-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:02:04AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > Pretty sure. I think what's commonly referred to as a 14.4k modem goes at > 14400bps, and I think 10Mbps Ethernet goes at 10 million (10,000,000)bps. > But I also saw it on that (physics.nist.gov) website quoted earlier, in the > "Historical Context" section.
Actually, usually 19200 for the 14.4k modem, which actually overshoots 14.4kbps(base2) and 14.4kbps(base10). > I'm aware of your history of claiming Oregon isn't part of America. This was > intended as a humourous dig, hence all the [duck]ing. I apologise if no > smiley was inferred from that - or if this is too serious an issue for you > to joke about. Blargh, it's been a long week. Mybad. > To Canada, right? Which last I heard was in North America and hence America. > Just not in the US. Yes, to Canada. Every country I've been in North America uses "American" to describe nouns from the US. > > > > I've never seen anybody use that definition of a megabyte, it's always > > > > been the (incorrect) 1,000,000 bytes or the (correct) 1,048,576 bytes. > > > > > > Never seen a 1.44MB floppy? That's actually 1440kB, or 1440 * 1024 bytes. > > > > I don't count marketroids as people, > > Ah, that reality thing again :-) Yeah, the reality that marketroid opinions don't count. 8:o) > The HDD guys have the excuse that they're following a standard. But a 1.44Mb > floppy is a weird mixture. I don't think they really have any fair claim in saying that, since the "standard" they claim is gratuitously different from the Metric System, which *is* the standard, and everybody not living in the few bananna republics still using the English system agree on that. 8:o) - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3v7YJ5vLSqVpK2kRAoKVAKCAXkfwq8lhEq9W0sv1DBzBwShuugCg5u3S Wkt37sy/MoxNvXenKlfqsG8= =Pyvw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]