Adobe Releasing New Photo Format

salmonz writes "Toronto Star just posted a story that Adobe is releasing a new digital picture format; the Digital Negative Specification,or DNG. " Supposed to be use in raw photo formats; without the lossyness of JPEG.

I can't remember...

[datadriven]

Are we supposed to hate Adobe?

Re:Why?

[I_Love_Pocky!]

Don't be silly, Adobe doesn't own PNG.

Re:Newsflash

[JessLeah]

A few remain behind and write about why they don't use the new "standard". They get branded "communists". Historical revisionism takes over, and the creators of the useless file format standard get lauded as "innovators". Anyone who complains is tagged as "just jealous".

Re:I can't remember...

[!the!bad!fish!]

I think we hate them for being mean to that Russia geezer. [slashdot.org]

Napoleon Dynamite...

[Anonymous Coward]

The new format will be pronounced "Dang!"

Pronounciation?

[NegativeFX]

Dong?

This corresponds to another format release...

[JRootabega]

The Picture Outline Object format, or .POO

Re:What does the "G" stand for?

[ari_j]

And, in PNG, the G stands for Graphics; Portable Network Graphics [libpng.org]. I know it's a stretch, but possibly Adobe meant the G in DNG to also stand for Graphics. I know it seems to have nothing to do with the file format at hand, but it's possible. I mean, they made PDF, which has nothing to do with Firearms even though the ATF's F stands for that. It's just an Adobe thing, I guess.

Re:Obligatory Simpsons Ref...

[Aceto3for5]

All your JPEGS are belong to Adobe?

Something about Soviet Russia, im not sure how it goes, but your mother was a whore.

Oh great, now we have to deal with new terminology

[Klowner]

So they're gonna be pronounced as "Ding" I'm assuming, consider the possibilities:

Dude2: "Hey Dude, I have a funny picture to send you"
Dude1: "Dude, wait, I have dialup and it's gonna take forever"
Dude2: "No way dude, it's a ding, it'll only take a moment, here it comes"
Dude1: "Okay, got it .. Dude, is that a ding of my dong? HTF DID YOU GET THAT?"

... I shall stop here

Re:I can't remember...

[Beautyon]

How' bout just thinking for yourself and not worrying if things should be black or white?

You go first.

Re:If I see one more "what's wrong with PNG" post.

[soulsteal]

Fuck, I like open source and masturbate every time I see a linux login prompt

That can be very embarrassing in a lab environment. :|

Adobe software

[bgeer]

Guy1: Say cheese!
Guy2: Cheese!
Camera: click
Camera: Please wait while Adobe(tm) DNG(tm)(c) plugin loads.
Guy1: Uh...
Camera: thrash thrash chug chug chug thrash
Guy2: What's going on?
Camera: Thank you for downloading the free Adobe(tm) DNG(tm) plugin, for more exciting features please buy Adobe(tm) DNG(tm) Complete TODAY for only $399.95!
Guy2: Do I have to stay still for this?
Guy1: Uhh I think so. Okay it's done now. Wait a minute, why the hell isn't there a "save" option under "file"? Goddamnit!

Re:Not right now, keep the gnus of war at bay for

[Wanderer2]

Dogs or Gnus, people?

Guns. Lots of gnus.

Re:And my whole point was...

[arose]

Don't underestimate the ability to patent things you haven't invented. :-D