Re: UKNM: The next stage in the game - was Dreamcast delayed

[Clay Shirky]

> will we be out of a job, overtaken by the gods of the spinny-text

> wizard, obsolete old duffers moaning about how it was in the good old

> days?


You could not spend a better pound researching broadband than to while

away an hour at easyEverything - i don't know how they've configured

their network, but when i've been there, those machines run *fast*,

and it makes the web run like local software.


the principal effect of broadband is to make existing sites work the

way they should. anyone who thinks broadband means that web pages

should become even more bloated is really just making sure that the

user experience is uniformly poor at any speed.


> or will response time still be sufficiently important?


Well, my goal of being the anti_Neilsen notwithstanding, Jakob has a

good paper on why response times will *always* be sufficiently

important (short answer: response times are coded for in brains and

not machines):


http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html


-clay 

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