Tfw you realize 1Mbps is actually just 128KB/s

>tfw you realize 1Mbps is actually just 128KB/s

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If you didn't know this then you don't belong here.

It took 3 hours to explain that shit to my dad.

Never do family tech support.

Well now I do.

128*8=1024
Huh really makes you think.

Why are they using bits instead of bytes tho? Is it because having round numvers like 1, 2, 8, 20 sounds better and bigger ?

Historical reasons. Communication has traditionally been measured in bit/s because a byte wasn't always 8 bits.
It's only recently that the Byte has been somewhat agreed upon as 8 bits.
There were computers with anything from 6 to 36 bit bytes.

Anyone have that copypasta about how people don't respect tech teachers

This, people almost always use collections of 8 bits instead of manipulating/transmitting them individually.

>almost
See, that's the problem.
"Bit" however is 100% unambiguous.

how does the 8 turn into a zero? calling shenanigans

125*

>tfw you realize most of Sup Forums is Sup Forums spillover

It's not:
1Mibps = 128KiBps
1Mbps = 125kBps

The biggest blunder in the history of computing was letting kilo=2^10

>you'll never start torrenting a new 720p lost episode with 120 kb/s when leaving for school and be happy to find it it's downloaded when you come back home

lost was the biggest ruse of the last decate

fuck off kunt

>you will never spend over a month torrenting SW KotOR II at several kB/s using Azureus while praying to god that the .rar unpacks and installs correctly
Anyway, you just need to learn to queue up more and bigger torrents. I've been torrenting my current backlog for several days now even though I have a 16 Mbps connection

turkey?

Germany

so, turkey.

kek

there is no such thing as "Mib", faggot

youtu.be/4ZI8AC4AR5A

>not downloading 35M rmvb bleach episodes over dialup

Yes, it's Mebibit. As in 1,024 Kib (kibibit), as in 1,048,576 bit.
In contrast to Mb, which is Megabit. As in 1,000 Kb (kilobit), as in 1,000,000 bit.

nobody has ever used that though

It is used by many applications. And it's not my problem if idiot programmers use wrong terminology.

Nigger I had an ISDN line growing up. Ain't no way that shit was 1Mb

Hard drive and SSD manufacturers jew you by giving space in metric terabytes

Windows is wrong. It's 2.72 TiB, not 2.72 TB.

This is 2.72 TiB not TB

It is not TB, it is 2.72 TiB.

>navigating shit geocities fansite and downloading wmv of episode

I think Bill Gates knew what he was doing when he programmed Windows fags.

we get it, you're autistic, you didn't have to samefag though.

Nope

Except when giving the SI prefixes an entirely different meaning than they have.

>tfw kids today won't ever experience the pain that is VFR encodes

The quality of the threads on Sup Forums sure dropped quite a bit.

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GNU/Linux programs get it right most of the time, and use SI binary prefixes or metric prefixes.
Mac OS X also gets it right.
Only Windows is garbage, as usual.

>tfw you'll never feel the excitement of downloading something illegally from torrents
>you'll never accidentally download porn instead of an mp3
>you'll never be 12 ever again
oh the feels

>britney_spears_naked_128kbps.mp3.exe
limewire was fun times, one time i spend four days downloading halo (over 600 MEGABYTES HOLY FUCK)

I remember the week it took me to download the sims 8 in 1. I lived in the countryside and has shitty internet. but it was c o m f y.

Bits are different than bytes

If you get 80megabits per second internet speed, its just 8 megabytes per second

it's crazy to think downloading an entire CD was a big deal when now even with my shitty-by-todays-standards i can blow through 600M just by watching a moderately long youtube video

Back then we had a 200MB data cap so I had to wait for this huge haul of TV shows/movies that my Dad would get every month.

kek

kek

kys

"no"

Except they meant the same thing 30 years ago as they do today.

1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes

he didn't get cucked by hdd makers like freetards did and changed terminology out of thin air into 'kib'

why would MS do that?

>1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes
That has always been wrong.
Kilo = 1000 in all conceivable sciences.
Kibi = 1024. You even get a special unit.

Blame hard drive manufacturers for coming up with this shit.
OSes and file systems still use the computer sane definition of the SI prefixes.

>OSes and file systems still use the computer sane definition of the SI prefixes.
There is only one definition of SI/ISO/IEC/NIST prefixes and it's

kB = Kilobyte = 1000 Byte
KiB = Kibibyte = 1024 Byte.

Apple uses it.
Most GNU/Linux desktops use it.

Only Microsoft continues to perpetuate the lie because their users can't into change, for the same reason why America still measures the world in feet and armpits.

Computers use binary so metric units are irrelevant.

That's why you use the appropriate prefix.

Apart from that, information theory has always been metric.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte#Definitions_and_usage

askubuntu.com/questions/352597/why-do-du-sh-and-the-file-manager-disagree

Now you're showing your ignorance.

Apple does not use "KiB" actually.

Freetards are just stupid. Some of their applications use KiB, others KB leading to inconsistencies.

I was using GParted the other day and it told me that by HD had 1TB, or 1,000 GB. Idiots, why not at least say 931 "GiB" like some of your other applications.

>tfw you realize 1 ft is really just 12 inches

>Apple does not use "KiB" actually.
Reading comprehension.
The parent post said that Apple uses the SI definition, which is true.

In Finder, 1000 Byte = 1 kB, as it is deemed correct by SI, ISO, IEC and NIST.

>1TB, or 1,000 GB. Idiots, why not at least say 931 "GiB" like some of your other applications.
Because both is correct.

1 TB ~ 931 GiB.

>GParted
Pic related. Default GParted uses KiB, MiB and GiB.

Wrong yet again dumbass.

>8GB of RAM

That RAM is 1,073,741,824 bytes NOT 1,000,000,000 bytes so Apple is 100% wrong.

Why didn't they use 8GiB???

That is indeed a crime against standards by Apple.
But open Finder and you will find that it uses correct units.

Now reply to this:
:)

So Apple is wrong, yet you claimed they were right all the time.

Also Finder is stupid since their size units don't match with 99.9% of the entire computing world.

>:)

I used latest Ubuntu live iso about a week ago and it gave me 1,000 GB BS. You can try yourself.

But why would it surprise you that Loonix is an inconsistent, fragmented piece of shit?

:^)

>I used latest Ubuntu live iso about a week ago and it gave me 1,000 GB BS. You can try yourself.
You should file a bug report.
Upstream GParted uses GiB.

Ubuntu 16.04 Live
:)))