Yotta getta life
CodingHorror.com has an interesting post today about Gigabyte: Decimal vs. Binary, basically the question everyone asks them selfs after they walk home from Best Buy with a 500GB harddrive, only to find that Windows says its 465GB.
When you buy a “500 Gigabyte” hard drive, the vendor defines it using the decimal powers of ten definition of the “Giga” prefix.
500 * 109 bytes = 500,000,000,000 = 500 GigabytesBut the operating system determines the size of the drive using the computer’s binary powers of two definition of the “Giga” prefix:
465 * 230 bytes = 499,289,948,160 = 465 Gigabytes
It’s absolutely horrible – but nothing you can do about it, just shoot for the “1.3TB harddrives” to get your full 1TB capacity.
An Innocent Game of Xbox Live: UNO Gone So Terribly Wrong
The UNO game between Jason, Billy, a computer opponent, and myself seemingly lasted for hours (more like only 45 minutes). House Rules: Draw until you get a card to play. First person to hit 250 points is the loser, and at this time the person with the lowest game score wins.
As you can see, I (mavr1kwest) racked up a total of 418 points in one game, over 200 in that single round. I think Billy (Billiard84) actually won the hand, but Jason (JComboBox) had the lower over all points – and I of course broke the 250 point limit by a smidgen.
No more UNO for me, for atleast a few days.
