Re: The Rapture Is Here: Paul Thurrott Likes Macs

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:41:58 -0500, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <g17qr1l1akvueg250b27tdlhn17b89unqd@xxxxxxx>, foo@xxxxxxx
>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:51:39 -0500, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >> >I still think this a pretty silly test. As I said in the other thread,
>> >> >loading 18 tabs at once is not something most people do much.
>> >>
>> >> Why not? I can't imagine manually going to links via favorites - how
>> >> tiresome. And the wait, too - why, if you can avoid it?
>> >
>> >Yeah, sure, but you *maybe* do the 'load 18 tabs' thing once, at the
>> >beginning of a browsing sessions where you want to check up on your
>> >favorites. Sometimes you don't, because you opened the browser to search
>> >for something, not check up on your favorites. And anyway, after that
>> >initial load, you're mostly following links, one at a time.
>> >
>> >Honestly, though, even in that situation, loading 18 tabs at once is
>> >slightly crazy. The sane way to follow new stuff on 18 sites is with RSS
>> >feeds, which most of the sites in your set have.
>>
>> Why is it crazy? It's a simple way to load the sites I want to read.
>
>Because there are much more effective ways to follow a large number of
>webs sites, these days, than loading them all at once in a browser.

Maybe if you have a slow computer, you're right. On a PC, though, no
hanging, no skippies. So why change what works?
.

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