<html><body><div dir="ltr">I think Matej is right. Poor connection and small devices remain a reality</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Also just as telephones get more powerful people develop new small devices. I would think that smart watches and whatever else will eventually attract attention by one developer or another. </div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature">Sent from <a href="https://aka.ms/o0ukef">Outlook for iOS</a></div><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container" class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"><hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;"><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>From:</b> sword-devel <sword-devel-bounces@crosswire.org> on behalf of Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 6, 2025 11:07 pm<br><b>To:</b> SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel@crosswire.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [sword-devel] Given today's device capacities, is compression useful?</span><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </div></div>On Tue May 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM CEST, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
<br>> - Nobody is using PDP-11s any more, and we're not struggling to transfer
<br>> data over sloppy, error-prone 56kbps links.
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<br>Except when we do … how is that Internet working in the rural
<br>India? I thought that particularly sword-related applications are
<br>meant to work for missionaries in environment hostile not only
<br>from the legal point of view.
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<br>Best,
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<br>Matěj
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<br>http://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, @mcepl@en.osm.town
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<br>We are told that [St. Anthony] once fell into dejection, finding
<br>uninterrupted contemplation above his strength; but was taught to
<br>apply himself at intervals to manual labour by a vision of an
<br>angel who appeared platting mats of palm-tree leaves, then rising
<br>to pray, and after some time sitting down again to work; and who
<br>at length said to him, “Do thus, and thou shalt be saved.”
<br>-- Life of St. Anthony
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