Memory the consumers nightmare!!!

[#1]

Have you noticed whenever you pay for memory, be it hard disk, ram or bandwidth you always get less than you should.
If you buy a pint or litre, it is just that.... With memory however when you pay for what you want, you get a little less.
A megabyte is 1024k/b not 1000k/b... Now in the days of old when a monster PC had a whole 16mb of ram and a huge 6gb HDD this was ok to accept... but add it up over a few gigabytes and we get a LOT less than you would expect.
And just to show its all stacked against us... Check your downloads is a megabyte 1000k or is it 1024... You may be losing there too.
I was gonna come on with a load of numbers and impress you all with my maths ability...... But I'm really stupid and couldnt get my head around it once I got more than 6 numbers in a row, but if some clever over educated swat wants to do the maths feel free.
Do I sound bitter!!! He he.. Mid life crisis...Motorbike needs MOT gotta get it out somewhere!

[#2]

You're right of course.  It's made more irritating by the fact that Windows still calculates your memory using the good old 2¹⁰ (1024), so every time you check memory on the system, it rubs your nose in it. 

[#3]

You mean a Mebibyte

[#4]

Somebody just made that up and put it on wickedpedia!
You won't believe that a professional colleague of mine once used Wikipedia as his reference work to decide a point of law.  Wikipedia says it so it must be so.  I couldn't believe it!  As far as I can see, I could add a page to the site arguing that of course black is white and white is black, and it would be ok, and in a few months it would be an accepted scientific theory.

[#5]

Is the abbreviation also the same?

[#6]

Actually, I believe the abbreviations are supposed to be MiB and GiB
B.

[#7]

Bah.  I so knew that aswell.
MetroNet used to sell usage as MiB. I'm not sure if any other ISP did/does this?