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Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard?
Mortimer.CA writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft has submitted their HD Photo to the JPEG committee: 'Microsoft's ongoing attempt to establish its own photo format as a JPEG alternative (and potential successor) took another step forward today when the JPEG standards group agreed to consider HD Photo (originally named Windows Media Photo) as a standard. If successful, the new file standard will be known as JPEG XR.' Microsoft has made a 'commitment to make its patents that are required to implement the specification available without charge.' While JPEG 2000 exists, HD Photo has several advantages (not the least of which is a lot less CPU power is needed). Is this a big of an issue as ODF/OOXML?"
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Wow! The image compression used by Microsoft's HD Photo format is so good that it can reduce any image down to 0 bits!
It looks fine on my lynx.
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Wow! The image compression used by Microsoft's HD Photo format is so good that it can reduce any image down to 0 bits!
It's decompression that's always been the sticky part.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Before a ton of posts show up bitching about the last sentence, you should ask yourself, "Is grammar as big of an issue as you think?"
Fixed.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
You sound like you know what you're talking about;
I wish I could mod you up.
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I asked if *you* could use it more pretentiously. It goes without saying that Eric Raymond can use it more pretentiously!
Before a ton of posts show up bitching about the last sentence, you should ask yourself, "Is grammar as much of an issue as you think?"
Fixed.
Ahh, that reminds me again of the superb compression program I wrote a while ago: LZip (Lossy Zip). The only problem is that I LZipped the source code and removed all binaries.
How nice of them, an exe file.
Lies! I refuse to believe that there has ever been talk in the Firefox dev team about memory size!
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Before a ton of posts show up bitching about the last sentence, you should ask yourself, "Is I as much grammar of think an issue as ?"
Fucked.
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