cannot be substituted by a "one algorithm to rule them all" like you expect.
First rule of everything:
There's a solution to it all, somehow, someway. I highly doubt it would take a lot of skill to compress a file down to a smaller size. Is there intense programming involved? I'm gonna have to Google it and see how it can be done, I'm sure it's simple.
Please lock thread, thanks.
As VirGnarus has explained above, there comes a time when current algorithms simply cannot compress a file any further, and it is unlikely that you will be able to improve upon them unless you are either a master algorithm creator who deserves fame the world over, or who creates a custom algorithm for the exact type of data you are trying to compress.
Let's say you have the following data (this whole example is greatly over simplified)
fh
ay
wt
gggggggggw
uw
rhhhhh
Now let's assume that numbers will never be used in this example data.
Instead of storing a great row of characters, I could say that I will put the number of times a character will appear BEFORE the letter.
This creates:
fh
ay
wt
9gw
uw
r5h
Do you see how we now have to transmit less data?
Do you also notice that there are no more patterns of repeating data left? Compression algorithms work by storing patters only once, and refering back to them later (or similar). Once you have compressed once, you cannot make it any smaller, as all patterns have already been taken out. Also, there is nothing more that you can do.
There is simply no way which you will be able to get this data much smaller. My strong suggestion is to read around compression algorithms, and come to the understanding of why what you are asking for is impossible.
As for locking this thread, I am not overly keen. This discussion has not yet come to a conclusion, your other thread is already closed, ending any additional discussion opportunities there, and there has been no particular case of rule breaking which warrants a thread closure yet, only a lively debate. If I see this thread getting out of hand, then I will re-consider.