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HagwonKanobi77
Joined: 16 Oct 2010
Location: Gwangju, South Korea
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 Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:28 am Post subject: Why Is Google Slow? |
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| I've noticed Google has been really slow lately. It could be my internet--I live in Gwangju and I get my service through KCTV, which includes Cable. Has anyone else noticed this? Anyone else use KCTV? It might be their problem too. Thanks--in advance to those who may be of help. Oh and has Google been slow in the U.S.? |
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AlastairKirby
Joined: 29 Aug 2011
Location: UK
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AlastairKirby
Joined: 29 Aug 2011
Location: UK
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, forgot to type.
Just joking. Seriously. Korean internet is great but sometimes there will be high usage and slowdown. Dave's used to be amazingly slow when I was in Korea.
Are you using it at home or at school? Google was always slow when I used it at school. |
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pegasus64128
Joined: 20 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk |
He has a good attitude but it's a bit of an over-simplification.
If it wasn't for Howard Hughes, a corrupt elite would have always been traveling around the world on your back. You wouldn't have had the benefit of flight. If it wasn't for Steve Jobs, you wouldn't have a personal computer, or a smart phone most probably. The elites never planned for you to have those either. It's not that there isn't good new technology now, it's that it's mostly used against people (as the elites originally planned) these days rather than to help the people who fund it. The elites didn't particularly like you having the internet either. They eventually get into the market and use these tools to their own end but that wasn't plan A. Who remembers when the internet was devoid of advertising of any kind, and creative minds gave us Amazon and Napster later? I do.
Even something as simple as FTP was great. It was slower, less capable, but better in my opinion because it wasn't riddled with regular programming. Now, it's not unlike TV, and a pizza delivery hot-line for slobs. While once decentralized and full of jobs for web developers and engineers, it's now become centralized and has far fewer jobs than before. For me, the really important people in this arena are the people who got it out to the masses, not the pioneers. The pioneers (Ken Thompson, Dennis Richie etc. ) would be nothing more than minions if their work was kept out of the hands of the people who ultimately funded them - the public. People like Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Linus Thorvalds are the great people of the story as they prevented the parasites from exploiting the technology and instead found a way to get it into the hands of ordinary people, and helped develop a more decentralized infrastructure for that to happen.
Anyway, long story short. If I'm on a plane and my internet cuts out and the guy next to me sighs and says it's crap, I sigh back and say "I know" but I think "It would have been better if it was in the right hands".
And Google are crap btw, there's a reason those parasites were loathed by Jobs. Google used to be decent before they floated. Apple are no better really. Once a company floats on the stock market, they become a joke in the end.
I like Louie CK's attitude but it's not as simple as that. Technology is a bit crap these days because it's not for the people anymore. And that's the way it feels. There's a reason Asia hasn't really moved away from Windows XP - because Microsoft have become a joke, and like Google, they cannot be trusted. |
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