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Comment Re:"Speeds up to ten megabits per second..." (Score 1) 228

In my experience people think their connection is slower because browsers display download speed as kiloBYTES/sec.

It is really "fun" when both the prefix and the unit are ambiguous.

PS:
AFAIK HDDs were originally measured by how many 8-bit ASCII characters they could store. So a 1 MB drive was advertised as "able to store 1 million characters".

Comment Re:"Speeds up to ten megabits per second..." (Score 1) 228

This post is about Internet connection speeds, and as the linked article states:

# In Telecommunications, use of the correct SI definition of the unit is standard.

Therefore network connections are rated as you wrote in your first post.
So what exactly were you trying to say, except stating the obvious?

Comment Re:Why it's called "putty"... (Score 1) 184

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-meaning

A.10.3 What does ‘PuTTY’ mean?

It's the name of a popular SSH and Telnet client. Any other meaning is in the eye of the beholder. It's been rumoured that ‘PuTTY’ is the antonym of ‘getty’, or that it's the stuff that makes your Windows useful, or that it's a kind of plutonium Teletype. We couldn't possibly comment on such allegations.

Comment Re:No, they aren't. (Score 1) 599

And to the people who say "That is fine, but these are minor features, the first version number should be reserved for major changes! It should be called Firefox 4.1!":

There will be no major releases! Stuff gets released when it is done, that means there is never going to be a traditional "feature dump release".

That would mean Firefox is stuck at version 4 forever, despite Firefox 4.MAXINT being completely different feature- and compatibility-wise than Firefox 4.0

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