You serious? Anyone watching GMTV?

TheMagicPirate said:
I always thought in terms of sales etc.. 1000Mb was 1 Gb.

Like someone already said, how many people have bought a 400Gb drive and had 400Gb to play with?

It is pretty misleading. I remember buying 2x 300Gb hard drives a while ago and going mental at the guy in the shop when they only came up as about 279Gb in windows.

EDIT: I do know however that in computing terms its 1024Mb to 1Gb. Just thought I should clear that up lol
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Please don't read my post above. :( :o :D
 
LordSplodge said:
Seeing as computers operate in Base2 and humans Base10 it should be fairly easy for a human of average intelligence to figure out why there is a difference between the two systems and thus avoid the confusion.
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Imo, humans should work in base 16. Would be much easier.
 
I'm serious :p Am I missing something here? Unless you're all going bellies up because he's not being completely technical (1024mb = 1gb?)
 
I think I saw the article this morning before setting out to work. Was it the guy bleating on about how you're going to face a rather large bill if you're an idiot and don't realise that watching TV and Movies on the internet uses up lots of bandwidth?
 
LordSplodge said:
I don't have 16 fingers though! I find Binary easier to deal with than Hexadecimal.
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Well there are flaws in every plan:p

My reasoning for hexadecimal being better is that I think humans would find it hard to read and remember long strings of 1s and 0s. I think we are much more suited to remembering shorter strings with more symbols, than long strings with few symbols.

As you can see I've thought about this way too much. Don't even get me started on metric time. Although that would only be a stop gap until we are ready for units based around multiples of 16.
 
Nitrojan said:
Petabytes :eek:

Where do you work?
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A certain, very large, storage (and other stuff) vendor.

It's funny because although people think the market is going a bit down we've never been busier....and you know why? To put it simply everyone knows trouble is coming and so they're spending it before the budget gets pulled!
 
there's an add for the purple shirt brigade where one is talking about the deal as it's an external hard drive which is 1000GB, or as the person he's talking to "that's a terabyte". Then surely if everyone brought drives beleving that they are measured using base 10, you would "in theory" get a larger drive, but as it's actually 1024 as we all know
 
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