4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
6:21 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Marketing and Mathematics - not much overlap. It was
one of the reasons
that NIST is proposing "Mebibyte" as a term for a "binary" megabyte -
What? That makes no damn sense. A Megabyte was, is, and always will be
1024 * 1024 bytes. The NIST folks are a bunch of stupid losers for even
suggesting such an atrocity.
i.e., 1024 ^ 2 as opposed to 1000 ^ 2. People abuse
the terms long
enough that they lose precision, and maybe you have to go out and
invent new, non-ambigious terms. Personally, I would rather not add
jargon for the sake of jargon, but we'll see how far this goes. I
don't think it reduces the confusion much.
They should coin a new term for a fake Megabyte (i.e. something other than
1024 ^ 2). Call it a "Maybebyte".
That wasn't funny.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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