4 May
2009
4 May
'09
7:58 a.m.
On May 4, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
You and me both. The people who came up with that need to be
beaten severely. Then they need to find a hobby to take up their
obvious excess of free time so they won't try something like this again.
The other one that really gets me was the (thankfully short-lived)
effort to replace the traditional "master/slave" ATA terminology with
"master/subordinate", because some professionally offended person
couldn't handle even the mention of the word "slave".
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Maybe I did
not make myself clear enough. When I wrote
100 Gigabytes, I meant 10**11 bytes, because as I see the archive
with
A factor like kilo or giga implies a base of 2 when used in
conjunction with with bytes, basta! And I hate those babybytes -
ehm - mebibytes and so on.