And now standards organizations want us to use those GAY prefixes that sound faggish. But we EXPERT PROGRAMMERS refuse and resist, and keep using the old-style KB, MB and GB prefixes meaning powers of 1024, as it should be. Choose your side, /prog/. Are you for faggotry or expertise?
>>11
Also Kw, Mw, etc. The math is easy, too. On x86 machines a word is 16 bits, so just divide your obsolete measurements by two.
Granted, hard drive manufacturers wouldn't like it. They'd have to go back to advertising Gigas instead of Teras for the time being.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 15:05
In Knuthland, one byte is five bits.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 15:08
>>12 Granted, hard drive manufacturers wouldn't like it. They'd have to go back to advertising Gigas instead of Teras for the time being.
Yeah, because your average ignorant guy knows how giga is different from tera.
Plus, by your logic one could say: ``man, that sucks, we could have a 120TB HDDs instead of our lame 120GB... if only people in the past had chosen a different unit...''.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 15:52
When I use système international prefixes, I don't want a single extra ``i'' LETTER
of worthless 1024 vs 1000 differentiation and ridiculousmarketingcrap!
I just want a KILOBYTE!!
Not a ``kibibyte''. Not a ``mebibyte''. Those aren't even WORDS!!!!SI! SI! SI IS THE STANDARD!!!
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Anonymous2008-03-12 15:55
Isn't it strange how hard drive manufacturers are pushing for a standard that will mean their hard drives look bigger.
>>18
and sadly it means 10^3, but still... kiB is pretty gay, so I'm staying with kB
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Anonymous2008-03-12 17:35
I will continue to be context-sensitive.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 17:36
Wahhhhhhh. I THINK IT SOUNDS HAPPY AND THEREFOR IT IS HAPPY. Great logic there guys.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 17:41
>>21
Yep. You gonna use what the others tell you to use just because it's standard? And, on a side note, whoever is responsible for the whole prefix mess should be burned on a stake back-to-back with the creator of Comic Sans.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 17:46
>>22
The world would be much less of an ENTERPRISE place if everyone used exclusively Comic Sans.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 17:56
If something is addressed by bit-width, kilo- mega- etc are powers of 2. Else, powers of 10. IT'S NOT THAT HARD, REST OF WORLD!
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Anonymous2008-03-12 18:01
The prefixes are based on 2 when you use them in conjunction with computer stuff and based on 10 when used in physics. It's called polymorphism. I know because I am a Haskellite.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 18:32
>>25
Try telling that to a networks guy. No, not the part about polymorphism.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 19:26
>24
>If something is addressed by bit-width Did you mean: byte-width
>>29
I don't see your point then.
Megabit is 106 bits.
Megabyte is usually 220.
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Anonymous2008-03-12 23:27
>>26
I am a network guy, and I have punched people for calling 10³ bytes a kilobyte.
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Anonymous2008-03-13 6:14
>>27
I am >>24 and yes it's BIT-width. Memory has an address bus of BIT width 32 or 64 nowadays. Hard drives are a 48-bit number of 9-bit wide sectors. I do not think you know what in the fuck you are talking about.
now i'm no fancy big city hardware expert but i think they have different meanings and should be used in different situations
i wouldn't mind seeing KiB, and the likes, used when civilians are involved but when us nerds are involved i believe we should use the proper way that our computers calculate sizes
>>35
The binary usage predates the SI one, in the tech world. Let drive manufacturers use kB(SI) when they want to rip off their customers and let people who know what they're talking about use the binary version without bibibibi faggotry.
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Anonymous2008-03-13 9:35
When I count size, I don't want to count DECIMALLY in worthless units with shitty prefixes! I just want a SECTOR COUNT!!
Not a "KILO COUNT". Not a "KIBI COUNT". Those aren't even WORDS!!!!
01000! 01000! 01000 IS THE POSIX STANDARD!!!
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Anonymous2008-03-13 17:04
>>32 Fine, enjoy your 0.0625-kilobit system (or an older 0.03125-bit one).
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