You said:It decompresses quicker, on an image heavy site that's really important.
With modern processors, the pictures decompress at just about the rate you can get data out of the Internet. Especially when you have a modem. So advising people to use gif "on an image heavy site" actually makes things worse. If we are still talking about compressing photos.
I never said gif or png were lossy formats. I know exactly how both formats work in practise. I just pointed out to the parent that just because gif only uses 256 colors at most, it is not lossy.
There are valid reasons to go with.GIF. It has a 1-bit transparency channel and can be animated.
Png has a full alpha-channel. It can do a lot better than just "completely transparent" and "completely opaque"
It decompresses quicker, on an image heavy site that's really important.
Have you ever made any comparsions? Photos are usually a lot larger when compressed as gif, instead of jpeg. And you only get 256 colors.
I made a quick sample page here there you can see, that when the JPEG is saved a quality setting 80, the image is pretty damn close to the original, while the file size is almost 1/4 of that of gif. And I chose a picture that had as little "real life" colors as possible, so that the gif wouldn't look too crappy.
They support animation (through the related MNG standard)
That is just simply wrong. Png does specifically not support animation, because the png group thought that gif having animation is misleading, because its MIME type is image/gif, when animated gifs should be video/gif. That is why png only supports static images, and that is why a separate format (=mng), supporting animation, was made.
Are you on crack? Take a photo, compress it via png... what are those nasty artifcats, diffusion paterns, etc, etc...
It is a lossy format.... If you original image happens to contain less than 16777216 colours (or 281474976710656 colours if using 16 bits per component), you won't lose any infomation...
And what the hell are you doing compressing a photo with gif in the first place? Jpeg is meant for photos, and gif is meant for low-color pictures. When you draw line-art that has at most 256 colours, gif is lossless.
GIF lossless? Hardly.[...]255 colors and an alpha channel
Gifs are lossless. Just because you can't use more than 256 colors, doesn't mean the format is lossy. And Gifs don't have an alpha channel, per se, you can just define one of the 256 colors as being completely transparent or not.
Even when (or rather, because) you use AC all day long, some heat still gets transferred into the house, which the AC pumps out again and so on.
When you leave the AC off, the house warms to as warm as it is outside, but not warmer. The heat transfer stops there. When you come home, you put on the AC and in a few moments it is cool again.
Actually I'd like to claim making slashbot a cliche. After all, didn't "All your base are belong to us" become a cliche only after people did something like this.
Is there something wrong with using "free of charge" instead of "free (as in beer)" I'm sure there is some way of saying "free (as in speech)" in a way that doesn't sound stupid (as in free (as in beer))
I would love to install a new Athlon XP processor on my current motherboard, unfortunately I can't. I have to upgrade my motherboard as well. And I better buy some new, faster memory too.
With broadcast/cable TV you get 5 pounds of honey and 600 pounds of raw sewage delivered to your house every day, no matter what.
Switch the tv off. No more sewage. Read a paper to know when the honey comes. Set an alarm clock to that time. Or get a TiVo to do it automatically for you and watch when you want...
No. They still could have used smaller pictures. There is no need to show the whole desktop. At least not multiple times.
I'm sure most would have believed it runs on multiple platforms even if they would just have shown the frames around the windows. And those who don't, won't believe it even after showing the whole desktop.
How many screenshots of the whole desktop did Blizzard have on their website before people believed WarCraft 3 runs on both Windows and Mac?
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You said:It decompresses quicker, on an image heavy site that's really important.
With modern processors, the pictures decompress at just about the rate you can get data out of the Internet. Especially when you have a modem. So advising people to use gif "on an image heavy site" actually makes things worse. If we are still talking about compressing photos.
I never said gif or png were lossy formats. I know exactly how both formats work in practise. I just pointed out to the parent that just because gif only uses 256 colors at most, it is not lossy.
.GIF. It has a 1-bit transparency channel and can be animated.
There are valid reasons to go with
Png has a full alpha-channel. It can do a lot better than just "completely transparent" and "completely opaque"
It decompresses quicker, on an image heavy site that's really important.
Have you ever made any comparsions? Photos are usually a lot larger when compressed as gif, instead of jpeg. And you only get 256 colors.
I made a quick sample page here there you can see, that when the JPEG is saved a quality setting 80, the image is pretty damn close to the original, while the file size is almost 1/4 of that of gif. And I chose a picture that had as little "real life" colors as possible, so that the gif wouldn't look too crappy.
They support animation (through the related MNG standard)
That is just simply wrong. Png does specifically not support animation, because the png group thought that gif having animation is misleading, because its MIME type is image/gif, when animated gifs should be video/gif. That is why png only supports static images, and that is why a separate format (=mng), supporting animation, was made.
Are you on crack? Take a photo, compress it via png... what are those nasty artifcats, diffusion paterns, etc, etc...
It is a lossy format.... If you original image happens to contain less than 16777216 colours (or 281474976710656 colours if using 16 bits per component), you won't lose any infomation...
And what the hell are you doing compressing a photo with gif in the first place? Jpeg is meant for photos, and gif is meant for low-color pictures. When you draw line-art that has at most 256 colours, gif is lossless.
What patent dispute?
GIF lossless? Hardly.[...]255 colors and an alpha channel
Gifs are lossless. Just because you can't use more than 256 colors, doesn't mean the format is lossy. And Gifs don't have an alpha channel, per se, you can just define one of the 256 colors as being completely transparent or not.
Yes, but then the heat flows outward, and you don't need an AC for that. It might happen slowly, but there is no point in wasting energy like that.
Hey, if you choose to stare at your co-worker's crotch all day, you just have to live with that.
Even when (or rather, because) you use AC all day long, some heat still gets transferred into the house, which the AC pumps out again and so on.
When you leave the AC off, the house warms to as warm as it is outside, but not warmer. The heat transfer stops there. When you come home, you put on the AC and in a few moments it is cool again.
The algorithm PNG uses is very complex, there are over a hundred methods of compressing any png-file. One method is not the best in all cases.
If you want to make sure your pngs are as small as possible, use pngcrush
Because they were smoking Js.
Actually I'd like to claim making slashbot a cliche. After all, didn't "All your base are belong to us" become a cliche only after people did something like this.
A lot of the free disk space vendors are gone
Is that free as in: "you have to pay for it?"
...because we all know facial recognition is very easy and very light process.
Vi vs. Emacs
KDE vs. Gnome
Is there something wrong with using "free of charge" instead of "free (as in beer)" I'm sure there is some way of saying "free (as in speech)" in a way that doesn't sound stupid (as in free (as in beer))
I would love to install a new Athlon XP processor on my current motherboard, unfortunately I can't. I have to upgrade my motherboard as well. And I better buy some new, faster memory too.
But those compootermachines confuse the normal folk. That's why they are especially bad.
Yes, thank god for such great games as Tuxracer and BzFlag.
Say what you will, but at least most closed-source gamers don't have to pretend they're enjoying themselves...
With broadcast/cable TV you get 5 pounds of honey and 600 pounds of raw sewage delivered to your house every day, no matter what.
Switch the tv off. No more sewage. Read a paper to know when the honey comes. Set an alarm clock to that time. Or get a TiVo to do it automatically for you and watch when you want...
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No. They still could have used smaller pictures. There is no need to show the whole desktop. At least not multiple times.
I'm sure most would have believed it runs on multiple platforms even if they would just have shown the frames around the windows. And those who don't, won't believe it even after showing the whole desktop.
How many screenshots of the whole desktop did Blizzard have on their website before people believed WarCraft 3 runs on both Windows and Mac?
Just lock it tight enought to not let any SPAM trough, and I'll be happy.
Haven't these people heard of cropping an image?
Oh yeah, your desktop is very r33t, but I don't care what it looks like. Crop the image to the window or take a screenshot of only the window.
Especially if you can't read. You know, the numbers on the coins.
That would be a pain, yes.