They both have their uses. For image storage, PNGs are better as they are lossless, but for transmission over slow links a lossy JPGs is much more effective.
Gifs/pngs are better suited for drawn images with a small variation in detail, where jpeg is better for photographs or other images with high detail.
And PNG support in IE is horrible. In a recent project I worked on recently I had to convert most of the PNGs to GIFs because IE did not support transparency correctly, let alone the alpha channel. Things were wonderful in Mozilla, whereas in IE they were horrible with lots of jagged edges and I did not know why at the time. Then I realised it was the alpha channel that Mozilla blended the image correctly with the background, and in IE it was a mess. I had to make various gifs with different color backgrounds to achieve the same effect in IE.
The project I am talking about is in here. You can use login test, password test to see what I am talking about, namely the icons on the table after login. It's in portuguese but you shouldn't have many problems with that I hope.
well, I used BitTorrent and in about 20 hours I had the ISOs burned to a cd... I'm connected via a 256Kb cable connection, so for the 1.7GB download that wasn't too much... At some point the transfer rate was going at the maximum possible (32KB/sec), although I got about 26/27 KB most of the time I cared to look at it...
Bittorrent is amazing. Guess I'll give it more use from now on... I left the client running for a couple of hours after the download finished, but I had to stop it. My cable connection allows me a maximum of 1,5GB per month of upstream (and 5GB downsteam) traffic and it's the first frickin day of the month and I am already at 700mb! Well, at least during the time it took for the download some folks got some parts of their ISOs from me...
It's just a little hard to make the effort to write in something which is not my native language so I can contribute to./ , and having a native speaker be pedantic about my spelling or grammar...
Would you make the same effort? Come over to Gildot, slashdot's portuguese little brother. It's my turn now to be pedantic.
Most free fonts are badly done. I don't question the look of the fonts themselves, but most don't have the international (accented) characters, so writing anything other than english is dificult.
If these fonts feature a complete character set and are as high quality as anything you get from a fresh install of windows (except that ugly Comic Sans) and macOS, then we're in luck.
Show a screenshot for some Linux program for a windows only user and the first thing he'll notice is that the fonts are ugly, if it's not a RH8.0 linux system. The font rendering in RH8 is very good.
Now if only I didn't have to install the fonts all over the place for GTK1, GTK2, QT, TCL/TK and all the other toolkits so they can see the same fonts....
Slightly off-topic, but not having free incoming messages is a dangerous thing. Don't know if some network taxes received messages, because it's a very wrong thing to do.. It's not like you can avoid receiving a SMS, in the same way you can't help not to receive a email.
Paying for sending messages is ok, I think, even though they are extremely over-priced (do the math... compare the cost per byte of one minute of voice at 9600bps, to the cost of the 160 characters of a SMS, even accounting for some more bytes for SMS overhead).
I just did that to a computer of mine to plug into the tv and watch DVDs, DIVX and play snes/genesis games. I built a cube out of transparent plexiglass. You can watch it here. This is not something you can easily mix with other AV gear, of course:)
And this brings an intersting point: if the editors themselves don't read their own page, then why should we?
I don't want to be harsh or rude, and I like my daily fix of/. like most people in here, or else we wouldn't come back, but these repeated stories are appearing more and more on the front page. Today we have what? Two already?/. editors, please do like we do: read the main page regularly before posting new stories!
Download the files from where? Assuming most people did this, there would be nowhere to download the files from, as noone would be sharing their files.
what about just leaving them alone and trying to sell their products?
I love MS as much as the next guy here on/., and while I partially agree with this suit, the market still has the final word to say.
I submitted a while ago a story about Microsoft's attempt at interactive TV here in Portugal. It got rejected, but the point here is that it failed. Microsoft's testbed for iTV failed because the problems we have today with windows translated to the same problems with the MS iTV's software. The service was also a bit expensive (whether or not related to the MS tax), the set top box crashed a lot, and few saw the benefits of iTV. We are a bit behind europe in smoe areas, but in technology we are at about the same level so it was not a people's problem. (in a country of 10 million there are about 7 or 8 million cellphones; our ATM system allows for any kind of bank operation in any bank's ATM from withdrawing money to buying train tickets to paying the telephone or electricity bills; we have a nation-wide non-stop automated system for paying the highway toll).
MS failed because of the product they were trying to sell wasn't what the people wanted, they wanted to make us use the TV as a computer but we didn't. When they come with this cellphoneOS, let the people decide. Say what you want about mobile internet, games, messengers, digital built-in cameras, and all the rest of the crap, that while make cool geek toys (which I like to play with), the vast majority just wants to call someone.
And it's not going to be easy to de-throne the appeal Nokia has.
Microsoft may be the monopoly in computer operating systems and Office suits, but in other ponds they are the little fish.
driverguide requires registration, but it's only a way to get your personal details. I did it once and what did I get for a username and password?
Username:drivers Password:all
And happy driver hunting. I know how frustrating that can be. Sometimes the problem is when the manufacturer does not support the product any longer. I had a Voodoo Rush 3d card with TV Out that I had to replace because all the drivers I could get had the same problem. When playing DVD/VCD/Divx the picture was corrupted (some overlay problems). Not a nice thing to have when I was building a box to watch movies on the TV.
And what about giving them a single ring too and hope they aren't near the phone to pick it up in time?:)
BTW, where I live people usually do the same thing, but no related to telemarketing. When I see a missed call if I don't know the number I just ignore it.
But people use the first ring to communicate in some way. Usually to say something in advance like "when I get there I'll give you a ring" and then they give a ring, the receiver sees the other phone number's missed call and knows that the other guy got there. Kids and teens (and not so teens) do this all the time to say nothing in particular, but to say some sort of "hi there" to the other.
Of course this works only if the caller's phone sends it's own phone number, but most do.
but how much more expensive will it get? how often do you use regular mail anyway to offset the inconvenience of having your mailbox full of marketing crap?
in my country we have some special spam-filter stickers provided by the mail service saying "no unsolicited bulk mail" and it is against the law to drop anything not directly mailed to the mail box recipient. In my building most of the mail boxes have these stickers. Some smartasses still leave something there once in a while, but the amount of trash drops to almost nothing. When I go and check the mail I either have something for me or I don't. No more sorting out useless crap.
And as mentioned in another post, most of these cds will be buried in a landfill or incinerated. Help the environment, help reduce useless crap.
It scared the shit out of me when I read it as "lion cells" and the "AAAAAAAA" seems like a scream of someone being eaten alive in one of those lion cells!
We had enough lion-fodder during the roman empire...
LFS as the basis for a distro
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For some time I'm toying around with the idea of using LFS as the basis of a linux distribution.
Use LFS to create a linux demo/distribution, a bit like Beos R5. You boot the cd, try it out, and if you like it, have a program to copy the cd over to the hard disk and setup a bootloader.
And keep it small. BeOS managed to cram a lot of stuff into a 40mb iso image. Current mainstream distros are too fat, spreading all on at least 2 cds.
Well, gotta ditch the older version and check this new LFS book.
In a surprise move, the two scientists began shoving the new keyboard up each others' asses simulatneously, while using the new keyboard technology to stimulate the colon and the G spot, respectively.
I'm surprised this post got to +2 despite this comment in the first few lines. phew! don't people read before applying moderation?
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"a clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind"
:)
don't know who wrote this, but it's cool, and I think it fits the bill nicely
But then, /. features a lot of stuff, several times, just in case someone misses it for the first time.
I mean, like that evil bit RFC? :)
They both have their uses. For image storage, PNGs are better as they are lossless, but for transmission over slow links a lossy JPGs is much more effective.
Gifs/pngs are better suited for drawn images with a small variation in detail, where jpeg is better for photographs or other images with high detail.
And PNG support in IE is horrible. In a recent project I worked on recently I had to convert most of the PNGs to GIFs because IE did not support transparency correctly, let alone the alpha channel. Things were wonderful in Mozilla, whereas in IE they were horrible with lots of jagged edges and I did not know why at the time. Then I realised it was the alpha channel that Mozilla blended the image correctly with the background, and in IE it was a mess. I had to make various gifs with different color backgrounds to achieve the same effect in IE.
The project I am talking about is in here. You can use login test, password test to see what I am talking about, namely the icons on the table after login. It's in portuguese but you shouldn't have many problems with that I hope.
Regards,
pedro
well, I used BitTorrent and in about 20 hours I had the ISOs burned to a cd... I'm connected via a 256Kb cable connection, so for the 1.7GB download that wasn't too much... At some point the transfer rate was going at the maximum possible (32KB/sec), although I got about 26/27 KB most of the time I cared to look at it...
Bittorrent is amazing. Guess I'll give it more use from now on... I left the client running for a couple of hours after the download finished, but I had to stop it. My cable connection allows me a maximum of 1,5GB per month of upstream (and 5GB downsteam) traffic and it's the first frickin day of the month and I am already at 700mb! Well, at least during the time it took for the download some folks got some parts of their ISOs from me...
did anyone else notice the sender and reply-to addresses? they're both dev-null@rhn.redhat.com whereas normal redhat emails are from rhn-admin.
early april's fool?
don't go to the article all at once, or those questions will continue unanswered!
so.. does this mean we have to change our reference unit for storage capacity?
Nope..
It's just a little hard to make the effort to write in something which is not my native language so I can contribute to ./ , and having a native speaker be pedantic about my spelling or grammar...
Would you make the same effort? Come over to Gildot, slashdot's portuguese little brother. It's my turn now to be pedantic.
Most free fonts are badly done. I don't question the look of the fonts themselves, but most don't have the international (accented) characters, so writing anything other than english is dificult.
If these fonts feature a complete character set and are as high quality as anything you get from a fresh install of windows (except that ugly Comic Sans) and macOS, then we're in luck.
Show a screenshot for some Linux program for a windows only user and the first thing he'll notice is that the fonts are ugly, if it's not a RH8.0 linux system. The font rendering in RH8 is very good.
Now if only I didn't have to install the fonts all over the place for GTK1, GTK2, QT, TCL/TK and all the other toolkits so they can see the same fonts....
perhaps you should be concerned too.
collateral damages? f*ck that, it's some iraqi that's going to die, so it's probably good, right?
"one death is a tragedy, one million deaths are a statistic".
and this saddens me....
you already use more than 5%. actually you use the whole 100% of the brain, despite the myth we use only 5 or 10% of the brain.
go look at some of those brain exams (TAC/TCA/?) where the brain activity can be seen.
Slightly off-topic, but not having free incoming messages is a dangerous thing. Don't know if some network taxes received messages, because it's a very wrong thing to do.. It's not like you can avoid receiving a SMS, in the same way you can't help not to receive a email.
Paying for sending messages is ok, I think, even though they are extremely over-priced (do the math... compare the cost per byte of one minute of voice at 9600bps, to the cost of the 160 characters of a SMS, even accounting for some more bytes for SMS overhead).
or you can also make your own case!
I just did that to a computer of mine to plug into the tv and watch DVDs, DIVX and play snes/genesis games. I built a cube out of transparent plexiglass. You can watch it here. This is not something you can easily mix with other AV gear, of course :)
And this brings an intersting point: if the editors themselves don't read their own page, then why should we?
/. like most people in here, or else we wouldn't come back, but these repeated stories are appearing more and more on the front page. Today we have what? Two already? /. editors, please do like we do: read the main page regularly before posting new stories!
I don't want to be harsh or rude, and I like my daily fix of
It's all ok, but there's a flaw..
Download the files from where? Assuming most people did this, there would be nowhere to download the files from, as noone would be sharing their files.
what about just leaving them alone and trying to sell their products?
I love MS as much as the next guy here on /., and while I partially agree with this suit, the market still has the final word to say.
I submitted a while ago a story about Microsoft's attempt at interactive TV here in Portugal. It got rejected, but the point here is that it failed. Microsoft's testbed for iTV failed because the problems we have today with windows translated to the same problems with the MS iTV's software. The service was also a bit expensive (whether or not related to the MS tax), the set top box crashed a lot, and few saw the benefits of iTV. We are a bit behind europe in smoe areas, but in technology we are at about the same level so it was not a people's problem. (in a country of 10 million there are about 7 or 8 million cellphones; our ATM system allows for any kind of bank operation in any bank's ATM from withdrawing money to buying train tickets to paying the telephone or electricity bills; we have a nation-wide non-stop automated system for paying the highway toll).
MS failed because of the product they were trying to sell wasn't what the people wanted, they wanted to make us use the TV as a computer but we didn't. When they come with this cellphoneOS, let the people decide. Say what you want about mobile internet, games, messengers, digital built-in cameras, and all the rest of the crap, that while make cool geek toys (which I like to play with), the vast majority just wants to call someone.
And it's not going to be easy to de-throne the appeal Nokia has.
Microsoft may be the monopoly in computer operating systems and Office suits, but in other ponds they are the little fish.
driverguide requires registration, but it's only a way to get your personal details. I did it once and what did I get for a username and password?
Username:drivers Password:all
And happy driver hunting. I know how frustrating that can be. Sometimes the problem is when the manufacturer does not support the product any longer. I had a Voodoo Rush 3d card with TV Out that I had to replace because all the drivers I could get had the same problem. When playing DVD/VCD/Divx the picture was corrupted (some overlay problems). Not a nice thing to have when I was building a box to watch movies on the TV.
Oh please... +2 interesting for such an obvious joke? Would the moderators please read the link before moderating?
Thanks!
Dark ages? If this meant a end for flash only or java-ridden websites , it would be somewhat positive.
Web producers having to concetrate more on content than presentation, imagine that!
I'm not advocating flash and java free websites, but it would diminish the crap that's out there today.
speaking of monks translating and transcribing the texts, how about this story?
And what about giving them a single ring too and hope they aren't near the phone to pick it up in time? :)
BTW, where I live people usually do the same thing, but no related to telemarketing. When I see a missed call if I don't know the number I just ignore it.
But people use the first ring to communicate in some way. Usually to say something in advance like "when I get there I'll give you a ring" and then they give a ring, the receiver sees the other phone number's missed call and knows that the other guy got there. Kids and teens (and not so teens) do this all the time to say nothing in particular, but to say some sort of "hi there" to the other.
Of course this works only if the caller's phone sends it's own phone number, but most do.
but how much more expensive will it get? how often do you use regular mail anyway to offset the inconvenience of having your mailbox full of marketing crap?
in my country we have some special spam-filter stickers provided by the mail service saying "no unsolicited bulk mail" and it is against the law to drop anything not directly mailed to the mail box recipient. In my building most of the mail boxes have these stickers. Some smartasses still leave something there once in a while, but the amount of trash drops to almost nothing. When I go and check the mail I either have something for me or I don't. No more sorting out useless crap.
And as mentioned in another post, most of these cds will be buried in a landfill or incinerated. Help the environment, help reduce useless crap.
oh please! change the subject!
It scared the shit out of me when I read it as "lion cells" and the "AAAAAAAA" seems like a scream of someone being eaten alive in one of those lion cells!
We had enough lion-fodder during the roman empire...
For some time I'm toying around with the idea of using LFS as the basis of a linux distribution.
Use LFS to create a linux demo/distribution, a bit like Beos R5. You boot the cd, try it out, and if you like it, have a program to copy the cd over to the hard disk and setup a bootloader.
And keep it small. BeOS managed to cram a lot of stuff into a 40mb iso image. Current mainstream distros are too fat, spreading all on at least 2 cds.
Well, gotta ditch the older version and check this new LFS book.
In a surprise move, the two scientists began shoving the new keyboard up each others' asses simulatneously, while using the new keyboard technology to stimulate the colon and the G spot, respectively.
I'm surprised this post got to +2 despite this comment in the first few lines. phew! don't people read before applying moderation?