"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 02:09 21-11-2002 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> >And others will feel that the article might be interesting, but because of
> >their busy schedules are not able to get to the newsstand for the next
> >several days, by which time the issue with the article in question is no
> >longer available, so they will utter a curse on you and your children for
> >the next ten generations for teasing them and not providing the full text
> >of the article . . .
>
> If they are so busy that they do not have the time to get to a newsstand,
> then they probably also do not have the time to keep up with Brin-L, and
> probably also do not have the time to read the full text of the article
> on-line -- which makes posting the full text on-line useless.
Time to read 50K worth of text: 5 minutes, tops
Time to get to the nearest newstand that would even have a *prayer*
of having The Economist: Over 10 minutes
Time to locate The Economist, if they have it, and go through the
checkout line to purchase it: 5 minutes
Time to get back home to read The Economist: 10 minutes
So, it's taking me 5 minutes to read the article in its entirety if
someone posts it, but 25 to just *acquire* the magazine.
Maybe you're one of those lucky people who passes a newstand on foot
every day, going to work or coming home from work, but many of the rest
of us are *not*.
Julia
and I didn't even bring into account the whole problem of, do I have to
take Sammy with me (adding at *least* 5 minutes to the whole
getting-out-the-door process for starters), or do I have to act very
quickly while Sammy is down for his nap (assuming that Dan is able to
keep an ear out for him and abandon work for a little while if
necessary)?
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