[Neurodebian-upstream] [Nipy-devel] Fwd: A proposed 64-bit update to the NIfTI format

[Michael Hanke]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 05:48:00PM +0100, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:40:11AM -0500, Michael Hanke wrote:
> > Please pardon my massive cross-posting, but I believe this might be of
> > interest to many of us. There is an update of the NIFTI standard in the
> > works that aims to make the format fit for today's demands. Please see
> > the quoted message for details.
> 
> Reading large data with a crappy format like nifti (and I bet people are
> going to gzip it)! It's really going to be really slow for io.
> 
> Why, oh why, does the neuroimaging community feel a need to invent crappy
> format (I know, legacy and good deal of ignorance, just complaining for
> the sake of it).

Quick note: Replying to the message doesn't cause a comment to the
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Michael

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