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Posted by Neredbojias on 05/07/06 12:00
To further the education of mankind, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> vouchsafed:
> In article <Xns97BB1A527C850httpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251>,
> Neredbojias <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, they are! They link to bigger images. Just because they also
>> serve an aesthetic purpose in their own right does not negate their
>> utility.
>
> A thumbnail is roughly the size of a thumb. One can stretch this
> a bit maybe. But not so that all meaning is lost.
Okay, so call it a toenail.
> If you were right, any pic, even say a 800x700 one that linked to
> an even larger one (a not so rare technique used to give folk
> bigger without unnecessarily using up bandwidth from the start)
> would be a thumbnail.
I am and it is.
> This is sometimes called a reductio ad absurdum and will be
> further explained to you by Officer "Bud' White before he gives
> you his usual special treatment that is very far from the Roman
> mind. What you will get is especially Californian.
I call it noodleo meus activo maximo est. (This is idiogrammatic Latin for
"using your head.")
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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
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