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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 07:35:40AM +0100, tom wrote: > Dont forget the digital Parkinsons Law: > Crap CPU intensive junk will fill the CPU available and more. > Whatever MIPS(GIPS TIPS...) you have people will fill it will ill > thought out inefficient code. > Tom te tom te tom > Fine I accept that the Chinese websites are heavier on images than European websites because searching is harder when entering characters is so difficult. But why do websites try and make it so hard to find information: why are they increasingly being used to provide entertainment rather than facts Yesterday I spent a good hour trying to watch a silverlight presentation. Each time I tried to watch it, firefox crashed. When I tried to install Silverlight it asked me to accept MS EULA. Cancelled that and the damn website then allowed me to find a mp3 download. mp3 was 37mb, accompanying pdf was 8.4Mb: mostly useless photos. (http://www.fugro.com/ir/rep2009.asp) The added complexity makes it looks wonderful but it probably wastes about 2 hours of my time plus god knows how much time in preparing the damn thing. The company could save a lot of money if they sacked their media people. Anyway probably a better written diatribe is: http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2009/07/print/draft-draft-draftpowerpoint-1/ Anyway still a more powerful processor because this stuff is getting more common -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Thu Apr 29 08:36:43 BST 2010
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