I hate this sort of reasoning - it's the same defeatist attitude that leads people to justify buying an SUV instead of an efficient vehicle when gas-saving is under discussion.
"Well China buys more barrels every day than SUVs use over hybrids in a year" - SO WHAT? Last time I optimized code, each optimization contributed practically nothing to the program speed - yet keeping it in mind increased overall execution speed almost 30%. Little things add up. (And the US isn't so little, in Internet terms.) We should make an effort to keep as much of the 'net free of cruft as possible. Do you USE much of the portion of the Internet that's in China? If not, why are you bringing it up? ;-) I understand that the internet is international - that has no particular bearing on keeping the parts we CAN have some impact on free/good/useful. Why should we make the connection to our houses faster - it has essentially no impact on the speed of the net in general. Sorry for the rant - that particular line of reasoning fills me with unreasoning anger. --DTVZ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
