-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael T. Dean wrote: > Scott Alfter wrote: >> 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
So because the hard-drive manufacturers weren't honest with their labeling, we're supposed to use some nut's ghey alternative name? A gigabyte is 2^30 bytes. It always has been and always will be, and if that sounds like I'm having a 40-rods-to-the-hogshead moment, so be it. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDq7S7VgTKos01OwkRArZ+AKDfYpn6Nue81SyrqjuvKYvKNFp/6QCgtmTu 29ngqxzbng0Wez/p7SxpIRI= =otv1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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