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Speed. Whether you are speeding down the Motorway, or running around a track- we crave it. The same can be said about Internet connection speed. Will there ever be a time when we get comments like, "This connection is so slow, it almost took a nanosecond to download a movie." Scary, yet the time will come.
Something about the need gets us excited, well, unless you have motion sickness, in which case you will hate it, but it's normally down to adrenaline. It pumps through our blood at the mere mention of Speed, and we crave it. I always get butterfly's in my stomach when I am going on a fast rollercoaster, not because I'm scared, and it's not because I have motion sickness, but because I know that when the wind passes through my hair as I am nipping along a track, I will enjoy it more than anything. This brings back to the Internet. If speed wasn't needed, then why do we get faster connections, faster modems, and the introduction of Broadband? We need speed. If speed never existed, how would we get things done in time? Would life as we know it change? Well, Internet time would anyway. How long does it take for the average SR page to load on a 56K modem? Roughly 3-4 seconds. And what about broadband? Almost instantly. So you see, speed allows us to view things much quicker, and by the time around 10 pages have loaded, the Broadband connection is already 30 to 40 seconds ahead.
Speed can also be applied to computer games. It can be mentioned in the sense of how long the game takes to develop, how quickly it runs, how long you take to finish it and how long it sits on your shelf after you have completed it. Speed is a necessity of a developer. Without speed, how can a game developer make the game in time for the release date they promised? They can't always, which is why games are pushed back until they are ready. If speed came in a bottle, would we drink it all the time? I know I would, as it would allow me to get home from school earlier, gaining me precious minutes on my console or on the Internet.
Looking at today's world, we see people rushing around trying to get jobs done, or trying to get something downloaded of off the Internet, and for some reason, people believe that if they were faster, they won't have to rush around. Wrong. All it means is that if people are faster, they want to get more jobs done, which will still make them rush around. Again, this can be applied to the Internet. As I said earlier, we crave Internet speed, well, I do anyway, but if we were granted a faster connection that Broadband, it would allow us to download files quicker, but we would be tempted to try and download more files per second, which will again make the connection slower. There is no way around this problem, well, there is, but not many people realize it. In a world that moves faster than we do, we never stop for a minute and see the world at a slower rate, because we don't have time. If we were to slow down, or not download so many things per hour, maybe we would get a little faster. So, the key to going faster is to slow down. Possibly, but how fast can we go? How fast can we travel before we get tired, or how fast can connections get before we can get no faster. Only time can tell…
Something about the need gets us excited, well, unless you have motion sickness, in which case you will hate it, but it's normally down to adrenaline. It pumps through our blood at the mere mention of Speed, and we crave it. I always get butterfly's in my stomach when I am going on a fast rollercoaster, not because I'm scared, and it's not because I have motion sickness, but because I know that when the wind passes through my hair as I am nipping along a track, I will enjoy it more than anything. This brings back to the Internet. If speed wasn't needed, then why do we get faster connections, faster modems, and the introduction of Broadband? We need speed. If speed never existed, how would we get things done in time? Would life as we know it change? Well, Internet time would anyway. How long does it take for the average SR page to load on a 56K modem? Roughly 3-4 seconds. And what about broadband? Almost instantly. So you see, speed allows us to view things much quicker, and by the time around 10 pages have loaded, the Broadband connection is already 30 to 40 seconds ahead.
Speed can also be applied to computer games. It can be mentioned in the sense of how long the game takes to develop, how quickly it runs, how long you take to finish it and how long it sits on your shelf after you have completed it. Speed is a necessity of a developer. Without speed, how can a game developer make the game in time for the release date they promised? They can't always, which is why games are pushed back until they are ready. If speed came in a bottle, would we drink it all the time? I know I would, as it would allow me to get home from school earlier, gaining me precious minutes on my console or on the Internet.
Looking at today's world, we see people rushing around trying to get jobs done, or trying to get something downloaded of off the Internet, and for some reason, people believe that if they were faster, they won't have to rush around. Wrong. All it means is that if people are faster, they want to get more jobs done, which will still make them rush around. Again, this can be applied to the Internet. As I said earlier, we crave Internet speed, well, I do anyway, but if we were granted a faster connection that Broadband, it would allow us to download files quicker, but we would be tempted to try and download more files per second, which will again make the connection slower. There is no way around this problem, well, there is, but not many people realize it. In a world that moves faster than we do, we never stop for a minute and see the world at a slower rate, because we don't have time. If we were to slow down, or not download so many things per hour, maybe we would get a little faster. So, the key to going faster is to slow down. Possibly, but how fast can we go? How fast can we travel before we get tired, or how fast can connections get before we can get no faster. Only time can tell…
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Thanks Quinty, but why did you have to say my Surname damnit! :)
Thanks Ryu Ken, but the reason I posted in both Prime and Chat is because hardly anyone reads my topics. I don't believe it is against the rules to cross-post, I have seen a number of people do it, but if people get annoyed by it, I will gladly stop it.
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Shut up Ryu Ken, he can do what he likes. You've been here one day, your already telling people what to do?
Anyway, sorry Lloydy but this guy is an egghead. Good post, well written.
Anyway, sorry Lloydy but this guy is an egghead. Good post, well written.
"Speed. Whether you are speeding down the Motorway, or running around a track- we crave it. The same can be said about Internet connection speed. Will there ever be a time when we get comments like, "This connection is so slow, it almost took a nanosecond to download a movie." Scary, yet the time will come."
I have to laugh out loud at that, as I'm downloading Jason X at almost 100kb/sec and I can still load a web page in a second :P
Anyway, interesting topic, good luck on a game, but did you really have to post it in both Prime and Chat? I wouldn't think that the ammount of web page views accounts to anything, but the actual quality of the post, if that's what you're thinking. If the staff choose a topic on number of replies, that's a crooked system.
Sorry to go on, but that's a bit of cheating, isn't it? (getting twice as much attention as possible?) :P
Anyway, great topic, keep it up!
Ryu.
I have to laugh out loud at that, as I'm downloading Jason X at almost 100kb/sec and I can still load a web page in a second :P
Anyway, interesting topic, good luck on a game, but did you really have to post it in both Prime and Chat? I wouldn't think that the ammount of web page views accounts to anything, but the actual quality of the post, if that's what you're thinking. If the staff choose a topic on number of replies, that's a crooked system.
Sorry to go on, but that's a bit of cheating, isn't it? (getting twice as much attention as possible?) :P
Anyway, great topic, keep it up!
Ryu.
Speed. Whether you are speeding down the Motorway, or running around a track- we crave it. The same can be said about Internet connection speed. Will there ever be a time when we get comments like, "This connection is so slow, it almost took a nanosecond to download a movie." Scary, yet the time will come.
Something about the need gets us excited, well, unless you have motion sickness, in which case you will hate it, but it's normally down to adrenaline. It pumps through our blood at the mere mention of Speed, and we crave it. I always get butterfly's in my stomach when I am going on a fast rollercoaster, not because I'm scared, and it's not because I have motion sickness, but because I know that when the wind passes through my hair as I am nipping along a track, I will enjoy it more than anything. This brings back to the Internet. If speed wasn't needed, then why do we get faster connections, faster modems, and the introduction of Broadband? We need speed. If speed never existed, how would we get things done in time? Would life as we know it change? Well, Internet time would anyway. How long does it take for the average SR page to load on a 56K modem? Roughly 3-4 seconds. And what about broadband? Almost instantly. So you see, speed allows us to view things much quicker, and by the time around 10 pages have loaded, the Broadband connection is already 30 to 40 seconds ahead.
Speed can also be applied to computer games. It can be mentioned in the sense of how long the game takes to develop, how quickly it runs, how long you take to finish it and how long it sits on your shelf after you have completed it. Speed is a necessity of a developer. Without speed, how can a game developer make the game in time for the release date they promised? They can't always, which is why games are pushed back until they are ready. If speed came in a bottle, would we drink it all the time? I know I would, as it would allow me to get home from school earlier, gaining me precious minutes on my console or on the Internet.
Looking at today's world, we see people rushing around trying to get jobs done, or trying to get something downloaded of off the Internet, and for some reason, people believe that if they were faster, they won't have to rush around. Wrong. All it means is that if people are faster, they want to get more jobs done, which will still make them rush around. Again, this can be applied to the Internet. As I said earlier, we crave Internet speed, well, I do anyway, but if we were granted a faster connection that Broadband, it would allow us to download files quicker, but we would be tempted to try and download more files per second, which will again make the connection slower. There is no way around this problem, well, there is, but not many people realize it. In a world that moves faster than we do, we never stop for a minute and see the world at a slower rate, because we don't have time. If we were to slow down, or not download so many things per hour, maybe we would get a little faster. So, the key to going faster is to slow down. Possibly, but how fast can we go? How fast can we travel before we get tired, or how fast can connections get before we can get no faster. Only time can tell…
Something about the need gets us excited, well, unless you have motion sickness, in which case you will hate it, but it's normally down to adrenaline. It pumps through our blood at the mere mention of Speed, and we crave it. I always get butterfly's in my stomach when I am going on a fast rollercoaster, not because I'm scared, and it's not because I have motion sickness, but because I know that when the wind passes through my hair as I am nipping along a track, I will enjoy it more than anything. This brings back to the Internet. If speed wasn't needed, then why do we get faster connections, faster modems, and the introduction of Broadband? We need speed. If speed never existed, how would we get things done in time? Would life as we know it change? Well, Internet time would anyway. How long does it take for the average SR page to load on a 56K modem? Roughly 3-4 seconds. And what about broadband? Almost instantly. So you see, speed allows us to view things much quicker, and by the time around 10 pages have loaded, the Broadband connection is already 30 to 40 seconds ahead.
Speed can also be applied to computer games. It can be mentioned in the sense of how long the game takes to develop, how quickly it runs, how long you take to finish it and how long it sits on your shelf after you have completed it. Speed is a necessity of a developer. Without speed, how can a game developer make the game in time for the release date they promised? They can't always, which is why games are pushed back until they are ready. If speed came in a bottle, would we drink it all the time? I know I would, as it would allow me to get home from school earlier, gaining me precious minutes on my console or on the Internet.
Looking at today's world, we see people rushing around trying to get jobs done, or trying to get something downloaded of off the Internet, and for some reason, people believe that if they were faster, they won't have to rush around. Wrong. All it means is that if people are faster, they want to get more jobs done, which will still make them rush around. Again, this can be applied to the Internet. As I said earlier, we crave Internet speed, well, I do anyway, but if we were granted a faster connection that Broadband, it would allow us to download files quicker, but we would be tempted to try and download more files per second, which will again make the connection slower. There is no way around this problem, well, there is, but not many people realize it. In a world that moves faster than we do, we never stop for a minute and see the world at a slower rate, because we don't have time. If we were to slow down, or not download so many things per hour, maybe we would get a little faster. So, the key to going faster is to slow down. Possibly, but how fast can we go? How fast can we travel before we get tired, or how fast can connections get before we can get no faster. Only time can tell…
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