27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
2:33 p.m.
On Thursday 27 July 2006 17:27, Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly were the wise words spake by Patrick
Finnegan
A "300MB" file takes up how much space in memory, and how much space on
disk?
Pat
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On Thursday 27 July 2006 11:58, Roy J. Tellason
wrote:
Yes but 300MB is usually attached to something and then you know
what it means... "Context" :) On Thursday 27 July 2006 09:51 am, Doc Shipley
wrote:
Yeah, who'd ever want simple clarity? It's SOO much more fun to
have no idea whether someone means 300,000,000 or 314,572,800 when
they say "300MB". We now have mebibytes, kibibytes, and other
associated crap
instead of proper terminology. If you read much open-source
literature or docs, that spec is becoming disturbingly common.
Euw.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Can you tell I'm not thrilled?
I don't like those much either. :-(