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| SebTheDJ |
ING CHRIST...
http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt...u&date=20030918
This is so retarded.
LOS ANGELES, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A group of computer owners has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's biggest makers of personal computers, claiming that their advertising deceptively overstates the true capacity of their hard drives.
The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, was filed earlier this week in Los Angeles Superior Court against Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL), Dell Inc. (DELL), Gateway Inc. (GTW), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), IBM (IBM), Sharp Corp. (6753), Sony Corp. (6758) and Toshiba Corp. (6502)
The lawsuit brought by Los Angeles residents Lanchau Dan, Adam Selkowitz, Tim Swan and John Zahabian centers around the way that computer hard drives are described by manufacturers. |
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| whiskers |
haha, they're the ones that think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte!
let's face it, 1 byte = 8 bits and there's nothign you can do about it. |
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| Linx_da_cat |
| the silly thing is, they have a very real chance of winning this :p |
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| mizzuno |
Well the hard drive manufacturers are the shady ones here. they are making hard drives that are not truly the capacity they specify.
MIZZ |
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| occrider |
| This is the way society works, companies such as the RIAA sue us in BS lawsuits, and we sue random companies with BS complaints. :rolleyes: |
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| butterfly |
| there is going to be a day when no one actually does anything productive for society and the world revolves around BS paperwork and nonsense. we are halfway there already. |
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| Flyboy217 |
*Upon further reflection, this post has been edited:)*
Okay, a few things. First, sure this is a pretty frivolous lawsuit. Secondly, the defendants might win, mostly because they are not actually wrong.
One MB is a decimal megabyte, equal to 1,000 (not 1,024) decimal kilobytes. This is not to be confused with an MiB, which is a binary megabyte. As long as they write it correctly, they should be fine. Yes, 1 byte still is 8 bits, but that has nothing to do with this notational convention.
Moreover, most people fail to realize that in certain usages (e.g., networking), decimal grouping is actually preferred to binary grouping.
For more information, check out:
http://www.romulus2.com/articles/gu...bitsbytes.shtml |
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| DJ-Fuq |
| quote: | Originally posted by Flyboy217
One MB is a decimal megabyte, equal to 1,000 (not 1,024) decimal kilobytes. This is not to be confused with an Mb, which is a binary megabyte. |
Ur wrong. MB = megabyte (any kind). Mb = megabit
b = bit B = byte. |
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| robin |
why the hell are you all talking bytes and bits..
just like my computer.. the shop and all the papers say it gots a 10gb harddisk.. it only gots 9.54
and my 10gb mp3 player.. only gots 9.7X
:whip:
see you in court PB & Archos |
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| DJ-Fuq |
| quote: | Originally posted by robin
10gb harddisk.. it only gots 9.54
and my 10gb mp3 player.. only gots 9.7X
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Thats what happens when u format it. |
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| whiskers |
ffs, in short,
Q. Why is my total capacity smaller than the specified capacity?
A. Hard drive manufacturers will normally define a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes. However, Windows and certain systems will define a megabyte as 1,048,576 and a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes for reasons beyond the scope of this discussion.
you're still getting 40 gigs worth of data, it's just that it's notation is different. |
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| mizzuno |
First off 1 megabyte =1024KB (we're in base2 people) in base 10 it would be 1000KB, in the computer industry everything is represented in base 2 because computers are binary....
BTW..File system overhead does require some space but not that much
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