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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Charles R who wrote (102760)4/7/2000 12:24:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (3) of 1572942
 
Charles, <..DSL or Cable Modem today ..and processors>
Cable does not make any difference. The cable is still slower than any processor transfers and rendering rate.
Especially if your neighbour's kids are serving 5-6GB
movies upstream to several anonymous CuteFTP users
at once, and totally block any of your requests.
I am running a K6-300 but most of the time I see
"Opening page blah.blah.com;
"connecting to 123.234.212.222..."
"Web site found. Waiting for reply..."

You are absolutely correct on other points too.
Lack of processor speed is a common fallacy.
All these elongated boot times are
because of the total stupidity of Plug-n-Play
approach, dumb MS networking protocols, and
hidden service embedded into your computer
by default when installing MS and other net
browsers. Load times are also not exactly
simple disk loads but rather dynamic linking with
shared DLL of enormous size, with tons of unnecessary
fonts and loads of marketing crap like
unremovable "AOL instant messenger", multiplied
by "smooth" windows panning and fading, etc
etc etc etc..... There is an observation that
the "speed of computer" remains the same no
matter how MHz it has for the particular
generation, and dog-slow for every new generation
of software. It makes people feel that they
need to buy new computer, and this is the
driving force behind the progress in computing
industry. Simple. Chick is a typical victim
of the Msoft trap.

- Ali
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