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Meh, I didn't even realise it was Friday the 13:th. I guess it is safe to say that mine was uneventful. ^_^

/me hugs kathy....I know a random post but meh.

Just bought a 1 gig flash drive....why, I don't know. Just figured I might need one. And I also just got Spyro 6 A New Beginning for PS2. I am a devote Spyro fan, and a leading member of that community in the game music editing/ripping. Loved the first 3 games, bought the 4th and 5th but they sucked, but the 6th, having voices done by Elijah Wood, David Spade, and Gary Oldman (?). Quite a good game. Anyone else Spyro fans?

Thanks for the hug, Sickies.

Spyro? I have never heard of that game. What is it like?

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Colette

Spyro is one of the last of the "kiddy" platformers left, and, like Crash Bandicoot, never should have had more than 3 games in the series. You play a dragon and collect gems with the help of your dragonfly pal, Sparx, and thwart an evil plan (sounds generic and boring, but it is fun (well, the first game was anyway)). Its not one of my favourite games though. (My all-time fave game would have to be MediEvil. I still play it, but its a bit frustrating now that the last PS1 memory card I had left has broken).

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She says, well, what I wanna say
Tell me I'm an angel, take this to my grave
Tell me I'm a bad man, kick me like a stray

Speaking of gigabytes, people are so inaccurate when they say a GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes...
It is really 2 to the 30th power bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes
A megabyte is 2 to the 20th or 1,048,576 bytes
A kilobyte is 2 to the 10th or 1024 bytes.

Much more precise when speaking of data, not saying an innaccurate appx, like those company.

I would like to thank the dictionary for teaching me that.

The GB, MB, and soon to be used more frequently TB that companines use is technically correct. The problem is that there are 2 recognized ways of stating capacity. Hard drive companies have been sued over this and have won every time. At 1 GB or less it doesnt matter too much as the size difference is not really that big, but now that we are up to the begining of the 1TB+ hard drives it is actually quite a lot of space difference between the 2 ways the size is represented.

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TB is so last week!

I work on mainframes where PetaBytes (=1000 TeraBytes) is much more used these days, except when combined with "per second", we haven't quite got there yet!

Note that you can easily confuse MB, GB etc. with Mb Tb etc., which refer to bits and do get used with "per second". Your internet provider will use bits/second rather than bytes, because it sound more impressive.

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What about Exabytes, Zettabytes, and Yottabytes?

A petabyte is 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes.
An exabyte is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes.
A zettabyte is 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes.
A yottabyte is 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes.

Here are some uses for data sizes. (thanks to wikipedia)

1 bit
1 bit – True or false.
3 bits – The size of an octal digit.
4 bits – A semioctet or nibble (sometimes spelled nybble). The size of a hexadecimal digit.
5 bits – Size of code points in the Baudot code, used in telex communication.
6 bits – Size of code points in the Braille code, a tactile writing system for the blind.
7 bits – Size of code points in the ASCII character set.
8 bits – An octet. Equivalent to a byte on many computer architectures.

10 bits –
One decabit minimum length to store a single group of 3 decimal digits.
minimum byte length to store a single octet with error-correcting memory.
minimum frame length to transmit a single octet with asynchronous serial protocols.

12 bits – Wordlength of the PDP-8 of Digital Equipment Corporation (built from 1965 -1990)
16 bits – In many programming languages, the size of an integer capable of holding 65,536 different values.
16 bits – The "word size" (instruction length) for the various "second generation" console systems, including: Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
32 bits (4 octets) – Size of an integer capable of holding 4,294,967,296 different values.
32 bits – Size of an IEEE 754 single-precision floating point number.
32 bits – Size of addresses in IPv4, the current Internet protocol.
56 bits (7 octets) – Cipher strength of the DES encryption standard.
64 bits (8 octets) – Size of an integer capable of holding 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 different values.
64 bits – Size of an IEEE 754 double-precision floating point number.
80 bits (10 octets) – Size of an extended precision floating point number, for intermediate calculations that can be performed in floating point units of most processors of the x86 family.

100 bits – One hectobit
128 bits (16 octets) – Size of addresses in IPv6, the emerging Internet protocol.
Minimum cipher strength of the Rijndael and AES encryption standards, and of the widely used MD5 cryptographic message digest algorithm.
160 bits – Maximum key length of the SHA-1, standard Tiger (hash), and Tiger2 cryptographic message digest algorithms.
256 bits (32 octets) – Minimum key length for the recommended strong cryptographic message digests in 2004.
512 bits (64 octets) – Maximum key length for the standard strong cryptographic message digests in 2004.

1,024 bits (210 bits, 128 octets) – One kibibit.
1,288 bits – Approximate maximum capacity of a standard Magnetic stripe card.
4,096 bits (212 bits, 512 octets) – Typical sector size, and minimum space allocation unit on computer storage volumes, with most file systems.
4,704 bits (588 octets) – Uncompressed single-channel frame length in standard MPEG audio (75 frames per second and per channel), with medium quality 8-bit sampling at 44,100 Hz (or 16-bit sampling at 22,050 Hz).
8,000 bits (103 octets) – One kilooctet.
8,192 bits (213 bits, 1,024 octets) – One kibioctet.
9,408 bits (1,176 octets) – Uncompressed single-channel frame length in standard MPEG audio (75 frames per second and per channel), with standard 16-bit sampling at 44,100 Hz.

15,350 bits – one screen of data displayed on an 8-bit monochrome text console (80x24)
20 - 50 kbits – one page of typewritten text (uncompressed, depends on size of type and number of possible glyphs)

1,978,560 bits – A one-page, standard-resolution black-and-white fax (1728 × 1145 pixels).
4,147,200 bits – One frame of uncompressed NTSC DVD video (720 × 480 × 12 bpp Y'CbCr).
4,976,640 bits – One frame of uncompressed PAL DVD video (720 × 576 × 12 bpp Y'CbCr).

11,520,000 bits – Capacity of a lower-resolution computer monitor (as of 2006), 800 × 600 pixels, 24 bpp.
11,796,480 bits – Capacity of a 3.5" floppy disk, colloquially known as 1.44 megabyte but actually 1.44 × 1000 × 1024 bytes.
25 Mbits – Amount of data in a typical color slide.
30,402,457 bits – Size of the largest known Mersenne prime. All of its bits are 1.
46,080,000 bits – Capacity of a high-resolution computer monitor (as of 2006), 1600 × 1200 pixels, 24 bpp.
50–100 megabits – Amount of information in a typical phone book.

150 Mbits – Amount of data in a large foldout map.
423,360,000 bits: A 5-minute-length audio recording, in CDDA quality

5.45×109 bits (650 mebioctets) – Capacity of a regular compact disc.
5.89×109 bits (702 mebioctets) – Capacity of a large regular compact disc.
6.4×109 bits – Capacity of the human genome, 3.2 billion base pairs (each pair counts 2 for 2 bits of data).

4.04×1010 bits (4.7 gigaoctets) – capacity of a single-layer, single-sided DVD.
2.16×1010 bits (2.7 gigabytes) – size of the English Wikipedia without images (Compressed it is 1.1 gibibytes).

1.46×1011 bits (17 gigaoctets) – Capacity of a double-sided, dual-layered DVD.
2.15×1011 bits (25 gigaoctets) – Capacity of a single-sided, single-layered 12 cm Blu-ray disc

1012 bits (125 gigaoctets) – Approximate size of all Wikimedia projects.
1,099,511,627,776 bits (240 bits, more than 137 gigaoctets) – One tebibit.
1.6×1012 bits (200 gigaoctets) – Capacity of a hard disk that would be considered moderately large in 2004.
(approximately) 4.12×1012 bits (515 gibioctets) – As of 2002, data of pi to the largest number of digits ever calculated (1.24 trillion).

1×1013 bits (1.25 teraoctets) – capacity of a human being's functional memory, according to Raymond Kurzweil in The Singularity Is Near, p. 126.

1.5×1014 bits (18.75 teraoctets) – Amount of information in the Library of Congress, if it were all digitized.

2.4×1015 bits (300 teraoctets) – Size of the Internet Archive in 2004.
8,000,000,000,000,000 bits (1015 octets) – One petaoctet

4.5×1016 bits (5.625 petaoctets) – Estimated hard drive space in Google's server farm in 2004.

800,000,000,000,000,000 bits, Data's storage capacity

1.6×1018 bits (200 petaoctets) – Total amount of printed material in the world.

1.8×1022 bits (2.25 zettaoctets) – amount of information which can be stored in 1 gram of DNA

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^^

Haha!

Oh byte me.

I can just see the day that when I have kids, they will be Ipods or flash drives or CDs (if they're still around, god forbid) are arguing over whether or not to buy the Ipod that stores 2 yottlebytes or 1.

Oh man, you guys are making my brain feel funny... :P

So what is everybody up to lately?

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Colette

Hi Kathy..

..listening to a lot of Muse, lately - such a clever band!

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Hi Blondin

Muse, huh? What style of music is that? (can you tell I don't get "out" much?)

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Colette

I dropped a link to a YouTube video at the end of Knights Of Cydonia lyrics - in the "Favorite Lyrics" thread..

In answer to your query re. the style of music..

..mmm, hard to say, except that they are incredibly talented musicians all - and Martin Bellamy has a voice to die for..

- all of their albums so far are "must-have" - and not just because they are very much in-vogue at the moment, but because they are simply wonderful.. guitars that almost sing, and piano playing that just soars..

- just totally way out in front of everything, I'd say..

- I'd also say they're the best thing since sliced bread, but I haven't heard sliced bread's music, yet..!!

- they're just very very VERY talented..

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..awfully clever, these Goblins!
http://www.goblinart.com/
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POKE poke...

Hi everybody!

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Colette

Ouch! ^^

Hi Kathy.

/me brings out a firebat and starts swinging.

Happy Thanksgiving, those here who celebrate it.

Yes, Happy Thanksgiving to the ones who will be celebrating.

And Happy Thursday to those who aren't.

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Colette

/me throws a half eaten pie at solly, with a koala still attached to it

Sol must be very strong if he is swinging a firebat around....

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Colette

well it helps that he can flap his wings.

So that is the secret!

This is pretty funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3DzKv68&eurl

It is the Helsinki complaints choir of Finland (there are subtitles in English) and there is also a link to the Birmingham, England version.

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That's right. They always loose to us in hockey and Eurovision!

Yep, I thought of you when I read that subtitle sol. Pretty catchy tune, eh?

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Colette

Very catchy.

I pointed out the choir to a finnish friend today and started teasing her a bit about how they lost to us in hockey last time. She got really mad: -"Shut up or I will smack you with a stone!" So funny. :P Don't ever tease a finn about how they perform in hockey. It's dangerous. ^^