With the increase in public broadband and harddrive spaces ever increasing, I'm not so much worried about compression as I am with the fact that browsers still only display images at 72dpi.
IMHO, with broadband becoming more prevelent in homes, the 72dpi web-standard is no longer being a benefit (by keeping the file sizes lower), but a drawback in clarity for sites that sell intricate products via images on their site or are graphic-oriented.
Is there any chance this may change in future browser versions?
Obviously the browsers, but my question was more along the lines of additional software products or future ideas in development. Will it become say, popular as a standard Windows/Linux/etc format for backgrounds, or just become a format that has a single use such as the TIF?.. can we see any OTHER uses for it besides the web? Why must people be so narrow-sighted and short tempered?
Its not about 20,000 being equal to an employee's salary, but if the money saved from a low power processor will pay itself back, and then some.
My office has several servers that run 24/7. Aside from nightly backups, they do nothing but idle. If the money that we could save from lower energy bills could be funneled back into newer equipment, I think we could afford to upgrade a our servers yearly to up-to-date systems.
Besides, our computers rarely ever use 100% of the processor at any one time (unless its EXTREMELY loaded or backing up).
I think these new processors could benefit in more then one market. In some places it could be detramental, but in others, I think it could provide noticeable savings (exactly what management wants!).
After reading a lot about Transmedia and recently Intel's chips, and its variable frequency, I can't help but imagine that this chip would be rather cost effective not only for portable computers, but in companies.
In a larger company where people leave their computers running all day, and all night, these newer variable CPU's could show a good amount of return in their low energy consumption. All I've seen though is that people have been touting the portablability of these chips (which I'm not denying their worth), but on an even larger scale, would there be a market for low power, high performance, chips in large companies?
Not even just for companies even though. For those people that weekly run LAN parties, the power consumption of a dozen computers on a weekly basis can be rather high. I'm curious as to if there'd be much cost difference in an environment such as this as well.
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With the increase in public broadband and harddrive spaces ever increasing, I'm not so much worried about compression as I am with the fact that browsers still only display images at 72dpi.
IMHO, with broadband becoming more prevelent in homes, the 72dpi web-standard is no longer being a benefit (by keeping the file sizes lower), but a drawback in clarity for sites that sell intricate products via images on their site or are graphic-oriented.
Is there any chance this may change in future browser versions?
Obviously the browsers, but my question was more along the lines of additional software products or future ideas in development. Will it become say, popular as a standard Windows/Linux/etc format for backgrounds, or just become a format that has a single use such as the TIF?.. can we see any OTHER uses for it besides the web? Why must people be so narrow-sighted and short tempered?
Its not about 20,000 being equal to an employee's salary, but if the money saved from a low power processor will pay itself back, and then some.
My office has several servers that run 24/7. Aside from nightly backups, they do nothing but idle. If the money that we could save from lower energy bills could be funneled back into newer equipment, I think we could afford to upgrade a our servers yearly to up-to-date systems.
Besides, our computers rarely ever use 100% of the processor at any one time (unless its EXTREMELY loaded or backing up).
I think these new processors could benefit in more then one market. In some places it could be detramental, but in others, I think it could provide noticeable savings (exactly what management wants!).
Slip up.. my apologies..
After reading a lot about Transmedia and recently Intel's chips, and its variable frequency, I can't help but imagine that this chip would be rather cost effective not only for portable computers, but in companies.
In a larger company where people leave their computers running all day, and all night, these newer variable CPU's could show a good amount of return in their low energy consumption. All I've seen though is that people have been touting the portablability of these chips (which I'm not denying their worth), but on an even larger scale, would there be a market for low power, high performance, chips in large companies?
Not even just for companies even though. For those people that weekly run LAN parties, the power consumption of a dozen computers on a weekly basis can be rather high. I'm curious as to if there'd be much cost difference in an environment such as this as well.