A New Definition of F.P.S….

Posted by donal on May 26th, 2008 filed in Technology, computers

Whilst many of my friends (or should I say CS friends) would give either First Person Shooter or Frames Per Second as the words behind the abbreviation F.P.S., I have found the true meaning. A joyous event has occured. My I.S.P. has recently upgraded my service to 12Mb/s, and it’s actually twelve megabits per second.
I used to get more, up to 24Mb/s, which was four times the rated service, but as more cable subscribers in my area opted for broadband, the average speeds came down (I’m guessing that’s what happened anyway, maybe they started throttling their bandwidth). At this time, though, after a doubling of my bandwidth and a threefold increase in my data bandwidth, to 120GB pre month, I’m sitting pretty. I’m am now getting download speeds of just over 1F.P.S..

A 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive – Confused? Explained after the break.

I have decided, in light of this new bandwidth glut, that the heretofore trustworthy unit of bandwidth, the Kb/s, is now as obsolete as the one cent coin (the €uro one cent, the U$ Dollar’s smallest unit of currency). My favoured replacement (and possible new S.I. unit, if they have any sense) is the Floppy Per Second. You see, 12 Megabits is 1.5 Megabytes (as there are eight bits to a byte, as I’m sure you know), and a floppy disk is 1.44 Mebabytes, so therefore, I’m currently the grateful recipient of up to 1.04 Floppy Disks per Second!

I have crossed the next boundary into the next technological era, a new paradigm of data transfer: the FPS era of the Internet.