Why do Windows users constantly talk about KB and MB? Kelvin Bytes? Metre Bytes? Don't they mean KiB and MiB?
Why do Windows users constantly talk about KB and MB? Kelvin Bytes? Metre Bytes? Don't they mean KiB and MiB?
Xavier Garcia
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Lucas White
kys imbecile
David Foster
metre are a lowercase m
Jacob Barnes
A kilobyte has been 1024 bytes since the start, and a megabyte has been 1024 kilobytes. The 1000 byte stuff is just an invention of penny pinching hard disk makers.
The kibi/mebi crap is an attempt to make things clearer to normies, and an autistic "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IT'S NOT PROPER METRIC".
Jaxon Lewis
>kilobyte
kB
>1024 bytes
KiB
Windows users however often talk about KB, a nonsensical unit. Kelvin Byte?
Christian Cooper
>kys imbecile
Names that are being addressed directly are said to be in the vocative case. When somebody is being spoken to directly, his, her or their name must be separated from the rest of the sentence with a comma.
Correct: "KYS, imbecile."
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Christian Richardson
KB = kilobyte = 1024 bytes. This is how it's been since the 70s. See above post about autistic soyboy screeching.
Chase Campbell
k = kilo (base 10)
K = Kelvin
Ki = kilo (base 2)
Josiah Turner
KB = kilobyte = 1024 bytes. It's not a pretty metric unit, but it's standard. Arbitrarily redefining terms leads to confusion.
Leo Sanchez
>standard
Not by any means.
Virtually every recognized scientific and/or standards organization has embraced metric units, including NIST, IEEE, ISO, IEC and NASA.
Kevin Young
We call them k and m. We expect you to determine the meaning by context. For humans who think like robots this can prove troublesome.
Brayden Price
k = kilo
m = milli
Hunter Martinez
Autism itt
Jackson Garcia
its the capital what matters
KB = 1024
kB = 1000
Kb = 1024
kb = 1000
KiB = 1024
K = 1024
Caleb Mitchell
Sure, but if someone writes 12mb you think they mean .012 bits? If so you function at a lower level of understanding than even Bing.
Alexander Edwards
as long as you're doing this to better us all so that we can be more clear and correct, that's fine. I just hope this thread's intent wasn't to upset people unnecessarily.
David Nelson
m is mega you fuck
Wyatt King
a kilon meant 1000n since the 1870s
Asher Hill
If m means Mega, then what is milli?
Aaron Evans
>Sure, but if someone writes 12mb you think they mean .012 bits?
I ask them if they actually mean 12 Mb.
Lincoln Wood
No, M is mega you stupid fuck.
Ian Edwards
Yes, I'd like to store a 500 millibyte file here...
Charles Turner
is that really being thrown around or are you messing it up further? I thought it was supposed to be KB and KiB
either way it's fucking stupid
Lincoln Walker
you can look at any book or manual written before a few years ago that defines a kilobyte (KB) in exact terms and it'll say it's 1024 bytes
Carter Smith
>kys
Don't you mean kiys?
Robert Barnes
>kilo
>means 1000
A kilo of bytes is 1000 bytes. 2^10 was arbitrarily named kilobyte because 1000 itself isn't a multiplication of 2, but this naming scheme was incorrect and had to be corrected. The correct term is kibibyte.
>You can look up a book written over a thousand years ago saying that the Earth is the center of universe.
>you can look up a book written decades ago citing that mobile computers and phones aren't owned by the general population and are currently irrelevant
It's called outdated information, kid.
Carson Parker
He means imiBecile
Also, I keep forgetting which is which. I have a problem with the different architectures as well.
Dominic James
Wrong.
Literally every tech company defines 1KB as 1024 bytes. Just check anything referencing RAm storage.
Eli Cox
What does this picture have to do with technology? Are you retarded?
Liam Morales
And here's the proof of APPLE doing it.
If they were consistent, it would say 34.36GB of ram.
Julian Baker
Apple uses decimal prefixes, retard. It's Windows the only OS that gets it wrong.
Alexander Sanders
except they don't and that;s why their numbers are inconsistent
Mason Fisher
the definition of a term like this shouldn't be able to become outdated
see also every measurement in the metric system, the methods of determining most of them have changed but only to more precisely specify the size of the measurement