Re: [DDN] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes

2004-10-24 Thread Taran Rampersad
Claude Almansi wrote: Hi Don, Thank you for your answer. Re: Donald Z. Osborn wrote: In Niger and several years ago in cybercafes in Mali I did not usually have too much problem with loading simple images, though my tactic was always to run more than one browser window concurrently so

Re: [DDN] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes

2004-10-21 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Don, Thank you for your answer. Re: Donald Z. Osborn wrote: Claude, I'm glad you made the points you did, but I also see two sides to this. Having lived for a while in Niger, with poor connectivity and at the time relying on the parastatal telecom monopoly for the only connections, I know the

RE: [DDN] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes

2004-10-20 Thread Barbara COMBES
Hi Claude, And as my computer science students discovered: A picture is also worth a thousand different interpretations! :) BC @ Your Library ECU - a participant in the 2004 WA Statewide Library Marketing Campaign. Barbara Combes, Lecturer School of Computer and Information Science Edith

Re: [DDN] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes

2004-10-20 Thread John Hibbs
It would seem to me good practice, especially for those in the divide business, to have a very simple, very fast loading home page which would give connectivity options to the viewers. (Oddly, I think there are many with broadband connections and fast Pentiums who would view text as their

[DDN] A picture is worth a thousand words! Yup, in kilobytes

2004-10-19 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi I wrote what follows in anger at an www.elearningeuropa.info forum called The Role of the New Technologies in Cultural Dialogue http://tinyurl.com/5m7ks , where all the initial posts insist on how important the use of images would be for multicultural exchanges, wondering at why so many