Re: Petty Civil Disobedience
jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
In the course of doing this, I discovered that on windows, Netscape makes jpegs of naked pretty girls look like crap.
At 08:36 PM 3/10/96 -0500, Mutant Rob wrote:
It would take much longer to process the image without dithering of some sort. Displaying jpegs in high quality is CPU intensive.
You have this ass backwards. Dithering slows it down, but is needed for quality, since they presumably do not wish to optimize the palette. The point is that they do a lousy job on dithering. So does Microsoft explorer. They probably purchased the identical code from some clot. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com
On Sun, 10 Mar 1996 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
The point is that they do a lousy job on dithering. So does Microsoft explorer. They probably purchased the identical code from some clot.
Some *rich* clod, you mean... :( -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring
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