On your website you use the fact that we require a 1sec response time to be happy, and from this premise conclude that webpages should stay under 100k. I would tend to think that the 1sec response time should only apply to the first screenful. Couldn't you have pages larger than 100k as long as the person could start reading the first screenful in that 1sec window?
With Sun trying to use staroffice's cross-platform capabilities to steal market share from Microsoft, it would make sense for microsoft to try to port office. On the other hand, doing so would cause alot of people to reconsider linux as their primary OS. So, they are either going to lose market share to linux if they do, or market share to staroffice if they don't. I think it all comes down to who they think is a larger threat.
In answer to the original question, to the best of my knowledge I had experienced no symptoms till about a year ago, then after playing starcraft one day I noticed that my wrists were hurting. Now, i experience symptoms on a daily basis, and have been actively trying to find a solution to the problem. I am currently using a goldtouch keyboard(adjustable split kb), but my biggest problems come from the mouse and the arrow keys, and I have yet to find a reliable solution to these problems.
My first desktop replacement was a sager 200mmx. Sager's laptops are cheap in both senses of the word. It was a fairly decent laptop except that I had to replace the battery twice in 2 years, and the FN key went out on it. I just recently replaced it with a dell cpt celeron466. The linux drivers for the inspiron work fine in the laptop, so i had sound and X both working in minutes. One nice feature of this laptop is the presence of both a touchpad and a stick pointer. It still only has 2 mouse buttons, but you'll be hard pressed to find one with 3.
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On your website you use the fact that we require a 1sec response time to be happy, and from this premise conclude that webpages should stay under 100k. I would tend to think that the 1sec response time should only apply to the first screenful. Couldn't you have pages larger than 100k as long as the person could start reading the first screenful in that 1sec window?
With Sun trying to use staroffice's cross-platform capabilities to steal market share from Microsoft, it would make sense for microsoft to try to port office. On the other hand, doing so would cause alot of people to reconsider linux as their primary OS. So, they are either going to lose market share to linux if they do, or market share to staroffice if they don't. I think it all comes down to who they think is a larger threat.
In answer to the original question, to the best of my knowledge I had experienced no symptoms till about a year ago, then after playing starcraft one day I noticed that my wrists were hurting. Now, i experience symptoms on a daily basis, and have been actively trying to find a solution to the problem. I am currently using a goldtouch keyboard(adjustable split kb), but my biggest problems come from the mouse and the arrow keys, and I have yet to find a reliable solution to these problems.
My first desktop replacement was a sager 200mmx. Sager's laptops are cheap in both senses of the word. It was a fairly decent laptop except that I had to replace the battery twice in 2 years, and the FN key went out on it. I just recently replaced it with a dell cpt celeron466. The linux drivers for the inspiron work fine in the laptop, so i had sound and X both working in minutes. One nice feature of this laptop is the presence of both a touchpad and a stick pointer. It still only has 2 mouse buttons, but you'll be hard pressed to find one with 3.