In 1999, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published Amendment 2 to “IEC 60027-2: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology – Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics”;. This standard, which had been approved in 1998, introduced the prefixes kibi-, mebi-, gibi-, tebi-, pebi-, exbi-, to be used in specifying binary multiples of a quantity. The names come from the first two letters of the original SI prefixes followed by bi which is short for “binary”. It also clarifies that, from the point of view of the IEC, the SI prefixes only have their base-10 meaning and never have a base-2 meaning.
(from en.wikipedia.org)
So this is the correct usage for file, disk, memory size:
Kilobytes (KB) 1.000 Kibibyte (KiB) 1024
Megabyte (MB) 1.000 ^ 2 Mebibyte (MiB) 1024 ^ 2
Gigabyte (GB) 1.000 ^ 3 Gibibyte (GiB) 1024 ^ 3
Terabyte (TB) 1.000 ^ 4 Tebibyte (TiB) 1024 ^ 4
Petabyte (PB) 1.000 ^ 5 Pebibyte (PiB) 1024 ^ 5
… … … …
via Binary confusion: kilobytes and kibibytes | blog.forret.com.
First Time: Boxing
Angela finally succeeded in dragging me to the boxing gym today.
Although I forgot the doctor’s orders to check my blood pressure before engaging in strenuous physical activities.
I found training fun and exhausting.
Unfortunately this is an automatic half day if I plan on going in the morning.
Hope I can continue this.
Aja
Everyone can fly but Southeast Asia's budget airlines are cannibalizing the industry- Nikkei Asian Review
I remember an article/interview written by Warren Buffet saying how on aggregate airlines have no net profit over the lifetime of airlines. This has always stayed with me. Some business models are simply too unstable to be profitable for the long term. This was the reason I never subscribed to the Cebu Pacific IPO. Airlines are simply not good business. Of course there is the outlier in each business but look at all our airlines in the Philippines they are all basically the same.
But AirAsia seems to be suffering from a permanent structural problem, too, one that it hopes to fix by linking Southeast Asia with Japan.
An airline’s financial health is usually gauged by looking at its revenue per available seat mile. The RASM index is obtained by dividing operating income by available seat miles, which are calculated by multiplying available seats by the number of miles a carrier’s jetliners fly during a designated period. AirAsia’s RASM slid 7% in 2013.
AirAsia, founded in 2001, has continued to grow by wooing passengers from existing airlines with fares that at one point were more than 50% lower.
All the bargains AirAsia has been handing out have contributed to Malaysia Airlines’ financial crunch. AirAsia took to the skies with the marketing slogan “now everyone can fly,” but its dominance of the budget airline market lasted only a decade.
A week after Fernandes hugged Mikitani in front of Japanese reporters, Azran Osman-Rani, CEO of AirAsia X — the AirAsia group’s mid- and long-range flight operator — told The Nikkei that his carrier intends to double sales with flights to and from Japan in the next three years.
According to the CAPA — an independent provider of market intelligence, analysis and data services — budget airlines’ share of Southeast Asia’s aviation market on a number of seats basis grew to slightly less than 60% in 2013, almost double that of two years earlier.
Fare-slashing will probably continue; there is really no other option for a budget carrier. And the industry could end up cannibalizing itself.
Consider that the 2013 net profit of Philippines-based Cebu Pacific Air declined a whopping 85%. Or that Singapore-based Tigerair closed its Indonesian unit, Tigerair Mandala, on July 1.
Are you getting the picture?
via Everyone can fly but Southeast Asia’s budget airlines are cannibalizing the industry- Nikkei Asian Review.
Japanese companies turn Filipino workers into overseas leaders- Nikkei Asian Review
I’m so happy reading stuff like these that I have to link to in twice.
THI sends Filipino hires to Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, a core company of Tsuneishi group, in Fukuyama, for training in Japanese craftsmanship. Kawano said the company’s goal is to dispatch engineers from Cebu as instructors in Tsuneishi factories around the world.
Fifty THI employees have already been sent to Paraguay to work as technology instructors at a Tsuneishi Holdings dock that began building river boats in 2011. Tsuneishi also plans to build a new shipyard in Southeast Asia and dispatch THI technology instructors there too.
Learning to lead
via Japanese companies turn Filipino workers into overseas leaders- Nikkei Asian Review.
erPost:Japanese companies turn Filipino workers into overseas leaders- Nikkei Asian Review
This is amazing. This is moving up the value chain by virtue of being world class learners and teachers in engineering disciplines.
MANILA — The Philippines has long provided the Western world with highly skilled and motivated workers, especially in such fields as nursing, domestic help and back-office services. Now, Japanese companies are tapping into the potential of Filipino engineers and technicians.
A growing number of Japanese manufacturers are setting up “mother factories” in the Philippines and dispatching Filipino engineers to work as leaders in other parts of the world. Mother factories are responsible for product design and for standardizing production specifications and conditions.
Philippine-based Tsuneishi Heavy Industries, a subsidiary of Tsuneishi Holdings in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, has been working to pass its expertise and skills on to Filipino workers. Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Chief Director Kenji Kawano said the aim is to develop THI into one of the world’s mother factories.
via Japanese companies turn Filipino workers into overseas leaders- Nikkei Asian Review.
rePost::UP basketball players go to games hungry – literally, says Maroon fan
Late reading this.
If you are from UP please read this!
One of our players was offered what would translate in any parlance as a “bribe” — allowances of all sorts, housing, and the spot cash of P1 million — just to play for another school. He is 17, young, impressionable, and impoverished like most of his teammates. Saying “yes” would have been the easier and more lucrative response. True to his UP education, I was told, he gave an emphatic “No!”
But like I said, basketball has grown shamelessly commercialized these days. The other school went directly to our player’s hometown to talk to his parents. If the kid won’t agree, perhaps, the parents will be a tad less uncompromising, they must have thought.
Our Maroon, having learned of what happened, borrowed money, practically begging for airfare so he can convince his parents otherwise. Back in his hometown, he pleaded with them: “I am staying in UP. I will get my UP diploma. UP is my team, my second family, my community!”
Of course, every parent would want the best for their children. The offer was tempting, sure, but the kid’s plea was also unbending. The father requested only one thing: one win, one win out of several games in a season; not the championship, not the MVP, just one win; not the sun and the stars, just a ray of hope that this adolescent does not waste away his future on something so abstract as the “UP way.”
via UP basketball players go to games hungry – literally, says Maroon fan.
Video:Introducing Ikea's Book Book
Hype machine deconstructed through this funny ad.
Gilas wins against Senegal
The Philippine National Basketball team Gilas Pilipinas finally wins our first game in the world championships since 1978 I think.
All he loses were close and probably winnable with better preparation. Props to all the PBA owners who lent their players to the National team with the Caveat that they really should have just released the players instead of being assholes and playing another conference.
Laban Pilipinas Puso
WordPress Plugin:: Jetpack
Can’t believe I just installed this plugin a week ago.
It’s so useful.
I initially installed this plugin as part of my efforts to regain control of my web presence and in some ways divorce myself from the tyranny of facebook, but beyond these abstract goals if you have a self hosted wordpress blog and you don’t have the Jetpack plugin installed then you are missing out on a lot of awesome out of the box features that you could be enjoying right now.
I’d like to discuss the features in future post. That is how awesome I think this plugin is.
OT: These 30-40 minute server deployments are irritating because 30 minutes just ain’t enough for significant features/bugs development and because minor bugs are reserved as a learning exercise for the OJT/junior Devs it affords me the time to write this while waiting for these servers to go online.
rePost:8 annoying messages you encounter when selling things online | Calvin's Hub
Why I’d rather just gift something rather than sell it!
In a perfect world, buyers and sellers won’t have to expend a lot of messages back and forth just to agree on a transaction without stiffing one another. But we’re not in a perfect world are we?
I’m doing a kind of 8-list thingy with this topic here and to make it hit my point, I’ll be writing it in English and Filipino.
via 8 annoying messages you encounter when selling things online | Calvin’s Hub.