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video share this video If you enjoyed it and don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":263.12,"end_s":266.52,"text":"forget to subscribe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"bits and bites absolutely delici oh my God this is cat food no but seriously bits and bites are the units to measure computer data bit is the smallest form of data and it's basically like an onoff switch it can be either a zero or a one but that's it even basic information like a letter of the alphabet cannot be expressed as a bit in spite of the name alphabet you'll need a bite which is a series of eight bits in order to express even something as simple as a character of text you can think of it as eight on orof switches which can be configured in any number of different combinations to represent different values often a letter of the alphabet or another character for example this is TQ for Techquickie represented in 16 bits or two bytes and this is a smiley face represented in 16 bits or two bytes but you're a sophisticated guy you might need to store data that's more complicated than a single letter of the alphabet and the simple answer is you're going to need more bites by the way these taste awful for example even a text document that contains only three characters would need more than one bite of data to represent it that is why we have prefixes like kilo Mega and Giga to refer to much larger file sizes I mean otherwise in casual conversation we'd have to say things like oh hey man how big is that song Oh around uh 3,521 36 62 bytes or you could just say 3 and 1/2 Megs so when do you use bits and when do you use bytes the general rule that I use is bits for interface speed bytes for data storage so here's an example your internet service provider has a plan for you that's 100 megabit per second and you have a file that's 100 megabytes don't get confused you're not going to be able to download a 100 megabyte file size in 1 second with that plan it'll actually take more like about a seconds because 100 megabit is around 12.5 megabytes where it gets really confusing sometimes they represent speeds in bytes too like when you transfer files on your computer from one folder to another one so the best way to keep from getting confused is to follow a couple of simple rules number one rule is the Big B anytime it's denoted is for btes the bigger unit and a small B is for bits which is the smaller unit big letter Big Unit small letter small unit and rule number two is you can use this simple and approximate very approximate not correct conversion where you take a number that you read in bits and you divide it by 10 to get bytes for example that internet service provider that advertises 100 megabit per second in theory 12.5 megabytes not going to happen in the real world due to network protocol inefficiencies or any other snafus that might occur in the ad IED speed so it'll probably be more like 10 megabytes per second even if your service provider is being honest about their speeds speaking of reading this video is brought to you by audible.com I've heard well and experienc that you can download eBooks from the megabits actually no I'm just kidding you can actually download books from the internet you can listen to them whether it's on your smartphone on your couch in your car while you're commuting or whatever else the case may be you can even get a free ebook by visiting audible.com tequ where you can download pretty much anything you want I meant to read this book and instead what I ended up doing is picking up the ebook because even though it'll take about twice as long to listen to this book as it will to read it I don't have the time to sit down and dedicate to reading it whereas I can listen to it while I'm doing other things the other cool thing about this one is the fact that the audible ebook is read by Jim Collins himself which means he added a little bit of insight and tailored the experience to the listening version as opposed to the reading version which was very very cool now I'd like to change things up a little bit for my next ebook and I'd love for you guys to check out the audible bestsellers list and leave your suggestions in the comments in this video I would like to try something that is entertaining as opposed to business oriented and I'd like to try something that was read by someone other than the author so that I can have that experience as well and as always guys don't forget to like this video share this video If you enjoyed it and don't forget to subscribe"}