# One advantage to an incredibly slow board **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896 "2001-05-09T18:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/21 "2001-05-11T13:33:13Z")
you know how you go to a bookstore, and buy a book because it looks interesting, and then it sits on your bookshelf for years because you’re tired after working all day and would rather watch TV? I’ve been reading those books!! I’m part way through Tribe, “Constitutional Choices,” which I bought, oh, around 1987? Next up: “The Least Dangerous Branch.” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/22 "2001-05-11T13:57:28Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Kat_: > I read all of Nine Princes in Amber and a few chapters of The Guns of Avalon (both by Roger Zelazny) while waiting for forums or threads to load. I usually check the board in the mornings when the MB is fast and read during the lunchtime slowdown. I also read to pass time on the bus to and from work. I’m on book 4 now (The Hand of Oberon). I wonder if anyone ever tried to make a feature film out of the Amber books? Of course, it would have to be animated, or live action with an animated background. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2001, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/23 "2001-05-11T15:25:52Z")
Don’t tell me you guys just click on one link & wait there for it to load… ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/24 "2001-05-12T01:04:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > So whadddaya think of Zelazny? Obviously you don’t dislike him if you went on to book 2, but how does it grab you so far? I think it’s great. I love the characters. Especially Corwin. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/25 "2001-05-12T01:49:36Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* \*\* > [@](#): > > I usually check the board in the mornings when the MB is fast and read during the lunchtime slowdown. I also read to pass time on the bus to and from work. I’m on book 4 now (The Hand of Oberon). I wonder if anyone ever tried to make a feature film out of the Amber books? Of course, it would have to be animated, or live action with an animated background. \*\* It’s been talked about, in the mid-90s. At the time, I thought Jonathan Frakes would be a good Corwin; also Tim Roth as Random. Don’t know how it would go now. Kat: Corwin really grabbed me, reading it for the first time as a depressed seventh-grader. He’s one of those guys who is just “in the room”. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/26 "2001-05-14T15:59:40Z")
It’s probably just as well. The studio would probably want The Rock or someone as Gérard. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/27 "2001-05-15T03:49:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*It’s probably just as well. The studio would probably want The Rock or someone as Gérard. \*\* Hey, I can see The Rock in there somewhere…maybe Benedict…Yeah, Benedict! “He generally does rule, wherever he is. He is simply that sort of man.” ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/28 "2001-05-15T04:37:18Z")
Gah! Benedict doesn’t strike me as a wrestler type, in either build or attitude. I see him as having more of an Eastwood physique. I’ve made it to the end of _Sign of the Unicorn_. ---
**Author:** ![BarBQSauce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@BarBQSauce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarBQSauce)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2001, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/29 "2001-05-15T06:23:02Z")
handy’s right, one should have at least two instances of The Straight Dope Message Board running at all times, to prevent downtime. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2001, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/30 "2001-05-15T12:09:38Z")
I don’t understand how having two SDMB screens open simultaneously would be beneficial. Wouldn’t that mean you’d have **two** screens that were loading slowly? And of course, the enterprise would slow things down even more, since you would be doubling the strain on the server from what you yourself would normally provide. Or am I missing something… ---
**Author:** ![BarBQSauce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@BarBQSauce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarBQSauce)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896/31 "2001-05-15T18:23:12Z")
Just have one ready to read while the other one is loading. I have a dsl connection, and the damn thing still takes upwards of a minute to load. It doesn’t really increase the strain on the servers, it just decreases the amount of time I spend on the boards, cause I’d be loading all of the pages anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-advantage-to-an-incredibly-slow-board/64896.md?page=1)