Matt Ulman

I think everyone should have to read this bullshit. There’s a pretty good summary here, but a close read probably suffices. Passing network traffic isn’t enough to fully utilize a processor, unless it’s 1989, and there’s no way in hell I want my operating system, let alone my MEDIA PLAYER, deciding when to throttle my network.

(Dave): That’s nothing, you should see how well XP does saving a file via http to a local USB thumb. These sentences took the following number of seconds to show up on my screen after being typed: 300+.

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