether there is anything to this or not. It could be real and it could be that 'this guy does not know what the hell he is talking about'.
However, I can't help but wonder what kind of reaction the guy(s) who first proposed the crazy idea that you could compress data got from the industry 'experts'?
Why is it that the first ones to come forward with an idea that seems to be impossible and break every 'law' that we rely on are seen as idiots and fools?
Remember the reaction of the Swiss watch makers when the Japanese introduced the quartz watch? In fact, it is ironic that the concept of the quartz watch came from a Swiss watch maker.
Maybe the paradigm is shifting. Maybe there is something to this 'new compression' scheme. Maybe it's young technology and just needs to be developed. Maybe it is all BS and a hoax. Time will tell. |
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homebrewer5
join:2001-01-23
Lowell, MA |  said by JustInit:
paradigm is shifting.
BINGO!!!!!
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