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MS Windows (XP IIRC) used to warn you if you used the built in image rotation function for JPEGs that it was lossy. I've a feeling it was fixed in SP2 but I've not used MS Win for years so am not really sure.
Win Vista & 7 don't have this problem (just checked).
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When you don't understand a piece of art, do you say that you don't understand that the artist was trying to say... or do you say "I look down upon the artist." I'm guessing you're a reasonable person and just say 'I don't get it, and don't care.' As opposed to the utterly unreasonable opinion espoused by the OP, in which instead of not caring, he looks down upon the artist.
There's a difference between saying "I don't get it" and saying "after careful analysis and consideration, this artistic expression is either pointlessly obscure in its meaning or absolutely meaningless".
What's the difference between an artist and a Perl programmer? 364 days and 23 hours.
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Don't mistake patience and endurance for skill.
1% inspiration, 99% persipration.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." - Nikola Tesla
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There's a difference between saying "I don't get it" and saying "after careful analysis and consideration, this artistic expression is either pointlessly obscure in its meaning or absolutely meaningless".
Right, the first one is usually more accurate when spoken by someone unfamiliar with the context of the art and the state of that art form.
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When you don't understand a piece of art, do you say that you don't understand that the artist was trying to say... or do you say "I look down upon the artist." I'm guessing you're a reasonable person and just say 'I don't get it, and don't care.' As opposed to the utterly unreasonable opinion espoused by the OP, in which instead of not caring, he looks down upon the artist.
There's a difference between saying "I don't get it" and saying "after careful analysis and consideration, this artistic expression is either pointlessly obscure in its meaning or absolutely meaningless".
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Are you just making the blind assumption that he's a programmer?
One year means he could have spent 364 days learning how to program and do all the 1000 uploads on the final day of the year...
The product tastes the same as the stuff I can buy from my neighbor's maple stand for a fraction of the cost and effort. It's wholly irrational.
And I'll do it again next year.
Sometimes the joy comes from doing it the hard way.
Next time the topic of bandwidth caps comes up remember this guy. I don't want to knock his project but I think it illustrates a point that unlimited bandwidth and access to services tends to make people less concerned about using bandwidth efficiently.
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Right, the first one is usually more accurate when spoken by someone unfamiliar with the context of the art and the state of that art form.
If a work of art is too much of an inside joke, the "uselessly obscure" criterion is satisfied.
Some people do get it. The artist gets it. His or her peers get it. A certain group of aficionados get it. Some chunk of the general public gets it. Decades later, many many more people may get it.
Believe it or not, some art is hard to understand. It requires an understanding of what came before it, it might require a lot of experience with similar work. It may require careful study or deep reflection. It may require changing your mental state or viewing it differently.