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Weird Presents Anyone?
g8way writes "Now that Christmas is about, it's time for presents. A joyous occasion with much drinking, fruitcake, and butt-ugly sweaters. What's the weirdest gift you've gotten so far? Personally, I got toothpaste, tic-tacs, deodorant, and a McDonalds coupon book in the same package. What's your story of Christmas present mayhem?"
Yet again, that is the metric or decimal way of looking at things. When your computer shows you MB, it isnt showing you 1,000,000 or 10^6 bytes it is showing you 1,048,576 bytes or 2^20. But, hardware manufacturers use this system so that it appears that their hard drives are larger. Also, the metric system is commonly used with data transfer rates, while the binary is used with data storage, like with this iPod.
You are the kind of person who thinks that if a lawsuit is won, that whatever they were trying to prove with that lawsuit is correct. You are one of those guys that if you weren't in America, you wouldn't make it because you need to be pamered and sheilded from the world and all things offensive. Wake up to reality. By the way, pointing out my spelling errors doesn't prove your point either, so don't try that either.
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