Thanks, Schoun, Bill, for your input. I always need to put the abstract into a concrete setting. I have already looked up the site and even signed up for the e-learning guru newsletter. What a wealth of opportunity! Thanks, Marta On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 10:28 America/New_York, Schoun Regan wrote:
> Marta, > Might I suggest doing a search on the Internet for some of these > questions > as there is an awesome amount of good info out there about this and it > might > be a little less technical (better for you) than what my geek-speak > brain > may spew out. > A basic Google search for your questions turned up: > > http://www.e-learningguru.com/articles/art1_6.htm > > "In 1 megabyte of space you can store about 1 million characters or > approximately 500 typed pages." > > If you do just a little math, then a 700 megabyte CD can hold roughly > 500x700 pages. > Schoun > >> From: Marta Edie <mledie at insightbb.com> >> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:50:49 -0400 >> To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Subject: Re: MacGroup: speed test >> >> Before any of you give me a lesson in math of how man kilobytes go >> into a megabyte, I meant my question to deal with the amount of >> written pages that might be sent , like for instance : how many >> megabytes it would take for the last Harry Potter book to be >> transmitted. I can't envision in my imagination how many written >> pages >> a file a megabyte large might contain. >> Marta >> On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 23:54 America/New_York, Schoun Regan >> wrote: >> Marta >>> Two tonight for me! >>> >>> http://www.cable-modem.net/features/oct99/speed.html >>> >>> http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ >>> >>> WhooHOO! >>> >>> Schoun >>> >>> >>>> From: Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harryjb at bellsouth.net> >>>> Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>>> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:32:52 -0400 >>>> To: Macusergroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >>>> Subject: Re: MacGroup: speed test >>>> >>>>> Anyone know of a reliable way to test the download speed of my >>>>> cable >>>>> modem? I'm getting frustrated, because I forked over the Big Money >>>>> ($14) >>>>> to watch baseball games over the internet from mlb.com, and the >>>>> games get >>>>> more and more choppy every night as it get later. >>>>> >>>>> I'm trying to pin down the problem as being the servers from mlb or >>>>> the >>>>> cable modem. Lee - do you have this same stuttering problem round >>>>> about >>>>> 9pm? >>>>> >>>>> Bill >>> >>> >>> >>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >>> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >>> >>> >> Marta >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
