[ale] LightScribe for Linux

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

>
> > GIF is extremely limited in color range as it _only_ supports
> > 8 bit indexed colors  (a palette of 256 colors from 16 million)
>
> Yes, I always hated GIF for that.  I always wondered, too, why people
> were so angry over the patent issues with GIF and the compression that
> it employed.  I thought that there was no great loss with the inability
> to use GIF for a long time.  Web browsers didn't take that long to pick
> up support for the PNG format, and it was (is!) far, far superior...
>
>
Um. You're showing your youth :D  We were stuck with gif's for a decade
before png was a standard in browsers and even then IE took longer to
support it.

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James P. Kinney III

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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

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