Everest has always been a trophy, but now that almost 4,000 people have reached its summit, some more than once, the feat means less than it did a half century ago. Today roughly 90 percent of the climbers on Everest are guided clients, many without basic climbing skills. Having paid $30,000 to $120,000 to be on the mountain, too many callowly expect to reach the summit. A significant number do, but under appalling conditions.
Figure B18.5 shows the three latencies that impact the speed of decision making. These are data, analysis, and decision latencies. Data latency is the time duration to make data ready for analysis, i.e., the time for extracting, transforming, and cleansing the data, and loading it into the database.
Latency and delay Latency is a term that is usually used with clocks .. clock latency is the delay between 2 points along one clock net .. in other words, if you consider a long clock net with some tab point along it .. then the delay between a certain point and another point on that net defines the latency .. For the Delay, it's a general word that works with any net ..