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[unixronin]

A discussion elsewhere just reminded me of the copy of PC Magazine I picked up and glanced through in the waiting room yesterday evening.  It had a number of articles on broadband connectivity, including one talking about "DSL's high-speed future".  I never actually managed to find that one, but while looking for it, I stumbled across one in which the following caught my eye in the first or second paragraph:

"That's GIGA bit.  A hundred times faster than megabit; a thousand times faster than kilobit."

Hello?  Anyone flunk remedial math lately?  I've come to expect this kind of ignorant error from the mainstream media, but the writers and editorial staff of PC Magazine are at least purported to be at least somewhat computer-literate.  From a magazine that touts itself as an authority on computers and computer-related subjects, a gaffe as basic as this is simply inexcusable.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Both should have known better.