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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit |
| Date | 2014-04-05 10:31 +0000 |
| Organization | news.solani.org |
| Message-ID | <lhom24$mn8$1@solani.org> (permalink) |
| References | <lhgqbt$nak$1@solani.org> <lhn43m$69o$1@solani.org> <lhn8un$j7m$1@dont-email.me> |
Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> Wrote in message: > On 2014-04-04, RS Wood wrote: >> This makes an interesting comparison between WWW and Usenet >> though. Turns out the RSS feed article I posted to Usenet >> contained 95% of the content already. But fire up a web browser >> and navigate to the web page and you'll use 100X the bandwidth to >> see: >> 1 sidebar twitter feed of drivel >> 2 one stock photo >> 3 a couple of banner ads >> 4 a bar of social media buttons >> 5 a link to the Verge, who I guess wrote the article. >> 6 a comment form that no one has used, so no dialogue, no >> community, no threaded discussion. >> >> Useless! > > Agreed. That's why I do more than half of my browsing in a terminal > browser like elinks ;) > You know which site almost requires elinks or equivalent? LinuxToday.com. That website is so choked with shit it's almost unreadable and takes a LOT of time to download. On Lynx it's something like 15 KB since none of the images, banner ads, or crap-scripts gets read. I can scarcely read that site on any other browser. --
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[CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-02 10:55 +0000
Re:[CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-04 20:19 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-04 23:17 +0200
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-04 21:41 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-05 10:31 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-04-05 16:56 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-04-05 20:03 +0000
Re: [CM] WebOS betrayal costs HP $57M in class action lawsuit Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-06 01:47 +0200
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