might just be a bit fucked). "Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgement Day:>We never asked to be born in the first place. As to the contention that PNGs are of a smaller file size, I have found this to be untrue for my purposes. images>, I was unable to achieve a smaller PNG than GIF on even one of my low bandwidth pornographic images. Both were set to lossless which is reasonable when the source image has 6 colors. At least for some people and some purposes, PNGs are inferior to GIFs. 06/20/2003 02:45:11 AM EST (>4. 06/20/2003 03:48:07 PM EST (>1. The GIF patent became public
for Unisys to try to extend the patent. I mean hell, if the copyright to Mickey Mouse can be extended then there's no way they'd let a patent quietly die. 06/19/2003 05:22:31 PM EST (>3. 06/19/2003 07:06:21 PM EST (>1. 06/19/2003 10:03:41 PM EST (>4. This one's for you, ICI. Your vote (1) was recorded. This story currently has a total score of 95. Your vote put this story over the threshold, and it should now appear on the front page. 06/19/2003 11:34:37 AM EST (>5. 06/20/2003 02:36:58 AM EST (>4. 06/20/2003 10:43:11 AM EST (>5. 06/20/2003 10:48:41 AM EST (>3. 06/20/2003 11:08:35
the patent is expiring, it'd be nice to see someone sue those swine and win- they need a solid kick in the nuts. The patent would have put GIF out of its misery sooner. Now, if only IE would render alpha-channel PNGs correctly without ugly hacks, GIF would only exist as a annoying animations, and could be blocked compleatly. All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective companies. The Rest 2000 - Present Kuro5hin. that runs this site is freely available, under the terms of the GPL. My heart's the long stairs. %Dza֫pFC&P]->+ Se ]r˔:˗'o?PS?ye#zZІK6
large numbers of people built GIF support into their software and websites without knowledge that they were on thin ice. Now, I suppose Unisys could have done a better job educating people, but the rules of patents state that's not their job. If anything, the real outrage should be at the online world's mostly indifferent attitude towards the GIF problem. 20 June 2003 should have passed without note. True up to a point. 06/20/2003 11:03:41 AM EST (>4. 06/21/2003 07:09:17 PM EST (>1. The RIAA's logo on their homepage is a gif. I wonder if they are paying to use it- yeah, right. Too bad
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but I didn't realise that it was illegal to use gif. Thank goodness I won't have to convert them all to jpg. There's a few million of them. Stick, thine posts bring light to mine eyes, tingles to my loins. Yea, each moment I sit, my monitor before me, waiting, yearning, needing your prose to make the moment complete. 06/19/2003 09:43:11 AM EST (>2. I've used PNGs instead of GIFs as long as I've had a website (Which is down till August, but still. I've never had any problems with them. You're not really part of the problem. 06/19/2003 10:02:01 AM EST (>4. 06/19/2003 10:04:51 AM EST (>3.
in the slightest. What happened to the "BURN ALL GIFS" rallying cry? It has been forgotten. There are all sorts of excuses; "It's too much hassle to convert all my graphics and their links", "Internet Explorer doesn't support PNG properly", "PNGs can't do animation and nobody supports MNGs". The best one of all: "Unisys will never sue me!". I wish Unisys a happy year squeezing the very last drops out of their monopoly. or "Why He Stopped Writing Compression Software". You must accept a cookie to log in. I don't have a website. I have some, but I'm changing them all to PNGs. Unisys will
Center) and the Burroughs Corporation merge to form Unisys. 15th June 1987>: Bob Berry and the team at Compuserve release a new graphics file format called GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). It can handle anything from 2 to 256 colours -- wow! -- and the graphics data is compressed with LZW. Just like Spencer, they had read the LZW algorithm in a magazine and had wrongly assumed that it wasn't patented. The GIF format becomes even more popular. tries to bring up the issue in public. Unisys have been ensuring hardware manufacturers (e. modem manufacturers and Postscript printer manufacturers)
and method", it is more commonly known as the LZW patent or Unisys's GIF tax. Don't buy ram at Apple. You can save big money when you buy your memory at MacMemoryStore. Most popular compression techniques build on this technique and most archivers (e. ZIP, ZOO, ARC, gzip, LhA, CAB, Arj, RAR, StuffIt) include it in their compression methods. I only mention this to tell you it's unrelated to LZ78 or LZW. [US4,464,650]>), but the LZW derivative is widely used. Terry Welch has been working for the Sperry Research Center and invents a derivative of LZ78 with much simplified, faster dictionary