| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: What's a megapulse? |
| Date: | Wed, 27 May 1998 11:19:14 +0100 |
> Just FYI, ther -IS- a way to figure out a MP in SR measurements. Using the
> "Universal Brotherhood" sourcebook, which has an exacting MP value, you
could
> do a translation into "MP Measurements" from "Current Memory"
format(s).
You can also do it like this: we know a CD-ROM holds 640 MB. SR CDs hold
500 Mp (says Shadowbeat), so 1 Mp = 1.28 MB. This would assume no
breakthroughs in storage capacity, which is unlikely seeing DVDs hold a
lot more; I don't have the storage capacity of a DVD handy, though, so I
can't calculate how much an Mp would be when based on that. A lot less,
that's for certain.
An alternative method: normal-spectrum sound takes up 1 Mp per minute
(again, per Shadowbeat). A current CD can hold 74 minutes of music. Once
again I forgot how many bytes a minute of uncompressed, good-quality sound
takes up, but again it shouldn't be hard to convert. Be prepared to find
completely different figures than with the first method, however.
Also be prepared to find out that if these methods were to give "right"
values, people tend to write absurdly long essays in decker comments in SR
books. Lots of times we see things like "12.5 Mp snipped" -- which would
equate to a text several MB large. I dare you to write that much text in a
few minutes, or even days :)
Of course, a solution here is to say that the comments contain formatting
data, executables, and lots of other stuf, but it still doesn't make much
sense. It's generally easiest to just ignore the ratio and do not attempt
to convert between the fictional and real-world memory capacities.
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