1) there exists a Hell
2) the guilty are sent there
3) Dante Alighieri's depiction of it is accurate
then yours truly might be placed in the Fourth Circle, eternal home of the Hoarders and the Wasters. Why, you might ask if you cared (which is admittedly not likely but then this blog has no readers anyway)? Well, because I am a fanatical RAM-hoarder.
Random-Access-Memory, a computer's rough equivalent to human short-term-memory, is for me something there can never be too much of. But it must rarely be used. I find it extremely comforting to know that at any given moment, I use no more than forty percent of my computer's given amount of RAM, and to cross that Styx of a threshold is for me a one-way ticket to computing Hell, population: the entire internet. This behavior would, ironically, whisk me off to computing Hell on its own, had Dante been a Jolt-inhaling Digg troll and not a love-denied and large-nosed Tuscan.
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I do have a thesis here:
Untouched, Firefox is faster and less RAM-sucking than other browsers on my MacBook Air. However, the best part of FF being its adaptability and customizability, the moment one begins to bombard it with tweaks, add-ons, plugins, and upgrades, it fattens from lithe and nimble Velociraptor to lumbering and long-necked Apatosaur.
Safari, I have discovered is faster. It does not have addons aplenty, but it allows me to hoard my precious RAM while rubbing my palms together, a Mr. Burns-like "Excellent" flowing from my lips. This latter thing is more important.
End transmission.
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