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i am sure they mean to forward 8.4MB of docs in an email, right? He was not attaching and sending this? This is thousands of pages of docs and they would not be on his phone or SD card, right?


6 posted on 09/29/2016 3:22:04 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

I’ll bet she knows how to file billable hours with it though.


7 posted on 09/29/2016 3:57:58 AM PDT by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
i am sure they mean to forward 8.4MB of docs in an email, right? He was not attaching and sending this? This is thousands of pages of docs and they would not be on his phone or SD card, right?

It would probsbly be good for you to brush up on the meaning of the prefixes to memory storage units.

"Kilo" means a thousand = 1,000 units

"Mega means a thousand kilos, which is a thousand thousand, or one million = 1,000,000 units

"Giga" means a thousand megas, which is a million kilos, or a billion = 1,000,000,000 units

"Tera" means a thousand gigas, which is a million megas, or a billion kilos = 1,000,000,000,000 units

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Now, what does that mean in terms of an email memo?

Well, one letter of the alphabet, or one apostrophe, or one comma, or one character causing a jump to the next line uses two bytes. In terms of the size of the code to make a short business memo, like this one, up to this period >.< takes almost exactly one thousand bytes, or one kilobyte.

Therefore, it would take about one megabyte to hold a thousand of such brief messages. That would be equivalent to one of the old 3 1/2 inch floppy disks, so the "8.4MB" (eight and four tenths of MegaBytes) would take up no more than, say, ten of those floppy disks.

But what does that mean in terms of a smartphone memory SD chip? Well, my cell phone is almost ten years old, but I bought a little teeny microchip for it that is sixteen gigabytes (16GB), and that would be equivalent to about 2,000 times the amount of information that the government lawyer was supposed to transfer by email.

Could that 8.4MB fit on an up-to-date smartphone? Well, sure, it would be a miniscule amount of the information storage needed to complete just one internet session on the internet for a smartphone.

A knowlegeable friend or associate can help you to grasp this concept.

But just think, how little smartphone space it takes for these thousands of simple text messages (SMTs) it takes to move whole nations in the wrong direction!

(2KB = 0.002MB for the total text of this response to you, up to this point ==> X)

10 posted on 09/29/2016 5:01:12 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Done all the time. They store various types of doc’s, images, videos. And can email them. 8.4mb on a 8 or 16 or 32 or 64gb phone is nothing. Email server mb limits or weak cell signal are bigger snags.

So many people use PCs and smartphones, every day, all day, but know so very little about their capabilities, it amazes me. They only know those certain things they use to do their job or entertain themselves.

The lack of understanding of how many things work is why when SHTF so many Americans will be utterly helpless.


13 posted on 09/29/2016 5:38:56 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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