Re: MySpace headaches... - experience?

[Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us>]

Jeff Duke wrote:
> Bill, you mentioned that you run windows 98 on a what, P3. What kind 
> of internet connection do you have? Nowdays most sites are made for 
> highspeed and modern machines right?
Yeah, P2!!!  450MHz.  My PC is 10 years old and I've been saving my 
pennies for an iMac which I may be able to buy in another a month or 
two.  (It'll have to last me 10 years, too!)  I'm on DSL.  As the world 
started migrating to high speed, dial up started choking on more and 
more websites.  When DSL finally came down to an affordable price, I 
jumped on it.  But "feature creep" continues on and everyone loads more 
and more crap on their pages.  The slicker people try to be, the worse 
it is.  It makes for a very bad experience for too many people.  My new 
ASUS EEEPC running WinXP was supposed to be better but it is so under 
powered that it is painful to use on the internet.  Practically no one 
considers all the people behind the bleeding edge of technology.  And 
with today's economy, who can keep up?  KISS *must* be a consideration 
in website design or viewers behind the curve will be scared away from 
all the bells and wistles clogging up the available bandwidth that not 
eveyone can afford.
> Do you think my myspace page is overloaded? I have seen worse. I do 
> have the colorchanging background and some youtube and a vimeo widjet 
> on there. Also my music player starts automaticly.
> it loads fast for me but I am sure that I have it cached from visiting 
> it a couple of times a day. I am interested in how things load for 
> other people. 
Sorry, Jeff.  I haven't been to your page to know.  But for me, all it 
takes is just one poorly designed widget to lock up my PC.  Widgets are 
slick pieces of shit that consume my PC's resources and slow down what 
once was a cutting edge machine.  More memory. more power, more cores, 
more, more, more!  I have no problem with technology marching on.  I am, 
after all, an electronics engineer.  (Out of work, of course!)  But not 
everyone can afford a new computer every year just to keep up... 
especially if they want to buy synths, guitars, basses, software, 
loopers, food, clothes, electricity, gas, insurance, pay the mortgage, 
the tax man (federal, state, local, property), the cable guy...  The 
average person is *SO* behind the technological curve and nobody 
considers this when trying to look slick.  I *hate* slick.  Slick is for 
TV and movies.  Slick is too commercial for my tastes.  Give me a nice, 
pleasant experience that doesn't eat resources.  KISS.

Cheers,

Bill