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Because of the cache and the software in it ? They usually don't live up to their expetations either

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If only this were a question so we can point and say "because bits" instead of you just posting a video...where if we wanted to find out we can just Google it. Or post Linus':

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Very informative...

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I thought it was common knowledge that binary is base-2, not base-10 of humans... And you have other partitions sometimes...

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-nothing annoys me more than people that don't align their text to the left-

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Y U COMPLAIN

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It's just the fact that 1GB 1024MB is in Windows.

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I thought it was common knowledge that binary is base-2, not base-10 of humans... And you have other partitions sometimes...

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This was from Game Theory: Surviving the Assassin's Creed Leap of Faith and no not a lot of people know that look

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Barnacules Nerdgasm did that in codegasm 3

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It's just the fact that 1GB 1024MB is in Windows.

People believe that a GB = 1024MB

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Because of the cache and the software in it ? They usually don't live up to their expetations either

get a thumb drive lets say 8GB what does windows tell you 7.something use linux you get 8GB or OSX

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KennyS and ScreaM are my role models in CSGO.

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People believe that a GB = 1024MB

Woot 0.o

Why don't they change it in Windows 9?

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If only this were a question so we can point and say "because bits" instead of you just posting a video...where if we wanted to find out we can just Google it. Or post Linus':

I searched the forum for MiB or GB or other and didn't find anything so I used the title to attract people

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I searched the forum for MiB or GB or other and didn't find anything so I used the title to attract people

But most of us already know this in the first place.

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Apart from the difference between decimal and binary there is always two lots of overhead due to formatting. One is from the low level formatting at the factory and the second is from the space lost setting up the file system you use be it fat, fat32, ntfs zfs or whatever.

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Woot 0.o

Why don't they change it in Windows 9?

Because fucking windows and I actually don't know they could have fixed it

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But most of us already know this in the first place.

You will be  surprised how many people don't

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You will be  surprised how many people don't

It's still a trivial thing to post or complain about especially when it's amazing that a lot of people understand the functions of Google and YouTube.

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If only this were a question so we can point and say "because bits" instead of you just posting a video...where if we wanted to find out we can just Google it. Or post Linus':

liked that sponsor spot

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Oh you should see my SquareSpace ones.

give me a link

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That's going to take a while to find.

I've the time

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