In article <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? > > > > > > 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.
Very true. And from another point of view, a channel only has so much capacity (bits/second). It may be very high, but it is finite. People who waste bandwidth slow the internet down for everybody.
