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Re: (Plaintext of previous) Re:(HTML, only because marcus asked me to use his bandwidth) - Re: Townbuilders newsgroup idea (General Discussion)
Re: (Plaintext of previous) Re:(HTML, only because marcus asked me to use his bandwidth) - Re: Townbuilders newsgroup idea // General Discussion
Jul 13, 2001, 1:52am
I liked the one with the pic, this one wraps around making it hard to read.
You also used caps, LOL.
[View Quote]"wing" <bathgate at prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> Heres the entire 48k post I just made in plaintext for those of you who
either don't want to download it, can't view it or couldn't
> read the colors. BTW, it had a cool picture of a nuclear bomb.
> "wing" <bathgate at prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:3b4e0a32 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> THIS IS NOT AN ISSUE OF NOT BUYING A FASTER INTERNET SERVICE YOU FUCKING
MORON. IF YOU WANT HTML SURF THE WEB INSTEAD OF READING
> NEWSGROUPS. EUROPEANS, AND THERE ARE MANY OF THEM IN THESE GROUPS, PAY BY
THE MEGABYTE. DO YOU HAVE ANY COMPREHENSION OF HOW FIVE
> KILOBYTES TRANSLATES TO IN PROPORTION TO A MEGABYTE? HOW ABOUT THE
INCREDIBLY INFLATED SIZE OF THIS POST COMPARED TO IT'S TWO
> KILOBYTE TEXT-BASED COUNTERPART. IN FACT, JUST TO GET MY POINT ACROSS
MORE, I THINK I'LL COPY AND PASTE ANOTHER POST I MADE TO
> EXPLAIN WHY HTML IS BAD.
>
> Yeah. And I, for one have a liking for keeping my computers as sleek, fast
and powerful as possible. This is achieved through
> overclocking, buttloads of high quality RAM, a RAID hard drive system,
etc. Now, for 99% of the people that operate this level of
> system, it's useless fluff. But for me, I use EVERY CPU cycle doing
genetics work for Stanford University. The additional time that
> gets spent downloading and processing HTML may not seem like much, but it
adds up. That's CPU time that will never get devoted to an
> ything useful. When the Palomino 1.7GHz's come out later this year, I'll
complain less. But since BOTH CPUs will be crunching genes,
> the problem will still be there. Think about it. Would you rather my
computer a) Decode your HTML posts or b) Have the potential to
> design a gene that proves to be the holy graal that strikes down HIV/AIDS
or cancer? This computer still gets everyday uses, but I
> go FAR out of my way to make sure that they're so lightly CPU intensive
that it isn't funny. My gene crunching has a higher CPU
> priority than AW does. Please, concider that you may be disrupting the
chance of survival for one of your descendents. This lowly
> computer will not find the cure, but it will narrow the choices. Now
before you get all on me about Stanford having the ability to
> do their own work... There are THOUSANDS of people devoting their
computers to the same thing, in what I concider the most noble
> distributed computing project ever. Does Stanford have thousands of high
end computers sitting around to do this on? I thought not.
>
> You grow up, and realize that every action you make has it's repercussions
somewhere in the world. If you would like to pursue your
> arguments any further, you can concider yourself filtered. The same goes
for anybody else that feels like backing his opinions.
>
>
> HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY NOW?
>
>
> To those of you who this post was not directed at, I'm sorry for the
gigantic download, I did it on purpose, but I think it'll carry
> my point better.
> "m a r c u s" <i_have_a_site at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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