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JPG Compression - The Bandwidth Saver
Mr.Tweak writes "TweakTown has posted an article entitled "JPG Compression - The Bandwidth Saver". An article for webmasters and site owners showing how they can significantly reduce the amount of bandwidth they use by compressing JPG images, one of the most common formats for web images. If you own a website and don't yet have knowledge in the field of JPG compression, you should find this very interesting indeed - Save money on bandwidth and please viewers at the same time with quicker loading webpages. They also talk briefly at JPEG2000."
We are the wad of dough!
Who dong hide?
i am on 14k4 :(
It's unfortunate that the JPEG format ends up being described as the JPG, due to DOS naming constraints. Are we doom to see the usage of 3 name extension only in the future due to this lack of vision from the early implementers? I for one would tend to favor embedded MIME support and the removing of file extensions.
PPA, the girl next door.
-- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
Somebody modded the parent post here down as off-topic. Would a moderator please re-read the post?
a.) It was on topic
b.) It was funny
"Derp de derp."
Not safe for work BTW.
The above post is an editorial, the poster cannot and will not be held responsible for all or in part for it's contents
While you're probably sick of hearing about Donald Rumsfeld, it is crucial that you read this letter. I guess I should start by saying that I can't follow Rumsfeld's pretzel logic. I do, however, know that as soon as his forces slow scientific progress, they will have destroyed the basis for their own existence. The mere mention of that fact guarantees that this letter will never get published in any mass-circulation periodical that Rumsfeld has any control over. But that's inconsequential, because Rumsfeld's favorite scapegoats are the government, the economy, the environment, society, parents, teachers, and just about everything else, and everyone with half a brain understands that. Rumsfeld's lapdogs are an amalgamation of vitriolic carousers, sinful unbridled-types, and other filthy masters of deceit. To top that off, several things Rumsfeld has said have brought me to the boiling point. The statement of his that made the strongest impression on me, however, was something to the effect of how a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance. Please don't misread my words here; there's something fishy about his demands. I myself think he's up to something, something nerdy and perhaps even sinister. Contrary to what Rumsfeld would have you believe, some of the facts I'm about to present may seem shocking. This they certainly are. However, he respects nothing, honors nothing, and values nothing beyond himself -- and Rumsfeld knows it. Because "photoreconnaissance" is a word that can be interpreted in many ways, we must make it clear that he thinks that we should avoid personal responsibility. Of course, thinking so doesn't make it so.
I'm sorry if I've gotten a little off track here, but the tone of Rumsfeld's scare tactics is eerily reminiscent of that of uneducated bullies of the late 1940s, in the sense that Rumsfeld wants to empty garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations on the clean garments of honorable people. Why he wants that, I don't know, but that's what he wants. Some people have compared shallow, rotten half-wits to disdainful energumens. I would like to take the comparison one step further.
Astute observers have known for years that everything I've said so far is by way of introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that I, for one, can undoubtedly suggest how Rumsfeld ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with Rumsfeld himself. Now that I think about it, I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes people like him want to arouse inter-ethnic suspicion. Even so, Rumsfeld is doing everything in his power to make me fall prey to Rumsfeld's rhetoric and obfuscation. The only reason I haven't yet is that I believe in the four P's: patience, prayer, positive thinking, and perseverance.
I find that I am embarrassed. Embarrassed that some people don't realize that because of his obsession with interventionism, if Rumsfeld has spurred us to take advantage of a rare opportunity to justify condemnation, constructive criticism, and ridicule of him and his headlong whinges, then Rumsfeld may have accomplished a useful thing. There's a little-known truth that isn't readily acknowledged by jaundiced cowards: Rumsfeld doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. I, hardheaded cynic that I am, would never take a job working for him. Given his disagreeable epithets, who would want to?
Rumsfeld doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. If the only way to reveal some shocking facts about his ideals is for me to suffer from stress, frustration, and defeat, then so be it. It would indubitably be worth it, because I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want Rumsfeld to treat anyone who doesn't agree with him to a torrent of vitriol and vilification, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while Rumsfeld claims that he is a martyr for freedom and a victim of favoritism. Paltry adulterers (like Rumsfeld) are not born -- they are excreted. However unsavory that metaphor may be, if Rumsfeld continues to play fast and loose with the truth, crime will escalate as schools deteriorate, corruption increases, and quality of life plummets. If he feels ridiculed by all the attention my letters are bringing him, then that's just too darn bad. Rumsfeld's arrogance has brought this upon himself.
I am intellectually honest enough to admit my own previous ignorance in that matter. I only wish that Rumsfeld had the same intellectual honesty. If I am doomed to run for cover, then he will obviously provide intransigent ivory-tower academics with an irresistible temptation to deny both our individual and collective responsibility to live in harmony with each other and the world before you know it. The next time he decides to turn back the clock and repeal all the civil rights and anti-discrimination legislation now on the books, he should think to himself, cui bono? -- who benefits?
Was Rumsfeld just trying to be cute when he said that he can change his socially inept ways? I sure hope so, because he has two imperatives. The first is to play on people's conscious and unconscious belief structures. The second imperative is to blame our societal problems on handy scapegoats. By refusing to act, by refusing to institute change, we are giving him the power to pander to our worst fears. Even when Rumsfeld isn't lying, he's using facts, emphasizing facts, bearing down on facts, sliding off facts, quietly ignoring facts, and, above all, interpreting facts in a way that will enable him to create widespread hysteria.
There should be a law against this, and hence, by extension, we can never return to the past. And if we are ever to move forward to the future, we unequivocally have to exemplify the principles of honor, duty, loyalty, and courage. While it is essential -- and among my highest priorities -- to draw a picture of what we conceive of under the word "anticonfederationist", there is no such thing as evil in the abstract. It exists only in the evil deeds of evil people like Rumsfeld. You might think this is all pretty funny now, but I doubt I'll hear you laughing if, before long, he is successfully able to spoil the whole Zen Buddhist New Age mystical rock-worshipping aura of our body chakras.
Perhaps Rumsfeld's outrage at complaints about him is indicative of his self-esteem and value system, but remember that in a recent essay, he stated that hanging out with hypersensitive dorks is a wonderful, culturally enriching experience. Since the arguments he made in the rest of his essay are based in part on that assumption, he should be aware that it just isn't true. Not only that, but his idiotic claim that disorderly, stinking scalawags are more deserving of honor than our nation's war heroes is just that, an idiotic claim. While obtuse Pyrrhonism is widespread and growing stronger as it permeates school systems, universities, and the media, it's easy for us to shake our heads at his foolishness and cowardice. It's easy for us to exclaim that we should create greater public understanding of the damage caused by his inveracities. It's easy for us to say, "I draw strength and courage from knowing that most people comprehend the crusade to stop Rumsfeld and are supportive of my role in it." The point is that it's easy for us to say these things, because Rumsfeld is essentially describing a situation that does not exist. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true.
Some people are responsible and others are not. Rumsfeld falls into the category of "not". Please humor me for a moment while I state that he asserts that his vices are the only true virtues. That assertion is not only untrue, but a conscious lie. In the beginning of this letter, I promised you details, but now I'm running out of space. So here's one detail to end with: One thing that Donald Rumsfeld does well is turn once-flourishing neighborhoods into zones of violence, decay, and moral disregard.
Abdullah surreptitiously crawls over the open window from which the sounds of a pizza party on a non-school night are playing. He gets beneath the window, pulls the pin out of the grenade with his quivering lips, and rolls the pineapple over the window sill...
This will definitely get me the 72 virgins, he thinks, giggling to himself.
Is this really supposed to be news?