karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Emily L. Ferguson" > > > > : C'mon, Jeff. it's not getting transformed. it's getting un-jpegged, > : which reveals its true size. > > > Emily (no attack, be assured of that), there is no such thing as > unjpegging, what you are doing is converting the image to a different file > *type* and adding data by changing the bitdepth - mind you this data is > just extra numbers and not actual picture information. "unjpegging" is what I'd call the process of decoding the file into a bitmap in memory (I write software for a living). And in fact "djpeg" (read de-jpeg) is one of the software utilities available to convert a jpeg file to various other formats (pnm openbitmap mostly). > a bit like we write $5 shorthand when we might instead write $5.000000 - > there's no further information, and certainly no more money.. but it tends > to bloat a written page quickly if we do this hundreds of numbers :-) Although in some scientific contexts the extra zeros indicate greater precision; $5 would mean between $4.50 and $5.50, $5.00 would mean between $4.995 and $5.005. Roughly, I'm ignoring the boundary issues. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
