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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2825 |
Renamed release titles and nomenclature
Okay, so i noticed that somebody, or something, keeps renaming titles such that the amount of bytes, say "[64B]", is changed to "[64b]".
As ZeSmasher once correctly pointed out, there is this pretty much universal convention of abbreviating bytes to B and bits to b.
Now, who or what renames those titles? Why? What is this OCD shit?
Somebody, please clarify. |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2825 |
Quoting Groepazthat "omg HD manufacturers use base10 to fool customers" has been uninformed nonsense ever since :) Indeed. As a rule of thumb, everything that provides a bitstream (network, storage, streaming itself, etc.) has been measuring with decimals since the dawn of time, as multiplexed row/column matrix access with binary addresses and power-of-2-size data words doesn't play a role there. Unlike RAM or ROM, obviously. :) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2825 |
Quoting Joepart from the mere aesthetics Yes, and taste is utterly and totally personal and should be left to the author, regarding this thread's raison d'être. |
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Joe
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 224 |
Oh! Absolutely, I've stepped on your toes before, sorry about that. Love those phrasing though, keeping it. I'll stay in the back perhaps learning something about language and how moderators think and choose stuff around here simply. |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1987 |
May I suggest not to abbreviate it, just to avoid confusion. Then one can choose the most aesthetic style and still be clear to the meaning:
64 bits
64 Bits
64 bytes
64 Bytes
But that might be way to pragmatic.. ;) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2825 |
+1 |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11100 |
what jackasser said, but replace "bytes" by "beers"! |
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Bitbreaker
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 499 |
and p stands for POOP. |
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 421 |
The french would use "o". |
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Joe
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 224 |
Destroying this thread just as any. Hahaha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaMDZ9M5WKg |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2825 |
Quoting Mr. SIDThe french would use "o". I've always liked how the French language calls bytes "octets", as this is unambiguous. Because a byte didn't always consist of 8 bits, historically across all kinds of computing machinery. For some reason, that term has been replaced by the somewhat less correct, but more flashy "byte" in all the other western-European languages. :) |
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