[photo-3d] Re: Download times (was Question for newsletter editors - pdf picture quality)

["Mike Kersenbrock" <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Abram Klooswyk" <abram.klooswyk@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Mike Kersenbrock  wrote:
> 
> (...)
> > Start it at night and go to bed, or do it in
> > morning and go to work, or do it on Saturday afternoon and go 
watch
> > (or play) Football.  Etc.  Pain-free!  Even with a slug slow line!
> 
> So you don't have telephone rates?  Here we have :-(

Yes we've telephone rates.  But my 768K (download rate) line
costs me 32 dollars/month whether I use it 24-hours/day every
day or don't use it at all.  Actually, DSL is usually set up
to be "on-line" permanently (I can ftp *to* my home's firewall
machine when I'm elsewhere at any time).  Regardless, for 
metro-area phone calls I'm not charged per-minute either, 
it's a fixed rate per month.

That said, I didn't say that one could get something for free,
just that one can get large files w/o the human waiting part of
it.  If I recall correctly, I responded to complaints about it
taking too long -- I thought it was about the waiting, but instead
it was the cost.  If it's the cost, then the pdf vs html "debate"
changes radically as well.  The HTML way then becomes tremendously
more expensive because it's for "interactive" viewing, and the
connect time would go up radically, while a PDF download method
cuts connect time by making the information transfer 'batch-mode'. 

Or are you charged by the number of bytes transferred?

Mike K.



> 
> Abram Klooswyk