- When talking about transmission speeds on synchronous communications (e.g. ethernet), the 1000 multiplier is used, so: 100 megabit/s = 100.000.000 bit/s.
- When talking about file sizes, the 1024 multiplier is used, so: 26205739087 bytes =~ 24,4 GB.
When talking about hard drives, most hard drive manufacturers use the 1000 multiplier, not he 1024. This makes the number in front of "GB" look bigger than if you use 1024, perhaps thet's why.
Anyway, nobody has promised ANYONE that you would get 80*1024*1024*1024 bytes when buying a 80GB drive, they only promised 80.000.000.000 bytes, which is what you're getting.
So I don't see the point of this lawsuit. It's bogus, right?
The G4 doesn't have video out so you can put it on the TV, that's why I use my PC for DVD playback. I just drop the DVD in the slot, and PowerDVD automatically begins playback.
If there were any cheap cards with S-video out for the G4, I'd of course use it. Anyone?
I'm getting mildly irritated by the use of the word "broadband" in the media today. Broadband has absolutely NOTHING to do with bandwidth or speed. Broadband is a term used to describe a medium that can carry data over several channels at once (e.g. wavelengths in a fiber, carrier frequencies in radio etc). Mediums that can only carry one channel at a time (like Ethernet) are called Baseband. Remember "10baseT" ? Guess what the "base" stands for... / Moonlit
REAL men use their own mailserver and pine...:-) For business purposes I also use webmail, and my choice is HushMail, the encrypted alternative. It runs entirely in Java, so you don't get the lag normal HTML gives you.
Btw, does anyone have a good, and FREE, webmail package for apache to recommend?
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Tha is bullshit. There is no uniform standard.
For example:
- When talking about transmission speeds on synchronous communications (e.g. ethernet), the 1000 multiplier is used, so: 100 megabit/s = 100.000.000 bit/s.
- When talking about file sizes, the 1024 multiplier is used, so:
26205739087 bytes =~ 24,4 GB.
When talking about hard drives, most hard drive manufacturers use the 1000 multiplier, not he 1024. This makes the number in front of "GB" look bigger than if you use 1024, perhaps thet's why.
Anyway, nobody has promised ANYONE that you would get 80*1024*1024*1024 bytes when buying a 80GB drive, they only promised 80.000.000.000 bytes, which is what you're getting.
So I don't see the point of this lawsuit. It's bogus, right?
Actually, he was tried as an *accomplice*, the court were very well aware that he did not write the DeCSS algorithm itself. Read the verdict and see.
My Powermac G4 is far louder than my Compaq Presario, but the quietest of all is my trusty old DX2/66.
I use a laptop with VNCviewer and an ethernet cable to the PC with DVD in it as a remote sometimes. Does that make me lazy? :-)
The G4 doesn't have video out so you can put it on the TV, that's why I use my PC for DVD playback. I just drop the DVD in the slot, and PowerDVD automatically begins playback.
If there were any cheap cards with S-video out for the G4, I'd of course use it. Anyone?
I'm getting mildly irritated by the use of the word "broadband" in the media today. Broadband has absolutely NOTHING to do with bandwidth or speed. Broadband is a term used to describe a medium that can carry data over several channels at once (e.g. wavelengths in a fiber, carrier frequencies in radio etc). Mediums that can only carry one channel at a time (like Ethernet) are called Baseband. Remember "10baseT" ? Guess what the "base" stands for... / Moonlit
REAL men use their own mailserver and pine... :-)
For business purposes I also use webmail, and my choice is HushMail, the encrypted alternative. It runs entirely in Java, so you don't get the lag normal HTML gives you.
Btw, does anyone have a good, and FREE, webmail package for apache to recommend?
-dag