On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 08:04 PM, Glenn Glazer wrote:
It equally irritates me when people assume that the disadvantages they have are ones everyone else has and that the tail of the lowest common denominator should wag the dog.
Amen, brother!!? ? One should presume what most people in most locations have.? ?Internet service through most of the world is, like anything supplied to a huge number of people, a normal distribution.? Assuming that the two tails of a normal distribution, those who have ultra high speed fiber optic internet service and those who have slow dial up, represent something that is within normal limits is inane.
One presumes to the median and one standard deviation to either side if you have any interest in what "most people" are dealing with, 68%, to be precise.? If one extends that to 1.5 standard deviations you're covering about over 90% of the total range of circumstances.
While I feel sorry for those who have to deal with dial-up or dial-up level speeds, they are not what anyone should be using as the target demographic for general practice, and haven't been for a very long time now.? ?If you treat those with the worst internet service as the ones who should be catered to then virtually everything most of the world has been doing with the worldwide web for decades now would not exist.? ?Sorry, but no.
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Brian
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