I hate it when people zip up jpg files

[Kelvrick]

I like to zip, then rar into 3 different files, and rename every extension along the way. Just makes it more secure, you know?

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: toekramp
i hate it more when i have a zip of a zip of rar files, that's always great

Start paying for your software then

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
I'd be pissed if you sent 100 files through e-mail. Zipped or not.

If someone sent you 100+ files in an e-mail, it would probably be because you were expecting them.

In a perfect world... Reality I get 10MB e-mails every other day. Fargin' iceholes.

 

[HN]

or how about images sent as Word .doc or powerpoint .ppt? :|

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: HN
or how about images sent as Word .doc or powerpoint .ppt? :|

How about .bmps in word and powerpoint. :|

Here's this 3 page .ppt, it's small, I'll e-mail it. 120MB later (this happens with some regularity at my work)...

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: gigapet
compression is based on patterns of information....its very difficult to compress a random pattern of pixels

Uh, pictures are not random. If they were, every picture would essentially look the same to us and jpg compression would not work.

 

[HN]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: HN
or how about images sent as Word .doc or powerpoint .ppt? :|

How about .bmps in word and powerpoint. :|

Here's this 3 page .ppt, it's small, I'll e-mail it. 120MB later (this happens with some regularity at my work)...

yeah, that's the stuff i'm talking about. i can understand if you use it to maybe give it some captions or some descriptive text; but taking a large image and dropping it into some other format and sending it off. GRRRRR

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: HN

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: HN
or how about images sent as Word .doc or powerpoint .ppt? :|

How about .bmps in word and powerpoint. :|

Here's this 3 page .ppt, it's small, I'll e-mail it. 120MB later (this happens with some regularity at my work)...

yeah, that's the stuff i'm talking about. i can understand if you use it to maybe give it some captions or some descriptive text; but taking a large image and dropping it into some other format and sending it off. GRRRRR

Topic in our new user training brought up just today. Mail file sizes.

Now, if only user training worked (aka if they would listen).

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: gigapet
compression is based on patterns of information....its very difficult to compress a random pattern of pixels

Most pictures that are interesting to look at are far from a "random pattern of pixels" (WTF is a "random pattern", anyway?). A randomly generated image would look like static on a TV. Interesting images are far more organized, and compress very well.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: gigapet
compression is based on patterns of information....its very difficult to compress a random pattern of pixels

Most pictures that are interesting to look at are far from a "random pattern of pixels" (WTF is a "random pattern", anyway?). A randomly generated image would look like static on a TV. Interesting images are far more organized, and compress very well.

Agreed. BMP images generally could be compressed with zips to near the size of a JPG.