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......hehehehh....SimpleTech 512MB SD.....491.25MB-actual.....hheheheheheheh.....
sorry guess that was kinda lame :p
anyway....the issue is a little more confused than just semantics.
in fact, the memory card companies might be totally straight up on this one. KostasK demonstrated to me pretty definitively in a thread in the memory bargains board that the missing memory is pretty much taken by formatting. (I think its the thread about the "new 512MB SD $99 sweet spot.")
i'll get back to you all with an example. strange that I can't recall his line of reasoning just now...
unfortunately, i've been broadcasting this whole million bytes versus megabytes thing which doesn't appear to be too accurate--though it seemed quite convincing--so i've got some self-correction to do.
it is strange that the decimal-format byte totals almost always add up to the advertised number in millions of bytes. this leads me to suspect that perhaps the companies arrange the formatting so that just enough space is left for a decimal-format total that corresponds to the advertised number. anyway i'll check on that thread and get back you all....
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