DOS Games Discussion

Elign · Moderator Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 271

So that would make Europeans think Bill Gates could buy all the gold in the world?

And 1 GB would be able to have seemingly endless movies, games, etc.
And 1 GHz could power a supercomputer.

And China would probably be able to rule the world by now (and flood everybody's email boxes with thousands upon thousands of spams).

That's one (perhaps minor) detriment of the Internet's (and other media) global nature: confusion.

Gamer_V · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:34 am Post subject:

And 1 GB would be able to have seemingly endless movies, games, etc.
And 1 GHz could power a supercomputer.

This doesn't really make any sense... whatever...

Dogbreath · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:38 am Post subject:

No, a gigabyte equals 1,073,741,824 bytes the world over. "giga", in computer terms, meaning 2^30.

(one kilobyte= 2^10, one megabyte= 2^20, one terrabyte= 2^40, etc. etc. etc.)

Elign · Moderator Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 271

dosraider · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:03 am Post subject:

Gamer_V · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject:

This topic makes me all pointy. Laughing

Damn, I'm funny.

Dogbreath · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject:

Gamer_V · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject:

Gigabytes are the same over here as over there, same with therabytes. He means like, millions an billions are reversed, and . and , - I think

dosraider · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject:

What i mean is: we read 1,300 not as thousand threehunderd but as 1,3 .
Or in your notation: 1.3

I give up , here and now,my anglaise is not good enough for such a discution, nor to explain fully what i mean.

You drive me crazy

I'm outta here.

dosraider · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:07 pm Post subject:

One last desperate go:
Ower maths: 1,000 bit x 1,000 bit x 1,000 bit = 1 bit.
Tadaaaa, if you don't get it now what i mean, now gamer_3,990 +gamer_1,010 may explain it.

BTW: gamer_3,990 +gamer_1,010= gamer_5 or gamer_V

and me and myself:............................. A Frikkin Cuccoan

Gamer_V · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject:

gamer_V = gamer_Vincent

That's math! Forbidding

Kazer0 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:

Friend, computer constants are anything but constant. To hard drive manufacturers, 40gb = 40,000,000,000 bytes (Im guessing the number), while its actually rounded to 38,000,000,000. Why? Because HD Manu's use 10^x as the base for calculations, while software companies use 2^x, which is the correct term. 10^x just returns a larger number, therefore they can upsell.

julie124 · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject:

lol this is not my kinda topic, I know nothing of inwhich you speak people Congratulatory

Dosser · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject:

Damn them, selling me a 40gb hard drive and then giving me a 38Gb.

Actually, how is that even legal? It seems they are intentionally (and significantly) fudging the maths in their favour.

Now that I've checked, I only have 35.2Gb OHHH THE HUMANITY

Dogbreath · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: