Wednesday, April 23, 2008

the latest snapshot from the workplace

7 comments:

Percussivity said...

You are a little frightening in 2 bit.

Percussivity said...

Oh WOW I can't believe I screwed that one up... I actually have taught classes on computer graphics... and I said 2 bit, when if fact you are a little frightening in 1 bit. You see... in the old days before jpg and gif there was the bitmap. A simple file format where each pixel was represented as a set of bits. The bits simply said this pixel is this color. The higher the bit count the more colors were available for a given pixel. 1 bit 'color' is actually black and white because each pixel is represented by a single bit - on or off, 1 or 0, black or white. 8 bit color would be an image that contains up to 256 colors (8 bits in binary math = 256, but I won't explain biinary math just here.)

I'm so glad I made that mistake so I could correct it in a most annoyingly verbose manner.

Once again... you are a freaky dude in 1 bit.

grk said...

Mike, even if you meant I was a bit frightening in 2 bit, it wouldn't bother me 1 bit.

Percussivity said...

If you were not such an incredibly nice guy, you could have just said 'byte me'.

grk said...

Hey buddy, if you weren't such a nice guy, I'd RAM that byte down your ethernet!

Percussivity said...

If memory serves, it would be a hard drive to take that road. Read only what you must from that statement.

grk said...

That hurts. That gigahertz. THat's all I got.