Speed now & then (Space and time?)

Dave Wade dave.g4ugm at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 11:33:10 CDT 2018



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> On 29 March 2018 at 21:35, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > MP4s mean that now, not only does it take MUCH longer to create the
> > document, we can now waste MUCH more of the reader's time!
> > I find it very annoying that when GOOGLE'ing to find a simple answer,
> > many of the first hits are YouTube.
> 

Sometimes these are useful, usually not. Some of the slowest and most painful come from the biggest players...
Of course when you want a video, like how to remove the casing from my AirCon because the drain is blocked
-site:youtube.com gets rid of most


> I got a room full of very surprised looks a couple of years ago, interviewing
> for a tech-writer position, when I said that I hated online videos as
> instructions, finding them far too slow and inefficient.
> 
> This concept shocked everyone in the room, AFAICT.
> 
Why, its obvious...
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