 DrModemPremium
join:2006-10-19
USA
kudos:1 | Just to add to the measurement-by-activity fun * Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email);
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or
* Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie).
* Play 2,880 hours of games online! (at 15kb/s)
* Pirate 41 DVDs! (at 6GB/DVD)
* Pirate 10 BluRay Movies! (at 25gb/BluRay Movie)
* Download 71 Linux distos! (at 3.5gb/Distro)
* Download 1,000 WoW Patches! (at 250mb/Patch) |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by DrModem: Play 2,880 hours of games online! (at 15kb/s) Ok I know you are being sarcastic but you do realize that there are only a maximum of 720 hours in a 30 day month. |
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DrModemPremium
join:2006-10-19
USA
kudos:1 | said by BF69:said by DrModem: Play 2,880 hours of games online! (at 15kb/s) Ok I know you are being sarcastic but you do realize that there are only a maximum of 720 hours in a 30 day month. Yes. But it takes 2,880 playing hours @ 15kb/s to eat up 250GB. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by DrModem:said by BF69:said by DrModem: Play 2,880 hours of games online! (at 15kb/s) Ok I know you are being sarcastic but you do realize that there are only a maximum of 720 hours in a 30 day month. Yes. But it takes 2,880 playing hours @ 15kb/s to eat up 250GB. OK which online gaming service only uses 15 Kbps? You can even use a dail-up conection on xbox live or playstation network and dial-up is 53.3 Kbps |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5
 ·Frontier FiOS
| Sigh. I wish people would learn to use the appropriate capitalization when state speeds...
kb = kilobit
kB = kilobyte
Kb = Kelvin bit (doesn't make sense so shouldn't be used)
KB = Kelvin byte (doesn't make sense so shouldn't be used)
If you want to remove all ambiguity for those that slept through middle school science, just say kilobyte or kilobit. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
1 edit | said by cdru:Sigh. I wish people would learn to use the appropriate capitalization when state speeds... kb = kilobit kB = kilobyte Kb = Kelvin bit (doesn't make sense so shouldn't be used) KB = Kelvin byte (doesn't make sense so shouldn't be used) If you want to remove all ambiguity for those that slept through middle school science, just say kilobyte or kilobit. Listen Eisntien it's pretty simple. When someone states Kbps or kbps even a retarded monkey can get the gist that one is referring to kilobits per second. Now I assume when one states KBps they are referring to kilobytes, that's the only issue. Sorry if it's too complicated for you. Try being less anal. The K is not important in whether or not it is capitalized, it's the B that is important. No one here sees a capital K and thinks "Oh why is he talking about Kelvin?". Well only guys here who can translate these posts into Klingon.
Do you feel superior now correcting me over a fricken K vs k? Do you think you scored points with people? Do you think people are impressed? Is your self worth that low that yur post was even necessary to inflate your ego? because that would be the oNLY reason for you psot. Your post added NOTHING to the discussion. It's only purpose was to state "Gosh you peole are so stupid with your upper case Ks. Didn't you pass middle school science?"
So get teh f out of her with your "I'm smarter than the rest of you attidue" because I can assure you if you want to get into some dick measuring contest except measuing IQs I'm pretty confident you would fair worse than you think. |
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said by cdru:Sigh. I wish people would learn to use the appropriate capitalization when state speeds... kb = kilobit kB = kilobyte Kb = Kelvin bit (doesn't make sense so shouldn't be used) KB = Kelvin byte (doesn't make sense so shouldn't be used) If you want to remove all ambiguity for those that slept through middle school science, just say kilobyte or kilobit.  Why do people feel the need to type in their physical expression? :Sigh: :Groan: :Moan:
Silly.
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cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5 Reviews:
·Frontier FiOS
| said by LeftOfSanity: Why do people feel the need to type in their physical expression? :Sigh: :Groan: :Moan: Silly. Because you can't hear be do those things when I type? :Shrug:
Why do people feel the need to use smileys?  |
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cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:5 Reviews:
·Frontier FiOS
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said by BF69:Listen Eisntien it's pretty simple. When someone states Kbps or kbps even a retarded monkey can get the gist that one is referring to kilobits per second...blah blah blah Someone obviously got up on the wrong side of the bed. Take it easy. "You" wasn't originally directed directly at you, but people in general. The meaning usually can be inferred from the usage.
However in this direct thread it could actually go either way. A game could be using 15 kilobits per second, or it could be using 15 kilobytes per second. The former, easily serviceable by a dialup connection but the latter not so much so.
In fact, specifically to this thread it's "obvious" DrModem  was NOT meaning kilobits. Do a little math...
15 kilobits per second * 60 seconds in a minute * 60 minutes in a hour * 2880 hours = 18.5 gigabytes
15 kilobytes per second * 60 seconds in a minute * 60 minutes in a hour * 2880 hours = 148.3 gigabytes
Neither value really uses up the entire 250 gigabyte cap. To do that it would either take a little over 25 kilobytes per second for 2880 hours or 4854+ hours at 15 kilobytes per second. So instead of trying to flame me, yelling at me for something that was never intended to be critical (in a negative way) of you or anyone else (but if you took it that way I apologize), you directly proved my point why it's good to use the proper abbreviations to remove any confusion. |
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most games i play eat up atleast 500 kb/s.... atleast that's what my meter says. |
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 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to cdru
said by cdru:Sigh. I wish people would learn to use the appropriate capitalization when state speeds... kb = kilobit kB = kilobyte If you want to remove all ambiguity for those that slept through middle school science, just say kilobyte or kilobit. There is also:
kib = kilibit
kiB = kilibyte
The difference between k and ki is that k=1000 while ki=1024 thus kib is 1024 bits not the 1000 bits of kb. This can be a major difference since by using 1000 not 1024 you make the numbers look larger (all the speeds are actually 1024 based not 1000 based but using 1000 makes them look larger/better). |
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