Especially when you know that in some languages it could have a bad effect. Bits are already subject to childish jokes. I just can't imagine a forum of students being completely still when the professors use that term.
We are speaking about memory units of size always being a power of 2 (yeah, you can sum banks to have something else like 768, whatever...)
When you think about other units like weight or lenght you forget that they are not coming by 8, 256, 512 or 1024.
When your hard disk is divided in sectors (512 bytes) gathered in blocks of 4096 bytes, what will you say ? Your disk is using blocks of 4.096KB or 4KiB ?
Okay, let's assume you use K/M/G for 10^3 increments. Let's assume you use those cheesy-named units for 2^10 increments.
What's the use of the K/M/G names when you buy a memory module ? "Hi, I would like to by an 1.073741824GB memory module" (Be very carefull, if you ask 1GB, the vendor could sell you 1GiB with 73741824 defective/missing bytes)
Ah, yes, you can use the "other" unit. Mmmh, ok... let's say that. What could be the use for the "old" widely-used-since-years units ? Ah, yes, if you buy an hard disk... true (since they are "using" it). Or if you program something and use exactly one multiple of 10^3 bytes as an allocation unit (not often, to say the least) and say it in a dinner (difficult, but hey, who says it wasn't ?)
Right...
That would mean that with their new meaning, the "old"/wusyu would be pretty useless.
Ok
So we would have GB and GiB. How do you say that ? Gee-bee ? Gee-ai-bee ? Wonderful. I wish you luck. I for one, will still use the units I know since 20 years now.
The fact "common people" have trouble thinking that for memory units we (scientists) are using K=1024 instead K=1000 for technical reasons means nothing to me.
As far as I can remember, binary units (bits & bytes) have always been packed by power of 10 (2^10, 2^20,...). We are speaking of machines working with base 2 : not base 10 or 7 but 2.
The size of the memory of my ZX81 was 1KB or 1024 bytes and not 1.024KB
The size of the memory of my CPC464 was 64KB or 65536 bytes and not 65.536KB
The size of the memory of my main personal computer is 1GB or 1073741824 bytes and not 1.073741824GB
Tell me if I'm wrong but AFAIK that power of ten stupidity is related to mass storage using power of ten to sell you a 111GB disk as being a 120GB. When I will be able to store 120 times the raw image of my memory in my 120GB Maxtor/Hitashi/Seagate disk, I will agree it's a 120GB.
I don't think computer science needs those foolish names and unit changes to ensure complexity in the units. It is not a commercial game.
Pale imitator ? You are looking at the past. Try to forsee the future. If you cannot, just wait. Belive me : Nature is outdated (except, maybe, in the Astral Disaster domain)
You should know that humans would not stand against a Major Natural Disaster either. (Somehow, we are a kind of major natural disater, and we will probably not stand against us either.)
The big difference is that the way "we" destroy everything is more or less like shooting ourselve in the foot. We are pratically begging for a disaster. With the right snowball effect, our whish will be granted.
If they are on the brink of extinction, maybe it's there time to go... Ya ya I know, "But they wouldn't be on the brink of extinction if it weren't for man," What kind of an effect would increasing a species numbers in a particular area have on local ecosystems?
Right.
When someone is ill, it's his time to go too. No need to cure anyone.
When uneducated/greedy/stupid people will have destroyed all animals and vegetables with all the expected side-effects, humans will be next.
But who cares ? It will be their time to go too...
This of course leads to silly scenes of a child with under developed motor control piloting a race car"
And able to compensate for a long iginition delay but only until he goes next to the first driver. (Why ? The racer broke just at that moment and lost all speed boost ?)
Every single time ? Really ? Oh well, that's the first time I've noticed a topic about TV.
I would be surprised to know anyone who care about some anonymous nick-name watching or not TV (or smoking, reading, watching porn, being an atheist, agnostic or from any sect/religion, having a particular sexual orientation... ). It was just a fact. The "I don't watch TV" part was the only conclusion I've found at 01:00am. The idea I had in mind was more like "do your worst RIAA, at the end there will be no one to watch" but I can only speak for myself and I do not really as a custommer count anymore, so...
At least I think I understand why your answer looked so "personnal".
I'm reading my comment again. Who knows? Maybe I was drunk or anything... Well no : I don't see anything implying I'm better than "you".
Do you have any inferiority complex or anything ? In bad mood today maybe ? Trolling ? Oh, yes, maybe a TV show saying that people watching TV are stupid ? ( I'm sorry, I didn't knew : I do not watch TV:p )
I have bad memories of what was on TV. The raise of "reality"-show and other watch-those-people-suffering-it-isn't-sad?-i'isn't -interresting? crap were my limit. There are many other way to spend time, they got an increase of interest.
You can notice that in the first sentence I just try to summary all the bad things and remember and say that they can stop "me" watching "those" all they want. (I don't have my pink spectacles still I don't see any superiority (nazi?) stuff or anything there.)
As for my electricity bill, since I use a few computers and gaming consoles, I don't expect it to drop down anytime soon. ( I suppose that in your urge to wrongly interpret what I had written, you didn't though there were other "unhealty" or anything activities involving a CRT ? )
Stop being picky by your bad interpretations and just try to understand the words people write(*)... (and the other moron too)
( Yes, here you can I'm poking you a bit. )
Thanks to you I've just probably lost a few points of karma (not that I care). Happy ? Good, have a nice day.
[*] English is not my first language, but I think I'm not that bad using it.
Actually, Ultima IX has been changed a lot of time. I don't think it would have been the same without the interference of EA. The trouble with EA is that it targetted money with statistics and targetted audience instead of fun and gaming.
Why do the Sims (a good idea when it was lauched : training IAs) looks now like a trash-TV Voyeurism. I expect soon there will be sex etc...
Origin's games were an important part of my fun when I was younger. I still remember the "Stones" music from the Ultima VII serie. And for various reasons, I still see the attack of Kilrathi Mang when listening Bach music./tear
EA destroyed Bullfrog, Origin,... What do they sell now ? The Sims...
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I've seen this error enough to mention it :
It is not "viola", it's "voila" (voilà).
Actually, "viola" means "raped" as in "he raped her" (il la viola)
Or maybe it was what you meant ? ^_^
It is most probably a Threat of War
Bethesda usually means 'excellent games' (and 'crippled with bugs').
I can't help but wonder why they need to buy a licence. They already have successful series of their own.
I just hope it will not be a "licence" game and that the spirit of the serie will be preserved.
That would mean you will have to fear thousands of virus on a gaming console too ? ;)
...
I can't wait
Especially when you know that in some languages it could have a bad effect.
Bits are already subject to childish jokes.
I just can't imagine a forum of students being completely still when the professors use that term.
Ok, right. Maybe I need an explaination but I fail the see the link.
You are just mixing units are you ?
Anyway, as I already said, those numbers have no meaning. They are arbitrary if you like it better.
The 2^10 and other binary "packing" of units is not arbitrary (not that much). There is a technical reason, as you may already know.
Did I missed your point ?
What you do not seems to understand is that there is a reason for that 2^10.
The numbers you have used have not meaning at all.
We are speaking about memory units of size always being a power of 2 (yeah, you can sum banks to have something else like 768, whatever ...)
... let's say that. ... true (since they are "using" it).
...
When you think about other units like weight or lenght you forget that they are not coming by 8, 256, 512 or 1024.
When your hard disk is divided in sectors (512 bytes) gathered in blocks of 4096 bytes, what will you say ? Your disk is using blocks of 4.096KB or 4KiB ?
Okay, let's assume you use K/M/G for 10^3 increments.
Let's assume you use those cheesy-named units for 2^10 increments.
What's the use of the K/M/G names when you buy a memory module ?
"Hi, I would like to by an 1.073741824GB memory module" (Be very carefull, if you ask 1GB, the vendor could sell you 1GiB with 73741824 defective/missing bytes)
Ah, yes, you can use the "other" unit.
Mmmh, ok
What could be the use for the "old" widely-used-since-years units ?
Ah, yes, if you buy an hard disk
Or if you program something and use exactly one multiple of 10^3 bytes as an allocation unit (not often, to say the least) and say it in a dinner (difficult, but hey, who says it wasn't ?)
Right
That would mean that with their new meaning, the "old"/wusyu would be pretty useless.
Ok
So we would have GB and GiB.
How do you say that ? Gee-bee ? Gee-ai-bee ? Wonderful. I wish you luck.
I for one, will still use the units I know since 20 years now.
The fact "common people" have trouble thinking that for memory units we (scientists) are using K=1024 instead K=1000 for technical reasons means nothing to me.
As far as I can remember, binary units (bits & bytes) have always been packed by power of 10 (2^10, 2^20, ...).
We are speaking of machines working with base 2 : not base 10 or 7 but 2.
The size of the memory of my ZX81 was 1KB or 1024 bytes and not 1.024KB
The size of the memory of my CPC464 was 64KB or 65536 bytes and not 65.536KB
The size of the memory of my main personal computer is 1GB or 1073741824 bytes and not 1.073741824GB
Tell me if I'm wrong but AFAIK that power of ten stupidity is related to mass storage using power of ten to sell you a 111GB disk as being a 120GB.
When I will be able to store 120 times the raw image of my memory in my 120GB Maxtor/Hitashi/Seagate disk, I will agree it's a 120GB.
I don't think computer science needs those foolish names and unit changes to ensure complexity in the units. It is not a commercial game.
KISS is the rule.
Pale imitator ? You are looking at the past. Try to forsee the future. If you cannot, just wait. Belive me : Nature is outdated (except, maybe, in the Astral Disaster domain)
You should know that humans would not stand against a Major Natural Disaster either. (Somehow, we are a kind of major natural disater, and we will probably not stand against us either.)
The big difference is that the way "we" destroy everything is more or less like shooting ourselve in the foot. We are pratically begging for a disaster.
With the right snowball effect, our whish will be granted.
Right.
When someone is ill, it's his time to go too. No need to cure anyone.
When uneducated/greedy/stupid people will have destroyed all animals and vegetables with all the expected side-effects, humans will be next.
But who cares ? It will be their time to go too
Insightful indeed
sigh
And able to compensate for a long iginition delay but only until he goes next to the first driver. (Why ? The racer broke just at that moment and lost all speed boost ?)
Cheesy plot wars.
JarJar married with an Ewok ?
I agree.
If it's a binary number that is.
Every single time ? Really ? Oh well, that's the first time I've noticed a topic about TV.
... ). It was just a fact. ...
I would be surprised to know anyone who care about some anonymous nick-name watching or not TV (or smoking, reading, watching porn, being an atheist, agnostic or from any sect/religion, having a particular sexual orientation
The "I don't watch TV" part was the only conclusion I've found at 01:00am. The idea I had in mind was more like "do your worst RIAA, at the end there will be no one to watch" but I can only speak for myself and I do not really as a custommer count anymore, so
At least I think I understand why your answer looked so "personnal".
I'm reading my comment again. Who knows? Maybe I was drunk or anything ...
:p )
t -interresting? crap were my limit. There are many other way to spend time, they got an increase of interest.
... (and the other moron too)
Well no : I don't see anything implying I'm better than "you".
Do you have any inferiority complex or anything ? In bad mood today maybe ? Trolling ? Oh, yes, maybe a TV show saying that people watching TV are stupid ? ( I'm sorry, I didn't knew : I do not watch TV
I have bad memories of what was on TV. The raise of "reality"-show and other watch-those-people-suffering-it-isn't-sad?-i'isn'
You can notice that in the first sentence I just try to summary all the bad things and remember and say that they can stop "me" watching "those" all they want. (I don't have my pink spectacles still I don't see any superiority (nazi?) stuff or anything there.)
As for my electricity bill, since I use a few computers and gaming consoles, I don't expect it to drop down anytime soon. ( I suppose that in your urge to wrongly interpret what I had written, you didn't though there were other "unhealty" or anything activities involving a CRT ? )
Stop being picky by your bad interpretations and just try to understand the words people write(*)
( Yes, here you can I'm poking you a bit. )
Thanks to you I've just probably lost a few points of karma (not that I care). Happy ? Good, have a nice day.
[*] English is not my first language, but I think I'm not that bad using it.
No, really : does TV worth the trouble ?
Advertising, bad shows, stupid shows, clueless shows and advertising again : they can forbid me to record that kind of trash as much as they want.
I'm just glad I've stopped watching TV 5 years ago.
The X-Rays discovery had nothing to do with space.
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http://ctct.essortment.com/wilhelmroentgen_rght
AFAIK DooM was IPX. The TCP/IP protocol came much later, added by fans.
Does this discovery put the "Black Holes" in the "Mass Storage" category ?
How many Libraries of Congress ?
damn, I wish I had time to watch 1000 DVDs
Actually, Ultima IX has been changed a lot of time. I don't think it would have been the same without the interference of EA.
...
The trouble with EA is that it targetted money with statistics and targetted audience instead of fun and gaming.
Why do the Sims (a good idea when it was lauched : training IAs) looks now like a trash-TV Voyeurism. I expect soon there will be sex etc
Origin's games were an important part of my fun when I was younger. I still remember the "Stones" music from the Ultima VII serie. And for various reasons, I still see the attack of Kilrathi Mang when listening Bach music. /tear
... ...
EA destroyed Bullfrog, Origin,
What do they sell now ? The Sims
You mean : "good movies" then.
Lowly commercial movies are crap.
Actually, most of the commercial "art" is crap.