> If you want to try to appear intelligent, you might want to learn how  
> to spell "a lot."

That would be a start.

Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Subject: Re: Portland Fountains


> 
> On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Polyhead wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:53:56 -0500 (EST)
>> Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Polyhead wrote:
>>>
>>>> I also refuse to use jpeg, png or nothing.
>>>
>>> Wow. That's bizarre.
>>
>> Hardly, jpeg is lossy compression.  It grabs a square of pixels and  
>> averages them, you lose both dynamic range and resolution with  
>> jpeg.  PNG is lossless and opensource.  The other problem with jpeg  
>> is that because of the way it handles compression, it chokes on  
>> film grain.  There isn't a way to feed a jpeg encoder a image with  
>> allot of film grain and have it spit out a reasonable result.   
>> People use it because they just don't know any better.
> 
> If you want to try to appear intelligent, you might want to learn how  
> to spell "a lot."


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