http://hypography.com/forums/ A forum for site-wide community polls. Make sure you vote! en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:39 GMT vBulletin 60 http://hypography.com/forums/images/styles/new_facebook/images/misc/rss.jpg http://hypography.com/forums/ http://hypography.com/forums/community-polls/21444-quien-es-mas-macho-johnny-depp-o-robert-pattinson.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:47:53 GMT Okay so we have a raging debate in our household this week. People Magazine just announced that... Okay so we have a raging debate in our household this week.

People Magazine just announced that for the second year, Johnny Depp is the Sexiest Man Alive.



I have no problem with that, I *love* Johnny Depp! (scarily, "Ed Wood" is one of my favorite pictures of all time....)

On the otherhand, my daughter who will be lined up at midnight tomorrow night for the first showing of New Moon, insists that Robert Pattinson should have won.



Okay, I read and love all the Twilight books (no, they're not just for teen girls...), and he's great as Edward Cullen, but no, I still go for Johnny. And not just because I'd be cradle robbing...

Now I know I can get Pam and Chac to vote, but you guys ought to be able to pick one (or suggest an alternate)!

You know, you're, you're much scarier in real life than you are in the movie, :phones:
Buffy ]]> Community Polls Buffy http://hypography.com/forums/community-polls/21444-quien-es-mas-macho-johnny-depp-o-robert-pattinson.html http://hypography.com/forums/community-polls/21400-what-do-you-call-8192-binary-digits-bits-1024-bytes.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:32:10 GMT It’s been over a decade since the first widely-publicized efforts by various standards... It’s been over a decade since the first widely-publicized efforts by various standards organizations to rid the world of the ambiguous use of prefixes beginning with K, M, G, T, etc. to mean
1024, 1048576, 1073741824, 1099511627776, etc. or
1000, 1000000, 1000000000, 1000000000000, etc.

(The wikipedia article ”binary prefix” gives a summary of the history of what we call various two-to-the-power units.)

As best I can surmise, even among professional bitsmiths (programmers, hardware folk, etc), hardly anyone’s ever even heard of this, or the odd-sounding alternative unit prefixes that came from it. Saying something like “that file system has six-hundred sixty-five gibibytes” is more likely to garner confused look than appreciation for your precise language.

So, to the question – what do you call them? Kilo/mega/giga/tera/peta/exabytes, etc., kibi/mebi/gibi/tebi/pebi/exbibytes, or something else altogether? ]]> Community Polls CraigD http://hypography.com/forums/community-polls/21400-what-do-you-call-8192-binary-digits-bits-1024-bytes.html http://hypography.com/forums/community-polls/21393-what-kilometerage-does-your-car-get.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:46:57 GMT Oh gosh. I'm gonna *try* not to be Amerocentric here, so you folks in the US are just gonna have to put up with the conversions....

SO, how fuel efficient is *your* car/truck/motored vehicle?

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down, :phones:
Buffy ]]> Community Polls Buffy http://hypography.com/forums/community-polls/21393-what-kilometerage-does-your-car-get.html