I was talking a while back to model soldier retailer here in the UK. He wanted to put high res pictures and video onto his site - something that his manufacturer in Hong Kong was interested in doing too. In the far east and asia, many of the internet accesses are high speed and can cope with this. In the UK, we complain when we get just 2 or 3 mps - that's megabytes per second. What we forget is that there are many places in the States where they would kill to get such service. It's only 10 years ago that we had only 52 bytes per second dial up. I am still impressed by the fact that after we recently upgraded our broadband I was able to download a week's worth of the Archers in just 15 seconds. Before the upgrade it took 4 minutes. Before we moved it took 10 minutes. It's a 65mb file. I would be tearing my hair out if I had Bev's service - actually I used to tear my hair out when I had Bev's service. Going back to when Arachne was founded I used to have the posts sent to my work email. Back then because I worked for a telecoms company my email and web service was unbelievable. I couldn't do this on my personal email as it took too long to get any emails. Yes, we are lowest common demoninator here because we pander to the lowest access that is needed by our believed fellow arachnes, but we have the ability to put photos etc on to other places. I do feel that we should use technologies that can help us and those that can access them should make the most of them, but we should not exclude those who cannot. One other things, and here I'm being selfish. I cannot access social networking from work because we see it as a security threat. I can access my email. So when things are bad and I'm stressed, I can take time out at lunchtime and retreat to the our personal web and talk to the spiders. Dear spiders, please keep weaving.
Kind Regards Liz Baker [email protected] My chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website: http://thelacebee.weebly.com/ ________________________________ From: bev walker <[email protected]> To: Cynce Williams <[email protected]> Cc: Arachne <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 21:23 Subject: Re: [lace] ning or mail list?/dialup On dialup, it takes 5 minutes to load 10 seconds of video on YouTube :) When Tess made the little video of how to make a leaf, I eventually saw the whole thing. And David's! I do belong to chat-rooms including one for lace where pictures can be posted, and they load quickly enough, most transfers make the pictures small to save bandwidth. When I want to do a lengthy download, I find something to do to babysit the computer (having a lace pillow handy is excellent) because there is always a chance the phone line will hang up partway. On 11/2/11, Cynce Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Y'all might think of the people on dial up. I know my sister can't/won't > look at youtube because it takes too long for a video to load. -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada where we will soon have the option of highspeed internet. Yay! - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003 - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
