Re: A little compression...

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <4837dc7a$0$24421$5fc3050@news.tiscali.nl>,
Dombo  <dombo@disposable.invalid> wrote:

>A compression method which after you decompress don't get the original 
>data back. Well known examples of lossy compression algorithms are MP3, 
>JPEG and MPEG. Of course lossy compression algorithms can only be 
>applied on data that can tolerate to be 'distorted', like audio, images 
>and video; you can't compress programs with a lossy compression 
>algorithm and expect to be able run them after decompressing.

Actually, that's how Windows 1.0 came about.
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