Have you ever noticed that, when working on a slow computer,
your patience is ever so slightly shorter than the period of time it takes for
the computer to complete whatever task you have asked of it? For example, when
a page is loading, and some of the page appears, including, say, the next
button or link that you want to press, but you know it is not ready for you to
move on yet as the rest of the page is still loading and the little cursor has
not turned into the righteous hand of advancement, but you decide to click
anyway, just as the page loads something else, everything moves, and you end up
opening an advert for a car or a video featuring a llama kicking a small child,
instead of the page you actually wanted. Then of course it starts to load the
wrong page in an equally time-consuming fashion, forcing you to sit grimacing
until it completes before you click on the back button, starting the whole
process over again. Or worse still, you get impatient on the wrong page and the
same thing happens, starting a never ending game of chinese e-whispers, where
you end up on something totally unrelated to your original target page, as your
computer wastes all of its valuable processing power loading a sequence of
irrelevant documents.
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