Standards are only as good as peoples decisions to use them.
Long live 1 gigabyte = 8 * 2^30 bits!
--Matt
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:39 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
Scott Alfter wrote: >Christian Borchmann wrote: > > >>what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of cartoon with a >>pvr-350? >> >>u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500. >> >> >Disk space is cheap. I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day. >With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's gigabytes") across three drives, >I've never run out of space. > 1 gigabyte = 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes 1 gibibyte = 1GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes (gibibyte as in "gigabinary") So, a "salesman's gigabyte" is a "real gigabyte." I think you're trying to say you have ~340 "real gibibytes." The lawyer who sued the hard drive manufacturers for false advertising should have sued Microsoft, instead, since it was MS Windows that made those bytes disappear (by calling X gibibytes X gigabytes). Either that, or the hard drive manufacturers should have countersued MS for libel/slander (but, who can afford to sue MS). Mike http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html BTW, if you want a really annoying one, check out the prefix for the binary version of an exabyte (10^18 bytes). The exbibyte (2^60 bytes) is hard to pronounce and makes a "learned technology professional" sound like a babbling idiot. (And, no, I didn't misspell it.) The others are just fun, though--the looks you get when you use the words in conversation are priceless. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
