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Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown
- From: Stephen Sprunk
- Date: Thu Jan 29 19:40:47 2004
Thus spake "Kevin Loch" <kloch@gurunet.net>
> Nicole wrote:
> > In the past few days our AOL users have been reporting serious problems
>
> Several Brickshelf users have complained about the new "blurry images"
> problem using AOL. I have not heard any reports of broken images or
> upload problems yet.
In the past, some ISPs have used a quality-reduction algorithm on images to
"speed up" dialup users' experience; I assume that's what AOL has adopted.
This reminds me of an old saying, "you can make any computation go faster if
you don't care if it gives the right answer."
S
Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart
CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with
K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
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