Comments on: Adding 5 Words With A 56 Megabyte Windows Update

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Tjôta då! » Blog Archive » 5 ord säger mer än 56 MB — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:14:17 +0000

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By: Babs

Babs — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:54:21 +0000

I use Microsoft because it came with my computer, and I always read what the updates are for. This is one I did not bother install.

By: David

David — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:48:13 +0000

That’s really terrible. You’d think they would have a setup whereby they could incrementally add new words to the dictionary without adding the whole dictionary again.

I mean, if I had to download every single virus signature known to man whenever “one” new virus signature was available – my bandwidth limit would certainly be hitting the roof.

By: chi

chi — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:27:28 +0000

56mb is still bloody enormous for a dictionary.

assuming that on average, there are 20 words per line in a book, and 65 lines per page, where each word is on average 5 characters long, then one page in a book takes up 6500 bytes. by my calculations, if the dictionary released by microsoft were made into a book, it would be 8615 pages long.

and mind you, i pick some rather large numbers for these calculations.

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:21:16 +0000

they’re: “see”,”how”,”we”,”mock”,”you”

By: cyneuron

cyneuron — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:24:32 +0000

what else could you expected from Microsoft….

By: Escoson

Escoson — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:00:53 +0000

What are those 5 words anyways?