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vk6zgo:

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--- Quote from: cgroen on September 30, 2021, 02:36:20 pm ---(I even heard that some of them claims that a kilobyte is 1000 bytes  :-DD )

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It is when you ask the hard drive manufacturers.

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I know. They did it (way back) to get larger numbers, once all did it, no benefit. Its just plain stupid (most words needs a context, MASTER and SLAVE as well as KILO means something different depending on the context)

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It all goes back to "computer people" ignoring the very long standing convention that "kilo' means 1000 times whatever the base quantity is, without any need of a "context".

Perhaps they should have invented a different word for "1024 bytes"----- sloppy word usage comes back to "bite us on the bum",  even if it is many years later.

Another perfectly good word appropriated from Electronics is "bandwidth".
The true meaning is the amount of spectral space occupied by a signal, or the same thing for a device required to carry such signals.

Because "computer people" use it in a completely different way, (perhaps describable as "virtual bandwidth") which has now captured the mainstream, we now have to use monstrously contorted sentences like the previous one to replace a simple term.

magic:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on October 02, 2021, 05:59:57 am ---Another perfectly good word appropriated from Electronics is "bandwidth".
The true meaning is the amount of spectral space occupied by a signal, or the same thing for a device required to carry such signals.

Because "computer people" use it in a completely different way, (perhaps describable as "virtual bandwidth") which has now captured the mainstream, we now have to use monstrously contorted sentences like the previous one to replace a simple term.

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RF engineers still use "bandwidth" without worrying what computer nerds would think :-//

MrMobodies:

--- Quote ---The primary issue is that the code researchers write, run at the command line, needs to be told exactly how to access the files it’s working with — it can’t search for those files on its own. Some programming languages have search functions, but they’re difficult to implement and not commonly used. It’s in the programming lessons where STEM professors, across fields, are encountering  problems
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A bit confused by this statement, does this mean that it is just "Stem professors" experiencing this issue or do they mean everyone else?

magic:

--- Quote ---It’s in the programming lessons where STEM professors, across fields, are encountering  problems.
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FTFY.
It means that it's not a problem to STEM professors until it comes to teaching the "kids these days" how to operate scientific software.

vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: magic on October 02, 2021, 06:16:35 am ---
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on October 02, 2021, 05:59:57 am ---Another perfectly good word appropriated from Electronics is "bandwidth".
The true meaning is the amount of spectral space occupied by a signal, or the same thing for a device required to carry such signals.

Because "computer people" use it in a completely different way, (perhaps describable as "virtual bandwidth") which has now captured the mainstream, we now have to use monstrously contorted sentences like the previous one to replace a simple term.

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RF engineers still use "bandwidth" without worrying what computer nerds would think :-//

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I know, but it still bugs me! >:(

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