I've always pronounced gigabyte as "jiggabyte", and the last time I looked, the IEEE agreed with me. But the usage has definitely switched to "ghiggabyte" over time. (The root is "giant", and I've never heard anyone say "guyant".)
I think some people just get really uncomfortable saying "jiggabyte". Maybe those guys in LA can make a pronouncement on this while they're at it.
The credit: "Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project. "
Roland McGrath was hired by the FSF to write glibc.
And without gcc/glibc and the rest of the FSF code Linus would not have had the hgh quality, free compiler and library he needed to write the kernel, nor the utilities to turn it into an operating system. Without RMS it would be a different world.
And the LN2 ain't cheap, either. Depending on the supplier be prepared for between $80 and $200/dewar. (Although I guess if you compare it it's probably cheaper per volume than beer...)
We used to say that LN2 was the same price as milk, and LHe the same price as scotch.
As far as LN ice cream goes, we were doing that in the 60's.
"Certainly occurrences of this nature are rare, and are not always reported, but nevertheless they are well known.
The first mention of the phenomenon was made by Athanaseus in his De pluvia piscium nearly two thousand years ago, and E.W.Gudger, in his four collective articles, reports 78 cases of falling fish from the sky."
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I've always pronounced gigabyte as "jiggabyte", and the last time I looked, the IEEE agreed with me. But the usage has definitely switched to "ghiggabyte" over time. (The root is "giant", and I've never heard anyone say "guyant".)
I think some people just get really uncomfortable saying "jiggabyte". Maybe those guys in LA can make a pronouncement on this while they're at it.
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Yes, BMH(RMS :) really was the original gcc author. First release, 1987, I think. And don't forget emacs :-)
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The credit:
"Richard Stallman, for writing the original gcc and launching the GNU project. "
Roland McGrath was hired by the FSF to write glibc.
And without gcc/glibc and the rest of the FSF code Linus would not have had the hgh quality, free compiler and library he needed to write the kernel, nor the utilities to turn it into an operating system. Without RMS it would be a different world.
Linux would have never caught on because with no glibc an' all that, nobody would have plugged all that stuff into Linux in order to make it useful.
Without BHM's gcc/glibc, there would not have been any Linux kernel at all.
And the LN2 ain't cheap, either. Depending on the supplier be prepared for between $80 and $200/dewar. (Although I guess if you compare it it's probably cheaper per volume than beer...)
We used to say that LN2 was the same price as milk, and LHe the same price as scotch.
As far as LN ice cream goes, we were doing that in the 60's.
"Certainly occurrences of this nature are rare, and are not always reported, but nevertheless they are well known.
The first mention of the phenomenon was made by Athanaseus in his De pluvia piscium nearly two thousand years ago, and E.W.Gudger, in his four collective articles, reports 78 cases of falling
fish from the sky."
Happens all the time. What's your point?
I get 151 vs 464
Must have been a lot of unexplained fish in the past couple of hours. Could be serious.