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[OM] Re: Urban Legend Heard at Wallyworld

Subject: [OM] Re: Urban Legend Heard at Wallyworld
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:49:41 -0700
> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>
>>
> As it was explained to me, each time a jpeg is opened and closed, it  
> throws
> away more info.

Each time a JPEG is opened and *saved*, the image is damaged.

Simply opening it and closing it without re-saving does no harm.  
Otherwise, pictures on websites that are repeatedly viewed (which is  
"opening and closing" them) would rapidly degrade.

:::: On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament],  
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will  
the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the  
kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. --  
Charles Babbage
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AT12>



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