kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
> jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk <jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote

>>> So its a different number system.

>> No, 2^x cannot even be binary. The number 2 doesn't even exist in binary.

> The significant detail is that 1,000,000 being called megabyte is invalid.

Corse it isnt.

> Because byte only exists in a different system, not a decimal
> system, the two different system terms can't be intermixed.

Wrong, as always. Its just a prefix.

> Mega on the other hand, exists in both systems
> so it can be applied to a binary system number.

Pathetic, really. Pity we happen to be discussing MB and GB.

> If someone wanted to call 1,000,000 as a megablob,
> or other megaTHING, that would work, but it cannot be
> called megabyte unless the number expressed is 1,048,576.

Completely off with the fucking fairys, as always.

> Similarly a kilobyte is never 1000, and a byte itself is never 10 bits.

Completely off with the fucking fairys, as always.

> Approximations aren't sufficient, and WD lost a class
> action suit over that so precedence has been set in
> the legal world as well as in the computer world.

Like hell it has when the drive manufacturer makes
clear that its using the decimal form of GB.

> It's a shame the matter wasn't pursued more when
> manufactureres first started mislabeling drives,

Nothing 'mislabeling' about using the SI standard prefix and
making it very clear that they are using the decimal form.

> but on the other hand there are better ways to spend the courts' time.

Courts are completely irrelevant. In spades with that sort of
terminally stupid decision made by that particular fool of a judge.