DJA said:
>
> I know a lot of people running old versions of software on old versions
> of OSes on old hardware. I seldom hear complaints about performance.
> Even when I do, it's far down on the list of things which irritate them.
> More important is waiting to download the 16 MB's of pictures from Aunt
> Sady and having to wade through junk mail.
I don't get so upset about overall speed as I do about basic responsiveness, if
I
may make a distinction. Why is $this_app unable to open a menu while it's
waiting
for a remote query to return? Why can't I click on the desktop while the other
app
is waiting for a file to be recieved? I have a several apps in mind that I use
every
day at work on a fairly _new_ machine that do these kinds of things. I want
more
feedback, too.
But you _really_ hit a nerve with the large e-mail thing. I have 2 in-laws who
do
this kind of thing incessantly. Today I got a 5.6MB message sent to no less
than 36
people. While this e-mail was being sent to her assigned SMTP host, and had to
be
written, and then duplicated to a total of something over 200MB on the hard
disk,
some poor slob trying to shoot off a quick note to his buddy thought that his
PC was
just too slow to transmit 1.3k. That's the guy who complained to Gabe. ;-)
I try to explain... They think I'm just a crab.
Wade Curry
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