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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (11733)	1/17/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: drmorgan	Respond to of 22053

Barbara Ells, an industry analyst at Zona Research in Redwood City, Calif. said the product is not revolutionary, but added that Internet users employing it could download complex images about 10 seconds more When the WWW is really busy disable images in your browser. This is just a band-aid, the real issue is addressing local ISP congestion and backbone overload. Recently my ISP added additional bandwith and I have been experiencing very limited slowness. Also many web sites have servers that cannot properly handle the load they're getting. If the backbone/local ISP congestion issues are addressed and companies like the Cable Co's and RBOC's start providing us with the bandwith we all want these kind of band-aids are not needed. I think I'll pass. Derek

To: DMaA who wrote (11733)	1/17/1998 6:40:00 PM
From: Dick Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Stupid Intel product "Quick Web Technology" David Anderson quoted a WSJ article about a new Intel product "Quick Web Technology will give Internet users faster access to Web pages with lots of pictures by compressing some of the information from the graphical images so that there is less data to transmit. The result is lower-quality graphics, but served up at a higher speed.... "Interested users could buy the service through their Internet-service provider for an additional charge of about $5 a month, and would have the ability to turn it off if they wanted to see higher-quality images." I can't believe this. I'm supposed to pay extra to download badly designed web pages. What will they think of next! the only surprise is that it's not a Microsoft product. Obviously, if the web pages you're using are designed right, and the graphics are selected to transfer quickly (as has recently been discussed in this thread in the discussion about scanners, like in #11741), you don't need this feature. And one can always turn the images off for free. Fooey on this one. I'll bet against it. Dick