Heard of it? No? It was believed to be an April Fools joke by Google a while back. Why? Because they offered 1000 megabytes of space for the account, for free. It supposedly includes a search tool to use for you're mail, to find any message, even the exact message, if given enough information. Well, I'll tell you, It's not a joke. I got my account tonight, from a friend of mine. And I must tell you, I'm impressed. Although I haven't used it all that much, it still feels very cool. Like a superstar. Want one? Are you interested? Well, it's only by invite. Yep, invite only. But, the inviting isn't done by Google. Nope. All by it's users. So, in a weeks time or so, I should have a few to give. Sound good? Yes it does. If you want to, email me: Maverick83@gmail.com.
Isn't it also loaded with stuff that searches through your mail looking for key words/phrases to send to advertisers? Linky. It is tempting though. With 1 gb of storage I can handle a little extra spam, and you could probably send really big files like movies too..... Bah, bring on the spam. Sure, sign me up if you get the chance. I will reward you with booze and women.
Nice find there indeed, MiGu. One thing I noticed on the G-Mail homepage...since when does 1 GB = 1,000 MB?
One thing I noticed on the G-Mail homepage...since when does 1 GB = 1,000 MB? That's actually correct- I think. New SI prefixes were created a few years ago, sometime in the 1990s I think. There was confusion about whether "kilo" really meant 1000 (that's what it means). In practice people had starting using "kilo" as a slang prefix for 1024 (2^10). Now, if I understand correctly, a kilobyte is now officially (by International standards bodies) considered to be only 1000 bytes, and if you want to indicate 2^10 (1024), you must use the term kibibyte. A gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, each of those megabytes consisting of 1000 kilobytes of a thousand bytes each, while a gibibyte is 1024 mebibytes, each mebibyte consisting of 1024 kibibytes of 1024 bytes each. Confusing things further, some software packages report download speeds in bytes per second rather than bits per second, so people feel shortchanged if they're downloading at 5KB/s when they have a 50666 bps connection. What I don't know is whether you convert bytes to bits by multiplying by 9 or 10 (anyone know for sure?)... a byte being 8 bits to start with, and in Windows you set it to 8 bit bytes, No parity bit, and one stop bit, but I believe that the modem itself, invisibly to the OS, adds/strips a bit of its own, so I think that for every useful byte delivered up the model to an application, ten bits were necessary to get it across the wire. But maybe it really is just nine... in any case, doing mental division/multiplication assuming it's ten is usually close enough anyways, since compression further skews those numbers. I think most of us will forever use "kilo" and "mega" to mean either 1000 or 1024 depending on context, as I sure can't seem to get used to the SI units that are standard now.
Of the 8 references to gigabyte on gmail..only ONE is accuracte..adn therefore contradicting all of the others: At least they put the about on that one!
Gmail is rather nifty either way. The main problem I have with it is the lack of HTML compatibility. That irritates the hell out of me. *shrugs*
Nope. Officially, a gig is in fact exactly 1000 (NOT 1,024) megabytes, and a megabyte is defined as being 1,000,000 (not 1,048,576) bytes. If you want a term for 1,024 bytes, it's NOT "kilobyte" but is (note the third character) "kibibyte." The term for 1024 of those is "mebibyte," and the term for 1024 of those is called a "gibibyte." I wouldn't "argue" except that I'm really trying to learn and use these correctly, and the new standard has been recognized in the industry (internationally) since 1998. And yes, in practice I still slip and mistakenly use the term "gigabyte" in casual conversation when I really mean "gibibyte." But I'm working on that, thus my insistence on the above.
and when you look at diskspace on most systems it converts at the 1024 markers... you can fit 1509959 bytes on a 1.44MB floppydisk...not 1440000
OK. A gig is a term used to round off for ease of letting the lay person know how much something can hold or produce. All digital is configured in binary, which starts at one and doubles at each space further to the left of decimal...EG: 1-2-4-8-16-32-64-128-256-512-1024...etc.......they figured a gig was easier to comprehend than to say 1 gig 24 megabytes. Mathmatically a gig is a thousand mrgs, but as an industry standard, 1024 megabytes is a gig, for packaging purposes. I hate radishes!!!!!!
Mathmatically a gig is a thousand mrgs, but as an industry standard, 1024 megabytes is a gig It appears to me that "kilo" still always means 1000 and never 1024 (except of course as American slang)... SOURCE: Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology. "In December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the leading international organization for worldwide standardization in electrotechnology, approved as an IEC International Standard names and symbols for prefixes for binary multiples for use in the fields of data processing and data transmission. The prefixes are as follows: kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, exbi. "These prefixes for binary multiples, which were developed by IEC Technical Committee (TC) 25, Quantities and units, and their letter symbols, with the strong support of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), were first adopted by the IEC as Amendment 2 to IEC International Standard IEC 60027-2: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology - Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics. The full content of Amendment 2, which has a publication date of 1999-01, is reflected in the tables above and the suggestion regarding pronunciation. Subsequently the contents of this Amendment were incorportated in the second edition of IEC 60027-2, which has a publication date of 2000-11 (the first edition was published in 1972). The complete citation for this revised standard is IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology - Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics."
