On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:20:24 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>Big Bill wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:30:20 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Borek wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:25:30 +0200, Roy Schestowitz
>>>> <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If anything, pages written in XHTML will sometimes be larger, which
>>>>> slows down crawling (by 1%?). *grin*
>>>>
>>>> In fact most of the pages are NEVER optimized for size. Google uses
>>>> one-letter names in their styles to cut on the traffic, but then the
>>>> text is formatted using <font color=#008000> tags :) That's abuse of
>>>> resources.
>>>>
>>>> Same happens throughout the web. Probably many services will be able to
>>>> cut the traffic in half (and cut on the traffic costs) just by clever
>>>> HTML coding.
>>>
>>>It was you who mentioned the poor code in Webmasterworld. I took a look
>>>and it turned out that you (or your friend) were right.
>>>
>>>As for optimisation, with better machines and more bandwidth available all
>>>the time (Moore's law), programmers become more resource-greedy. Spilling
>>>memory, converting operating systems like OS X and Windows into resource
>>>pigs and writing ugly HTML code -- all becomes a norm.
>>>
>>>I have a pile of 20 or so Pentium 3's with 256 MB RAM in my office.
>>>Apparently they are no longer good enough for users who run a word
>>>processors and send jobs to the printer. Like people who commit suicide,
>>>killing bodies that had nothing wrong with them to begin with, excellent
>>>machines are tossed aside because nasty operating systems (which equate to
>>>psychological issues) were installed within.
>>>
>>>Roy
>>
>> Cluster them, Roy. Make'em work for a living!
>
>Doing what exactly? I don't lack computer power, yet. I already have SHH
>access to potentially 4 clusters. 30+ Pentium 4's are the most I have ever
>used at one given time in order to run vision experiments.
>
>The only limitation is a cluttered desktop (
>http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/04/16/congested-workspace/ )
>
>Roy
Geez. I thought 3D-TOP was complicated.
BB
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