AS my old IT teacher would say "always remember 8 bits in a byte" i would always get that wrong in a test. i now live near him in a much bigger house and have a nicer car. in his Christmas card i wrote "merry cristmas, and by the way, no one really cares howmany bits there are in a byte" now he never talks to me or my girlfriend and is now moving away. Mankz Ps. i now its not relevent but to be honest i dont really care.
Wow, you're not only demonstrating how far your inability reaches that you can't remember that there are 8 bits in a byte, but also showing us how much you can crap on someone who tried to help you? Way to go.....
And how do we know this, where is the International organization for standardization when you need them?
Hah, but no! 1000B = 1KB. 1024B = 1KiB. I was going to make that comment earlier. This thread is now going to 100 terabytes, not 100 tebibytes. A drive labelled 1TB will format to 931GiB (though be incorrectly labelled as GB). Etc, etc. Yeah, it doesn't seem like much when you're talking about a few megs, but you're talking almost seventy gigs in a difference like that. Congrats, all, you've been pwned by a (The) Wiki. Now, on to a storage of 100 trillion bytes - what hard drive manufactuters will, accurately, label as a 100 terabyte drive (you know... in 2008 or something). Not the 109,951,162,777,600 bytes in a (theoretical) 100TiB drive. Yes, that 24 byte difference adds up. There's a 9 terabyte difference between 100TB and 100TiB. But back on topic!
a small tangent here- so when you have a 56k connection, how many megabytes per second is that? (I know it will be some answer like .005656564684768) but hey, what is it? ok, so my dad has a 3.0mbps (megabits i presume - its DSL) I have a 5.0mbps cable connection so what are the megabyte per second on those? always got confused
ok to stay on topic here. my computer: 1.39GB my total: 1.39 GB im not joking i only have 1GB of storage in this house. im planning on getting a new hard drive sometime soon. o well cheers. Also does anyone know wat the total is im lost.
errr 1.39 gigs? what do you use your computer for? solitair?(not trying to sound like a jacka**) I really would like to know if you don't mind. Anyways, Mine: 360 gb Roommate1: 180 Roommate2: 200 Total: 740 it's 4 am, I am too tired to add up the others and convert them....
small tangent? Anyways, 56k is 56 kilobits per second, as the name might indicate. Which is 7 kilobytes per second. Which is .007 megabytes per second (but as net connections are measured in megabits, it's .056Mbps) Last tally was 78,090GB. To 100,000GB we go!
And then you'll care, well I know I would. 24 mb does matter really when your getting into the terrabytes, think of the space you'd think you've got and you really havn't. [EDIT] See this is why you shouldn't leave it a day to click save changes
look nobody really cares about the loss of a few Gb, on my Maxtor DimamonMaz 10's, each has 203 GB of storage, not 200. there no real point to this fact, i just felt like saying it. Mankz
This is a good example of the law of diminishing marginal utility - when you have a few terabytes of information, who's to care about 500GB if it's been chopped off the end?
It's all relative though, because back in the day, bytes and kilobytes made huge differences. When we are using 500+ terrabytes, few hundred gigs is only minor.
Heh, no, we're not. Bit-tech is a medium sized tech forum, there may be more storage here then on some of the larger non-tech forums. But compared to [H]ard forum, or that mahooosive french one(largest tech forum excluding genmay in the world IIRC) bit-tech will have an insignificant ammount of storage.
