| djgordy
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| 1037578. Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:55 pm |
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| eggshaped wrote: | | Looking back at our research, I see that we didn't mean scarper in the sense of running away quickly, rather we decided that one should walk away from a cow slowly, as this isn't 'keeping still' we decided to label it 'scarper'. |
Next time. do the research in the field.
("Field" - get it? Comedy genius.) |
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| eggshaped
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| 1037581. Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:01 pm |
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Actually, I once went to Torpenhow to see if there was a hill by that name for QI - if there was such a place it would mean 'hill hill hill hill'.
During that 'field' trip I was chased by cows. True story. (not a particularly interesting story, but true nonetheless) |
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| djgordy
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| 1037590. Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:30 pm |
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| Note to self - do not exchange anecdotes with Eggshaped at parties...... |
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| chrisboote
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| 1037677. Tue Nov 26, 2013 4:29 am |
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| I dunno, sounds like he could do with getting a few new ones |
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| dr.bob
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| 1037682. Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:04 am |
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| eggshaped wrote: | | During that 'field' trip I was chased by cows. True story. (not a particularly interesting story, but true nonetheless) |
Did you keep still, or scarper? |
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| 'yorz
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| 1037686. Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:22 am |
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| Or milk it? |
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| Alfred E Neuman
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| 1037691. Tue Nov 26, 2013 5:36 am |
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| Or wave a sesame seed bun in a generally threatening manner? |
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| Confucius
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| 1038099. Wed Nov 27, 2013 6:49 pm |
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| djgordy wrote: | | Now we have iPlayer and various catch up services, scheduling is a lot less relevant than it used to be. |
It remains a right Royal pain in the keister for those of us who'd like to record each XL episode. |
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| nitwit02
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| 1038117. Wed Nov 27, 2013 8:07 pm |
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It remains a right Royal pain in the keister for those of us who'd like to record each XL episode.
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Seconded. |
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| Ian Dunn
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| 1039434. Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:12 pm |
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| New DigiGuide update: it now claims that Keeps XL will be on 23rd December at 22.20 on BBC Two. |
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| Confucius
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| 1039665. Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:08 pm |
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| Ta! |
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| nitwit02
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| 1039675. Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:08 pm |
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| Ta muchly! |
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| octopi
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| 1082684. Wed Jul 02, 2014 10:37 am |
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| suze wrote: | | CharliesDragon wrote: | | I am angry! A kilobyte is 1024, and that's just how things are! You can't just go ahead and change that! |
You clearly can, because the International Electrotechnical Commission did in 1998 and even the USA has accepted the switch to a decimal kilobyte. Microsoft hasn't, and when Windows tells you how much free space you have on your drive it's counting in gibibytes (i.e. 2^30 bytes), but the other leading players have.... |
It is the various operating systems that are rounding the numbers down on the size of the blocks on your hard drives.
The actual physical block sizes, on the drives, are still 1024. For example, you can tell Mac OS X to calculate block size in real terms and not round via terminal. Manufacturers went over to calculating file sizes in base 10 rather than base 2 which gives you a reported size difference of 7%. So basically it's the difference between looking at the reported sizes in their various methods of calculation.
The machines, of course, will be laughing at us as they make their 1024 calculations knowing we are diddling ourselves out of those precious 24 bytes. I have switched all my Macs and Linux machines to calculate in binary.
So the real answer to the question is 1024. |
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| Jenny
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| 1082990. Fri Jul 04, 2014 1:22 pm |
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I thought the answer to everything was 42?
Welcome to the forums, octopi :-) |
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| dr.bob
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| 1084570. Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:28 am |
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| octopi wrote: | | It is the various operating systems that are rounding the numbers down on the size of the blocks on your hard drives. |
Kilobytes don't just refer to hard drives, you know.
Another field in which data is measured is in telecommunications. In this field, bandwidths have always been measured in decimal format. So a bandwidth of 1KB/s will deliver precisely 1,000 bytes of data in one second.
Also, disk manufacturers were pretty slap-dash about their labelling in the old days. The old 1.44MB floppy disks actually contained 1,440KB of data. That was back when a kilobyte was 1,024 bytes. However, by classing 1,440KB as 1.44MB, you actually have a mixture of decimal and binary "kilos" in the same figure! This is the kind of silliness that led the International Electrotechnical Commission and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to come up with an official definition of the kilobyte to remove such confusion. |
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