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Snow Leopard Reviews Begin Rolling Out
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You mean because it now measures space improperly. According to Apple a GB is now 1000 bytes, instead of the 1024 it has been since the dawn of time.
Just because math is inconvenient should be no reason to do it wrong.
Just because people are ignorant is no reason to do it wrong.
Maybe you should learn how conditional statements work. I said "Does the license permit it? If not, it's theft and illegal."
In other words, IF the license does not permit it, THEN it's theft.
A more intelligent response would be to point out a link to the license that doesn't restrict the upgrade to just Leopard.
According to Apple a KB is once again 1000 bytes.
Since the "dawn of time", "K" has meant 1000 (10^3), "M" has meant 1,000,000 (10^6), "G" has meant 1,000,000,000 (10^9).
A gigahertz is 10^9 Hz, a gigabit ethernet is 10^9 bits per second - a gigabyte hard drive is 10^9 bytes.
Maybe so, but the K you are referring to (as in Kilo, or yes, 10^3) is no the same K in kilobytes, which since the dawn of computers has meant 2^10 bytes, or 1024. I imagine this is because computers, on a basic level, (at least used to) work in binary code (ie. base 2, rather than base 10, which is what our numeral system works in), and amounts of data have therefore traditionally gone up by factors of 2, rather than 10. So, up until SL, all computers reported KB in the sense of 2^10, not 10^3, bytes. Manufacturers have taken the other route so they can seem to provide larger hard drives than they actually do. So yes, Apple is now incorrectly reporting space used in computer standards, and I have to imagine it has done so in order to make it simpler for people who expect that there "120GB" drive to show 120GB, rather than the actual value of kilobytes.
The key here is that 1 kilobyte is not actually 1000 bytes, and it never has been.
Actually, you often find Linux displays showing either MB=10^6, or MiB=2^20.
The international standards bodies have created the xiB notation for power of 2 sizes, and have called for the end of the practice of labeling power of 2 numbers with power of 10 notation.
Kudos to Apple for switching to the international standards-conforming displays.
Note the following at http://www.novell.com/linux/techspecs.html:
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Actually, the "kilo" sign is "k", the small-k, but other than that you're right. Us europeans have so used to SI units and like to talk about kilograms (kg) and kilometers (km) etc.
(bigger units like mega, giga, tera, peta, etc. are big letters, but kilo and smaller are small letters)
EDIT: here's a link
FedEx Overnight By 3pm Waiting Game
I think I read somewhere it does support Blu-ray playback but I'm not certain if that was fact or rumor. I imagine iTunes 9 in only 11 more days will do that. But I'm only guessing.
I feel your pain. I had the option of picking it up at the very nearby FedEx depot 2 hours ago and passed thinking he'd show up earlier this morning than now. So I've taped the signature release form on the door with a note to YELL in my window when he arrives and am going to try and sleep off all this anxiety that's kept me up since about 4am 'til he gets here.Well its Friday 28th and I pre ordered Snow Leopard (Now where is it?)!!!!!!!
What a polava I am never pre ordering agin!
May as well head to the apple store and buy it twice
Dose any one know if it supports blu-ray playback, or was that just a bogus rumor, or just itunes 9! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I think I read somewhere it does support Blu-ray playback but I'm not certain if that was fact or rumor. I imagine iTunes 9 in only 11 more days will do that. But I'm only guessing.
That still doesn't make it right.
A Mars probe crashed a few years ago because one engineering team used metric measurements while another team did not. I can imagine the confusion that will result from these invented quantities:
"You said gigabytes, right?"
"Yeah, gigabytes, er, no ... gibibytes."
"Oh crap!"
So that people think that they suddenly have more disk space, as the above poster demonstrated.
Delivery Deliverance!
Be back on the other side. Installing on another HD on this eight core Harpertown Xeon Mac Pro.
Just now delivered. This box is a work of art. Best OS packaging yet.I feel your pain. I had the option of picking it up at the very nearby FedEx depot 2 hours ago and passed thinking he'd show up earlier this morning than now. So I've taped the signature release form on the door with a note to YELL in my window when he arrives and am going to try and sleep off all this anxiety that's kept me up since about 4am 'til he gets here.
I think I read somewhere it does support Blu-ray playback but I'm not certain if that was fact or rumor. I imagine iTunes 9 in only 11 more days will do that. But I'm only guessing.
Be back on the other side. Installing on another HD on this eight core Harpertown Xeon Mac Pro.
Paying $29 for the upgrade? Thats easy! Waiting for the bugs to get squashed...thats hard! Time to reinstall 10.5.8, and consider this an excellent opportunity in time to practice patience.
Ahem! Yes, computers are still binary and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
