27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
2:23 p.m.
On Thursday 27 July 2006 11:58, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
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".
Pat
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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. :-(