The geek shall inherit the earth!

gumpy · October 20, 2006, 05:10:58 AM

Hey, for all you fellow nerds.... we now have exactly 1K members

Or if you prefer, that's 400 in hex, or 2000 in octal, or 10000000000 in binary!!

And what I find really ironic, is that as I type this post, we also have EXACTLY 2K topics!!!!

Dallas · October 20, 2006, 05:38:17 AM

Today a Kilo--- Tomorrow a Gig!

Onward and Upward.

FloridaCliff · October 20, 2006, 05:54:45 AM

Craig,

I guess I am half a geek as it took me a few minutes to get what you where saying.

Very Funny

Cliff

RTS/Daytona · October 20, 2006, 06:02:20 AM

Grumy

Actually 1000 members would be

HEX------> 03E8
OCTAL--> 1750
BINARY-> 0000 0011 1110 1000

When It's 1024 members you would be correct

Pete RTS/Daytona

30 years - IBM Systems Engineer/Instructor

You can take the Instructor out of the Classroom - But - You can't take the Classroom out of the Instructor

plyonsMC9 · October 20, 2006, 06:05:57 AM

Hey Pete,

I think Craig said 1K members, not 1,000. That was the geekness. We do have 1024 members.

Best Regards, Phil

RTS/Daytona · October 20, 2006, 06:10:49 AM

OOOOOPS - Sorry Grumpy -

I just Looked at the stats - 1024 members

Damn - maybe I've been away from the classroom too long

Sorry - I'll be more carefull

Your RIGHT - I'm WRONG

Pete RTS/Daytona

gumpy · October 20, 2006, 06:18:15 AM

Quote from: RTS/Daytona on October 20, 2006, 06:02:20 AM
Grumy

Actually 1000 members would be

HEX------> 03E8
OCTAL--> 1750
BINARY-> 0000 0011 1110 1000

When It's 1024 members you would be correct

Pete RTS/Daytona

30 years - IBM Systems Engineer/Instructor

You can take the Instructor out of the Classroom - But - You can't take the Classroom out of the Instructor

Hee hee hee.... There were 1024 members... and 2048 threads before I started this one.

Yeah, I know the common world thinks of kilo as 1000. But geek purists think of it as 2^10.

Maybe I should have coined a new term - kilomember = 2^10 members, but the abbreviation of Km would conflict with Kilometers, so maybe it should be kilobusnuts, Kbn.

kyle4501 · October 20, 2006, 08:32:00 AM

Great, just what I needed . . . . another thread to point out something else I don't know. $:-\$

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't I more blissful?

On the bright side, I know who I can ask when I get to the part of my conversion that deals with this 'geek speak'

H3Jim · October 20, 2006, 08:38:58 AM

And while we are on a frivolous topic, its Gumpy, not Grumpy or Grumy. I find him to be quite civil, and not the least bit of a curmudgeon. The name misspelling probably bothers me more than it does him.

DuaneMC7 · October 20, 2006, 09:34:25 AM

I think I need to go back to school

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brojcol · October 20, 2006, 11:29:46 AM

HUH???!!!??

H3Jim · October 20, 2006, 11:41:49 AM

sorry, I keep a dictionary by my computer...

Dallas · October 20, 2006, 11:48:15 AM

Interesting, No one has inquired where the quote came from.

Anyone, besides Marc and Cliff have an idea?

Jeremy · October 20, 2006, 11:52:37 AM

Kbn (Kilobusnuts) is such a great term that I had to look it up and see what the acronym already stood for (it was bound to stand for something). Rather appropriately I find it stands for 'Knowledge-Based Network', which is a pretty good description of this site.

Jeremy

PS. If you mean the 'Today a Kilo--- Tomorrow a Gig!' quote, presumably it relates to computer memory / storage space.

muddog16 · October 20, 2006, 03:03:29 PM

It will take approximately 3.14 Sam Adams to think about this! I better get started!.....

The geek shall inherit the earth!

Dallas

Dallas