Every time I read "photonics" I think of the doctor.

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Well, if you're still using MP3 in 2015 instead of another superior CODEC, there's no point in arguing with you about bitrates. ;-)

Apple also uses them and last time I checked, they still sold a metric* shitload of devices every day.

* I did that on purpose just to annoy people who can't acknowledge SI prefixes.

Actually, I wanted to make a joke about the maximum file size overflow problem and I specified MiB to avoid arguments about 33554432 vs 32000000 bytes in the first place...

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I wish people would stop thinking that hard drive manufacturers are the "source" of this so-called "problem". Digital communication speeds never used base 2, clock speeds didn't either.

People are simply stuck on terms like "Mebibyte" because they either don't want to accept the fact that mega is an SI prefix or because they don't like how the IEC units sound. Get over it.

...facilitated by online anonymity and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

You mean the same anonymity that allows anyone to check all transactions ever done on a Bitcoin* wallet?

* and other similar crypto-currencies as well.

Just because you don't like the term doesn't make it wrong. Highjacking SI prefixes and changing their meaning is wrong and has led to countless problems.

Ok, so they have a problem when going over 32 000 000 bytes.

I think the "32 megabytes—roughly the size of ten compressed music files" part is even more insulting.

How about staring at file offset 33554432? (assuming they mean 32MiB and not 32MB).

I'm going to make fake coupons that makes the grocery store give me 10 dollars for every item I buy!

The promise of the cloud is that your storage and computing problems will be abstracted away from messy physical objects that you need to maintain, taken care of far way by other people. Well, it turns out that those other people need to buy a lot of servers.

That's because those other people are stupid. They just need to put everything in the cloud!

"Bitter chocolate tastes bad, therefore it must be good for you. It's like a religion."

Well, it works for brocoli...