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MS Proposes JPEG Alternative
automatix writes "Microsoft's new competitor to the omnipresent JPEG format has been shown at WinHEC and is discussed on CNET. The Windows Media Photo format has many promises associated with it. The program manager is claiming 'We can do it in half the size of a JPEG file.'. While 'the philosophy has been that licensing should not be a restriction', it is interesting that the specification requires a click-through agreement to even read it."
You can bitch all you want. Bottom line is more and more people use Microsoft. Less and less people use Apple and Unix.
Microsoft makes de facto standards: IE, Office, Visual Basic, etc. If they come out with a new format, people will use it because it's easy and seamless to use. If you quit fighting it and decided to get some work done (using Windows), you'd be happier in the long run.
Gay
Good DAY, sir!
Dude - nicely cut and pasted.
>frequency representation
Oh for gods sake, frequencies representation of what? Contrast, colour,
toenails? I might just as well say "hey , I know , I'll make a frequency
representation of this ball!"
No , I don't understand the process , but it might help if someone
actually explained it. Guess I'll have to google.
>Ring a bell?
It would have to be a loud bell, I think I just fell asleep.
Do you have a job? Or a hobby? Or family? Hell, even watching TV would probably have been a better use of your time than this.
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