DRM-laden content is very popular with the masses if it's accessible enough. Just look at services like the free version of Hulu or any streaming video using Flash.
you do know that JPEG is only 8-bit right? convert the image to 8-bit first if you want to compare size.
You don't know what you're talking about. JPEG is 8-bits per channel. There are 3 channels. A 24-bit PNG is also 8 bits per channel x 3.
I do agree that JPEG is more widely accepted though. PNG is still thought of as a graphics only format, probably because of the optional alpha channel.
It's also down to what PNG compresses efficiently. PNG uses DEFLATE so it handles solid colors very well. JPEG uses discrete cosine transforms, which essentially is a mathematical model of the image data - similar to to how MP3 compresses audio. It handles complexity much better than PNG. Just because major web sites and services crank up the compression ratios and produce lousy output does not make it the fault of the format itself.
Have you been to a major web site recently? Lots of HUGE images. Some of the flashier sites have a full-width background photo. Most headline photos are 500px or wider.
I took a random 833x1200 portrait photo from the Internet and loaded it into Photoshop to compress.
The 24-bit PNG is 941.4 KB. There are no areas of solid color that benefit from PNG's efficiencies. Just for fun, I ran it through an online PNGCrush tool and it somehow jumped to 1.5MB.
The JPEG at 100% quality is 311.6KB The JPEG at 94% quality is 260KB At 80% quality it goes down to 179KB At a web-appropriate 60% it's 133KB and still looks nearly-flawless, with only a minor loss of detail around pores.
If I'm a professional photographer, I would probably still save to JPEG at 100% for final output instead of RAW or TIFF. And even at 100% it's 1/3 of the size of the 24-bit PNG.
They also couldn't replicate gold-pressed latinum [wikia.com].
I've never watched any of the series to any great extent (yet), but would I be correct in understanding that this currency couldn't be moved by transporter, then? That would seem to be very cumbersome considering how everything on the show appears to work.
You tell my local dispatcher to be more forgiving of butt-dialers, then. They're the ones letting the terrorists win. Instead, they literally told me to buy a new phone.
if ANI/ALI information is not present at the time the dispatcher begins typing in the CAD Incident Entry window, source data is not captured, and dispatchers would need to manually port source data into the CAD Incident Entry window
That's a SOFTWARE issue, not a butt-dialing issue. When the information finally comes in, it can be recorded on the record asynchronously if the software is designed correctly.
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What's wrong with the current Photoshop implementation? I use it fairly regularly and have great results for the images it's appropriate for.
Key words - trying to kill.
You were claiming that implementing DRM will limit your audience. For the general public, that's simply not the case.
DRM-laden content is very popular with the masses if it's accessible enough. Just look at services like the free version of Hulu or any streaming video using Flash.
you do know that JPEG is only 8-bit right? convert the image to 8-bit first if you want to compare size.
You don't know what you're talking about. JPEG is 8-bits per channel. There are 3 channels. A 24-bit PNG is also 8 bits per channel x 3.
I do agree that JPEG is more widely accepted though. PNG is still thought of as a graphics only format, probably because of the optional alpha channel.
It's also down to what PNG compresses efficiently. PNG uses DEFLATE so it handles solid colors very well. JPEG uses discrete cosine transforms, which essentially is a mathematical model of the image data - similar to to how MP3 compresses audio. It handles complexity much better than PNG. Just because major web sites and services crank up the compression ratios and produce lousy output does not make it the fault of the format itself.
This was the photo:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hNC-...
Have you been to a major web site recently? Lots of HUGE images. Some of the flashier sites have a full-width background photo. Most headline photos are 500px or wider.
Yes. Economics 101 - Supply and Demand.
It was for content producers in the real world. In fantasy-land, everyone would use DRM-free video for paid content.
DRM is copy-protecton (and view protection in some cases).
IPTC/EXIF can already embed digital signatures. There's really no need for a new standard for that.
With all of the image modification tools out there this won't stop anything
And to open the image, they'd have to implement DRM. Any tool that implements it would be forced to make the image read-only upon opening.
With all of the screen capture programs out there this won't stop anything
Already a solved problem with HDCP. Graphics drivers will not let you screen capture it.
With all of the DVI to HDMI cables to capture cards this won't stop anything
Any real-world implementation would involve secure content path and require HDCP.
With all of the other formats you could re-save it as this won't stop anything
You would still have to be able to open it in something first.
To get rid of Flash. I think there are a lot of desperate things most people will do to never see Flash again.
Facebook doesn't want DRM. How are they supposed to re-compress uploaded pictures if they are DRM-protected?
I took a random 833x1200 portrait photo from the Internet and loaded it into Photoshop to compress.
The 24-bit PNG is 941.4 KB. There are no areas of solid color that benefit from PNG's efficiencies. Just for fun, I ran it through an online PNGCrush tool and it somehow jumped to 1.5MB.
The JPEG at 100% quality is 311.6KB
The JPEG at 94% quality is 260KB
At 80% quality it goes down to 179KB
At a web-appropriate 60% it's 133KB and still looks nearly-flawless, with only a minor loss of detail around pores.
If I'm a professional photographer, I would probably still save to JPEG at 100% for final output instead of RAW or TIFF. And even at 100% it's 1/3 of the size of the 24-bit PNG.
There is an epidemic of prison visitors in the US sneaking in cell phones inside condoms jammed up the visitors' rectums.
Hope that's flip phones and not phablets.
Great job. Force-drop all 911 calls as you drive by any accident.
like their shoot of Kate Moss a few years ago, that was pretty cool. Who else is going to do that kind of set now?
This is the Internet age. Now we just wait for someone to hack their phone and upload to BitTorrent.
They also couldn't replicate gold-pressed latinum [wikia.com].
I've never watched any of the series to any great extent (yet), but would I be correct in understanding that this currency couldn't be moved by transporter, then? That would seem to be very cumbersome considering how everything on the show appears to work.
fiat currency
Gold is valuable because it's gold. Paper money is valuable because it's backed by the government that issues it.
If you read the summary:
The most substantial release, created by Paul Raveling, came in 1989 with X11R4
TL;DR an SHA1 hash collision is only good for password cracking.
computational power of seizures
Makes a fine RNG
You tell my local dispatcher to be more forgiving of butt-dialers, then. They're the ones letting the terrorists win. Instead, they literally told me to buy a new phone.
You were dialing 9 to get an outside line you dummy. 1 is the long distance / US country code.
What are you talking about? Read your own quote:
if ANI/ALI information is not present at the time the dispatcher begins typing in the CAD Incident Entry window, source data is not captured, and dispatchers would need to manually port source data into the CAD Incident Entry window
That's a SOFTWARE issue, not a butt-dialing issue. When the information finally comes in, it can be recorded on the record asynchronously if the software is designed correctly.
I've had a Nexus 5. It doesn't have a hardware home button.