Matt Mossholder wrote:
Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had
misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people
should change doesn't mean that we, as users have to listen.
Standards are only as good as peoples decisions to use them.
Long live 1 gigabyte = 8 * 2^30 bits!
--Matt
You would make an excellent CEO of Microsoft Corp. ;)
Mike
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.
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