[LAU] usb soundcard w 2 mic in

[Ken Restivo]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:28:40PM +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
> 2011/7/14 Gwenhwyfaer <gwenhwyfaer at gmail.com>:
> > On 14/07/2011, Emanuel Rumpf <xbran at web.de> wrote:
> >>> Cuz you're using their bandwidth for your site's benefit.
> >>>
> >> Do you actually think those few bytes matter these days ?
> >
> > Yes. When you use a large image and tell the browser to resize it, you
> > use up my bandwidth to download it, the vendor's bandwidth to serve
> > it, and my memory to decompress it. That may well make Firefox fall
> > over with an out of memory error. You are screwing everyone else
> > because you can't be bothered to do the right thing. If you don't
> > think that's rude, there's precious little hope for you.
> >
> 
> The objection I've heard so far is "I'd be rude".
> You are the first one to actually explain the reason for that claim. So thanks.
> Pages as myspace a.o. have been doing the same, but
> I have to very much agree, loading that many large images (at once) is a bad
> thing and likely I would have added thumbnails anyway.
> Not "likely", because I'd think it's wrong, but "likely", because
> time and work is involved.
> 
> The strange thing is:
> I took a lot of time gathering the links, images, etc...
> Now: Instead of going ahead and improving the page themself,
> for example by adding thumbnails, some are
> simply complaining.
> 

The default answer usually is:
	"It's a WIKI. If you want to improve it, go right ahead".

-ken