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I think that each toon or e-mail should have a listing of the file size. Why? Because some people who have a slow connection (or just want to download something) could know how big it is and about how long it would take. What do you think?

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thats a good idea, specially because i had a slow computer and alot of things slowed it down.

it would be helpful to those with slow puters, unlike myself but the toon is worth waiting for you know!!!! am i right? am i right?

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Moved this to Wiki Decision polls. Oh, and I voted yes.

Sure. I could have used it back when I was a 56k-er.

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This is just the kind of thing the site should have. Good work Kupo.

And, using some bogus theroum, we could estimate the time it would take to load on 56K, or something like that.

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dang, which yutz voted no??

I might need the file sizes...I might be going back to modem...

This could cause problems, though, since PC file sizes are different than Mac file sizes. (1 PC megabyte is 1,000 kilobytes, 1 Mac megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes.) Maybe we should have both a PC file size and a Mac file size listed?

With the file sizes used on H*R, I don't think it should cause much of a problem. I don't forsee anyone going I thought it was going to be 3.2 MB, not 3.3 MB!

And my understanding is that the 1000 Bytes = kilobyte is used when talking about bandwidth, and it is also used by hard disk manufacturers. The 1024 Bytes = KB is used by Windows and Macintosh and Unix, though individual utilities and programs running on those operating systems may differ.

However, since we are concerned with download time, if we want to be nit-picky, shouldn't the SI definition of MB (1000) be used, as it is the standard for networking and bandwidth?

Fun trivia: Since 1998, the standard is that MB = 1000 KB, and MiB = 1024 KiB, and so on. MiB is pronounced Mebibyte, KiB Kibibyte, etc.

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Yes, we should put file sizes on there. It will serve as a warning to those of you on slow connections.

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This is probably a bad idea but I just thought of it and it could be good:

Or (this is either a totally good idea or a totally bad idea) we could have a scale. Like on a page we describe what they mean. For example:

-Small: 0 - 250 KB (PC) 1 - 300 KB (MAC)

and so on (I know that the example didn't make any sense).
Then on the toon page we could have something like:



This makes it easy. The bad part though is some one who doesn't know what they're doing could add that it is what they think is "big" without looking at the page that explains what small is defined as. The good part is that it is simple and that some people who don't understand megabytes and stuff would be able to see the size easily. What do you think?

The file size thing makes food sense because I know it's hard for someone with dial-up to watch a toon. That way they will at least know how long it will take to load. Good thinking ~Kupo~.

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Each page should also have the time length (M:SS).

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I think separating them into "big" and "small" or any other artificial taxonomy is a terrible idea. Let people decide on their own what's big or small. (e.g. I have cable, so 1.5MB is still small.)



I would like to second this.

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What I thought though, is like its just quick to look at. And some people don't know what it means. The length of the toons sounds good as well.

I would like to third this.

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Sounds great in theory, but people will be arguing over true length as well.

Since there are easter eggs that can add time to the length of an e-mail (such as Homsar in dragon) those shouldn't be counted in the length of the e-mail.

And how do you count when it is done? For most e-mails, this can be straight forward, but for some (like theme park) the easter egg at the end happens only because you wait for long enough. Since the extra stuff is obviously not mainstream e-mail, it wouldn't normally count as part of the length. However, since there isn't a stopping point where it waits for you to click back or e-mail strong bad forever, it's difficult to assign a precise "end of e-mail" time to those ones.

But I like the idea. Lets do it.

Then what you should do it have the time of the toon or what not without the eggs, then have the time of said toon/whatever with the eggs right next to it.

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Ugh. Forgot about that.

I say that if we do end up doing it (time), we should end the time when The Paper comes down (in Strong Bad Emails).

I can't think of anything to do with the toons, except for maybe when the
"back" button appears.

But yeah, I would really like it done. It'd be sweet.

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