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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mp3s, standard def movies, HD movies, and 4k movies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen so many products advertised by how many “songs” or “movies” it can hold. Never mind you can encode the same movie to be massive or small. So I think we’ve found the right answer!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my harddrive is 250 toby keiths and my processer is 500 lee greenwoods

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

Most people would use "word", "half-word", "quarter-word" etc, but the Anglophiles insist on "tuppit", "ternary piece", "span" and "chunk" (that's 5 bits, or 12 old bits).

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bit, Nibble, Byte, Word, doubleword, longword, quadword, double-quadword, verylongword, halfword

They check all Imperial criteria:

  • confusing names
  • some used only in some systems
  • size depends on where you are
  • some may overlap
  • doesn't manage to cover all the possible needs, but do you really need more than 64 bits?
  • would probably cause you to crash a rocket
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

1 bible = 69 porn clips = 420 feet (unrelated to the other measurement)

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I would suggest:

  • 1KB = storage capacity of 1 kg of 1.44 floppy disks.
  • 1MB = storage capacity of 0.0106 mile of CD drives.
  • 1GB = storage capacity of 1 good computer in the 2000s.
  • 1TB = storage capacity of 1 truck of GB (see above)

PS: just to be clear, I meant CD drives, not CD discs.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1 kg

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Don't you mean one pound, abbreviated lb?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Naw, it's actually one Kinda Gallon; a Kinda Gallon of course referring to the average of the masses of a gallon of water, a gallon of beer, and a gallon of whiskey.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you're joking, but that first Kb definition makes me grind my teeth!

1.44 floppy disks can store, well, 1.44 MEGAbytes. So how can 1 kg of floppy disks can just store 1 KB?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thank you for your compliment. I love it. The floppy disk is 1.44 non-freedom MB, not 0.015264 miles of CD drives.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's for American context then you mean 1 baby

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

A milebyte is 5280 bytes

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