Have you been to the IT Fair at Suntec already?

Today is the last day so do hop down if you have any electronic gadgets you want to buy.

I went on Friday afternoon and was really enjoying myself because it was not that crowded and I could take my time to look around for anything that attracts me. I meant people and goods.

Anyway, I bought myself a portable hard disk drive as most of you would have already known by now. 105 bucks for 160 GB so they claimed. In actual fact, there is only 149 GB in it. So I was cheated, only legally, so to speak.

Why do I say that? A discussion with my course mate weimin shed some light on this and set me pondering. Their so call "160 GB" is really just 160 x 1000^3 bytes. But in binary terms, it could also mean 160 x 1024^3 bytes.

1024 arising from 2^10. Anyway I shouldn't bore you with too much technicalities.

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So if you do the calculation, the short fall is 11.8 GB (binary terms) which is the exact missing storage from my hdd.

I was played. I should say, we all are played.

By words.

They should say 160 gibibyte instead.

Now you know why whenever you buy a thumb drive or hdd, the storage is a little short of what has been claimed.



Well, I am quite all right with this since 160 GB is really more than enough for me.

And as if either influence or envy has set at least two of my friends thinking of buying one themselves i.e hy and dave.

I wish them good luck.

Now, it is time to turn my attention to my friends who have lots of goodies waiting for me.

Well, it definitely lift a person's spirit when you get something nice for yourself.

So for those friends who have been saying I am so stress up, I need a breather, give me some space etc, please go and get yourself a portable hdd. Lots of space waiting for you.

I feel so relax. I am rich - so much space. Literally.