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Comment Re:GIF /does/ support true colors (Score 1) 246

A) Why would I want transparency in an animation?
B) Then 'some browsers' need to fix their gif handling.
C) Typical gif size is what, 1MB?
D) Burden of proof is on APNG.

Browsing through this page, I've seen what the current gif implementations allow. APNG has no business fragmenting the animated image playing field. And guess what, my music collection is still mp3.
The Internet

Submission + - Book suggestions on the topic of 'the internet'.

HetMes writes: I want to understand how the internet works at various levels of detail. I'd like some good books to get me started.

I am a software engineer who knows how to code, but my knowledge regarding networks, internet and everything related to them is limited to what I retained from a few books during a CS masters' degree.

The subject, you can image, is not conducive to getting good search results. I tried searching various online book sites, Slashdot book reviews, Google, but nothing in particular came up.

Of course, all the information I need is online somewhere, but I can't always judge whether it is outdated, irrelevant, too detailed, too vague, or even correct at all. Also, am not going to be reading 2000 pages of online text; I sit behind the computer too often already.

Comment Re:Isn't MS becoming irrelevant? (Score 1) 433

The reason Microsoft is still the favored desktop OS is probably linux taking forever to get its shit together and create a user-focused OS like Ubuntu, giving Microsoft all the time it needed to create Windows 7. I remember well the many attempts I made with earlier linuxes, only to be disappointed each and every time because shit just didn't work. Ubuntu is a breeze these days, sure, but that's too little, too late. Linux has always, and still does to a large extent, lacked discoverability of features and solutions. I can still hardly imagine configuring a linux machine without access to internet forums answering very specific questions.

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