>tfw you realize 1Mbps is actually just 128KB/s

>>56450392
If you didn't know this then you don't belong here.

>>56450392
It took 3 hours to explain that shit to my dad.

Never do family tech support.

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>>56450406
Well now I do.

128*8=1024
Huh really makes you think.

>>56450392
Why are they using bits instead of bytes tho? Is it because having round numvers like 1, 2, 8, 20 sounds better and bigger ?

>>56450438
Historical reasons. Communication has traditionally been measured in bit/s because a byte wasn't always 8 bits.
It's only recently that the Byte has been somewhat agreed upon as 8 bits.
There were computers with anything from 6 to 36 bit bytes.

>>56450413
Anyone have that copypasta about how people don't respect tech teachers

>>56450438
This, people almost always use collections of 8 bits instead of manipulating/transmitting them individually.

>>56450462
>almost
See, that's the problem.
"Bit" however is 100% unambiguous.

>>56450432
how does the 8 turn into a zero? calling shenanigans

>>56450392
125*

>>56450392
>tfw you realize most of /g/ is /v/ spillover

>>56450392
It's not:
1Mibps = 128KiBps
1Mbps = 125kBps

The biggest blunder in the history of computing was letting kilo=2^10

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>you'll never start torrenting a new 720p lost episode with 120 kb/s when leaving for school and be happy to find it it's downloaded when you come back home

>>56451677
lost was the biggest ruse of the last decate

>>56451701
fuck off kunt

>>56451677
>you will never spend over a month torrenting SW KotOR II at several kB/s using Azureus while praying to god that the .rar unpacks and installs correctly
Anyway, you just need to learn to queue up more and bigger torrents. I've been torrenting my current backlog for several days now even though I have a 16 Mbps connection

>>56451777
turkey?

>>56451793
Germany

>>56451797
so, turkey.

>>56451803
kek

>>56451597
there is no such thing as "Mib", faggot

>>56450406
http://youtu.be/4ZI8AC4AR5A

>>56451677
>not downloading 35M rmvb bleach episodes over dialup

>>56451868
Yes, it's Mebibit. As in 1,024 Kib (kibibit), as in 1,048,576 bit.
In contrast to Mb, which is Megabit. As in 1,000 Kb (kilobit), as in 1,000,000 bit.

>>56452051
nobody has ever used that though

>>56452074
It is used by many applications. And it's not my problem if idiot programmers use wrong terminology.

>>56450392
Nigger I had an ISDN line growing up. Ain't no way that shit was 1Mb

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Hard drive and SSD manufacturers jew you by giving space in metric terabytes

>>56452161
Windows is wrong. It's 2.72 TiB, not 2.72 TB.

>>56452161
This is 2.72 TiB not TB

>>56452161
It is not TB, it is 2.72 TiB.

>>56451888
>navigating shit geocities fansite and downloading wmv of episode

>>56452178
>>56452184
>>56452202
I think Bill Gates knew what he was doing when he programmed Windows fags.

>>56452178
>>56452184
>>56452202
we get it, you're autistic, you didn't have to samefag though.

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>>56452248
Nope

>>56452231
Except when giving the SI prefixes an entirely different meaning than they have.

>>56452205
>tfw kids today won't ever experience the pain that is VFR encodes

The quality of the threads on /g/ sure dropped quite a bit.

>>56452306
GNU/Linux programs get it right most of the time, and use SI binary prefixes or metric prefixes.
Mac OS X also gets it right.
Only Windows is garbage, as usual.

>>56451677
>tfw you'll never feel the excitement of downloading something illegally from torrents
>you'll never accidentally download porn instead of an mp3
>you'll never be 12 ever again
oh the feels

>>56452349
>britney_spears_naked_128kbps.mp3.exe
limewire was fun times, one time i spend four days downloading halo (over 600 MEGABYTES HOLY FUCK)

>>56452442
I remember the week it took me to download the sims 8 in 1. I lived in the countryside and has shitty internet. but it was c o m f y.

>>56450392
Bits are different than bytes

If you get 80megabits per second internet speed, its just 8 megabytes per second

>>56452471
it's crazy to think downloading an entire CD was a big deal when now even with my shitty-by-todays-standards i can blow through 600M just by watching a moderately long youtube video

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>>56451677

Back then we had a 200MB data cap so I had to wait for this huge haul of TV shows/movies that my Dad would get every month.

>>56451597
kek

>>56451803
kek

>>56452178
>>56452184
>>56452202
kys

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>>56452735
"no"

>>56452270

Except they meant the same thing 30 years ago as they do today.

1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes

he didn't get cucked by hdd makers like freetards did and changed terminology out of thin air into 'kib'

why would MS do that?

>>56452754
>1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes
That has always been wrong.
Kilo = 1000 in all conceivable sciences.
Kibi = 1024. You even get a special unit.

>>56452074
Blame hard drive manufacturers for coming up with this shit.
OSes and file systems still use the computer sane definition of the SI prefixes.

>>56452768
>OSes and file systems still use the computer sane definition of the SI prefixes.
There is only one definition of SI/ISO/IEC/NIST prefixes and it's

kB = Kilobyte = 1000 Byte
KiB = Kibibyte = 1024 Byte.

Apple uses it.
Most GNU/Linux desktops use it.

Only Microsoft continues to perpetuate the lie because their users can't into change, for the same reason why America still measures the world in feet and armpits.

>>56452766

Computers use binary so metric units are irrelevant.

>>56452813
That's why you use the appropriate prefix.

Apart from that, information theory has always been metric.

>>56452791
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte#Definitions_and_usage

http://askubuntu.com/questions/352597/why-do-du-sh-and-the-file-manager-disagree

>>56452791

Now you're showing your ignorance.

Apple does not use "KiB" actually.

Freetards are just stupid. Some of their applications use KiB, others KB leading to inconsistencies.

I was using GParted the other day and it told me that by HD had 1TB, or 1,000 GB. Idiots, why not at least say 931 "GiB" like some of your other applications.

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>>56450392
>tfw you realize 1 ft is really just 12 inches

>>56452865
>Apple does not use "KiB" actually.
Reading comprehension.
The parent post said that Apple uses the SI definition, which is true.

In Finder, 1000 Byte = 1 kB, as it is deemed correct by SI, ISO, IEC and NIST.

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>>56452865
>1TB, or 1,000 GB. Idiots, why not at least say 931 "GiB" like some of your other applications.
Because both is correct.

1 TB ~ 931 GiB.

>>56452865
>GParted
Pic related. Default GParted uses KiB, MiB and GiB.

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>>56452889

Wrong yet again dumbass.

>8GB of RAM

That RAM is 1,073,741,824 bytes NOT 1,000,000,000 bytes so Apple is 100% wrong.

Why didn't they use 8GiB???

>>56452923
That is indeed a crime against standards by Apple.
But open Finder and you will find that it uses correct units.

Now reply to this:
>>56452913
:)

>>56452939

So Apple is wrong, yet you claimed they were right all the time.

Also Finder is stupid since their size units don't match with 99.9% of the entire computing world.

>:)

I used latest Ubuntu live iso about a week ago and it gave me 1,000 GB BS. You can try yourself.

But why would it surprise you that Loonix is an inconsistent, fragmented piece of shit?

:^)

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>>56452984
>I used latest Ubuntu live iso about a week ago and it gave me 1,000 GB BS. You can try yourself.
You should file a bug report.
Upstream GParted uses GiB.

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>>56452984
Ubuntu 16.04 Live
:)))