Chris, you cannot expect news outlets to cater to the preferences of the 1% of
the population who insist on using technology from 30 years ago. Dialup?
Please…I don’t even have a landline anymore. Welcome to the third decade of the
21st century.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 15 Feb 2021, at 21:24, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ah, the efficiency of American technology. Why bother with efficiency
> when the user has unlimited speed, unlimited memory, and unlimited patience?
> I took two terms of numerical analysis where I earned how to write code that
> minimized code, execution time, and error accumulation. When the IBM PC
> first appeared with its six significant digits in single precision, that
> became an asset. Which is why I chose the Atari 800 as my PC, as it had ten
> significant digits. It gave better results when decomposing large matrices.
>
> But, back to telecom efficiency. I cannot watch a single American news
> service (ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.) on dialup because they all have imbedded high
> resolution graphics and videos in the top page, and they want to download
> them all at once instead of in sequence. Just to watch a local news source
> will take hours.
>
> On the other hand, the BBC, CBC, and ABC (Australian) for examples only
> have low resolution thumbnails on their top pages, and you click on those to
> get the "real stuff". The BBC World and Home pages take at most 60 seconds
> to fully download. Our local ABC outlet would still be a blank page at 60
> seconds.
>
> American web page designers want to be as high-tech as possible to
> impress themselves, the users, and the rest of the world, while others want
> to convey information to the lowest common denominator, such as those with
> dialup service.
>
>>
>>> Since Windstream owns the modems and both Earthlink and Copper.net
>>> lease them, I suspect that it was a Windstream equipment failure, such
>>> as someone pulling the cord out of the wall socket.
>>
>> Not exactly. But there are MANY ways to accomplish the same task.
>>
>> One of the major changes in the telecom industry is the conversion to
>> "soft switches" for the POTS. For the first 20 years of that
>> conversion, we did pretty much a one for one replacement with some
>> consolidation where it made sense. Over the past three years, the
>> industry has changed to consolidate voice switches in such a way that
>> geographical location no longer means anything. A person making a
>> local phone call in Phoenix to another person in Phoenix might be
>> having their voice call routed through Atlanta and Chicago before
>> getting back to Phoenix.
>>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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