Talk:False advertising/Archives/2013

Real Examples
We should have some real examples. Here are two: http://www.vladzilla.com/d/10%20Burger%20King%20-%20Whopper%20Jr%201.jpg is a derivative of a copyright work, but the work itself is licensed CC-by-nd (actual license at http://www.alphaila.com/articles/about-2/).

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/dp/2012/KS/technical._V389706824_.jpg - Umm, a standard pencil is 0.28" wide, not 0.34" wide. Clearly the Kindle and the pencil are not to scale. They appear to be the same width in the photo, but the Kindle is actually 22% larger than it appears to be.

Certainly fair use in this article, and would comply with policy if properly described. Anyone up for adding 'em?--67.170.192.66 (talk) 18:54, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

hard drive measurment misdrepresentation
this section is incorrect in some ways it is true that a 1000 gig hard drive is not reported by the OS as being the amount of avaliable data but this is more to do with the fact that the software measures by 1024 abnd has done for many years while the hard drive manufacturarers measure the capacity of their products by the avalible space and then dividing by a factor of ten which they have also been done for many years. Neither side really is interested in dropping their prefered system and depending on what sources you look at there is arguments on both sides for their standard which has left us with the current status quo. THerefore i propose a comprehensive rewrite or straight up delete as this is less a case of false advertising but more of a case of different industy standarrds Digmores (talk) 00:47, 13 October 2012 (UTC)


 * The court system says you're wrong. Read the lawsuit filed etc. in the relevant case.  Perhaps some excerpts should be added to the article.--67.170.192.66 (talk) 18:54, 28 January 2013 (UTC)


 * The general idea is captured in this section with a few misconceptions. I made some small edits to remove ambiguity of bytes versus bits.  10^6 bytes is still called a megabyte as is 2^20.  A byte is 8 bits always by any definition. So a megabit is actually 2^20 / 2^3 = 2^17  bytes.  The bits vs bytes shows up in representation of internet connection speed (bandwidth of 10Mb/s = 10MB/s / 8b/B), but not in harddrive capacity.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.138.113 (talk) 18:02, 31 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Actually the so called industry standard is "wrong" as the SI standard "megabyte" (MB) is set at base ten, not base two, the unit refering to base two is called mebibyte (MiB) see the NITS reference on SI binary units 212.85.67.43 (talk) 11:36, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Manipulation of measurement units and standards
The part about GB and MB in this section is very misleading. Binary prefix page clearly states that no one really knew whether MB was in base two or base ten and the ambiguity existed for almost as long as computers have had some sort of RAM. So using it is the opening example here is more ironic than it is informative.

PinothyJ (talk) 13:49, 1 August 2013 (UTC)…