The Source Code (MUST READ)

[Johan1951]

From: ManaByte

Cubicle47b wrote:
This is possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read. Computer Science mysticism?

This sounds like either a chain letter or a new 419 scammer email trying to get people to send money to discover who stole the source code.

[Johan1951]

From: Border

Google versus Smart Guy On A Message Board is a pretty even fight for credibility

I googled "Jan Sloot" and all I got was a bunch of sweedish language crap and the page I already linked....which ripped his whole invention apart as a fraud/crackpot attempt at the impossible.

Even though Sloot claimed that one kilobyte was enough to store any movie regardless of its length, the question is warranted whether a system as defined by the SDCS is possible for movies of a limited (but realistic) length. The answer is no. One kilobyte is 1024 bytes, and a byte can take 256 different values. With a code of one kilobyte, to represent any movie up to 90 minutes in length, on average a byte must be able to distinguish between all possible sequences of about 5 seconds. Can a sequence of 5 seconds of any movie at all be identified with a number between 0 and 255? Of course not.

Why are the prototype and source code destroyed? Either family did it to protect his estate from litigation over defrauding investors, or the Pieper guy did it himself to prevent the destruction of his reputation and credibility.

EDIT: Even Manabyte doesn't believe this, and he'll believe anything

[Johan1951]

From: Silver

ManaByte: No, dude. It's a true story. There's a possibility that the software doesn't exist, but the story is 100% true.

[Johan1951]

From: EviLore

This is a laugh riot.

Are you all-knowing? You sound like an ignorant, pretentious semi-expert

You're the ignorant one. This is 100% BS. Comparing the compression of nearly 3000GB of varied data into 64KB is a few universe-spans away from extending the life of a lightbulb by 300%. Go read up on how data compression works.

[Johan1951]

From: Silver

Right. Read up on it. Sloot had a completely NEW way of compressing data.

BTW, it's been on all major, serious television shows in Holland (so I've read).

But everyone, tell me, HOW do people like Pieper, Wang and Philips and CA scientists fall for a crackpot trick? Because the one thing that is certified 100% true is that both Philips and CA BELIEVED Sloot. Which is an amazing feat if it was all just a trick.

[Johan1951]

From: Hitokage

What the fuck does tripling the efficency of a lightbulb have ANYTHING to do with promoting a mathematical absurdity? Look, I know how video and audio compression schemes roughly work, and there's only so far you can push it before losing an unacceptable amount of information... and this guy puts it 10,000 times smaller than the worst mp3 encoding. EVEN IF you discard all existing methods, how the hell are you going to describe a couple terabytes worth of information, ANY information, with only 64 kilobytes? HOW?

Maybe you should stop being so dazzled with fancy titles like COMPUTER TECH GURU and actually understand the underlying concepts of the matter at hand.

[Johan1951]

From: Morts

If he only had 20 minutes to show it off how did he play 16 movies back to back in front of Pieper?

Because he played them simultaneously, not back to back.

[Johan1951]

From: Silver

I just said that he turned the whole concept of data compression upside down. As I have said, if you knew how it worked, YOU would be the guy with 100 billion dollars now.

Explain it to me. How did those computer science people fall for it? Why would a major worldwide bank like ABN Amro give a crackpot 25 million euros?

[Johan1951]

From: Border

This isn't really compression technology. If you want to berate silver, at least read up on how it was supposed to work. The client software has a large source file of audio and media, and then a movie is "generated" on the fly by inputting a number that is 1-8Kb.

It is not simply compressing a movie down to a few kilobytes.

[Johan1951]

From: Silver

Morts wrote:
Because he played them simultaneously, not back to back.

Right. Actually, the meeting ended up taking a few hours because Pieper and his scientists were amazed, I forgot to add that to the story.