On 06/05/2012 07:49 PM, Mouse wrote:
We ALL have
things which INFURIATE us, despite being in common usage.
And we can't resist reacting.
Though some of us sometimes can (mostly) keep the reactions off the
list. :/
For myself, I HATE "1.44M" when
referring to a drive with 1,474,560
bytes. (1.40625 Mebibytes)
The whole kibblebytes/maybebytes/gibberbytes stupidity is one of my pet
peeves. I refuse to let disk manufacturers redefine storage amounts
out from under me, no matter who buys into their fiction.
Yes. It's even more stupid than the whole "master and SUBORDINATE"
(as opposed to the proper term "slave"), in the context of ATA-interface
drives, that a certain group of professionally-offended people tried to
promote.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA