Jokes and Humor

[Peanut]

Dear Peanut, You have caused me to spew MT Dew upon my monitor. Where would one send the the bill for monitor repair?

Now that was funny

That happened to me months ago with lemonade... But I misfiled those two memes instead of posting them. They ended up in a folder with flooring & plumbing pictures? Found them tonight.

 

[jazzy]

 

[Terri9630]

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I want one for my diesel truck!

 

[Terri9630]

In case you're a resident of Texas and Florida!

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That would have to be a Fl thing. I don't know any Texan that would touch that. Maybe with a hotshot....

 

[Terri9630]

Medical weed is legal in my state starting this week. Cheech & Chong got old!

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Recreational use is supposed to be legal in NM towards the end of June.

 

[dademoss]

 

[VThillman]

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[VThillman]

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[Asking because I don't know] Is a gigabyte really 1024 megabytes?

 

[Haertig]

[Asking because I don't know] Is a gigabyte really 1024 megabytes?

Informally, many people think of a Kb as 1000 bytes, a Mb as 1000 Kb, a Gb as 1000 Mb, a Tb as 1000 Gb.

But technically, these are all powers of 2.

So a Kb is 2 to the 10th power = 1024 bytes
A Mb is 2 to the 20th (1024 x 1024) = 1,048,576 bytes, or 1024Kb
A Gb is 2 to the 30th (1024 x 1024 x 1024) = a large number of bytes, or 1024Mb
A Tb is 2 to the 40th (1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024) = a really large number of bytes, or 1024Gb

Where you get the 1024 vs. 1000 apparent discrepancy is from the meanings of "kilo" (times 1 thousand), "mega" (times 1 million), "giga" (times 1 thousand million), etc.

So a "kilogram" is "1000 grams". A "megaton" is 1000000 tons. But a "kilobyte" is 1024 bytes. Not confusing at all, huh? This is because us engineers like things nice and neat, in powers of two. So we mandated that since a "byte" is kind of engineering-computer-geek-like, it would have to follow the powers of two rule, rather than the standard counting rule.

If you ask a normal person to count, they go: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10"

If you ask an engineer/computer geek to count, they go: "0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024"

 

[Terri9630]

Informally, many people think of a Kb as 1000 bytes, a Mb as 1000 Kb, a Gb as 1000 Mb, a Tb as 1000 Gb.

But technically, these are all powers of 2.

So a Kb is 2 to the 10th power = 1024 bytes
A Mb is 2 to the 20th (1024 x 1024) = 1,048,576 bytes, or 1024Kb
A Gb is 2 to the 30th (1024 x 1024 x 1024) = a large number of bytes, or 1024Mb
A Tb is 2 to the 40th (1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024) = a really large number of bytes, or 1024Gb

Where you get the 1024 vs. 1000 apparent discrepancy is from the meanings of "kilo" (times 1 thousand), "mega" (times 1 million), "giga" (times 1 thousand million), etc.

So a "kilogram" is "1000 grams". A "megaton" is 1000000 tons. But a "kilobyte" is 1024 bytes. Not confusing at all, huh? This is because us engineers like things nice and neat, in powers of two. So we mandated that since a "byte" is kind of engineering-computer-geek-like, it would have to follow the powers of two rule, rather than the standard counting rule.

If you ask a normal person to count, they go: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10"

If you ask an engineer/computer geek to count, they go: "0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024"

 

[Neb]

Informally, many people think of a Kb as 1000 bytes, a Mb as 1000 Kb, a Gb as 1000 Mb, a Tb as 1000 Gb.

But technically, these are all powers of 2.

So a Kb is 2 to the 10th power = 1024 bytes
A Mb is 2 to the 20th (1024 x 1024) = 1,048,576 bytes, or 1024Kb
A Gb is 2 to the 30th (1024 x 1024 x 1024) = a large number of bytes, or 1024Mb
A Tb is 2 to the 40th (1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024) = a really large number of bytes, or 1024Gb

Where you get the 1024 vs. 1000 apparent discrepancy is from the meanings of "kilo" (times 1 thousand), "mega" (times 1 million), "giga" (times 1 thousand million), etc.

So a "kilogram" is "1000 grams". A "megaton" is 1000000 tons. But a "kilobyte" is 1024 bytes. Not confusing at all, huh? This is because us engineers like things nice and neat, in powers of two. So we mandated that since a "byte" is kind of engineering-computer-geek-like, it would have to follow the powers of two rule, rather than the standard counting rule.

If you ask a normal person to count, they go: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10"

If you ask an engineer/computer geek to count, they go: "0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024"

I will not too geeky but...

After alligning disk drive heads I learned to count in binary with one hand without looking

Ben

 

[Supervisor42]

If you ask an engineer/computer geek to count, they go: "0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024"

Actually you made a mistake. There is no "1" .
2^0=0
2^1=2
2^2=4
2^3=8
The rest are correct. I used to know all of them up to 65,536 and in hexadecimal since I played with address lines on CPU boards.
(16-bit address space = 65,536)

Joke: Sorry young people, we know a lot about computers, but we can't help you get past level-15 in World Of Warcraft

 

[Bluetick21]

 

[Haertig]

Actually, 2^0 = 1
And 0 is included, since counting starts with 0 for geeks!

 

[Supervisor42]

Actually, 2^0 = 1
And 0 is included, since counting starts with 0 for geeks!

Aaand that's how we ended up with parity bits.
(don't worry folks, it's just an old geek joke)

 

[Neb]

Actually, 2^0 = 1
And 0 is included, since counting starts with 0 for geeks!

And it drives non computer types nuts!



Ben

 

[Neb]

Aaand that's how we ended up with parity bits.
(don't worry folks, it's just an old geek joke)

Parity bit that's odd...

Or is it even?

Trust me it is a joke!

Ben

 

[dademoss]

Maybe I can distract em

 

[angie_nrs]

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

 

[dademoss]

 

[Sparky_D]

 

[Sparky_D]

 

[dademoss]

 

[rusty]

Informally, many people think of a Kb as 1000 bytes, a Mb as 1000 Kb, a Gb as 1000 Mb, a Tb as 1000 Gb.

But technically, these are all powers of 2.

So a Kb is 2 to the 10th power = 1024 bytes
A Mb is 2 to the 20th (1024 x 1024) = 1,048,576 bytes, or 1024Kb
A Gb is 2 to the 30th (1024 x 1024 x 1024) = a large number of bytes, or 1024Mb
A Tb is 2 to the 40th (1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024) = a really large number of bytes, or 1024Gb

Where you get the 1024 vs. 1000 apparent discrepancy is from the meanings of "kilo" (times 1 thousand), "mega" (times 1 million), "giga" (times 1 thousand million), etc.

So a "kilogram" is "1000 grams". A "megaton" is 1000000 tons. But a "kilobyte" is 1024 bytes. Not confusing at all, huh? This is because us engineers like things nice and neat, in powers of two. So we mandated that since a "byte" is kind of engineering-computer-geek-like, it would have to follow the powers of two rule, rather than the standard counting rule.

If you ask a normal person to count, they go: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10"

If you ask an engineer/computer geek to count, they go: "0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024"

A small b is a bit not a byte. There are 8 bits in a byte.

 

[VThillman]

A small b is a bit not a byte. There are 8 bits in a byte.

One needs to be careful discussing bits and bytes. Bits are little bitty bites if you ain't paying attention. And 4 bits is half a byte but also 75 cents, which means 1 bit must be 18.75 cents, but that means 1 byte must be $1.50. See, it's a mess.

 

[Haertig]

A small b is a bit not a byte. There are 8 bits in a byte.

Oh man, I'm showing my age! Many years ago a small b was considered OK to use to describe bytes. But not anymore - in more recent times, the capital B is used. I should have remembered that. But memory is no longer my strong suit. Sigh...