In article <slrng23nll.15qa.g.kreme@cerebus.local>, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <doraymeRidThis-A7CA7F.10592106052008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au> > dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > In article <slrng1ufgr.15qa.g.kreme@cerebus.local>, > > Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > > >> In message <doraymeRidThis-0B1751.13012903052008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au> > >> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > >> > what would dialup users or slow broadband think?). > >> > >> Sorry, but I stopped worrying about dialup users 6 years ago when the last > >> person in my family finally got ADSL. I hear there are still people on > >> dialup, but I could not prove it. > > > Why did you ever worry about dialup? Do you make websites only for your > > family? > > Back in 1995 worrying about dialup was sensible as the vast majority of your > visitors were using dialup. Now-a-days, nearly none are. >
It is still sensible to provide for dialup users. There are many worthy human beings forced to stay on it, there are also many worthy human beings on slow broadband and your 'nearly none' simply hides quite big absolute numbers.
> >> > The advantage is bandwidth and clarity, especially bandwidth. No one > >> > wants to download a 2592 px wide pic if they are only interested in > >> > seeing it at 400px. > >> > >> But they take the same amount of time (that is, 'none') to download! :) > > > This is not true for many people (not you or your family who maybe have > > superfast), even on what is broadly known as broadband. And it is > > demonstrably false when you take into account a set of pictures. > > Did you see the smilie? Did you?
Yes. Yes. You can smile at one (amusing) thing in your thought and I can reply to a different thing (a serious thing) in your thought. You can smile at one (amusing) thing in your thought and I can reply to a different thing (a serious thing) in your thought. Thoughts are not all one thing or another. Thoughts are not all one thing or another. They have different aspects. They have different aspects. I did you the honour of answering the serious part of it. I did you the honour of answering the serious part of it. And was objecting to an implication in it. And was objecting to an implication in it. Do you get this point? Do you get this point? Would you like me to go into it in more depth? Would you like me to go into it in more depth?
