General Discussion Thread

[Xevross]

I get that download problem too, speed sometime randomly drop to being very slow which, then it goes back to normal. Very annoying.

[Dr. Pezus]

No idea why we use bits for internet speeds tbh

[Xevross]

No idea why we use bits for internet speeds tbh

Just to add to the confusion in an average person's life!

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

No idea why we use bits for internet speeds tbh

It's because it's better for advertising. Higher number =better.

[Dr. Pezus]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=998348

Wtf, how does this stuff find its way to gaf?

[darkknightkryta]

Calculating in bits is more or less legacy. Gotta remember, the fastest modem you could buy at the time was 4kb/s(kilobytes) . Same reason why we count in kilobytes before we switched to megabytes, and then to gigabytes.

[the-pi-guy]

I've decided I'm going to try to learn Japanese.  Got some books to help with the writing part.  We'll see how it goes. 

[Legend]

I've decided I'm going to try to learn Japanese.  Got some books to help with the writing part.  We'll see how it goes. 

Nice!

[Xbro]

Figured I'd make my 1K celebration here.

[Xevross]

Figured I'd make my 1K celebration here.

Hooray! Congrats ... we did have a thread for this though

[Dr. Pezus]

10k!!

[Legend]

10k!!

Not yet bud.

[Xevross]

Are we doing this again?

[the-pi-guy]

Are we doing this again?

Apparently he is. 

On another topic.  North Sentinel Island is weird. 

[Xevross]

Apparently he is. 

On another topic.  North Sentinel Island is weird.

In that case.... 11,000!!!!