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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Craziness Domain - I hate it when people refer to kilobytes as being 1,024 bytes, megabytes as 1,048,576 bytes, etc. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero                     Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| It's like they're totally ignorant. It's especially annoying when they "correct" people who claim they're 1,000, 1,000,000, or whatever. | |||
NightKev Red Cheep-cheep "We have to enforce this, though. He needs no warning. The FAQ says spamming for syndrome = warning or ban, but man, he spammed BADLY... There's no way this shouldn't be ban-worthy." - someone less than smart, but more smart than you. Since: 05-13-06 From: Southern California Last post: 6561 days Last view: 6305 days |
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| But 1kb DOES = 1024b ...
Although since it's easier to calculate base 10, so everyone refers to them as 1000 b = 1 kb etc etc. It doesn't REALLY matter which you say it is. Officially its 1024 etc, but who cares? (edited by NightKev on 05-25-06 08:57 PM) |
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Cirvania Cyball I guess this is as close as Xkeeper will get to spell it right. :< Since: 11-17-05 From: The Island of Puerto Rico. Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish Then what do you propose they should be called? Might as well do something about it  |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by NightKevNo, you're wrong. I don't know where everyone's getting that, but eh. A kilobyte is exactly 1000 bytes. I mean, that's what it means. Kilo means thousand. Thousand bytes. It's just incorrect to say anything else  Originally posted by VexcartinI'm not certain what you mean. (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 05-25-06 09:00 PM) (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 05-25-06 09:01 PM) |
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| Depends on how you look at it. |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Well yeah. If you look at it the WRONG way, I suppose it is 1024.
So you're right, you're just COMPLETELY WRONG. |
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NightKev Red Cheep-cheep "We have to enforce this, though. He needs no warning. The FAQ says spamming for syndrome = warning or ban, but man, he spammed BADLY... There's no way this shouldn't be ban-worthy." - someone less than smart, but more smart than you. Since: 05-13-06 From: Southern California Last post: 6561 days Last view: 6305 days |
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| Alastor, in reality, 1kb = 1024b, because everything in computers is BASE 2!!! 2^x cannot = 1000, EVER, in this universe.
It's called a kilobyte because people like to round and calculating with base 10 is easier. So, you fail. (edited by NightKev on 05-25-06 09:06 PM) |
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| The term "kilobyte" was first used to refer to a value of 1024 bytes (2^10), because the binary nature of digital computers lends itself to quantities that are powers of two, and 2^10 is roughly one thousand. As computers became more widely used, this misuse (according to the BIPM) of the SI prefix spread from the slang of computer professionals into the mainstream lexicon, creating much confusion. See binary prefix for more details. (edited by Shyguy on 05-25-06 09:07 PM) |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Shyguy, you ruined everything 
This was supposed to go on for awhile before I started giving out links to prove I'm right... (edited by Alastor the Stylish on 05-25-06 09:10 PM) |
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Schweiz oder etwas [12:55] (Dr_Death16); I swear, the word drama needs to be stricken from the dictionary, for I've heard it so many times, it will permanently be imprinted on my brain  Since: 11-17-05 From: Kingston, Rhode Island Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| (21:06:01) Stylish Alastor: Hate to burst your bubble, but you, like must people, are thinking of kibibytes and mebibytes.
(21:06:03) DetectiveGrey: Bytes. (21:06:12) Stylish Alastor: *most (21:06:35) DetectiveGrey: I seem to recall you once arguing in favor of common language taking precedence over literal translation. (21:06:46) DetectiveGrey: But you switch your arguments all the time anyway 
(21:06:51) Stylish Alastor: Exactly. (21:06:54) DetectiveGrey: Plus, I somehow get the feeling that you learned this about 25 minutes ago. (21:06:56) Stylish Alastor: I do whatever I think is most fun
(21:06:57) DetectiveGrey: wait (21:06:57) DetectiveGrey: wait (21:07:06) Stylish Alastor: And it was actually closer to... (21:07:09) DetectiveGrey: Yes, 25 minutes ago (21:07:10) Stylish Alastor: 235 minutes ago. EDIT: Shy, you kick ass. EDIT2: I call shenanigans on Kyouji thinking he's better than the rest of the board because he was enlightened four hours before everyone else. (edited by Xyger on 05-25-06 09:10 PM) (edited by Xyger on 05-25-06 09:11 PM) |
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NightKev Red Cheep-cheep "We have to enforce this, though. He needs no warning. The FAQ says spamming for syndrome = warning or ban, but man, he spammed BADLY... There's no way this shouldn't be ban-worthy." - someone less than smart, but more smart than you. Since: 05-13-06 From: Southern California Last post: 6561 days Last view: 6305 days |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| The general gist of it is that you're wrong. | |||
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Schweiz oder etwas [12:55] (Dr_Death16); I swear, the word drama needs to be stricken from the dictionary, for I've heard it so many times, it will permanently be imprinted on my brain Since: 11-17-05 From: Kingston, Rhode Island Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| That, and I learned this my first day of college and immediately disregarded it and kept using common language. |
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NightKev Red Cheep-cheep "We have to enforce this, though. He needs no warning. The FAQ says spamming for syndrome = warning or ban, but man, he spammed BADLY... There's no way this shouldn't be ban-worthy." - someone less than smart, but more smart than you. Since: 05-13-06 From: Southern California Last post: 6561 days Last view: 6305 days |
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| *is very, very confused now* | |||
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Schweiz oder etwas [12:55] (Dr_Death16); I swear, the word drama needs to be stricken from the dictionary, for I've heard it so many times, it will permanently be imprinted on my brain Since: 11-17-05 From: Kingston, Rhode Island Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| And as long as we're being an ass, I actually usually say Ks and Ms to shorten things up!
Am I weird for doing that? |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by NightKevGood. |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I can see someone saying 300K, but 300M? Would take me a while to figure that out.
I go with what I learned since I was in Grade 6. I'll stick by my knowledge. |
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PrincessPeach Buzzy Beetle  Since: 11-18-05 From: Rüti ZH Last post: 6302 days Last view: 6302 days |
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| May this little In a Nutshell, the Prefix Kibi, Mebi ect. |
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MathOnNapkins  1100  In SPC700 HELL Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by PrincessPeach *fixed your link* This is all well and good, and maybe enlightening. However, I will feel like a total idiot using prefixes like this if I ever start using them in speech with other programmers. kee bee bytes, gi bee bytes, .... ex bee bytes.... sounds (edited by MathOnNapkins on 05-26-06 04:34 AM) |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| But it is a standard, the IEC standard
The general public will never start using Ki, Mi, Gi, etc for as long as storage manufacturers continue to use K, M, G. Doing so is like asking the U.S. to finally abandon the English system of units. |
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