On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Chen Yixiong, Eric wrote:
> difference between the two photos. That surely helps a lot, though I
> wonder why NASA's top brains didn't think of it (or perhaps they have
> more important things to do).
Right. Webmonkeys are called monkeys for a reason.
> Nowadays, I don't think poor VGA cards or (most likely) overly slow
> CPUs will give us problems, but the speed of our Internet connection
There are lots of weak machines and slow lines in the 3rd world, and
portable systems are typically pretty thin, too. There's definitely sense
into making lean pages.
> will definitely do so. Even if you have as much money (and bandwidth)
> as Bill gates, you will need to increase the bandwidth for the entire
> Internet for all your pages to load faster.
Or, you could use a distributed peer to peer architecture, which
distributes frequently used content over several nearby machines, putting
Akamai out of business.
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