Marcel wrote -
"....Tony's talking about kbit/s, I presume you're talking about kbyte/s.
75kb/s is pretty much what can be expected from Tony's DSL upload
bandwidth. ...."
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Sorry Marcel, but from this posting I still do not know whether your
'75kb/s' are kilo-bits or kilo-bytes! ;-)
This [kb-thing] is a very old and well cooked chestnut.
I was relieved a couple of years ago when, from discussions (technical
publications) I came to the conclusion that the consensus was now that:
Kb/s represented kilo bytes per second
and
kb/s represented kilo-bits per second
Now I'm in the dark again. More light please!! Thanks.
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All this has brought to mind again an idea.
Recently I read, cover to cover, a national (educational) text book on IT;
from scratch to 'A' level and I shall not waste time describing the horrors
(contradictions and ambiguity) of the text and of its plentiful 'old'
exam-board questions. It is its glossary that interests me here. [ The
discussion above is quite representative of some of the annotations with
???'s I have pencilled in there.]
What I propose - for our amusement - is that occasionally I quote on *this*
list from one of the short definitions in that glossary. The implication
being that I will be throwing it out (to the dog(s)!) to chew over - if they
like. If there is a dog fight, or a howl, I shall wait (and learn) on the
sidelines. Else; after a decent time I shall throw in another piece of meat
from the same source.
It seems to me that this might benefit all readers - whatever their current
position in the knowledge-stakes. {Remember TV's 'Yes minister'? and "how
do I
know that I need to know..."!?}
You doggies out there might like to give me your comments on this ......
With best wishes to all for 2007
John in Wales
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