Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size

FPCat writes "Finally, some one is doing something about one of my pet peeves. It seems a group of people are suing Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, and others for misleading consumers about hard disk sizes. About time someone spoke up and said '1000 MB != 1 GB'" It's not much of a mystery to anyone who's up on industry practices, but it's similar to the way graphic displays are sized, cereal boxes are filled, and so on. Andy Rooney could have a field day with this one.

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Re:fr0stiness

[HerbertLipschitz]

Seagate employee?!?

Cheese!

[tomstdenis]

I like smurfs.

Maybe we could make a beowolf cluster of these?

Hot grits and chicks!

Uh, uh, hard disk good.

Ok so we argue about MB vs. MiB. What about "blocks" on the f'ing XBOX thingy? What the fuck are those?

Tom

Re:From NIST...

[evilviper]

Single best post I've read on this thread, and you're only up to +3... It's just sad, the moderation system is.

Re:This has always irritated me.

[MickLinux]

Wow, their processes are better than normal. Normal planing takes 1/4" off every side, so the 2x4 is 1.5 x 3.5. If you're getting 1.75x3.75, you're doing pretty well.

What's really more important than the size is the lumber quality. You want architectural quality lumber for your house, and that'll be a good dollar or two more expensive than generic quality for a 2x4x8.

For an airplane, such as the "kitfox", you're going to want aeronautical quality, which is a good deal better than that... and then you're getting into some real expenses.

Of course, you *could* build you're house out of generic quality lumber, I suppose. I mean, moble homes are built out of 2x2s. However, if you were going to do that, I wouldn't space my joists every 2 feet. I'd put them at 1.5 feet or 1 foot; but that would decrease your savings, of course.

So far, though, the best plan I've seen for a house, yet, is one that needs no heating, even in NYState. And that one uses a ton of lumber. Essentially, they have a good deal of glass surrounding a wooden shell, and a good-sized airspace all the way around the wooden shell. They let the sun power a solar wind through the shell that essentially creates a natural heat pump. That, in turn, eliminates the need for AC in the summer or heating in the winter. Really interesting design, if you ask me. But it uses a ton of wood. If you're going to have a design like that, you probably don't need such a high quality of lumber. But don't take my word for it. After all, there's my sig...