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* It's the norm for ISPs in Damien's region to impose transfer caps on users of their already poor connections. He wants to have another look at something he first saw online a couple of days ago and that he can't seem to commit to memory. He doesn't want to incur the costs of navigating to that page for a third or fourth time, but he didn't have the foresight to leave the page loaded in his browser. | * It's the norm for ISPs in Damien's region to impose transfer caps on users of their already poor connections. He wants to have another look at something he first saw online a couple of days ago and that he can't seem to commit to memory. He doesn't want to incur the costs of navigating to that page for a third or fourth time, but he didn't have the foresight to leave the page loaded in his browser. | ||
* Hogarth is a developer whose contributions include work on a web browser. He has recently read a blog post from someone explaining that, after the post's author switched several years ago away from the browser Hogarth works on, she's now switching back to it. She says that she originally switched away because the other browser was faster than browser produced by the project that Hogarth | * Hogarth is a developer whose contributions include work on a web browser. He has recently read a blog post from someone explaining that, after the post's author switched several years ago away from the browser Hogarth works on, she's now switching back to it. She says that she originally switched away because the other browser was faster than browser produced by the project that Hogarth is a part of, but now it's his project's browser that's the fast one. Happy as he is, Hogarth is suspicious. He knows there are a lot of variables that affect the perception of performance on the Web: on average, web sites are heavier today than they were half a decade ago, the blog author has probably been through a machine (and system) upgrade or two in that time, and her browsing patterns and content interests have probably changed as well. In the interests of intellectual honesty, Hogarth would like to do some uniform experiments with real-world data to figure out if her given reasoning is well-founded or not. | ||
* Ashley just wants all the content he bookmarks (or simply accesses) to be always available to him, without being frustrated months or years from now by 404s, service shutdowns, and web spiders stretched too thin and that allow his favored content to slip through the cracks of their archiving efforts. | * Ashley just wants all the content he bookmarks (or simply accesses) to be always available to him, without being frustrated months or years from now by 404s, service shutdowns, and web spiders stretched too thin and that allow his favored content to slip through the cracks of their archiving efforts. | ||