funny looking emoticons

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Lifer
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so I moved to the country and had to go back to dial-up after years of cable modems. We signed up with Highstream as a service provider, and pay the extra $1/mo more for "High Speed Dial-up", which as I understand it compresses the data at their server prior to cramming it down the phone line connection to my PC.

It actually works pretty slick for web surfing (downloads suck, though). The one thing it does do is compress/distort things like gif and jpegs. As a result, this emoticon ( ;) ) looks like it has a black eye.

 

Eli

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It re-compresses graphics files?

That's pretty ghetto lame. :p
 

RU482

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Evadman
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
But does the **Important Stuff** look fine?

wink wink, nudge nudge

when I look at "important stuff" I can change the settings to 0% compression. Because the only compression I want in that even is my head between two melons
 

RU482

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Eli
It re-compresses graphics files?

That's pretty ghetto lame. :p

Dude, dial-up is pretty ghetto lame in it's self. This is like the gold grille on a 84 Caprice