Perhaps you can remember the days of dialup internet connection. I can still remember the very first webpage on Roadrunner. 'Whoa!' I exclaimed. It was fast. Over the last two or three years, internet browsing has become slower and slower. Part of the reason is when you browse to say, CNN, it has to make about 200 server connections for all the different ads and content. For each one of them, my faithful Norton Internet Security Service examines each one of them at a time, making sure there is no malware hidden inside the data or conections.
As you know, Amazon announced a new product line this week of Kindles and the new Fire. Better than any of those, is the browser bundled with the Fire, called Silk. Explaining Silk tells it is called silk for the strength of a single silk thread connecting two points. The idea is that when you browse to CNN using the Silk browser, the Amazon cloud server puts the webpage together for you before transmitting it. Your computer doesn't have 200 connections to all the different servers. Since a lot of people browse to CNN, chances are the page doesn't have to pulled together - it is already cached and can be downloaded fast.
If you like the idea, you can download an alternative browser to Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome, called Opera. Like the Amazon Silk, Opera does much of the web page preparation on their servers and the increased download speed is pretty amazing. Since I use my laptop with either a Wifi or aircard connection frequently, it speeds my mobile browsing substantially. The interface is not as smooth as Firefox, (although I think Firefox took a step backward in their latest release) but it downloads much faster.
You can download Opera from their website. Happy browsing!
Mmm. Maybe there is something else. I found this while researching mercy for my current writing project - Funk legend Sly Stone homeless, but hopeful. This is a guy who had a string of hits including Dance to the Music, Everyday People, and Family Affair, among others. His problem - drugs. He tells of one Christmas having $2500 to spend on his son for gifts. But he spent it all on dope before buying a single gift. Homeless, he now lives out of his van.
It wasn't or isn't that he didn't know better. Once hooked, some people cannot control themselves, even though they know a decision is going to spiral them downward. Recall Apostle Paul's lament, "I do not understand what I do."
I'm not smart enough.
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