-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/06 19:07, John Hasler wrote: > Miles writes: >> As I recall, there were some juicy lawsuits a while back - before people >> figured out they shouldn't use lossy compression on medical x-rays. > > It's appalling that anyone responsible for such things would ever think you > should.
Remember, high-detail uncompressed files are L-A-R-G-E *big*. Depends on how long ago these suits were, and how poorly lossless compression *might* work on that particular kind of image, a reasonable argument *could* have been made that lossy compression was needed. After all, a decent-sized hospital make a lot of X-rays, which would eat up 40GB drives *very* quickly. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFc422S9HxQb37XmcRAkkEAKCM9Ir4JWJ4DQfE58/R6TRfDWGLwACg5FRm knFtRz3edF1hFhMMYu5azCQ= =1D9z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
