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12:00 AM

I'm not doing digital video, so it should be plenty for a loooong time.

@Cerberus A lot. My C drive is a 512 MB SSD Samsung 830 series, and it is blazingly fast.

I'm only using 107 GB of it so far. The nonessential stuff I store in my 1.5 TB backup.

@AndrewLeach There are a lot of artists, particularly photographers, who are all about the TIFF. I realize there are plenty of formats out there. But TIFF is very common and by no means obsolete.

Robusto

The most common and versatile format nowadays is the PNG. JPGs are too lossy and create hideous artifacts unless you run them at a lossless 100%. GIFs are obsolete except for animated gifs.

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Q: Which sentence is correct

The ending was one of the most exciting moments in sports. or The ending was one of the most exciting moment in sports.

word-choice

"Which sentence is correct?" titles should be banned outright.

simchona

@Robusto It started as "with sentence is correct"

Robusto

Those should be banned too.

MετάEd

@Robusto Animated gifs are awful. JPG is great for web pages, what you might call "newspaper quality". After all most screens are low resolution. But certainly no good for archival purposes, or for most print purposes.

Andrew Leach

12:08 AM

@MετάEd Not obsolete, but designed for printing rather than the web.

This is a good summary: zoompf.com/2012/04/unsuitable-image-formats-for-websites

Robusto

@MετάEd Mostly I agree, but there isn't another format that allows simple animations without coding. Sometimes they're useful, but like everything else on the Webtubes, most of it is sheer crap.

Andrew Leach

There's APNG, isn't there?

MετάEd

@AndrewLeach I haven't heard of that. Is that the replacement for GIF animation? Because it's high time.

Robusto

You mean 32-bit PNG? Yes.

MετάEd

APNG

The Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) file format is a non-standard extension to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) specification. It allows for animated PNG files that work similarly to animated GIF files, while supporting 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency not available for GIFs. It also retains backward compatibility with non-animated PNG files. The first frame of an APNG file is stored as a normal PNG stream, so most standard PNG decoders are able to display the first frame of an APNG file. The frame speed data and extra animation frames are stored in extra chunks (as pro...

It seems to be non-standard.

Robusto

12:13 AM

Ah, thought the A stood for alpha channel.

I haven't encountered the APNG format, and I doubt it will catch on.

Andrew Leach

Not while animated GIFs are cheap and easy.

And well-supported.

I don't know if that image is an APNG image, but Chrome doesn't animate it.

MετάEd

Looks like this is pretty well supported by browsers:

SVG animation

Animation of Scalable Vector Graphics, an open XML-based standard vector graphics format, is possible through various means: *Scripting: ECMAScript is a primary means of creating animations and interactive user interfaces within SVG. *Styling: Since 2008, the development of CSS Animations as a feature in WebKit has made possible stylesheet-driven implicit animation of SVG files from within the Document Object Model (DOM). *SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, a recommended means of animating SVG-based hypermedia is currently supported by the Safari, Opera, Mozilla Firef...

Robusto

@AndrewLeach Firefox doesn't have a problem.

Andrew Leach

Yes, I'm torn. But Firefox's memory management is not as good.

Robusto

But I tend not to use formats that are unsupported by a sizable portion of the browser community.

Andrew Leach

12:20 AM

Right, I'm off to bed. It's been a long day (see above).

Mitch

12:46 AM

OK, so is it:
Qui = /kwi:/
Cuius = /kujus/
Cui = /kui:/
Quem = /kwem/
Quo = /kwo:/
if so, it is a weird sound change that gave 'kooo-eeee' instead of 'kweeee'

@tchrist it's touches like that (both III and IV) that really make it special.

Cerberus

1:49 AM

@Robusto It takes 7 seconds.

But I imagine your drive must be speedy, being half a GB and all.

@Mitch Correct!

MετάEd

5:02 AM

@Robusto Right. Because content is king.

MετάEd

5:26 AM

As a quick google for "difference between "reduced to control of" and "reduced to controlling"" will demonstrate, this is a possible theft of content:

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Q: "Reduced to control of" vs. "reduced to controlling"

I need some help with the phrase "to be reduced to": quote 1 From this point onwards, the Kuomintang was reduced to control of Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu Islands, and two major islands of Dongsha Islands and Nansha Islands. quote 2 The end of the Hundred Years War saw the loss of Saxo...

differences

Andrew Leach

8:23 AM

@MετάEd That's a Nortonn question. If it's closed it can be deleted.

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