a 16-bit representation would compress almost exactly the same as an 8-bit representation using Lempel-Ziv or derivative techniques
Just to clarify, you mean that a 16-bit representation would compress to almost exactly the same eventual size; you don't mean that the compression ratio would be almost exactly the same.
Just thought it was a bit easy to misinterpret as it stood:-)
Ah, so you reckon their "10 TB of data" means "1.25 TB of data, which can represent 10 TB of low-entropy text". That's probably quite likely - and on closer reading, it looks like it is indeed $50 per sqare cm. But this development would still represent an unrealistically radical improvement in *aerial density* of storage.
This is a highly unconvincing attempt at hyping what is in all likelihood a non-existant product.
The first invention is a method of compressing text stored in binary form, which expresses information as a series of noughts and ones, by comparing each word with its predecessor and recording only the differences between words
Well that's pretty unremarkable. They've written a compression algorithm.
Oh, by the way, they have also invented
"a memory system that enables up to 10.8 terabytes of data to be stored in an area the size of a credit card, with no conventionally moving parts"
If that were true, why are they bothering to even *think* about their text compression algorithm? Fifty dollars a go? Who wants compression? If these people are telling the truth, we are talking about a thousand-fold increase in gigabytes per dollar over the space of two years.
The phrase "no conventionally moving parts" also brings to mind images of really whacky, non-linear moving parts flailing about. What the hell do they mean?
Absolutely no technical detail is given in the article, and as far as I'm concerned, this is yet another false alarm on the long road to entirely solid-state computer systems.
Thanks for the info. I was really interested in making a router with absolutely no moving parts (once it has booted and read the stuff from gdrom into memory). Shame it has a cooling fan. NetBSD will be ported to the PS2 soon, but that has a massive cooling fan after all the problems with the original Playstations overheating.
I don't know about you, but I don't have access to many 96kHz masters. The highest quality available to me is 16bit/44kHz. I choose to losslessly compress and keep that same quality. I do use the mp3 format for my rio and laptop and streaming, though. It would be nice if the rio firmware supported vorbis...
Ogg Vorbis is *so* passe. There's no excuse for lossy compression these days, when CD audio can be losslessly compressed at a ratio of 2:1 and hard drives are less than three dollars a gig.
1.08GB. Could this be the largest ever file directly linked to from slashdot's front page? Are slashdot trying to slashdot sourceforge? I thought they were your friends.
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there is an obvious troll in the parent post. Your mission is to find it.
wake me up when this thread is over.
Theoretically, yes, we should access the higher fidelity masters and lossily compress those. But all we proles have access to is CD audio quality
What the FUCK are you talking about?
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Just to clarify, you mean that a 16-bit representation would compress to almost exactly the same eventual size; you don't mean that the compression ratio would be almost exactly the same.
Just thought it was a bit easy to misinterpret as it stood :-)
Ah, so you reckon their "10 TB of data" means "1.25 TB of data, which can represent 10 TB of low-entropy text". That's probably quite likely - and on closer reading, it looks like it is indeed $50 per sqare cm. But this development would still represent an unrealistically radical improvement in *aerial density* of storage.
You drifted from the topic somewhat. Never mind.
Well that's pretty unremarkable. They've written a compression algorithm.
Oh, by the way, they have also invented
If that were true, why are they bothering to even *think* about their text compression algorithm? Fifty dollars a go? Who wants compression? If these people are telling the truth, we are talking about a thousand-fold increase in gigabytes per dollar over the space of two years.
The phrase "no conventionally moving parts" also brings to mind images of really whacky, non-linear moving parts flailing about. What the hell do they mean?
Absolutely no technical detail is given in the article, and as far as I'm concerned, this is yet another false alarm on the long road to entirely solid-state computer systems.
I wouldn't go quite so far as to call Taco a programmer.
I suppose that makes me "illaterate" too, you little turdulence.
Thanks for the info. I was really interested in making a router with absolutely no moving parts (once it has booted and read the stuff from gdrom into memory). Shame it has a cooling fan. NetBSD will be ported to the PS2 soon, but that has a massive cooling fan after all the problems with the original Playstations overheating.
I don't know about you, but I don't have access to many 96kHz masters. The highest quality available to me is 16bit/44kHz. I choose to losslessly compress and keep that same quality. I do use the mp3 format for my rio and laptop and streaming, though. It would be nice if the rio firmware supported vorbis...
NO artist has made several hundred thousand dollars from publishing their music on mp3.com.
Ogg Vorbis is *so* passe. There's no excuse for lossy compression these days, when CD audio can be losslessly compressed at a ratio of 2:1 and hard drives are less than three dollars a gig.
Also, are the things warm to the touch when they've been switched on for a long time?
1.08GB. Could this be the largest ever file directly linked to from slashdot's front page? Are slashdot trying to slashdot sourceforge? I thought they were your friends.
Hello. Do you mean that some days *you* are proud to be Canadian? Typical illaterate fuckin' Canadian nobsworths.
Please can you define the term "security bug days open" for me? Maybe I'm being slow, but that made no sense to me.
HAHA I knew it.
A: Ideut O'Clock
Just thought I'd come back and post a follow up. That's all.
Q: How many ideuts does it take to change a light bulb?
Bollocks
Yep
ideut 1 ideut 2 ideut 3 ideut 4 ideut 5 ideut 6 ideut 7 ideut 8 ideut 9 ideut 10 ideut 11 ideut 12.