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By defending the least honest or accurate advertising in existence?
Okay....
Uh no by defending the completely honest and objectively accurate advertising. As opposed to the inaccurate and misleading advertising that would be advertising based on file download speed.
Bet you think a gigabyte is a thousand megabytes too.
Yes in networking we use the decimals based decimal-based Gigabyte and Megabyte.
So Megabyte = 1000 Bytes Gigabyte = 1000 Megabytes.
When referring to the binary based system, like with computer RAM we use Mebibytes = 1024 bytes Gebibytes = 1024 Mebibytes
Damn, you really just outed yourself like that.
Well, I rest my case.
As knowledgeable engineer who knows accurate technical terms? I should hope so. That’s been self evident from the start.