The 800 year download
Well, tonight is the season finale of American Idol, where we get to
find out which of the two remaining Davids is our American Idol. It
will take Fox two hours to reveal that single bit of information. That
is a pretty low data transmission rate - 0.5 bits per hour. If we
downloaded an MP3 of a 3 minute song at the rate of 0.5 bits per hour
we'd be waiting about 800 years for the download to finish.