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Today's bloat is latency.

Microsoft Word takes so long to echo the characters I type I can't stand to use it. I'd like to use Adobe's Dreamweaver but it's about as responsive as someone who smoked all the joints Bob Marley sings about at the same time.

I have been thinking about making a Chaplinesque video skit about a carpenter using a hammer that returns the impact from 4 to 6 seconds (unpredictably) after the nail to show what it feels like.

Of course your carpenter would also be required to cope with regular updates of his hammer, even when he was using it?