-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:56:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > So a megabyte *is* 1048576 bytes, etc, and I don't think this usage is > particularly likely to change.
I know I'm not switching just because some industry marketroids think they can bastardize several decades of standardization, and I really think it's a bad plan to change now. > Of course, a megabyte is also 1024000 bytes, eg. when some program > gives you an output of a figure quoted in kilobytes and you mentally > shift it three places to the right to get the megabytes. I've never seen anybody use that definition of a megabyte, it's always been the (incorrect) 1,000,000 bytes or the (correct) 1,048,576 bytes. > It is interesting that SCSI hard drive specs do not attempt to mislead > you by exploiting this confusion. Well, IDE ones didn't start until the late 1990s brought us a glut of techotwits who failed high school or couldn't be bothered to keep up with modern society and thus don't realize that while the measurements are indeed metric, they're binary, not decimal. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3bcxJ5vLSqVpK2kRAj4AAJ9Ox64IR9CDMrhpqLRAsS0jI59VDgCfTSQd mlMzPRsCJ2Zt309H8bs74jw= =Hgq7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
