Re: A little compression...

["russotto" <russotto@1:124/5009.remove-lql-this>]

  To: Dombo
From: russotto@familynet-international.net

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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