Re: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format

[BrianG <me@null.email>]

On 05/03/2012 07:25 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Jerrid Kimball"<jerrid@kimball.co>  wrote in message
> news:jnu7u0$16o$1@munin.nbi.dk...
>> On 04/30/2012 10:19 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> ...
>>   Today's web looks a lot different than it did in 1995 and there's a point
>> where you just have to say fuck it and leave those old devices in their
>> own filth.
>
> Yeah, most sites are hardly useable unless you allow them to show you
> malware-laden ads and run god-knows-what on your computer. It's all change
> for the sake of change; there's no benefit to most of it, and it wastes
> everyone's time -- they could have been building something useful to
> humanity, but instead they're fiddling with colors and fonts.

Many times this doesn't waste just people's time.  It also wastes CPU 
time.  I'm writing this on a a 10", single core, 900MHz netbook.  On 
many 'modern' web pages, it runs at 100% CPU speed, 90-100% CPU load - 
after the page has been fully loaded (this is usually from ads added to 
pay for the 'free' site, but comes from developers not paying attention 
to these issues - and is often unnecessary).  Otherwise (e.g. on 
'lesser' web pages), it runs at 12.5% CPU speed, <10% CPU load.  That's 
a big impact on battery life, other tasks running, and possibly 
heat/cooling.

Yeah, my computer is old, but its specs are very similar to many of 
those 'non-traditional' web browsing devices being used now (smart 
phones, tablets, etc.).  Even as those devices start upping their CPUs 
and cores, there'll be new 'lower-end' device types coming along.

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