Thanks, Bill. Now it's somewhat less than a mishmash for me. I had thought that the new binary prefixes applied to data in a file as well as in memory. Perhaps that is a common misconception I fell victim to.
Bill, if you had the chance, would you like to be on the next U.S. Metric Board? ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Potts To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: 09 August, 2009 22:28 Subject: [USMA:45569] RE: high-speed vs. dial-up on listserver Paul: Although, because of its binary structure, memory is properly measured in kibibytes, mebibytes, and gibibytes, files are normally measured in kilobytes and megabytes. Transmission speeds are measured in kbit/s, Mbit/s, and Gbit/s. The situation regarding disk drive capacity has historically been something of a mishmash. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Potts, FBCS WFP Consulting Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Trusten Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 18:16 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:45566] high-speed vs. dial-up on listserver A few years ago, some of our subscribers compained about others posting to the list with large files attached (i.e., more than 500 KiB to 1 MiB), because these files could not be downloaded in a reasonable time with a dial-up connection. A question for all subscribers: do you still use a dial-up connection to access the Internet? If yes, please say so. Thanks, Paul Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Blvd. Apt. 122 Midland, Texas 79707-2872 US +1(432)528-7724 [email protected]
