Sentence examples for the byte from inspiring English sources
noun
A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
The byte wakes up and is ejected from its storage disc.
The byte, in other words, has to travel with a suitcase of dictionaries.
It hurls the byte towards an "interface card", which comes from yet another vendor, and the card directs the byte into one of the datacentre's many back-office computers, called "servers".This causes the byte some momentary confusion, because the datacentre has servers that were assembled by different makers, such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems or Dell.
A sequence in which Mr. Drake relates snippets from the speeches at the conference ("Bitten by the Byte: Vampires on the Net") is knockout hilarious.
A typical three-minute song file is more than 3 megabytes in size, or more than 25 million bits (there are 8 bits to the byte).
As it arrives in that machine, the byte is spun around by a layer of "virtualisation" software, which might come from a company called Veritas.
Charging by the Byte Bandwidth hogs are losing a big trough with AT&T's shift from an all-you-can-eat model to tiered pricing for Internet access.
For example, "just-in-time" compilers ensure that an applet, once translated into machine code, can bypass the byte code on subsequent occasions.
Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms companion schemes in terms of the byte-hit ratios and the startup latency.
Railgun, too, looks at files at the byte-level and then just transfers the actual bytes that have changed instead of the complete file.
It's not just the byte-sized information of your home appliances that will be giving advertisers a steamy wet dream, either.
