From: IapetusSilver wrote:
You know, you may all think I'm retarded, but seriously: if somebody discovers a totally new way of compressing data that no one knows about, of course you think "impossible, retarded". Because if you didn't, you'd be the one working on that code.
No.
It's a comforting idea for the tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists, but this isn't a question of different types of compression. It's a question of whether what's being discussed is possible at all, regardless of the approach.
You're like someone posting about a technique someone discovered for turning lead into gold through purely chemical reactions. "Ah," you might cry, "but of course you don't believe it's possible, or you'd be out there turning lead into gold yourselves." But it's still fundamentally impossible, to the point that we don't care what you think the technique is, or how many incomprehensible pseudo-science websites you point us at.
Same holds true with this compression issue.