Kilo - means 1000!
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:18 am
not 1024.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:22 am
I like 1024 better. I like all things 8. (or anything bit-wise for that matter) Kilo SHOULD mean 1024.
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:23 am
Or perhaps, just to make everyone happy, Kilo should mean, In the neighborhood of 1000...
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:42 am
no i am not happy! when you say, "yo G, i got a kilo of smack!", do you mean 1024 grams of smack? every dawg knows that a 56K modem is trickin' at 56,000 bits per second, not 57,344. Shit!
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:43 am
Well they are already trying to make 1024 bytes into a kibibyte, instead of a kilobyte.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:50 am
Kibibyte makes ME angry. Stupid word... Tell it I hate it!
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:50 am
Some people think Kilobyte should equal 1000 bytes... but they're so wrong...
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:51 am
Also 1024 grams of smack is much like a baker's dozen. It's a dealer's kilo. So there...
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:58 am
damn it! no!
when you say, "I'll give you 3K for your baker's dozen of smack", do you mean $1,024×3 = $3,072?
when you say, "I'll give you 3K for your baker's dozen of smack", do you mean $1,024×3 = $3,072?
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:54 pm
Of course 3072! Or 4096 (which happens to be another favorite number of mine.)
"Give me 16,384 grams of smack!" I'd say...
"Give me 16,777,216 grams of DMT stat!: I'd say...
I'll take "32,768 grams of flour for baking cookies."
I'll need 512 grams of sugar too.
"Give me 16,384 grams of smack!" I'd say...
"Give me 16,777,216 grams of DMT stat!: I'd say...
I'll take "32,768 grams of flour for baking cookies."
I'll need 512 grams of sugar too.
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:57 pm
Of course it's easier if you just tell them:
Give me 14 bits worth of smack!
Or, 24 bits worth of DMT.
Give me 14 bits worth of smack!
Or, 24 bits worth of DMT.
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:45 pm
Does this all mean that one millibyte is 1/1024 of a byte?
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:35 pm
I lost a few yoctobytes of data due to the recent Taiwan earthquake. Can I sue the Taiwanese government?
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:10 am
sure, and you're probably lookin at making out with a cool ¥16bits, easy!
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:23 am
Â¥16bits, eh? How many hogsheads of marmalade could I get with that?
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:03 pm
How many catties are in a hogshead?
How many firkins for that matter?
How many firkins for that matter?
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:06 pm
There is more to the story - it's not just kibibyte there is a whole host of ibi's...like:
mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, exbi, zebi, yobi...ridiculous...
mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, exbi, zebi, yobi...ridiculous...
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:53 pm
One yobigram, please.
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:42 pm
I'll take a Kilo-yobigram. 