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Feel free, as you often do, to resize em.
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That's if I can afford the time to get them here to resize, hahaha!
I was at a friend's house last night with my laptop to fetch the source code for the new X.org release. Got much of it at close to 500 KB/s, but forgot to fetch Ekka's video, dammit.
So when you're viewing the large images on your monitor, are they shrunk to fit the screen or do you pan around in them? If you're panning them, then I can agree that being able to see the nice detail is good. If you're not seeing them in their native resolution, then why is it necessary to handle all the extra data?
Also, are you aware that when you embed several even reasonably-sized images in one of your posts that it tends to tie up the circuitry for extended periods while the page gets loaded? This would all be a moot point if users who were limited to dialup represented maybe a couple of percentage points, but it's still rather close to 50/50 nationwide.
Glen