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Re: PRIORITY TRANSMISSION
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:29:27 GMT
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Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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> In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer wrote:
> > In lugnet.space, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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> > What could DR TERRIBLE be up to now?!!
> > >
> > > Annoyingly large files. :-) No seriously that was over 500k, took 2 minutes
> > > to see the post, that is not cool, dude. (the Grand Admiral clone and the
> > > bot are kinda funny though.)
> >
> > I don't get it Mike. I'm unbelievably uptight about big images and this
> > doesn't bother me at all. It was 3 images that was like 500k total. 3 very
> > funny pics too. Loaded while I blinked.
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> Ok maybe people interprited that a little more harshly than it was intended.
> (Very funny post, Matt.) But, seriously anything over 200k in one post just
> seems a little excessive to me.
> >
> > I'm not some Cable snob but if you're really still on a dial up for as much
> > as you post in .debate (see it all on the ticker) then that's just sad.
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> Well first off text does not take any significant amount of time to download.
> Second I have to do something when I can not be building, (Which is far more
> often than I would like,) and the off-topic.debate is absolute best place on the
> internet I found to actually discuss various topics with out it devolving into,
> "Oh, yeah" posts. Sure we disagree alot,(I realize I can come off very hard set
> in my views sometimes) but in the end we all still get along and that is proof
> that Lugnet is still the freindlest place on the internet, at least to me.
> >
> > Cable is very cheap. Can't get it there? Um, move or something :D
Actually, I just tried to get DSL. It's not cheap for me. I would have
to upgrade my OS (I'm still running Windows 95 at home - I just tried to
get DSL, they wouldn't sell it to me because I'm not using a supported
OS), which would probably mean I would have to upgrade my PC.
Oh, another thing on downloads. At work, we supposedly have something
better than cable. Sometimes I think I get better internet
responsiveness at home. Firewalls can really chew into your internet
responsiveness. Then of course there's things like Netscape's tendency
to go on vacation while starting Javascript (the vacation seems about
the same length of time at work or home, I have no idea what's going on,
no disk activity, no blinking lights on my dialup connection at home).
Count me as one who could do without a lot of the "improvements" in web
technology...
Frank
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