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  • GT98
    FanBoy
    • Aug 1999
    • 4408

    #1

    Holy Crap...

    I saw that MOH: Pacific Assualt demo was out so I went over to Fileshack where I have a mercury account to use and I'm getting nearly a 1Gb download off their servers! I guess no one else is on line today
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    Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?
  • DGhost
    Super MURCer
    • May 2000
    • 2573

    #2
    1Gb? you mena 1Mb, right?
    "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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    • GT98
      FanBoy
      • Aug 1999
      • 4408

      #3
      Originally posted by DGhost
      1Gb? you mena 1Mb, right?
      I was never good with math
      Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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      • lecter
        Super MURCer
        • May 2002
        • 1467

        #4
        Actually that's 8Mb...
        All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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        • leech
          Super MURCer
          • Oct 1999
          • 1918

          #5
          Actually, if you want to get technical, that's 8MB... notice the capital B. Megabit vs. Megabyte. Either way, that's DAMNED fast!

          Leech
          Wah! Wah!

          In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

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          • agallag
            Super MURCer
            • Aug 1999
            • 3201

            #6
            No, lecter is right. 1024KB is 1MB, which is 8Mb.
            Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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            • DGhost
              Super MURCer
              • May 2000
              • 2573

              #7
              LOL, indeed.
              "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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              • GuchiGuh
                Comic Relief
                • Jun 2002
                • 1656

                #8
                eh?

                whats the difference between Mb, MB mB, mb?

                Mercedes Benz?

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                • agallag
                  Super MURCer
                  • Aug 1999
                  • 3201

                  #9
                  Originally posted by GuchiGuh
                  eh?

                  whats the difference between Mb, MB mB, mb?

                  Mercedes Benz?
                  If you're talking units of data storage, then, in order, it's Megabit, Megabyte, millibyte, millibit. The last two don't exist.

                  Mercedes Benz should always be written out in full, to abbreviate would be disrespectful
                  Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox

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                  • Fat Tone
                    Super MURCer
                    • Aug 1999
                    • 7579

                    #10
                    M = Mega (i.e. millions, although in computing it is often 1024*1024 depending on what suits)
                    K = Kilo (i.e. 1000 or 1024 depending)
                    m = milli (i.e. thousandths, not used in computing)
                    b = bit
                    B = Byte (i.e. 8 bits)
                    FT.

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                    • az
                      Moderator
                      • Feb 2001
                      • 9336

                      #11
                      Also, the technically correct way of expressing 1024x1024 (or 2 to the power of twenty) would be Mebi and 1024<sup>3</sup> (or 2<sup>30</sup>)would be Gibi (giving us Mebibyte and Gibibyte), but nobody uses that because it sounds stupid

                      But if you want to piss off the Prof Who Knows Everything<sup>TM</sup>, this can be useful

                      AZ
                      There's an Opera in my macbook.

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                      • Jon P. Inghram
                        Super MURCer
                        • Oct 1999
                        • 3878

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Fat Tone
                        M = Mega (i.e. millions, although in computing it is often 1024*1024 depending on what suits)
                        K = Kilo (i.e. 1000 or 1024 depending)
                        m = milli (i.e. thousandths, not used in computing)
                        b = bit
                        B = Byte (i.e. 8 bits)
                        Hey, you forgot the nibble, 4 bits!

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                        • Brian R.
                          Super MURCer
                          • Aug 1999
                          • 3874

                          #13
                          Actually, the "k" for kilo is a lower case "k". The upper case "K" is reserved for temperature in Kelvin degrees. [/nitpicking]
                          Last edited by Brian R.; 7 September 2004, 13:01.

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                          • Nowhere
                            Super MURCer
                            • Jun 2002
                            • 4830

                            #14
                            Actually, in Kelvins, not Kelvin degrees.
                            [/more nitpicking]

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                            • spadnos
                              MURCer
                              • Jun 2002
                              • 859

                              #15
                              Actually, it's 6 degrees of separation from Kelvin Bacon.
                              [/stupid nitpicking]

                              - Steve

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