1GB=1000MB in snow leopard


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Noone actually usesthe MiB,GiB,TiB crap. It's a stupid solution to a really non existing problem.

everyone who says 1MB pretty much means 1024, and those who don't, they're the ones who don't even know there's a difference between 1000 and 1024, they just know there's MegaBytes and such.

As long as you're talking bits/bytes it should be obvious to anyone it matters for that you're talkign ain base2 and this 1024.

Stupid was the decision to just change the SI standard and make a Kilo 1024 instead of 1000 in the first place.

We've been using a wrong definition for all these years, it's time to change.

the whole MiB crap needs to die, and everyoen should learn to count to 1024.

Why yes, let's change a globally used standard (apart from the U.S.) and count as we please... I say let's make 1 KHz stand for 1050Hz and not 1000. Anyone with me?

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1MB = 1000 KB

1MiB = 1024 KB

Incorrect.

1 MiB = 1024 KiB, not 1024 KB

I know you meant well, and I'm probably being pedantic, but it does matter :-)

Okay, the whole MiB **** is so stupid. Seeing as computers work in binary (base 2) it makes a hell of a lot more sense for 1MB to = 1024 KB (and such).

No, it doesn't. It doesn't make sense that mega would mean 1 million in every other sector, and 1 million and some more when working with computers.

Noone actually usesthe MiB,GiB,TiB crap. It's a stupid solution to a really non existing problem.

everyone who says 1MB pretty much means 1024, and those who don't, they're the ones who don't even know there's a difference between 1000 and 1024, they just know there's MegaBytes and such.

As long as you're talking bits/bytes it should be obvious to anyone it matters for that you're talkign ain base2 and this 1024.

the whole MiB crap needs to die, and everyoen should learn to count to 1024.

It's too late for that. The two systems exist now, and they both mean different things. The sooner everyone starts using them correctly, the sooner the confusion ends.

Oh, and a fitting comic: http://xkcd.com/394/

I like the '1024 during leap years, 1000 during other ones'.

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Why yes, let's change a globally used standard (apart from the U.S.) and count as we please... I say let's make 1 KHz stand for 1050Hz and not 1000. Anyone with me?

The problem is that the new SI definition are too little, too late. The _entire world_ has gotten used to the 1024 thing. It's not an American issue, it is the same everywhere in the world.

It's not that simple to just switch overnight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SYPD7u0ZIM

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again, bit and bytes are base2, it doesn't make sense to apply the base 10 kilo,mega, tera's to them anyway, or rather, it doesn't make sense to apply them to base then with the same rules as on base10

As I said, anyone who needs to know the difference knows that a MB is 1024, those who don't, they don't really need to.

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The problem is that the new SI definition are too little, too late. The _entire world_ has gotten used to the 1024 thing. It's not an American issue, it is the same everywhere in the world.

It's not that simple to just switch overnight.

OS X is just a small part of the computer industry, not the whole. Also hard drive manufacturers use the correct system too.

It's not changing overnight, just step by step.

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again, bit and bytes are base2, it doesn't make sense to apply the base 10 kilo,mega, tera's to them anyway, or rather, it doesn't make sense to apply them to base then with the same rules as on base10

What? Bytes aren't any base. A base is merely how a number is presented. "1111" in base2, 15 in base10 and F in base16 are the same number, only the presentation changes.

Counting "something" in batches of 1000 makes much more sense than 1024 because that's how we do it "everywhere". Bytes, potatoes, it doesn't matter. It's just a measure unit.

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again, bit and bytes are base2, it doesn't make sense to apply the base 10 kilo,mega, tera's to them anyway, or rather, it doesn't make sense to apply them to base then with the same rules as on base10

As I said, anyone who needs to know the difference knows that a MB is 1024, those who don't, they don't really need to.

Bits and bytes are NOT in base 2. Binary numbers are in base 2.

1 byte = 8 bits

Then, bytes are counted and expressed in the regular, old fashioned, base-10 way. The thing with the units is that instead of k=10^3, M=10^6, T=10^9 and so on,

k=2^10, M=10^20, T=10^30. Hardly anything to do with the 'base'.

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I just want to know if there's a preference to turn the junk off. When I install SL, this is one thing I DO NOT want. Does anyone know of a preference to turn it off?

They like people to think Macs are "easier", but all the while people who have used Windows in the past year or two are sitting their scratching their head wondering how four clicks and two key presses is easier than just doing the same thing with two clicks on the PC. I sound negative and flame baitish, yet I actually think Mac OS is a great OS ... it's just quirky in a whole lot of ways that Apple refuses to fix. We have a Mac Mini at work that's running Windows 7 now simply because it's cumbersome to do some of the most simplest tasks with just the base-OS.

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Yeah I don't get how they think it's easier to make you go to the Applications folder to add a new app to the dock instead of adding it to the dock by default and just let you drag it off if you don't want it.

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