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A Newbie Rant
Jack2000:
no it was the "NEXT" button!
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Oh and let's not forger their greatest innovation the .bmp.
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What's wrong with the .bmp exactly?
mobrien_12:
--- Quote from: Pathos ---believe it or not C# and .NET are open formats.
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No. You are not allowed to use the Common Language Infrastructure for anything but C# without a licence. Thus, .NET is not an open format, only a tiny subset of it is.
worker201:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---What's wrong with the .bmp exactly?
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All raster images are based on the same technology as the bmp. It's just that the bmp has no compression algorithms running through it whatsoever. So the files sizes tend to get out of control quickly. The only way to control file size is to limit the amount of memory each pixel is allowed to store.
That being said, I think the main problem with bmp is Microsoft's bullheaded insistence on using it for everything, when there are so many other image formats to choose from. And those formats are all, in some way, superior to bmp. Microsoft's endorsement of bmp as a standard is more wrong than bmp itself.
Lead Head:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---All raster images are based on the same technology as the bmp. It's just that the bmp has no compression algorithms running through it whatsoever. So the files sizes tend to get out of control quickly. The only way to control file size is to limit the amount of memory each pixel is allowed to store.
That being said, I think the main problem with bmp is Microsoft's bullheaded insistence on using it for everything, when there are so many other image formats to choose from. And those formats are all, in some way, superior to bmp. Microsoft's endorsement of bmp as a standard is more wrong than bmp itself.
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Like how all the wallpapers and icons are in .bmp?
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