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#11
Nov 13 2017 06:44pm
Quote (King Atrhur @ Nov 13 2017 06:59am)
or op pm'd me since your no help here.


You're*
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Nov 13 2017 10:52pm
since this thread is done anyway...

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=77450534&f=34&p=523688074#p523688074


Quote (JohnMiller92 @ Nov 12 2017 07:34pm)
Couple ways:

-- http://forums.d2jsp.org/login.php?c=8

-- Download a post blocker

-- Can learn a bit of JavaScript/create your own blocker then install it via the tampermonkey browser addon

-- Just try to ignore/don't reply to them as it only feeds them ( me, for example )




At the very end when you said "me, for example"... do you mean that you choose to ignore others? or that they should be the ones to ignore you? cause neither of those seem to happen often lol

honestly curious which you were referring to...?
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Nov 14 2017 02:52am
Quote (noob_whacker @ Nov 13 2017 09:52pm)
since this thread is done anyway...

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=77450534&f=34&p=523688074#p523688074






At the very end when you said "me, for example"... do you mean that you choose to ignore others? or that they should be the ones to ignore you? cause neither of those seem to happen often lol

honestly curious which you were referring to...?


I mean when people continue to engage me w/ ad-hominem attacks/trolling/etc. It only makes me stronger and they will never win, I don't recommend them doing it so I suggest a post blocker (shameful way out). Or I recommend just not replying to that person if they are a troll. Sometimes I troll too (I admit it)

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Nov 14 2017 06:02pm
Quote (JohnMiller92 @ Nov 14 2017 01:52am)
I mean when people continue to engage me w/ ad-hominem attacks/trolling/etc. It only makes me stronger and they will never win, I don't recommend them doing it so I suggest a post blocker (shameful way out). Or I recommend just not replying to that person if they are a troll. Sometimes I troll too (I admit it)


Dude, it's the internet....not the marines....
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#15
Nov 14 2017 06:11pm
Quote (Ice98 @ Nov 14 2017 08:02pm)
Dude, it's the internet....not the marines....


not DBZ either lol

the mind is powerful, delusions can be almost real for some people
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Nov 14 2017 07:04pm
Quote (Canadian_Man @ Nov 12 2017 08:32pm)
Yep, and this applies to a lot of different industries.

You are given theoretical numbers, not practical end-user numbers.

If you really needed the extra ~62GB, then you probably should've gotten a larger (or additional) hard drive?

Where this can be infuriating is when an unsuspecting customer purchases a brand new laptop, only to find the formatted hard drive has less storage, and even still, the operating system eats up a huge amount as well. This has triggered legal action for certain phones. While one or the other might be acceptable, the compounding effect of an OS & the lost storage on a format = can be disappointing.


No, you got the correct amount, it''s just that what windows sees as 1tb differs from what 1tb actually is
like 1000gb vs 1024gb type of difference

This post was edited by DCSS on Nov 14 2017 07:05pm
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Nov 22 2017 08:59pm
Quote (DCSS @ Nov 14 2017 06:04pm)
No, you got the correct amount, it''s just that what windows sees as 1tb differs from what 1tb actually is
like 1000gb vs 1024gb type of difference


That's not quite correct.

What they do is downright nasty. They compound the rounding. This would be like selling a house as having 3000 sq ft, but it turns out that it's only 2600 sq ft, because they rounded each room up to the nearest 100, but never rounded down.

I have a 256GB hard drive. It's not (1000/1024) * 256 = 250GB. It's actually 238GB after formatting. Tack on the space taken up by the OS, and it is understandable why people were upset about 8GB capacity iPhones, or 128GB capacity hard drives that OS's were installed on. The amount of space lost ends up being quite a bit on both ends: The actual maximum capacity, and the space used by default in order to have an operating system.

As you can see from the following, the rounding goes all the way down to the KB. They obviously don't round bit-byte from 8 to 10 though, as that wouldn't favor them.

Code
Actual Rounded favourably

1 Byte = 8 bits 8 bits
1 KB = 1024 bytes 1000 bytes
1 MB = 1024KB 1000 KB
1 GB = 1024MB 1000 MB



Working backwards:
Actual Rounded

GB to MB 256 GB = 262144 256000
MB to KB 256 GB = 268435456 256000000
KB to Byte 256 GB = 2.74878E+11 2.56E+11
Byte to bit 256 GB = 2.19902E+12 2.048E+12

Convert back to actual GB read-out: 256 238.4185791


This post was edited by Canadian_Man on Nov 22 2017 09:00pm
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Nov 22 2017 09:07pm
Quote (Canadian_Man @ Nov 22 2017 10:59pm)
That's not quite correct.

What they do is downright nasty. They compound the rounding. This would be like selling a house as having 3000 sq ft, but it turns out that it's only 2600 sq ft, because they rounded each room up to the nearest 100, but never rounded down.

I have a 256GB hard drive. It's not (1000/1024) * 256 = 250GB. It's actually 238GB after formatting. Tack on the space taken up by the OS, and it is understandable why people were upset about 8GB capacity iPhones, or 128GB capacity hard drives that OS's were installed on. The amount of space lost ends up being quite a bit on both ends: The actual maximum capacity, and the space used by default in order to have an operating system.

As you can see from the following, the rounding goes all the way down to the KB. They obviously don't round bit-byte from 8 to 10 though, as that wouldn't favor them.

Code
Actual Rounded favourably

1 Byte = 8 bits 8 bits
1 KB = 1024 bytes 1000 bytes
1 MB = 1024KB 1000 KB
1 GB = 1024MB 1000 MB



Working backwards:
Actual Rounded

GB to MB 256 GB = 262144 256000
MB to KB 256 GB = 268435456 256000000
KB to Byte 256 GB = 2.74878E+11 2.56E+11
Byte to bit 256 GB = 2.19902E+12 2.048E+12

Convert back to actual GB read-out: 256 238.4185791


there's other forms of overhead playing a part in this besides the one i listed but it does come in to play.
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#19
Nov 22 2017 10:37pm
Quote (Ice98 @ Nov 14 2017 05:02pm)
Dude, it's the internet....not the marines....


When you got this entire cesspool of a section insulting me, condoning me to kill myself, etc and making ad-hominem attacks, you have to treat it like the marines. Only way to pull through

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Nov 22 2017 10:37pm
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#20
Nov 22 2017 10:40pm
Quote (JohnMiller92 @ Nov 22 2017 11:37pm)
When you got this entire cesspool of a section insulting me, condoning me to kill myself, etc and making ad-hominem attacks, you have to treat it like the marines. Only way to pull through


all you do is shitpost maybe change that you be fine
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