5 responses to “TECHNOLOGY MUSINGS”

1. 

   Ian S.

   January 30, 2004 at 4:09 pm

   Nice, although I’ll bet not many get the joke 🙂
2. 

   James Joyner

   January 30, 2004 at 4:13 pm

   Such is my sense of humor, unfortunately. Having taught for a number of years, though, I’m used to people not thinking my jokes are funny.
3. 

   Dave

   January 30, 2004 at 4:42 pm

   Heh. Good one… at least for geeks like me.
4. 

   melvin toast

   January 30, 2004 at 4:49 pm

   Actually right now you’re email is being represented in an 8 bit ascii encoding. So 7 bits would only save you 16 percent in volume.

   Of course those ASCII encodings are being extended to represent binary data but if you use an old fashioned email reader, you’ll see ASCII text. It won’t be coherent but it will be ASCII.
5. 

   Owned by Samoyeds

   January 30, 2004 at 8:03 pm

   Well, if we were using the IBM 14xx series (all the rage about the time I was born), we COULD have all our data in 7 bits (6 bit characters + 1 bit word mark).

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