Daniel wrote:
On 23/01/2017 1:55 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
In the modern era of terabyte disks and gigabyte RAM, who the
(*&^(*&^ cares about a couple of extra kilobytes? It may be
mathematically or logically inelegant, but we're talking about
sofa-cushion change, not real money.
Pick me!! I care!! And what give you the (*&^(*&^ right to require me
to spend some of my meager dollars on bigger HD's and faster
internet connections just so that *you* can feel smug, Paul??
I'm not requiring you to do anything. And it's certainly not because I
want to feel smug.
My point was that a web designer or an email sender can reasonably
expect a visitor or reader to have those things because they're so cheap
and so ubiquitous nowadays. I don't have to write for 4.77 MHz and a 20
MB HDD (as in my first PC XT) because no one runs those anymore.
I do realize (for example) there is a shrinking minority of XP users,
but I'm not one who made that choice. If you choose to remain 20 years
behind the times, that's your choice, not mine, and you have to live
with the consequences of your choice. If you don't like them, make
another choice. It's all up to you.
One day, if I'm lucky, I'll get an ADSL standard connection. But not
soon!!
Up to you. Not my fault, not my problem. Even in the U.S., reasonably
priced broadband is not hard to find. In more advanced nations like
South Korea, the entry level is what we call high-speed broadband.
Everyone can play high-def video on their smartphones.
One thing you can do -- as I do -- is to delete messages you will never
need to read again. I could probably afford to keep every message I've
ever sent or received, but in practice only 5-10% are ever going to be
useful. I have email archives going back 20 years, and my SM profile
takes up 5 GB, but if it were 6 GB or even 10 GB it wouldn't cost me a
penny more. A couple of KB here or there (six orders of magnitude less)
really doesn't make a difference.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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