When reading specifications, numbers have a tendency to drift into irrelevancy, unless you can tie them to something more concrete.

This week, we dropped our cable TV altogether, and increased the speed of our internet connection. We're now getting 15Mbps (with a short-term burst rate of 22Mbps) downstream -- almost 2 megs a second!

Well, whenever I try to visualize transfer rates, I always imagine it in floppies per second. So when I'm downloading a movie or something, I imagine this huge stack of floppy disks. At 2 megs a second, I'd be swapping out a floppy every 2/3rds of a second. And since it takes like a minute to copy a floppy, I imagine this huge array of floppy drives, so I'd go down the line swapping them out, practically as quickly as I can.