If you go to Google's Image Search, you'll find that it supports GIF, JPEG and, indeed, PNG. This is either because of PNG gaining popularity recently (which most definitely is true), Google wanting to endorse better formats (not unlikely), or because of the email I sent Google some time ago requesting PNG image searching (not likely:).
Obviously because both GIF and JPG are lossy whereas PNG retains every color it can find. Try palettized PNG instead if size is important, it beats GIF at the same quality level in 90% of cases.
Also make sure you use a decent compression utility, such as PNGOUT.
The last time I used GIF was for some humorous animation... and in either case, animated GIFs should be kept off of the Internet.
I use PNGs for everything graphics related today except when there are special compatibility reasons (some tools only work with BMP, PCX etc) or when space must be cut for photo-like images, in which case I use JPEG.
PNG generally compresses better than GIF, it has more features, and you can have as many colors as you want. So for me personally, it's certainly not as much a matter of ideology as it is a matter of functionality.
0% should of course cover the less than.5% realm, and therefore be accurate. I think the cool part of the post that spawned this is missed by the nit pickers, and that is the paradox of claiming that the post is 25% incorrect which when true makes itself false and when false makes itself true.
It's a shame when geeks don't get geek humor.
Indeed.
Thanks for posting so I know that at least one person got it;)
The human body is 50 - 65% water depending on age and weight. Children's bodies can be as much as 75%. 2/3 = 66.6666666%, so this statistic is incorrect.
Regular dice have six sides with one through six spots. That means that each regular die (singular for dice) has one side with 2 spots, which is 1 out of 6, or 1/6 or 16.66666666% - not 17% - you were close, but incorrect.
The dice number would've been incorrect if it said 17.0%, but 17% is imprecise enough to imply a range between 16.5% and 17.5%.
Same thing for 2/3. And no, 2/3 does not automatically indicate infinite precision 0.66666... 2/3 equals base-three 0.2, which is broad enough to cover the whole range of 50-75%.
Remember folks, while we all know that information wants to be free, "premium membership" deals are not necessarily a bad thing. Admit it, you never click the ads anyway, so you should be able to feel OK about directly supporting a service that's actually useful.
Metroid Prime is indeed redundant, the setting is so predictably boring and unimaginative that it hurts. The space pirates are mining a mysterious energy source on a new planet. Right, never heard anything like that before.
Fusion, on the other hand, is a fresh addition to the Metroid universe. The story jumps off the space-pirates-with-Metroids train and heads for something entirely new instead, while also introducing a new kind of gameplay and featuring fantastic interactive storytelling.
Personally, I certainly do like Metroid Fusion better than Metroid Prime.
For one thing, you could change the colors on the web site. The bright green and blue text is very hard on the eyes, try dark blue and dark green instead. You should also consider removing the menu GIF animation.
We cook our lunches on the servers. We left a 2U gap so we could also have grills.
Here in Sweden, the extra heat from computers is just about enough to evaporate oxygen. Overclocking is a necessary means of survival during the winters.
When challenged to explain the fact that they're doing well despite the growing popularity of file sharing, the RIAA will simply claim that it's due to the success of copy restriction on CDs managing to balance the (blatantly inexistant) drop of sales.
And boy bands are of course getting as increasingly popular as never before while consumers could not possibly be hungry for more varied and less commercialized content - which means that the sales in the RIAA's eyes ought to have accelerated upwards and that anything negative is caused by music piracy and lack of world domination.
You can get the text or the Real version. Good stuff.
Great, except that the odds of getting meaningful sound out of the noise in.ram files are worse than those of finding alien signals in the SETI@Home project.
funny thing that google.com is sometimes the best interface to some sites too, as some sites are really hard to manouver but it's really easy then to make up few words that will take you straight where you want on that site.
Case in point: slashdot.org. Seriously, Slashdot's search function rarely takes me to the article I'm looking for, while with Google I always get there if I just remember one or two words from the headline.
Slashdot Mirror
If you go to Google's Image Search, you'll find that it supports GIF, JPEG and, indeed, PNG. This is either because of PNG gaining popularity recently (which most definitely is true), Google wanting to endorse better formats (not unlikely), or because of the email I sent Google some time ago requesting PNG image searching (not likely :).
MNG in Mozilla actually never worked in the first place. An animation would play once, then hang or crash the browser.
At least that's what happened to me, with several versions of both Mozilla and Firebird (previously Phoenix).
large file size- much larger than gif or jpg
Obviously because both GIF and JPG are lossy whereas PNG retains every color it can find. Try palettized PNG instead if size is important, it beats GIF at the same quality level in 90% of cases.
Also make sure you use a decent compression utility, such as PNGOUT.
The last time I used GIF was for some humorous animation... and in either case, animated GIFs should be kept off of the Internet.
I use PNGs for everything graphics related today except when there are special compatibility reasons (some tools only work with BMP, PCX etc) or when space must be cut for photo-like images, in which case I use JPEG.
PNG generally compresses better than GIF, it has more features, and you can have as many colors as you want. So for me personally, it's certainly not as much a matter of ideology as it is a matter of functionality.
for samir gupta to comment
GPL'd source guarantees that nothing lives in your kernel that you cannot examine as much as you like for backdoors.
From the post:
I also don't want to have to work my way through every line of code before I install.
1% = 0.01 is a real number. i% isn't, though.
Both meanings apply. Also, look for the paradox :P
0% should of course cover the less than .5% realm, and therefore be accurate. I think the cool part of the post that spawned this is missed by the nit pickers, and that is the paradox of claiming that the post is 25% incorrect which when true makes itself false and when false makes itself true.
;)
It's a shame when geeks don't get geek humor.
Indeed.
Thanks for posting so I know that at least one person got it
The human body is 50 - 65% water depending on age and weight. Children's bodies can be as much as 75%. 2/3 = 66.6666666%, so this statistic is incorrect.
Regular dice have six sides with one through six spots. That means that each regular die (singular for dice) has one side with 2 spots, which is 1 out of 6, or 1/6 or 16.66666666% - not 17% - you were close, but incorrect.
The dice number would've been incorrect if it said 17.0%, but 17% is imprecise enough to imply a range between 16.5% and 17.5%.
Same thing for 2/3. And no, 2/3 does not automatically indicate infinite precision 0.66666... 2/3 equals base-three 0.2, which is broad enough to cover the whole range of 50-75%.
Remember folks, while we all know that information wants to be free, "premium membership" deals are not necessarily a bad thing. Admit it, you never click the ads anyway, so you should be able to feel OK about directly supporting a service that's actually useful.
I see you're trying to increase it further, so I'll counter with some true statistics to bring the number down:
2/3 of the human body consists of water
17% of the sides on regular dice are two-eyed
0% of all prime numbers are even (tricky)
And finally...
25% of all statistics provided in this post are false
Metroid Prime is indeed redundant, the setting is so predictably boring and unimaginative that it hurts. The space pirates are mining a mysterious energy source on a new planet. Right, never heard anything like that before.
Fusion, on the other hand, is a fresh addition to the Metroid universe. The story jumps off the space-pirates-with-Metroids train and heads for something entirely new instead, while also introducing a new kind of gameplay and featuring fantastic interactive storytelling.
Personally, I certainly do like Metroid Fusion better than Metroid Prime.
In regards to the "nerds" search, Slashdot comes up early for all the words in its tagline:
news: 20
for: 12
nerds: 1
stuff: 2
that: 2
matters: 1
Skull
Window side
Egg closeup
Alien side
Runner
Runner closeup
Egg detail
Insect closeup
For one thing, you could change the colors on the web site. The bright green and blue text is very hard on the eyes, try dark blue and dark green instead. You should also consider removing the menu GIF animation.
Just download it over WASTE.
For photos, yes, but rarely for repetitive images with few colors (which most web graphics are).
Looks like there's still hope.
I mean I thought it was proven that internet advertising doesn't work.
Hey, some ads work! I've clicked lots of ads on Google and a few times found really useful stuff.
We cook our lunches on the servers. We left a 2U gap so we could also have grills.
Here in Sweden, the extra heat from computers is just about enough to evaporate oxygen. Overclocking is a necessary means of survival during the winters.
When challenged to explain the fact that they're doing well despite the growing popularity of file sharing, the RIAA will simply claim that it's due to the success of copy restriction on CDs managing to balance the (blatantly inexistant) drop of sales.
:P
And boy bands are of course getting as increasingly popular as never before while consumers could not possibly be hungry for more varied and less commercialized content - which means that the sales in the RIAA's eyes ought to have accelerated upwards and that anything negative is caused by music piracy and lack of world domination.
There, I said it, now give me karma
You can get the text or the Real version. Good stuff.
.ram files are worse than those of finding alien signals in the SETI@Home project.
Great, except that the odds of getting meaningful sound out of the noise in
(OT, it's great to have karma to burn)
funny thing that google.com is sometimes the best interface to some sites too, as some sites are really hard to manouver but it's really easy then to make up few words that will take you straight where you want on that site.
Case in point: slashdot.org. Seriously, Slashdot's search function rarely takes me to the article I'm looking for, while with Google I always get there if I just remember one or two words from the headline.
...in a few hours, slashdot.org will redirect to microsoft.com or riaa.com...