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-This has a number of
meanings in the computer world
.
+An [Acronym] with many
meanings.<br><br>:
-!!1. An [Acronym] for
__L__ibrary
__O__f __C__ongress.
-This is a unit
of storage capacity or rate
of transmission. For example - "our highspeed link could transfer 3 library of congresses [
[sic
] in 3
.5 seconds". There appears to be no agreement on whether the unit represents library
of congress
as (
a) ASCII text files (which would be lossy, since there are many non-ASCII books and many with images), (b) page images (at some unknown level of resolution) (c) the metadata associated with the collections or (d) the library of congress website. Generally (a) or (c)
is used by vendors
and reporters, since it results in bigger numbers
.
+
__L__ines
__O__f __C__ode:
+ An incredibly poor measure
of the size
of a project sometimes used by
[Management
] in SoftwareEngineering
.
+ The main virtue of lines
of code
as a measurement is that it
is quick
and easy to calculate and can be performed on any ProgrammingLanguage
.
-!!2. A field
in the [DNS] system for location
.
- $ host
-t LOC waikato.ac.nz
- waikato.ac
.nz. LOC 37 48 30.000 S 175 17 36.000 E 66
.00m 3000m 30m 10m
+ __L__ibrary __O__f __C__ongress:
+ This is a unit of storage capacity or rate of transmission, as
in "our highspeed link could transfer 3 library of congresses ''(sic)'' in 3
.5 seconds".
+ There appears to be no agreement on whether the unit represents library of congress as
+ # ASCII text files (which would be lossy, since there are many non
-ASCII books and many with images)
+ # page images (at some unknown level of resolution)
+ # the metadata associated with the collections
+ # the library of congress website
.
+ Generally 1 or 3 is used by vendors and reporters, since it results in bigger throughput
.
-This gives a [GPS] location: 37 deg 48' 30" South (latitude), 175 deg 17' 36" East (longitude), and 66 metres about sea level. The last two numbers appear to mean that the whole site is within 3000 metres of the given point, and the point is accurate to about 30 metres, although this interpretation may be wrong. (It will be in the appropriate [RFC] if anyone can be bothered looking it up.)
-
-xtraceroute(1) will use these records if it can find them. Unfortunately not many sites use them yet.
-
-!!3 An [Acronym] for
__L
__ines __O__f __C__ode
-The is a incredibly poor measure
of the size of a project sometimes used by
[Management
] in SoftwareEngineering. The main virtue of lines of code as a measurement is that it is quick and easy to calculate and can be performed on any programming language
.
+
__Loc
__ation:
+ A type
of [DNS
] ResourceRecord
.
