Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[C Hamel <vgm2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 24 June 2004 07:33, elefino wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 June 2004 08:45, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
> [...]
>
> > The NIST document uses B as the symbol for byte.  I'm not aware of any
> > standard recommending "b" as the symbol for bit but it's quite
> > natural, at least to me :-), to interpret it like that.
> >
> > > I just looked into that link, and we will have to adapt our speach
> > > also : Q : How much memory does your PC have ?
> > > A : It has one gibibyte of RAM.
> >
> > Actually, 1 GiB is approximately 1 GB, so you may still use the
> > "oldspeak" if you know its limits.
>
> Never mind that, how do you *say* it?
>
> I'd always heard Giga pronounced with two hard Gs, as in "go".
> Then some American moviemakers(*) popularized a leading soft
> G, as in Joe.  So, Jiga.
>
> With a bad french accent, I can just see "Gigi" (zjhee-zjhee)
> working her way in there. My hard drive has 160 Gigibytes,
> et la plupart est tres sexy, non?
>
> Kevin
>
> (*) Those would be callous, know-nothing moviemakers who just
> happen to have far more money than I'll ever see in my life, but
> I'm not bitter.... oh no.   ;->
Yep... is very sexy. ;-)
-- 
...CH
"The more they over-think the plumbing,
the easier it is to stop up the drain."
				Scotty