5 Dec
2014
5 Dec
'14
8:12 p.m.
On 2014-12-06 04:13, Mouse wrote:
You don't get to tell us how we use language any more than anyone else
does. Lots of words and phrases have technical meanings in hackish
English different from the meanings the same words carry in mainstream
English; this is just one more example. (For that matter, if you buy a
"4G" stick of RAM, would you be perfectly happy to get one containing
no more than 4,000,000,000 bytes? You make it sound as though you
would - but I find that doubtful.)
While you have a half point, Mouse, the fact is that for disk
capacities, the standard is actually to use K to mean 10^3 and not 2^10,
so Fred is absolutely right.
Assuming that 1 terabyte is 2 ** 40 bytes [...]
It's not, it's 10**12. Or, of course, you can continue to insist on
misunderstanding
long-established uses.
See above. In this case, that is the long-established rule.
(The reason have been suggested in the past that disk manufacturers
started this odd practice (odd for computers that is) a long time ago
since it allowed them to write higher numbers, which looked better for
marketing purposes...)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol