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To: Jay Lowe who wrote (4503)	1/20/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: Jay Lowe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

USA Today: Phone and cable companies face off usatoday.com "Excite plans to use a special technology that can detect whether a user is accessing e-mail or other Internet content from a high-speed connection or from a dial-up telephone line. The network would deliver video and audio that takes advantage of the high speed." Another example of Lowe's Lemma at work! Grolsch's Law: Computer performance proceeds as the square of the product of price and time. Lowe's Observation: Actual computer performance delivered to the end user is a constant. Overall responsiveness is an invariant function of time. Lowe's Observation, Short Form: One always waits. If you are not waiting yet, just wait. Lowe's Lemma: No matter how much performance the hardware guys create, the software guys will invent some means to piss it away. t-2: 2400 bps modems are slow for accessing text-based timesharing systems t-1: 9600 bps modems are slow for bulletin boards t-0: 56 Kbps modems are slow for surfing t+1: ADSL and cablemodems are slow for video and sound t+2: VDSL is slow for watching movies t+3: Optical is slow for ??? Glass is half full at relative t+1, half-empty at relative t-1 One could suppose that certain ISPs and content providers are not good practicing Catholics, who consider self-murder a cardinal sin.