That's fine for your documents that you are using currently. But extrapolate this for a large company with thousands-millions of documents and the scale of the problem become apparent. Or consider the disks that I have in my small office with Multi-mate spreadsheets or even 1-2-3. Sure *I* can open them if I try hard enough, but what about everyone else in my office?
Think bigger. Document-format-lock-in is a really anti-competitive practice that needs to go away.
They are not storing the picture, but rather the way you draw the picture. Let's say they break the drawing area up into 9 squares. What they are encoding is the steps. Pen down quad 2,2 to 2,1 to 1,1, pen up. pen down quad 2,2 to 2,3 to 3,3 to 3,2, to 2,2 pen up. As long as I stay within the 'resolution' of their encoding I will be generating the same hashed file
Prism is not for the slashdot user.
It's for the user that clicks on the browser's print button instead of Acrobat's print button.
It's for the user that doesn't understand tab's.
It's for the user that doesn't understand why you'd want to use a different browser anyway.
It's for the user that closes the entire web browser when they just wanted to close a tab.
But I might use it anyway, just because it's nice to alt-tab to my gmail.
Sure it can't do everything thing Firefox/Sea Monkey/Safari/X-windows can do, it's not supposed to.
It's just simple.
Think about your Father, Mother, clueless brother.
This is much more user friendly than an in-browser view.
Ofc, we all understand that it's not really any different, but explain that to your sister-in-law.
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That's fine for your documents that you are using currently. But extrapolate this for a large company with thousands-millions of documents and the scale of the problem become apparent. Or consider the disks that I have in my small office with Multi-mate spreadsheets or even 1-2-3. Sure *I* can open them if I try hard enough, but what about everyone else in my office? Think bigger. Document-format-lock-in is a really anti-competitive practice that needs to go away.
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They are not storing the picture, but rather the way you draw the picture. Let's say they break the drawing area up into 9 squares. What they are encoding is the steps. Pen down quad 2,2 to 2,1 to 1,1, pen up. pen down quad 2,2 to 2,3 to 3,3 to 3,2, to 2,2 pen up. As long as I stay within the 'resolution' of their encoding I will be generating the same hashed file
Prism is not for the slashdot user. It's for the user that clicks on the browser's print button instead of Acrobat's print button. It's for the user that doesn't understand tab's. It's for the user that doesn't understand why you'd want to use a different browser anyway. It's for the user that closes the entire web browser when they just wanted to close a tab. But I might use it anyway, just because it's nice to alt-tab to my gmail. Sure it can't do everything thing Firefox/Sea Monkey/Safari/X-windows can do, it's not supposed to. It's just simple.
Think about your Father, Mother, clueless brother. This is much more user friendly than an in-browser view. Ofc, we all understand that it's not really any different, but explain that to your sister-in-law.