11 Apr
2018
11 Apr
'18
9:33 a.m.
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Liam Proven via
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Sent: 11 April 2018 16:36
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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Subject: Re: Speed now & then (Space and time?)
On 29 March 2018 at 21:35, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
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
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.
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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