| From: | Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: What's a megapulse? |
| Date: | Wed, 27 May 1998 11:56:29 +0100 |
|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 :)
Who can say what snazzy effects they'll have for text online...
For one thing, you can guarantee it won't be ASCII text. More likely some
variation on unicode.
Now, if unicode has multiple, scalable fonts, that in itself is going to
take up ONE hell of a lot of memory.
If special eefects can be attached to fonts, such as moving/rotating/colour
changing, musical fonts, then .... The world is you welk.... Errrm...
Oyster. MASSIVE amounts of memory used for a simple "Hello".
(It just HAPPENS to be dancing arount the screen singing silly songs....)
:)
|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.
See above....
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