Wow, if I tug on a piece of string I can probably transmit at the rate of 4 bps, if I could line up 16 clones with strings in parallel, I could probably reach this speed. The real bottleneck is my brain that operates at about one flop per second (with no check digit you can expect oodles of errors) a system for caching the string tugs and adding a user interface with some empty tin cans.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2010 11:09, Mark KELLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
No, I mourn the <b>56 bps</b> modem - the long-standing typographical error in the past 2 study designs! :-)<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Robert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@yinnar.com" target="_blank">robert@yinnar.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">So sorry to see the demise of this wonderful device
- I assume Mark that you meant 56Kbps, 56bps would be a tad slow even by the
standards of yester-year. Gee I am getting old! How many of you "out there"
started with 300bps modems?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I still have the delight of using a 56Kbps modem
for access when down at Yinnar. It works well although a tad slowly, especially
when people send you emails with photos with file sizes of 1-4 MB.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Brings up a different issue. The waste and cost to
us all of sending oversize or useless data over the internet. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Useless as in spam. It costs us all. Clogs up the
network.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Oversize as in the example of emails with photo
attachments. Used to be that I would resize photos to 640x480, when that was the
normal screen resolution, and save as jpg files at 70% quality to make sure that
the files I sent were of a reasonable size. Not so any more. My rels take photos
on their 10MB cameras and send them to me as high quality jpegs. I can't
even view them directly onscreen as they are far too big. I don't want to
print out high quality A4 prints from all these photos, so why send them to me
at this size?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Enough of the rantings of an aging, not yet
old, fart.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Robert Hind (Semi-retired)<br>Ashwood and
Traralgon<br><a href="mailto:robert@yinnar.com" target="_blank">robert@yinnar.com</a></font></div>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 IT Apps] Study design -
legislation</div>
<div><br></div>Interesting to see that the glossary extends the legislation
list to now include:<br clear="all">- sections of the Charter of Human Rights
and Responsibilities Act 2006<br>- Parts of the Spam Act 2003<br><br>It's also
interesting to see protocols are back in the Key Knowledge for networking
after a 4 year layoff. I'm glad. I liked protocols.
<br>Topologies are still missing, however.<br><br>Sadly, the familiar 56bps
modem has been removed from the study design after an 8 year run.<br><br>--
<br>Mark Kelly<br>Manager - Information Systems<br>McKinnon Secondary
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