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Base 16 is hex. (0-9, A-F) Both measurement systems are decimal. One is just SI, and the other... isn't. I don't know a definitively correct term to distinguish between them - but as long as everyone understands, it doesn't really matter. :P

jamvm and cacao are in the repo. Not really. There's a larger gap between compilers and JITs for ARM than for x86. Cellphones VMs are usually optimized for low memory consumption. Not high CPU efficiency. If you want high CPU efficiency, go x86 64bit Hotspot VM running in server mode. Start...

Was it IBM? I looked into it a while back. The major vendors have been using SI capacities since the 80's. But my magic hourglass fails to go further back in time, or account for all the folded companies.

Oh, I agree. That's where this entire debate came from. We could just call it 1GiB of RAM though. The kernel could work with 4KiB pages. Rather than having two+ meanings for each prefix, we could knock it down to one. And since the SI prefixes are unlikely to disappear, why not do it now? That...

Why does it matter? The part I zoomed in on:

Data busses? You mean like SATA and PCIe? ;)

Ahh, sorry, I'm a moron. :D Never write two posts on two different forums at the same time.

It's correct because that's how they've done it from the start. (HDD manufacturers, I mean - and by "start", I mean recent decades, where sizes were approaching and exceeding 1GB - if you go back farther I have no clue what anyone was doing) Proof? From what I remember, everyone was doing...

Hehe. I think that kind of input system is neat. :) Probably not practical for desktop icon commands, but perhaps a crescent of icon options would work. Just don't do the input like Mass Effect. Talk about blowing the radial system! P.S. Psychonauts is on sale on Steam for $2 today...

What trick? Using an analog measurement for an analog medium? Yeah, some trick. :lol: Go after the SSD manufacturers. At least they're lying rather than choosing the favourable (yet correct) measurement. Nomatter how I look at it a 32GB SSD does not turn into 27.9GB. P.S. Most of your space...

I picked up a 16GB class-6 A-DATA card a year ago for $29.99 It reads and writes at around 10MB/sec. Plenty for all my Pandora uses. ;)

Wha!? Firefox, Opera, and Chrome all have their perks. Safari and IE do not. They're both ravenously targeted by hackers. IE I can understand, because it's such a steaming pile of... browser - but Safari seems to be targeted because it's the weakest link in OSX. It has the widest attack surface.

What additional financing? I'm pretty sure this is all coming out of Craig, ED, and MWeston's pockets.

Sorry, bad terminology on my part. :D The difference between "Profile", "Level", "Preset", and "Tune" isn't very clear to me - but they're all required to be something or this encoder GUI won't start x264. I usually go High, 5.1, and change the rest based on the content. Edit: To anyone...

Lol, no. Lots of people upload MJPEG and crap. That's 25x bigger than H.264. :P It'd be stupid for them to save the originals, because it'd cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in extra HDDs. You're getting container messed up with codec. .ogg is just a container, like .mkv, .avi, and...

It's probably falling victim to the alphablending rule. If an alpha blended symbol is present on any layer in the flash movie, the entire movie has to be alpha blended? ;) I think it went something like that. It bumps up the CPU and GPU power required a whole lot.

iPod videos are likely H.264 4.0 profile. I wonder if the Pandora will play 5.1 profile vids. I've encoded a few DVDs to that - if you really ramp up the settings, it can hit the memory and CPU usage quite hard. For comparison, H.264 (4.0 profile) uses about 30MB RAM in my media player...

Neither of them is trying to justify anything. They're just far more literal than you. Fact: For the vast majority, China is a better place to live now than 50 years ago. So Xanas and the other are correct. Note: Better != Utopia. Better doesn't even mean "Good" - just better than before...

Yes. I was very clear about my reasons. Better performance, shock immune, etc. etc. Why are we arguing? I presented my reasoning and said to go with whatever suits you. Ahh, I missed that. :) But I still wouldn't buy it.

HDD sizes are very standardized. There's 3.5 inch ones which are "desktop" models. You can pick up cheap enclosures for about $20 with eSATA/USB support that work fine in Windows/Linux/OSX. Then there's 2.5 inch ones, which are "laptop" models. Much less space for the price - usually under a...