27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
2:27 p.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Patrick Finnegan
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" :)
Cheers,
Bryan
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. :-(