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- DutchBoy
OMG! OMFG!
any Dutch people on here seen part 1 of the documentary on Netwerk tonight??( http://www.netwerk.tv ) i can't believe this actually happened!!
ok, for those who don't know (yet), this story is very, very hard to believe, but the news will break out soon i guess. Unfortunatly i found zero info on this in English, but it is breaking through in Dutch media already:
A book is released called "De Broncode" (Dutch for 'the source code'). It's written by a journalist who needed years to gather all the facts of this mind-dazzling story and tragedy.
It's about a 'simple man' (named Jan Sloot)living in an ordinary Dutch town, who fixed television sets as a profession and was a devoted amateur in computerscience. This guy (omg i am still shaking..)(i'll keep it short for now, it's very late), anyway, this guy invented some kind of source-code that could make processing of data so fast you just cannot believe it until you'd see it. The invention, the basis of it, was/is sooo simple he became terrified, this ordinary man with an ordinary job realised he invented something that could turn the digital world upside down, if not the whole world anyway.
anyway, not trying to get in to many details here, he found a few partners (amongst them his son and a kitchen-tycoon (oh the irony!) to find a company willing to buy this After a few presentations (one of the biggest went completely wrong in an unbelievable way, and in an amazing setting), but then later on ICT engineers, CEO etc. etc. came to see what this hype was all about (we are talking 1999 here), and they saw it. and they drooled.. bigtime.
Estimations went wild. Final speculations of the value of this invention exceeded 100 BILLION dollars, with this microsoft, sun, intel and the likes could be swept away from existence...
ok, i have to keep this really short now..
here's the tragedy:
Just 3 days before he was finally closing the deal he was walking in his backyard where he was struck by a fatal heart-attack. the man, together with his invention, went six feet under.noone else, not even his son, know about the source.
i've seen footage on tv of demonstrations with ICT engineers as witness where he connects his tiny little box to a laptop simulatenously playing 16(!) high quality movies with great ease, even winding them back and forth at incredible velocity. it was a simple box with a small chipcard to be inserted. one of the engineers that witnessed this demo said he checked the lights of his laptop (indicating whether it is reading from the harddisk or not) and noticed all of it was not read from the HD but straight from the small magic box.
ok, i am not drunk.. i have just seen this documentary (i recorded it), and i just really felt i had to share this unbelievable story.
call me nuts.
i swear to god i kid you not, neither did he...
there's tons and tons of details to this story that make it even more amazing.
i am sure really really soon an english translation will be out there (i guess it will be called 'The Source Code'??) and then the press will be all over it.
until then, call me a dork with lots of blahblah, but hell yes, i am going to buy that book asap!!
here you can find info, all in dutch only..
http://www.google.com/search?q=%…
translate aid: http://w3.systranlinks.com/systr…
i can still hardly believe this actually happened..
- DutchBoy0
sorry for the messed up story.
but i am still amazed.
- DutchBoy0
http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/6…
just read here it is some sort of data compression with a ratio of 1:2,000,000.. i guess (i am not an expert) this would mean a file of 2 gig would be compressed to about 1kb??
- DutchBoy0
baah.. impossible__
nah.. but then again, it was even about killing the whole idea of ones and zeros.. this went to the very core of computing, so ..
arrgh.. breaking my mind over this.
- DutchBoy0
Here's the book:
http://www.uitgeverijpodium.nl/?…
(again in Dutch only yet.. sorry)
but i reckon it will become a bestseller.
- zedvox0
all that is dandy but can it
GIVE ME THAT FUCKING FONT???
if no....its useless.
- DutchBoy0
bah.. i am going to bed now, trying to let this story sink into my mind.. it's so weird.
i am making a fool of myself, but i hope some Dutch folks can understand my amazement if they have seen this documentary.
part 2 will be broadcasted this sunday.
- zedvox0
just kidding jaane.
goodnight :)
- DutchBoy0
yeah yeah..
just don't be surprised this story will be all over slashdot and the likes real soon..
i can't find zero info on it on the big nerd-news-sites..
weird, weird, weird.
- DutchBoy0
just seen the second part of the documentary, and heard about this story again on the radio tonight.. it is true.
and hearing even more facts makes it more surreal.
wtf?
- DutchBoy0
to Dutch people: until 2 o'clock this night this documentary is being repeated.
watch it.
- rasko40
if this is true, I very much doubt (a) the 'heart attack' was as it seemed and (b) the 'code has gone entirly to the grave with him
- you heard about the guy with the amazing energy ideas right?
- DutchBoy0
exactly. there is doubt about that.
but, he was also a heart-patient, and under immense pressure.
there's soooo many details to this story, i can only hope there'll be an english version soon..
many people were involved..
amongst them a certain mr.Wang and a mr. Perkins (very high ranking persons in investments in computer-related matter)..
also, Roel Pieper of Philips played a keyrole, he even betrayed Philips as he took the idea (or better: mr. Sloot) for himself and staged a fake 'bad' presentation for other engineers of Philips, to make them think it's not so revolutionary at all..
then a long story about travels and meetings in the US and Sillicon Valley starts..
again watching the documentary now, going to buy the book tomorrow, it's been released this weekend, that's why it's all over the media now.
- rasko40
if the motherfucker was righteous, he would have open-sourced that shit straight off and then we could have seen some genuine progression rather than the intentional stunted growth that perpetually keeps us 'behind the times'
saying that; I'm not ready for photoShop XZ just yet heh
- DutchBoy0
ha!
open-source it was near impossible i think.
he couldn't trust anyone, even trying to license it open source would have been to hazardous..
note:
his room was found completely cleaned and empty, when he died two days before the the first part of the deal would be closed, the day he'd receive a down-payment of the Dutch bank ABN/AMRO of about 22 million euros. The wife lived in a rush, like a zombie after his death, many people came and went.. she couldn't remember who and when.so yeah, there's plenty of leads (not evidence tho) that this has been stolen.. and possibly that Jan Sloot was murdered, which his son firmly beliefs.
- blackspade0
hmm interesting
- rasko40
remarkably suspicious.
- DutchBoy0
ok, it's leaking out on the internet already.. again in Dutch only YET..
interesting discussion on the topic:
http://www.ufoplaza.nl/modules.p…the book:
http://www.libris.nl/zoekenbeste…the publisher:
http://www.uitgeverijpodium.nl/?…more discussion:
http://www.quotenet.nl/2004/09/1…the very first comprehensive story on this as published in Quote magazine in 2001:
http://www.gids.nl/techno/jan-sl…
- Duane0
Crazy stuff.
- DutchBoy0
stream of part 1 online:
http://www.netwerk.tv/index.jsp?…
win-media, broadband and smallband. dutch only.
- jevad0
sounds intriguing!!