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So, here's something annoying on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte[^]
Apparently, for some time now they've been recalibrating the kilobyte to be 1000 bytes. 1024 is a 'Kibibyte', a word I have never heard spoken my whole life. It also sounds stupid.
1TB on a hard disc is 10^12 bytes, not 2^40 (almost 10% smaller). And 65,536 bytes on a Mac shows at 66KB. That's just perverse. I hate Apple even more now.
How many of you knew about this outrage? And if you did why didn't you stop it?!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I knew about it, tried to stop it, and failed. Wikipedia has been aggressively marketing this weird "ibi" thing for years now.
I'm even sort of OK with that, what really annoys me is that some actual people are being infected by that bad habit.
A kilobyte is 1024 bytes, anyone who claims differently is trying to scam you.
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harold aptroot wrote: A kilobyte is 1024 bytes, anyone who claims differently is trying to scam you.
Well said! And apart from 1000 being a useless number in computation theory, this introduces ambiguity to the KB. You now need to know whether its a real KB or the airhead version.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: You now need to know whether its a real KB
I thought KB were the window's updates   
M.D.V. 
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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It existed and there has been a debate over it for years (like almost everything in the Computer World) over usage of KB and KiB. Normally ego-maniac kids tend to correct KB with KiB in non inherent articles to prove their manliness.
IMHO this has been used to the HW productors advantage in order to boast performance they don't have, since a GB is smaller than a GiB by 7.2% (there is a progression of 2.4% for every !0^3 step).
I guess Mac recalibrated to give a better idea to the user of how much space he is actually using - think of games of 25 GB vs 25 GiB (= 27 GB).
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I ma not sure Wikipedia is the best source when it comes to naming standards.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: I ma not sure
Imitating an italian dialect now, are ya!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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It's-a-me, Mario !
I don't always correct my typos, because the OP gets another mail with the corrected post, so I don't want to create mail traffic solely for better spelling.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Plizz, let do dis to an Italian at liist. I hhave a lot moar expiriens!
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Eh, I'm tryin' to read heeya!
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It's a sad day when consumerism dictates to (computer) science.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I also think it is **** that the EU wants to try and break up Google, just want does that gain. It was bad enough that they demanded all the stupid cookie consent popups on websites that do nothing more than annoy. If people have a bone with Google services, don't use them p+s.
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Lounge etiquette prevents me from expressing a view on any aspect of EU I'm afraid.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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If you are are anoyed by kikibyte then you just wait, because fifibyte[^] and tutubyte[^] are just around the corner.
Life is too shor
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Tutubyte? is that because titibyte sounds like filth 
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Wastedtalent wrote: is that because titibyte sounds like filth
It sounds like something the UK has just banned from pr0n (see Soapbox for details)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Unfortunately, in my opinion, that makes sense.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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CPallini wrote: in my opinion, that makes sense
Klingon opinions are not taken seriously (neither do italian)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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True.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Probably caused an argument in many a pub quiz!
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It's wikipedia. Click Edit and fix it.
Don't trust anything you find there. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I use a much simpler measurement system for calculating disc space.
It's a Boolean "enough".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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public enum enough
{
false;
}
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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