On 22/04/2014 7:16 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 22/04/2014 09:30 AM, scott wrote:
>>> The party is over, my friends.
>>
>> I would imagine a lot of people said the same in 1850 about the
>> Industrial Revolution. And look what's changed since then (in terms of
>> manufacturing).
>
> Um... has anything changed? Apart from the invention of plastic, I can't
> really think of anything.
>

I despair of the youth of today. </echo, echo, echo...>
How are we to keep The Empire if the, the ... others are so abysmally 
wanting.

The change that I've seen in my lifetime, and it is not really that 
long, is quite a lot. From few cars on the road (car spotting was going 
out of fashion) to going to an airport to watch plains taking off, in 
the 50's and 60's. To Dick Tracey video watches and to watch 40 year old 
TV programmes on demand.  From thinking 9600 baud was state of the art 
to fibre optic speeds. I could go on and I do. ;-)


> I don't know, man. I think Internet speeds have now reached the point
> where page loading is near-instant, and any further boost is of no real
> benefit.
>
> ....until you try to download a large file, but that's reasonably rare.
> Still, with Bioshock: Infinite clocking in at 17 GB, I'm sure glad of
> the speed on the rare occasions where I use it! o_O
>

A lot of people use their broadband connection to stream Terrestrial TV. 
They might not know it but they do.

> Actually, come to think of it, it seems that now Firefox is that's
> holding things up! It seems to take longer for Firefox to do the page
> rendering than it does to actually download the files! So all that stuff
> I said about CPU speed not mattering anymore? I guess I was wrong. :-S
> (Assuming it's actually CPU-limited, and not disk-limited...)
>
I've noticed that too, recently. But if you think that is bad. Try it on 
a thin client. </boak>



-- 
Regards
     Stephen

I solemnly promise to kick the next angle, I see.

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