On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:20:45AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2. When > > dealing with distances, it's powers of 10. > > Not so. Manufacturers of hard drives normally (frequently?) give the size in > decimal, though they obviously don't say so, to make them look bigger.
Weird, since we are talking about it this pops up: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/02/11/0254238/when-1-gb-is-really-09313-gigabytes -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130216145653.GE25518@tal
