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  1. Death

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  2. Jimmy P

    Jimmy P bastion of awesomeness

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  3. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    terabyte used to mean what tebibyte means now until it was redefined by the IEEE a few years ago to make stuff easier on drive manufacturers (apparently)

    I do imagine it's harder to say "terabyte hard drive" than

    "24 gb short of a terabyte, because we rushed it to market, wanted to be the first manufacturer to be able to say terabyte HDD."
     
  4. Death

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    its my experience that they actually make them that way but they advertize them as even numbers

    for example if i had a "500" gig hard drive it would probably really be 512 gigs.
     
  5. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    I used to have that experience, but not lately.

    which I lament.
     
  6. Death

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    [​IMG]
     
  7. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    the loss of 12 gigs is lamentable.
     
  8. Death

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    you are actually gaining 12 gigs when its advertised at 500.
    I thought the experience of knowing the true size of the HD when everyone else just thought it was 500 was lamentable.

    but now they actually are only 500gigs? I guess your original statement of losing the 12 gigs is correct.

    wtf how do you think so fast?
     
  9. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    I'm an aspie, it's not thinking fast per se, it's just thinking in parallel.
     
  10. arthur itis

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    Most of us were born with crappy CPU's. We blame it on our motherboards.

    :cool:
     
  11. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    the multi-core version is really helpful.

    ...I missed that that was a pun the first two readthroughs.
     
  12. Samuel Clemens

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    I guess it really is not thinking fast
     
  13. Death

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    HA! I got it the first time !

    I thought three times faster than you
     
  14. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    Yeah, but I know how the math works behind radar cross section :p
     
  15. Face Eater

    Face Eater Banned

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    Ha ha, my neighbour has that downloaded to his computer and he has made it available to everybody in the area via his server.

    I'm enjoying it. I love the way they drag the poor crackers by their hair.
     
  16. Death

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    I know the resistor color code
    [​IMG]

    and i bet i have a steadier soldering hand than you
     
  17. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    I knew that in seventh grade.

    and I use one of those fly tying clamps.
     
  18. arthur itis

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    I know the resistor color code AND the morse code,,,and the boy scout code,, :)
     
  19. Death

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    I have the dematerialization half of a matter/antimatter transporter. dont make me use it on you
     
  20. Dave_techie

    Dave_techie I call Sheniangans

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    I have 2000 lbs of tent in my front yard, and a hydroponic garden in the back.

    don't make me use them on you.
     
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