Noel Carboni wrote: harrytuttle777 wrote: You just did not have the additional overhead of adding all the fancy graphics. I have a fiber optic connection to my home and a very fast computer. Want to guess how much I care about whether graphics get loaded? The more the merrier! Someone asking a question and sharing their 38 MB Photoshop file? Takes under 20 seconds to download. Piece of cake. This is the way of the future, my friend. ... Surely it is. But there are a lot of people all over the world who are not so lucky and for whom that beautiful future is far away. Not a few of them still connect to the internet through normal telephone lines at speeds of a few tens kb/s (I don't remeber the exact figure). I do have a fast computer, but a not so fast normal cable connection at around 10 MB/s, and I do notice the difference between the few milliseconds the previous forum pages took to load and the few seconds the present ones do. And a sizeable part of that time seems to be taken in loading images I don't need -or like. Noel Carboni wrote: ... Also you did not have to log into a seperate forum everytime you wanted to post a comment (and give a company you password info). Once again you are exposing the inadequacy of your own choices (e.g., of browser and settings) more than any fundamental problem here. I don't have to "log into" anything to post here. I just open the browser, follow a favorite link to the forum, click a post to read, hit the Reply button, type a reply, and hit Post Message. Done, and couldn't be simpler. I logged in a long time ago, and asked the thing to remember me. I have physical security and a single login for my computer itself, so this was/is a valid choice. You want to play with the big boys, go out and get yourself top quality Internet access, a modern computer, and run a mainstream web browser. Or get left behind. -Noel You are lucky again (and so am I now, fortunately, after a full year in which I had to re-login in these forums after any period of inactivity of about half an hour), and don't seem to have noticed the many posts of people complaining of login problems. Which don't seem to be related with a top quality Internet access, a modern computer, or a mainstream web browser. Any idea of how many people depend on their old fashioned computers, old fashioned programs, and old fashioned and slow Internet connections just to earn that little extra money they need to cover their most basic expenses? Should we just dismiss them and leave them on their own when they have questions about how to do something in PageMaker, or ask how to download just the Reader installer because all that comes with the "normal" installation takes forever to download in their setups? I am glad that you can afford all the best and newest in equipment, programs and connections, and keep them absolutely up to date. Just don't ignore or look down on that majority of users who can't.
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