I'm not really sure why this is so hard to understand. It's as if say, the egg industry said that dozen always means 12, unless you're counting eggs, in which case dozen means 13. And now it's everyone else's fault for asserting that, no, a dozen is always 12, no mater what you're counting.
It's allot older than that. "kilo" is the ancient Greek word for thousand, and it was brought back into modern usage by Antoine Lavoisier and his group in 1795. My guess it that someone sold something like a 4096 byte ram chip, and instead of writing "4096 bytes" on the ad, they wrote "4k bytes" which is close enough. Then someone from a county who thinks *12* and *5280* are good multipliers for units saw it, and assumed that the "k" meant 1024.
I'm not all together sure you understand number bases. All common usage is in base 10, using the numerals 0 through 9. the closest thing to an SI prefix "in powers of two" would be something like 1 kilogram = 1111101110b grams.
If I had it my way, I'd kick out "thousand" and move everything down one. While I'm at it, I would redefine the gram to 1000 times it's present value, and change the SI base unit for mass to the new gram.
And before anyone starts saying 'We need to fix old mistakes', maybe we should bulldoze all Americans (like me) into the ocean so we can fix the old mistake of taking the land from the Native Americans....eh? What's that? Suddenly the idea of leaving old mistakes in the past sounds good...?;)
but that isn't all it takes. colour blind people can't distinguish between colours, so they distinguish between contrasting shades instead. Just like how completely blind people can hear really well, and feel those tiny bumps in braille. (I can't even count them, let alone judge their relative positions)
I don't think there's much selective pressure for much of anything in humans anymore. Strength has been replaced by machines, pathogen resistance has been replaced by medicine, you can even artificially improve your attractiveness to the opposite sex. (or same sex, if you're into that) I think soon (hundreds of years soon, not next week) we will be forced to resort to genetic engineering just to keep from dieing of cancer or something by the time we're a year old.
For a lot of things, that's true, but for a lot of others, not so much. My grade 12 Chem/Biology teacher was telling me about the lab equipment for her classes. The one that stuck in my mind the most was a refill for a urinalysis kit in the biology class. $150 for 12 samples of what was essential fake pee. She found the info on them: water, glucose and artificial colouring in 12 little eye dropper bottles.
And maybe better so, since a whole industry would dissappear almost completely.
Good thing we never invented the automobile, that would have put all those buggy drivers out of business. I can't imagine what would happen if people started making things better. Status Quo is the way to go!
that's about it. even if the only cost was the fiber and stapling it to the poles with a cherry picker, you'd still never turn a profit if buildings were more than a few hundred meters apart. The only reason we have telephone service is because the government made them do it. I wonder if you could streamline the process of buying space on poles and installing cables, and parts could be installed with new construction. it would be much easier for an ISP to run bandwidth to a central location than to each property, and would probably only add a couple thousand to each house. Also, if the homeowner owns (most of?) the last mile, it would be that much easier to switch ISPs.
This is only true for unmodulated carriers. As soon as you start modulating them, the actual frequency at any one time shifts about the center frequency. If using OOK, I think it's center frequency +/- bit rate.
I think wind would be perfect in conjunction with hydro. Hydro is the ultimate load matching source, just open or close the sluice gates. if the wind is blowing hard, you can close it, and maybe even pump some back up. when the wind dies down, let'er rip. In some cases, you might be able to build wind turbines right on the dam.
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I'm not really sure why this is so hard to understand. It's as if say, the egg industry said that dozen always means 12, unless you're counting eggs, in which case dozen means 13. And now it's everyone else's fault for asserting that, no, a dozen is always 12, no mater what you're counting.
This isn't a standard. kilo is the Greek word for thousand. End of story. Or should we redefine "table" to mean "chair" now?
It's allot older than that. "kilo" is the ancient Greek word for thousand, and it was brought back into modern usage by Antoine Lavoisier and his group in 1795. My guess it that someone sold something like a 4096 byte ram chip, and instead of writing "4096 bytes" on the ad, they wrote "4k bytes" which is close enough. Then someone from a county who thinks *12* and *5280* are good multipliers for units saw it, and assumed that the "k" meant 1024.
Do you perchance live in one of the three countries that haven't adopted the metric system of units?
I don't understand. what do 128kbps, 256kbps and 512kbps have to do with binary numbers?
Why is that important?
what base you count in has nothing to do with what numbers you can count to. you can count to any number in any base other than 0 or 1.
that's the thing, we're not talking about base-2. show me the relevant base-2 number.
I'm not all together sure you understand number bases. All common usage is in base 10, using the numerals 0 through 9. the closest thing to an SI prefix "in powers of two" would be something like 1 kilogram = 1111101110b grams.
2^9 + 2^8 + 2^7 + 2^6 + 2^5 + 2^3 + 2^2 + 2^1, or 1111101110b
If I had it my way, I'd kick out "thousand" and move everything down one. While I'm at it, I would redefine the gram to 1000 times it's present value, and change the SI base unit for mass to the new gram.
And before anyone starts saying 'We need to fix old mistakes', maybe we should bulldoze all Americans (like me) into the ocean so we can fix the old mistake of taking the land from the Native Americans....eh? What's that? Suddenly the idea of leaving old mistakes in the past sounds good...? ;)
I think that's a bad example.
One kilobyte (1024 bytes) is 2^10.
kilo always has, and always will mean 1000. it doesn't matter what other crap you put behind it.
One megabyte is 2^100.
2^100 is approximately 1,267,650,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
One gigabyte is 2^1000.
2^1000 is larger than the number of subatomic particles in the universe.
Kilo is 10x10,
10x10 = 100. kilo means 1000, or 10^3
mega s 10x100,
10x100 = 1000. Mega means 1,000,000, or 10^6.
giga is 10x1000.
10x1000 = 10,000. Giga means 1,000,000,000 10^9.
It is simply shifted from a multiplier to a power accommodate the base-2 nature of computers. In fact, the byte itself is 2^3 bits.
This has not always been true. historically, a byte has been anywhere from 6 to 9 bits.
but that isn't all it takes. colour blind people can't distinguish between colours, so they distinguish between contrasting shades instead. Just like how completely blind people can hear really well, and feel those tiny bumps in braille. (I can't even count them, let alone judge their relative positions)
I don't think there's much selective pressure for much of anything in humans anymore. Strength has been replaced by machines, pathogen resistance has been replaced by medicine, you can even artificially improve your attractiveness to the opposite sex. (or same sex, if you're into that) I think soon (hundreds of years soon, not next week) we will be forced to resort to genetic engineering just to keep from dieing of cancer or something by the time we're a year old.
For a lot of things, that's true, but for a lot of others, not so much. My grade 12 Chem/Biology teacher was telling me about the lab equipment for her classes. The one that stuck in my mind the most was a refill for a urinalysis kit in the biology class. $150 for 12 samples of what was essential fake pee. She found the info on them: water, glucose and artificial colouring in 12 little eye dropper bottles.
In the US? He's not missing much.
And maybe better so, since a whole industry would dissappear almost completely.
Good thing we never invented the automobile, that would have put all those buggy drivers out of business. I can't imagine what would happen if people started making things better. Status Quo is the way to go!
didn't the US give their telcos $200 billion to roll out 45Mbit to just about everywhere?
that's about it. even if the only cost was the fiber and stapling it to the poles with a cherry picker, you'd still never turn a profit if buildings were more than a few hundred meters apart. The only reason we have telephone service is because the government made them do it. I wonder if you could streamline the process of buying space on poles and installing cables, and parts could be installed with new construction. it would be much easier for an ISP to run bandwidth to a central location than to each property, and would probably only add a couple thousand to each house. Also, if the homeowner owns (most of?) the last mile, it would be that much easier to switch ISPs.
Is outright lying still false advertising if you correct yourself in the fine print? If not, it should be.
This is only true for unmodulated carriers. As soon as you start modulating them, the actual frequency at any one time shifts about the center frequency. If using OOK, I think it's center frequency +/- bit rate.
I think wind would be perfect in conjunction with hydro. Hydro is the ultimate load matching source, just open or close the sluice gates. if the wind is blowing hard, you can close it, and maybe even pump some back up. when the wind dies down, let'er rip. In some cases, you might be able to build wind turbines right on the dam.
note to self: if I ever get a hamster, make hamster wheel powered battery charger.
Simple solution:
worm intentionally connects to honeypots. millions of users who have never heard of bittorrent are disconnected from the internet. shit connects with fan at relativistic velocities.