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Re: How big is your VEC dir?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:31:47 GMT
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Ya gotta love that logic. :-)
-- Terry K --
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:19:08 GMT, Paul Gyugyi <paul@gyugyi.com> wrote:
> Hmmm. A 6.4 GB drive is $124 at Fry's today, for a cost of roughly
> $0.01 USD per 0.5 MB. If we assume this option saves 22 MB for
> each of the 500 LDLite users, the net savings to the entire world
> will amount to $220, which is probably worth an hour or two of labor.
> I'll see what I can do.
> -gyug
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> Sproaticus wrote:
> >
> > Terry K wrote:
> > > Would that be a good option for LDLite? The ability to reduce the output
> > > bit depth?
> >
> > I believe it's actually on Gyug's list to do, but he doesn't yet have the
> > routines to reduce a 24-bit image before saving as an 8-bit bmp.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > - jsproat
> >
> > --
> > Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
> > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
> > "The world will not perish for want of wonders but for want of wonder"
> > -- British scientist J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964)
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| Hmmm. A 6.4 GB drive is $124 at Fry's today, for a cost of roughly $0.01 USD per 0.5 MB. If we assume this option saves 22 MB for each of the 500 LDLite users, the net savings to the entire world will amount to $220, which is probably worth an hour (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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