Yeah, I win, got the 300th post. When will I receive my prize?
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USB flash drives. A 64GB is really “64GB or smaller” once the fine print that says “actual user storge less” is taken in to account. Currently the products from the name brands are no more than 5% less, but there is nothing stopping this number from growing over time.
edit: If it’s possible to sell flash drives that are smaller than advertised, then it’s possible with a gallon of gasoline too, isn’t it? Imagine switching the units to metric and then converting back to gallons, with rounding. Then changing the price because the gasoline additives are separate, and getting everyone used to that. There are a few tricks they could do. They’re already doing it with Ethanol to some extent, as I believe someone mentioned. That’s a >4% reduction in economy right there on most vehicles with 10% ethanol.
My guess, 90% of users don’t care.
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And for the 10%, 95% don’t know.
Knowing anything, about any subject, is sooo last century, sadly.
Most states here in the North East you can’t drain into streets or driveways (which could potentially drain into the street).
HUH? That’s an extremely absurd comparison.
On and on you go with this nonsense. That flash drive has a 64GB chip, with minor losses for formatting. It has always been this way, nothing new, nothing nefarious.
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off the grid yesterday and things took a turn. Any chance you can get somewhat more on track? Thanks.
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What wavelength laser do they use to etch 3-nm traces on a wafer? Must be EUV or x-rays. I worked with SVG just before ASML bought them. They were just getting into UV lithography and didn’t understand molecular contamination. We had decades of experience in aerospace instruments.
We can go back 50 years to removable disk-drives. Unformatted 50mb drive when formatted for the MVC operating system dropped it down to 45mb. Same disk from same manufacturer formatted to TOPS-10 the formatted drive dropped down to 47mb. For RSX-11m it dropped to only 48mb.
Somebody could start sellingof non ethanol pure gasoline in quantities of 0.96 of one gallon due to it having the equivalent amount of usable energy, and advertise the price accordingly. It’s not really even a dishonest thing to do. Problem is, the 10% ethanol stations would start doing it too, and there we would have it, a down-sized gallon!
I wish gasbuddy would do a correction for the ethanol gasoline on their price maps. They already round down the 0.009 which I think is dishonest.
The size of a gallon of gas is governed by federal and state laws, primarily through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Handbook 44 and your state’s Weights & Measures agencies.
Both entities (Federal and State) define a U.S. gallon as 231 cubic inches (or 3.785 liters) at a standard temperature (59° and 29.92 in/Hg) to ensure the pumps are accurate and fuel quality/blending standards are all met via regulations issued by the EPA. This helps to prevent fraud and maintain consistency, with specific rules for pump labeling and blending (like E15)… All of which is enforced at the state level.
But until AI Takes over the “New EPA” (Electronic Protection Agency), I doubt there will be any standard measure of Bits, Bytes, and Giga-thingamabob… 
Its always that way, even on phones going back to the first computers.
Its kind of like BHP vs Wheel horsepower. Some of the horses get used running things.
It’s EUV produced by vaporizing tin droplets using a combination of lasers to first expand the tin droplet and then vaporize it- as it falls from a dispensing apparatus!. This produces EUV light used in the lithography stage. This is already reaching the extent of its capability and next generation needs a completely different approach. I can’t say much more about what that entails…
Show me. .
Please, no! That will my gas buying decisions more problematic 
My car recommends 93 octane but allows the use of 87 octane. When I fill up I get the 90 octane non-ethanol gas if it is lower price than the 93 octane,
Actually NO. Every state I’ve lived in has a department of weights and measures that test gas pumps. That’s NOT to say some gas stations don’ try to cheat you or there’s a problem with a pump. Years ago, I filled up at a station, and it dispensed 17 gallons into my 15-gallon tank. That was the last time I bought gas from them.
I can see it now. Just as deceptive as those calorie specifications on food products:
Joe’s Gasoline Emporium
Regular $0.99
(servings per gallon = 3)
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