27 Jul
2006
27 Jul
'06
3:13 p.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Thursday 27 July 2006 17:27, Bryan Pope wrote:
300MB. Western Digital et al are just wrong. :)
As far as I'm concerned, any unit of measurement ending in "byte" is
in powers of 2 anyhow.
Doc
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? 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:
> 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. :-(
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".