- Sandra: I can’t believe Larisa gave my tongue technique only 4.7 points!
- Sandra: That was a setup! My tongue technique is superb!
- Sandra: See?
- Woo: Please excuse me. I think I have to throw up.
- Sandra: You’re such a gentleman!
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[1 KB] Not A Gentlecoon
└ posted on Monday, 24 September 2018, by Novil
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I mean it probably looks disgusting to a Raccoon…
Also nice touch with 1 kibibyte
Technically, this is at least strip number 1041.
There’s no reason to count the 17 strips published between the 10th and 26th of November 2016 as just one strip. It also makes no sense to count the strip “Freedom! Justice! Cookies!”, but not the strip “Mouse Cake Is Best Cake!”
Well… Sandra look into you heart… did you really give that kiss everything you could have? 😀
Paeris Kiran wrote:
It wasn’t Cloud… so probably not…
Woo is probably having flashbacks of strip 115. If she’d kissed like that it would be her win.
@ Trimutius:
Why? I don’t get it.@ Trimutius:
Why is it a nice touch? I don’t understand…@ Trimutius:
Only one way to find out. Kiss Zoey and see what you can learn.
No more bikinis? 🙁
Also, I second that 1 KB was a nice touch, though there’a typo in there – it should be 1 KiB.
@ CopperPenguin20:
1KB is 1024 Kilobytes this is comic number 1024.
@ Byteflush:
Practically no one except computer geeks use KiB instead of KB when discussing computer memory and this strip isn’t in the least technical. Speaking of memory, I imagine Woo has done his best to forget strip 115.
Byteflush wrote:
Even though it is kinda true… This KiB was invented by casuals who just didn’t want to accept the 1024…
@ Byteflush:
If you’re worried about what the K or Ki represents, why aren’t you worrying about what the B represents?
Cloud ain’t complaining.
Aw man, no more bikini. Should’ve end the arc with something like group photos to celebrate the ending of this long arc.
Oh com-on Sandra! Stop being such a baby! It’s all in the math. You lost.
@ PS2kid:
@ Byteflush:
No more bikinis? I know right! Isn’t that good? 😉 😛
Raccoons do have a weaken.
I’m surprised that they went that entire arc without invoking the “publicly humiliating wardrobe malfunction” trope.
…doctor Woo saw the worst case of thrush…
A thought just occurred to me: the way Sandra is lying on her bed like that is almost as if the entire arc was just a bad dream! Just imagine!
Probably brought back memories of their /unintentional/ midnight kiss from was back when.
@ Brijeka Vervix:
Byte your tongue. …about K times. 😉 🙂 🙂
Nice strip, Oliver! I like this one. I particularly like the art of Sandra in panel three, Powree!
Well I mean, of course Zoey gets more points from Larisa. She’s the one kissing the part of the species she’s at least somewhat attracted to.
@ Trimutius:
Seconded. That and commercial types that want to sell less product at a higher price. Like your ISP presenting their connection in megabits instead of megabytes. Or harddisk manufacturers that not only use 1k instead of 1024, but also round up 950 GB to 1 TB. Thieves! 🙂
Just occurred to me: What if Sandra demands a do over to prove Larisa wrong, and something “clicks” between them? 😏
I agree with PS2kid
A group selfie would be an awesome way to end the arc.
And Sandra, what do you care what Larisa thinks?
It’s Cloud’s opinion that matters.
@ Asrial:
With all due respect, a group selfie would have felt out of place and awkward given everything else in this arc. Like come-on, Sandra’s pissy at both Larisa and Zoey and probably Taytay too after the, in her perspective, terrible underhand betrayal. How would the group somehow over come these issues in the space of about strip to get together for a selfie like that? Unless they ditch Sandra or something it ain’t gonna work.
(That being said, a selfie where everyone’s really happy
about Zoey’s glorious and rightful victoryabout finally getting to go home after months at this new poolcoz bikinis or something but Sandra is off to the side all grumpy and so on would be both sad and hilarious)@ SAGG:
We have seen a hint or two that Larisa feels some attraction to Sandra, although she’s still having some difficulty processing the idea.
Larisa has a ‘type’ and that ‘type’ is ‘socially awkward nerd with boundary issues’
“[1 KB] Not A Gentlecoon”
“That’s a smart joke everybody.” – ProJared
Trimutius wrote:
The problem of course is that this comic ISN’T 1024 Kilobytes.
Kilo is the metric prefix for “thousand” and Byte is a computer’s measure of memory. In computational terms, since memory is addressed in binary, the closest you can get to 1000 bytes is 1024. (2^10 bytes) Thus, in computer addressing, 1024 bytes was a kilo-byte. (or KB for short) But this can create confusion of the term Kilo being used incorrectly.
The term KiB is a kibi-byte… where kibi is a combination of Kilo and Binary so as to differentiate it from a standard base-ten kilo. It has also been the standard nomenclature for 20 years. (though I was personally rooting for bK to become the standard nomenclature because “binary kilo” is more grammatically correct than “kilo binary”)
But the REAL issue is the B… Byte. Being a measure of computer memory it has NO place in the numbering sequence of a web-comic. If anything it should be KiC… Kibi-comics. ;^Þ
Apparently she can’t get over it still…*sigh*
@ MidoriLuna:
Nerd, I’ll grant you, but Landon doesn’t seem that socially awkward. And I don’t get what you mean by boundary issues.
Sandra why
Mozai wrote:
Ok, true, got me there. Though, I was only semi-serious about the KiB thing. 🙂
@ CopperPenguin20:
It’s silliness, if you ask me. The number of the strip in decimal would be 1024, (not withstanding how many actual comics there have been, the immediate proximal previous strip was 1023, so…) which just happens to be 2^10, which for those who… (sigh) it’s two times two times two times two times two times two times two times two times two times two; it’s the product of ten twos.
I suppose you could name this strip “[Strip number: as many strips as there are bytes in a kB] Not A Gentlecoon” but that would be wordy and cumbersome. That would be silly in a different way, though. A better title might have been, “[2^10] Not A Gentlecoon” which would have avoided all this.
That was the TL;DR version… for the curious, or the masochistic, read on:
Powers of 2 are naturally used in and around computing as a field because the nature of the digital electronic computer naturally lends itself to these. We, humans, generally in modern times, at least in the ‘west,’ use base 10 for most things, and call it “decimal”. Big round numbers in our system are things like 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, etc., as a non-exhaustive list.
The notion that the number is a kilobyte, or a “kibibyte,” a “KB” (or more accurately a kB) as they like to call it now, is a little absurd. 1024 happens also to be the same number of kibibytes, if you must, in a mebibyte or whatever, and the number of mebibytes in a gibibyte, (or again, whatever,) and each previous comic is NOT one single ASCII or EBCDIC (or other information representation schema,) character, but a comic strip. (The old use of kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, etc., was annoying SI (or metric system) purists who took issue with the fact that to call a kilobyte, or a kB, a kilobyte using kilo, the metric prefix standing for 1000, or 10^3, is an abuse of the notation since a kB, (styled here improperly with a capital k; it should be lowercase,) is technically, generally, (though not always) 1024 bytes. (Note the difference in this notation scheme between b, (bit or bits) and capital B, (byte or bytes,) so kb is kilobit, (1000 binary digits, or possibly 1024 of them,) versus kB, (generally 1024 bytes, or (usually 8-bit long) characters of information, where each character is generally a letter, number, or symbol). (Actually, in truth, it might have been computer purists, not SI purists. One or the other, in any case, I suppose, insisted.)
(This discrepancy has been the cause of a lot of angst over the years, among certain people, since when you buy a new, let’s say, 1GB computer hard drive, (or other storage device,) and format it for the first time, whatever you’re formatting it IN likely reports it has some other number of bytes free, not a billion, as the word “gigabyte” would seem to imply. RATHER, the drive manufacturers used 1000-byte kilobytes, 1000 kilobyte megabytes, and 1000 megabyte gigabytes, in their specifications, (correctly using the metric prefixes, ironically,) while by default, most computer utilities seem to use the power-of-2 versions of these units, each of which is slightly LARGER than the corresponding, correctly used base-10 version, leads to a progressively larger discrepancy, the greater the number of steps removed from the original you get.
That is… a base-10 kilobyte is 1000 characters. A base-2 kilobyte, (these days distinguished from a decimal one by the use of a ‘bi’ in the prefix kilo, making it kibi, hence, kibibyte,) is only 24, in this instance BYTES, larger, at a value of 1024 bytes, or individual characters. SO… for a fixed, specific amount of actual storage, there are slightly fewer OF them. But if you go up to megabytes, and you call a megabyte a thousand kilobytes, (it’s not, really, it’s 1024 of them,) you’re now off not by 24, nor 24,000, but by 48,576. At the next prefix, giga, which SHOULD be 1,073,741,824, the decimal version is only 10^9 or a billion even, 1,000,000,000… which is a 73,741,824… in this case bytes… discrepancy. Thus, a gigabyte, according to your computer’s utility, (unless it’s configured to report in base-10,) will show a “gigabyte,” as having only something like 926,258,176 bytes free, before doing anything to or with it, rather than a cool, even billion. “WHERE ARE MY EXTRA BYTES?!?” people likely asked themselves.
(I know there were places and a time when billion meant something else. In modern terms, at least where I’m writing this, 10^9 is a billion… given Sandra and Woo’s connection to Germany, I felt this needed to be pointed out here, as I think they used to until recently, use the “million, milliard, billion, billiard system,” or the German equivalent thereto… or do they still use it, in Germany. Some people perhaps still do. I am pretty sure that was common in most of Europe, and different locales switched at different times. (Und ein ,,Guten Ta” bis alle die Deutsche lesers… Hallo!) In any case, the higher the prefix, the greater the linear discrepancy.
If you read “xkcd,” the artist did almost the same thing in the 1000’th strip, (https://xkcd.com/1000/) with “Cueball,” generally regarded as a stand-in for the author/artist, making the remark “WOW-JUST 24 TO GO UNTIL A BIG ROUND-NUMBER MILESTONE!” Given the nerdiness of THAT comic, (the creator is Randall Munroe, a former engineer, IIRC,) I was expecting something like that. The reason for some confusion is that a big, round number in decimal, 1000, happens to be very close, in terms of absolute magnitude, to a big round number, 2^10, in binary notation.
In fact, you really only have to memorize the first 10 powers of 2 to know ALL of them, in a sense.
2^0=1 (by definition, ANY nonzero real number raised to the power 0, is one)
2^1=2….note
2^2=4…..the
2^3=8…….pattern
2^4=16…….of
2^5=32……..products
2^6=64………here
2^7=128……..as
2^8=256………they
2^9=512……….grow
2^10=1024…….larger
After 1024, you can simply define a variable, set it to be equal to 2^10 or 1024, then the next power of 2, 2^11 is 2 times that 2^10. (It happens, in decimal, to be 2048, but if you use the variable… oh, say “k” to stand in for 1024, then double that is simply 2 times k, or “2k”. Multiplying by 2 again, or doubling the previous yields of course, 4k. Then 8k, and you can plainly see the pattern repeat… 16k, 32k, 64k, etc. Beyond that, calling 1024 times k something else, oh, say, just hypothetically, “M,” you then multiply in turn THAT by 2, giving 2M, then 4M, then 8M, followed unerringly by 16M, and so on, und so weiter, etc. You likely knew I was going to choose M, so when we reach 1024M, it will likely come as little surprise when I suggest we call that number G. (This sequence was not chosen by me, obviously. I blame the French… (hehehe) this all came from their international system of units, originally, or so I’ve been made to understand it…)
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why the newest iPhones now are available with 64GB of memory, 256GB, or 512GB… that’s why. It’s not that there’s a LAW that they can ONLY be in these increments, but they, these particular increments, are handy, and make some math easier, apparently. Actually it could just be for marketing reasons at this point, and be otherwise completely arbitrary. It wasn’t always thus… I recall a time when 320GB HDD was VERY common as a feature in new computers. (320 happens to be 256, a power of two, plus 64, another, smaller power of two. Not terribly relevant, but just throwing it out there.)
The simplest reason binary is so handy in THIS particular field is that any integer can be represented in binary and any binary number can be rendered as a decimal, and since the binary number system has only two “permissible marks,” being 0 and 1, if you have some system that has two general states it can exist in, such as a switch being on or off, or a portion of a transistor acting as a switch being either energized or not energized, or a (comparatively) high voltage being present on an electronic component or circuit, versus a low one, or a positive voltage versus a negative, a mechanical system, (and later an electronic one,) could be a good stand-in for handling these analog representations of numbers, and that’s what lead to the development of our modern, digital, electronic world, but I digress. (How else would one “store” a number in an electronic component, such as a diode, or a resistor, etc.? Circuits had to be built to mimic how we do math, as an early step in the development of the modern digital electronic computer.)
I was going to recommend the explainxkcd for this, but its explanation is less exhaustive than what I’ve written so far. Here… for further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
Here’s another one on why HDD storage capacities sometimes seem off, (it’s because of the thing I’ve been going on at considerable length about) https://www.lifewire.com/drive-storage-capacities-833435
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
@ MidoriLuna:
The post before yours made yours even more beautiful XD
@ Brijeka Vervix:
It’s a marvelous contrast, isn’t it.
@ GPedia:
Gender, not species.
@ Brijeka Vervix:
That’s the kind of selfie I was going for. It provides closure and is indeed hilarious.
Also, time doesn’t flow the same as it does here, and the same can be said from the laws of nature.
Sandra is cute in shorts.
She should wear them more often.
No it’s not Brijeka and stop misdirecting my comment to support your own. I thought we agree to stay away from each other to prevent another comment wars.
I think this is misplaced. In a thousand ‘strips we’ve gone from a pet rescue, to Sandra making sex-me faces at a racoon. Oh well, at least this means the two of them sharing a bed (and parts similar) in the next thousand. If Sandra’s going to practice her tongue, she’s going to have a lot of ice cream to work off to fit into a Playboy Bunny outfit- or to stay in that lingerie’ set for Cloud!
Woo can’t complain after telling Sandra how he “…licked Lily all over. Especially between her hind legs!”
After Woo’s done throwing up he’ll probably be seeking an instrument to gouge out his mind’s eye.
@ PS2kid:
Didn’t you see the 😉 😛 that suggest it was just a jest?
And here I thought that internet is always serious business for you.
One problem with the binary kilobyte is that, while the difference between binary and decimal isn’t that big to start out with, it grows exponentially. By a terabyte, it’s almost a 10% difference.
Of course, one could argue that the problem is with the decimal standard. Of course, isn’t that the same argument made for Imperial units?