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Old 12-04-2007, 09:32 PM   #21
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Right oh, I've had a look at the ebay auction for the memory stick Burty bought and nowhere does it say its 2 GigaBytes, nowhere!!! It does however say 2Gb and who's to say that doesn't mean 2 Gigabits eh!!! 8 bits in a byte (4 bits is a nibble, I shit you not ) so a 2Gb (Gigabit) stick is 256 MB (MegaBytes). Sneaky and immoral no doubt but technically the seller is not breaking any laws.
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Old 12-04-2007, 10:09 PM   #22
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Old 12-04-2007, 11:00 PM   #23
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Talked to the colleagues as promised. Everyone agreed on the fact that this is a very strange problem but OK, some USB stick DO require a driver even if you use it on an XP OS. So, you could download a driver if you now the brand of your USB stick... Best solution however = buy a new one... like you already did...

"Gb" should always be referred to as Gigabytes... not bits.
If not, people are decieving you... tsss... Technically/Legaly things can be explained as 1 byte being 8 bits and that "b" could mean bits as well as bytes and blahblahblah... But I even doubt that ! ... come on, get real : everyone talks in bytes when it comes to diskspace : "Gb" means Gigabytes.

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Old 12-04-2007, 11:38 PM   #24
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"Gb" should always be referred to as Gigabytes... not bits.
If not, people are decieving you...
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But I even doubt that ! ... come on, get real : everyone talks in bytes when it comes to diskspace : "Gb" means Gigabytes.
Except when they want you to think the storage device they're selling you is 8 times bigger than it actually is. Its an ebay scammers dream this, profiting on peoples ignorance without actually breaking any laws.

Sega used to do it too, they would put 1Mb on some of their Master System game cartridges. When I was at school my mate had one and he used to claim it was way better than my 128K Spectrum and better in fact than mighty (but at the time out of reach of school kids) 16bit Amiga 500 (512K). But I figured it out and put an end to his bragging
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Old 12-04-2007, 11:38 PM   #25
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Have you left him feedback yet

Report him to ebay!!!
Yup when it arrived. He left me feedback just afterwards now it appears he has dissapeared.

Still aint been crediteded for the one i bought last week yet but thats another story
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Old 13-04-2007, 07:47 AM   #26
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How fast is your broadband/network connection BTW?

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Talked to the colleagues as promised. Everyone agreed on the fact that this is a very strange problem but OK, some USB stick DO require a driver even if you use it on an XP OS. So, you could download a driver if you now the brand of your USB stick... Best solution however = buy a new one... like you already did...

"Gb" should always be referred to as Gigabytes... not bits.
If not, people are decieving you... tsss... Technically/Legaly things can be explained as 1 byte being 8 bits and that "b" could mean bits as well as bytes and blahblahblah... But I even doubt that ! ... come on, get real : everyone talks in bytes when it comes to diskspace : "Gb" means Gigabytes.

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Old 13-04-2007, 07:17 PM   #27
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new 4gig stick turned up today. only ordered it yesterday. works perfectly.
Ebay wan**r still aint replied
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Old 13-04-2007, 07:22 PM   #28
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How fast is your broadband/network connection BTW?
Should 've left this sentence in my reply... I erased it because it's a bit off topic... and guess what... it is !


"Except for transfer-rates : those are indeed in MegaBITS/second"
but that ain't disk-size off course...
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Old 16-07-2007, 03:01 PM   #29
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Yay got my money back through paypal at last.
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