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Newguest Posted 18 years ago
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01i00This buffering allows the software to 01b00account for02b00 small changes in the data stream.02i0-
  

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0Thanks nona, however, I don't get the meaning of this sentence 050010id1
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0I think "01u00deal with02u00" or "01u00handle02u00" or "01u00accomodate02u00" would work better in this example. All the "buffers" I've been acquainted with can "collect" or "accumulate" an overflow, or sudden inrush of data which the processor can't handle. Then, when the stream slows down, the data which has been stored in
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20 while 21b20feeding out22b20 an amount the processor can handle.22br
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0Hi Newguest,02br
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00I'm sure there are people here who are better qualified than I am to speak on this.02br
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00No, the thing about the photo isn't an idiom. It's just an illustration of what might happen if data are fed to a processor in the wrong order - rather a 01i01u00far-fetched02u02i00 one. (That's
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0Thank you for your thorough explanations Avangi 050010id5
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