At&T $12/month deal doesn't apply to me for example. The AT&T standard 1.5Mbps download service still costs $30/month. They don't even specify the upload rate.
Not only that, to sign up for DSL you also need to have a land line. In these days, paying for cell phone *and* a land line is not reasonable, especially for the one-person home. Therefore, you need to add the land-line price on top of the DSL to get a fair comparison with the cable company prices. I'm happy with my comcast cable internet of 4Mbps download and 384Kbps upload line for $40/month. It's more than I'd like to pay, but the competitor DSL is slower and more expensive.
... there's no problem with using an oddball format with only one implementation that has apparently been left to languish.
Well, they have an open-source project at sourceforge, and they provide utilities to convert to other formats.
While these constraints aren't an issue for folks attempting to document illuminated manuscripts and other like materials they are very much a problem for folks on the World Wide Web.
I agree, but it is useful for people like me who needed a scientific article which was offered only in DjVu format (conference proceedings, which is very difficult to find normally on the web, due to their large volume). Check CiteSeer (a database for research papers) for example, and the conference proceedings I mentioned was NIPS.
DjVu offers high rate of compression in the kind of documents you very well explained. Which is why it is useful for the people in the scientific community who is in need to communicate large volumes of research papers.
Let us know when you read another technology-of-the-future article from '98 though!
Gee, thanks.. That's a nice reply now. Whatever I've written was due to things I found out very recently, and somehow the DjVu web site is not down.
However you may be right in saying the format will disappear soon, this is not a valid reason to disregard this format when it can be useful for some of us.
I thought this has become common knowledge, but there's a bitmap compression format called DjVu invented at the AT&T Labs in 1998 which has significant advantages over the currently popular formats (JPEG, PDF, etc.). They advocate that their format is best suited for scanned documents.
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At&T $12/month deal doesn't apply to me for example. The AT&T standard 1.5Mbps download service still costs $30/month. They don't even specify the upload rate.
Not only that, to sign up for DSL you also need to have a land line. In these days, paying for cell phone *and* a land line is not reasonable, especially for the one-person home. Therefore, you need to add the land-line price on top of the DSL to get a fair comparison with the cable company prices. I'm happy with my comcast cable internet of 4Mbps download and 384Kbps upload line for $40/month. It's more than I'd like to pay, but the competitor DSL is slower and more expensive.
Since this is a piece of DNA operating on the "wetware" of our body, it should be called a "program" and not a computer, IMHO.
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What is a virus then? Is that also a malicious computer running around in our body?
A resident program in my veins, sounds like a "DNA daemon" to me..
Well, they have an open-source project at sourceforge, and they provide utilities to convert to other formats.
I agree, but it is useful for people like me who needed a scientific article which was offered only in DjVu format (conference proceedings, which is very difficult to find normally on the web, due to their large volume). Check CiteSeer (a database for research papers) for example, and the conference proceedings I mentioned was NIPS.
DjVu offers high rate of compression in the kind of documents you very well explained. Which is why it is useful for the people in the scientific community who is in need to communicate large volumes of research papers.
Gee, thanks.. That's a nice reply now. Whatever I've written was due to things I found out very recently, and somehow the DjVu web site is not down.
However you may be right in saying the format will disappear soon, this is not a valid reason to disregard this format when it can be useful for some of us.
I thought this has become common knowledge, but there's a bitmap compression format called DjVu invented at the AT&T Labs in 1998 which has significant advantages over the currently popular formats (JPEG, PDF, etc.). They advocate that their format is best suited for scanned documents.