From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 15 9:59:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426A014DE7 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 09:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.224]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06325; Sat, 15 May 1999 10:59:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <373DA7E7.1ED1EF65@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 10:59:19 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for another upgrade? References: <199905151407.JAA01597@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Avery wrote: > > Money is ALWAYS decimal because people normally use a decimal > system. A gigabuck is 1,000,000,000 dollars. A megabuck is > 1,000,000 dollars. > > Memory is ALWAYS binary, because current computers are binary > systems, so a gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes, a megabyte is > 1,048,576 bytes. As the hackers jargon file points out, "K" means either 1024 or 1000, whichever will do YOU the least good. So if someone offers to sell you disk space at $1K per 1M, that means they're selling you 1,000,000 bytes of space for $1024. See how simple it is? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message