Talk:Jan Sloot
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A Dutch "hyve" about his invention.
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Such grandiose claims of "too good to be true" compression are not uncommon, but somehow the so-called inventors never manage to produce a functioning product.
as didn't feel it to be in any way neutral. --Black Butterfly 23:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 8 KB?
I'm certainly not an expert on compression technology, but the idea that you could compress a feature length movie to appx. 8000 bytes sounds rather extreme, coming out to far less than one byte per frame. Possibly Sloot claimed to be able to compress down to eight Megabytes?
- No, he really claimed 8 kB, which is propbably why everybody thought/thinks it was just a scam. —Ruud 02:50, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- Claims like this are clearly fantastic, but sadly, not terribly uncommon. --Stormie 07:28, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
- You can not compress a full-length movie down to 8 KB and have anything watchable. Using Lossy data compression, you can make it that small, but you won't be able to view the result. Bubba73 (talk), 04:12, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
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- Back in the day, people claimed that mankind cannot fly, or that computers could never be so small that they fit on a desk. Saying "can't" is an immediate error when it comes to technology. Wether -Sloot- could do it, though, is another matter entirely.
- You people underestimate the power of technology, you CAN compress things down to that size as long as you have something to interprit it at the other end, he was murderd simple as that
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- You find an multinational conspiracy to murder a man who has invented the greatest piece of technology since the microprocessor more believable than the idea that he was just another one of those dozens of people who make these sort of unproven claims every year?
