Any enormous data stream: genomics, crypto, source code, whatever you
want.
But it's a basic rule of communication that things that are difficult to
read are particularly difficult to make use of. We don't need to read
lines of more than 132 characters because we'd never remeber them, or
transcribe them accurately if we did. If you expect your poor bloody
user to actually _do_ something with these, then they need to be in
smaller chunks - our savannah-dwelling, lion-dodging brains just don't
"do" enormous text strings, unless you're Kim Peek.
Below is a large chunk of data. Can you read it? Pleasescroll down
to the end of the post.
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Go here to see it better:
[URL]http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/large_wall.jpg[/URL]
The point is there are legitimate uses of large strings of data, even
if you can't see them. In this case the jpg's data is converted to
something more "readable" by us.
In the case of the original poster, it sounds like he is using a
browser and the Web to show and to transfer data. Showing it can be
done by breaking it into smaller strings as several in this group have
suggested.
Using it is a different story.
Best regards,
Al
http://www.affordablefloridainsurance.com
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