Kingston 2 gb SD card has just 1.83 gb in WinXP, exaggeration ?

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Same exaggeration in other SD cards I have. Has any manufacturer
been prosecuted for these exaggerations ?
 
Same exaggeration in other SD cards I have. Has any manufacturer
been prosecuted for these exaggerations ?
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No, because the SD card manufacturers, like the HD manufacturers, use
the correct definition of KB/MB/GB/etc; M$ uses the slangy definitions.

Correct: KB = 1,000B; MB = 1,000KB; GB = 1,000MB = 1,000,000,000B; etc.
Slangy: KB = 1,024B; MB = 1,024KB; GB = 1,024MB = 1,073,741,824B; etc.
 
TE Cheah wrote
Same exaggeration in other SD cards I have.
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Its not an exaggeration, its just MS stupidly using binary GBs.
Has any manufacturer been prosecuted for these exaggerations ?
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Nope, because it isnt possible to prosecute them, because they havent lied.

In fact its a legal requirement in many jurisdictions to use the SI units and that is what Kingston is doing.
 
Its not an exaggeration, its just MS stupidly using binary GBs.

It hurt me when I was doing a test. I didn't know that hard disks
manufacturers used decimal system when talking about disk space. :)
In fact its a legal requirement in many jurisdictions to use the
SI units and that is what Kingston is doing.
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Could you quote a link to prove this?

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It hurt me when I was doing a test. I didn't know that hard disks
manufacturers used decimal system when talking about disk space. :)
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They have been doing that for decades now, clearly stated in their datasheets.
Could you quote a link to prove this?
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Yep.
 
It hurt me when I was doing a test. I didn't know that hard disks
manufacturers used decimal system when talking about disk space. :)


Could you quote a link to prove this?
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Look for NIST SP330, a local (to the US) copy of the actual
international (BIPM) standard.
 
They have been doing that for decades now, clearly stated in their datasheets.

I have never noticed that. All the hard-disks I bought did NOT come with
a data-sheet! Remember: there were no websites in the old days.
Yep.
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And the link...?

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I have never noticed that. All the hard-disks I bought did NOT come with
a data-sheet! Remember: there were no websites in the old days.


And the link...?

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If someone offers you a $1K pay rise, just make sure they are talking
$1024, or pro rota

Michael
 
I have never noticed that. All the hard-disks I bought did NOT come
with a data-sheet! Remember: there were no websites in the old days.
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There were always datasheets.
And the link...?
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You asked me whether I could and I said I could.
 
It seems SI is even in the US the "preferred system of measurement
of trade and commerce" and "has been recognized since 1866". Talk
about being slow in general adoption...

Link: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/bibliography.html
Especially the excerpt from the federal register.
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I wish people didn't keep talking about kill-OM-eters instead of
KILL-oh-meters.

How many cent-IM-eters in a kill-OM-eter?

Perce
 
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