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Re: Luminous Rant

2007-07-29 by Greg

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Christopher L.
Johnston" <chris@...> wrote:
>
> web pages with enormous files, streaming this
> and streaming that, all this @#$% loads fast when you live in
broadband land
> but for us in the boonies we can only stand like kids with our noses
pressed
> against the candy store window. So when you load those files don't
forget
> your poor cousins in the third world who are just a couple steps removed
> from a tin cans and a ball of string. I guess the upside is I've got way
> better photo ops...
> 
>  


I am constantly banging heads with the web people at work that want to
just up the bit rate of our radio stream, add stupid flash to web
pages, etc....

I do understand what your complaint is about, just because many more
people have high speed now doesn't mean that we should stuff the pages
with so much garbage that only the high speed users can see them. Less
is still more!

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