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Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people should change doesn't mean that we, as users have to listen.<BR>
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Standards are only as good as peoples decisions to use them.<BR>
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Long live 1 gigabyte = 8 * 2^30 bits!<BR>
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--Matt<BR>
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On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:39 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Scott Alfter wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>Christian Borchmann wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of cartoon with a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>pvr-350?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>>u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> </FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">>Disk space is cheap. I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's gigabytes") across three drives,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>I've never run out of space.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">1 gigabyte = 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">1 gibibyte = 1GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(gibibyte as in "gigabinary")</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">So, a "salesman's gigabyte" is a "real gigabyte." I think you're trying </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to say you have ~340 "real gibibytes."</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The lawyer who sued the hard drive manufacturers for false advertising </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">should have sued Microsoft, instead, since it was MS Windows that made </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">those bytes disappear (by calling X gibibytes X gigabytes). Either </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">that, or the hard drive manufacturers should have countersued MS for </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">libel/slander (but, who can afford to sue MS).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Mike</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html">http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">BTW, if you want a really annoying one, check out the prefix for the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">binary version of an exabyte (10^18 bytes). The exbibyte (2^60 bytes) </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">is hard to pronounce and makes a "learned technology professional" sound </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">like a babbling idiot. (And, no, I didn't misspell it.) The others are </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">just fun, though--the looks you get when you use the words in </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">conversation are priceless.</FONT>
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