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56k Times Five: Myth Or Moneymaker?

Posted by timothy on from the sounds-like-a-fair-bargain-to-me dept.

maxentius writes "InternetNews.com has an article on not-broadband-but-still-faster telephone internet access premiering soon in more than one commercial ISP venue. Compression and other techniques will improve speed by up to five times, so they say. Hi-tech or hogwash?"

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  1. I figured it out - by bobdotorg · · Score: 4, Funny

    EarthLink Plus uses a proprietary "Web Accelerator" from Propel Software which reduces the size of Web pages and elements sent to users' browsers.

    Sounds cool, but in reality it's just Lynx for OSX.

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    __ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
  2. Cmprsss txt b rmvng ll vwls by hoggoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have invented a new text compression method that is analogous to the pscho-acoustic models used to remove the sound the human ear doesn't notice anyway.

    Thy smply rmv ll f th vwls n th txt. Ths wy thy cn gt a hghr cmprssn rt.

    Thnk f t ths wy: Thy cn cmprss t 11. The thr gys cn nly cmprss t 10. S, 11 s bttr thn 10.

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    - For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat /dev/random (may take some time)
    1. Re:Cmprsss txt b rmvng ll vwls by CaffeineAddict2001 · · Score: 4, Funny

      By the sound of my modem it looks like the current compression scheme is to take out all the consonants:

      eieoeaoueoeieoeoauoeoaoeoaoueoaoeuoaaaaaaaaaa

  3. Re:Myth by AdamJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most banner ads

    Boy, I can't wait to download those even faster!

  4. Re:Myth by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "How about by not having the Flash plugin installed?"

    If you're an IE user, you get nagged to death.

    "Would you like to install this piece of software?"

    [NO]

    [Click on a link]

    "Would you like to install this piece of software?"

    [NO]

    [Click on a link]

    "Would you like to install this piece of software?"

    [GUNSHOT]

    That's the nasty thing about auto-installing plugins like ActiveX controls. They always send the request to be installed without any knowledge that they were turned down earlier. I wouldn't blame MS for this either. Back in the dot-com days, web developers thought their audience was incredibly incompetant when it came to using computers. If they didn't have an auto-installer, they wouldn't use it for fear that some wanker couldn't figure out how to hit save and okay a couple of times. Thanks to popular demand, this stupid auto-install feature was born.

    So that's why uninstalling it doesn't fix it.