-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:53:15PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > The trouble is it isn't standard. SI is a standard; the binary stuff has > broken it. But it hasn't even broken it consistently; when talking about > storage we use powers of 2, but when talking about bandwidth we don't. So > how long will it take me to transfer this file? Beats me.
You sure about that? If bandwidth isn't base 2, then I *really* suck at math and still come up with the right answer to "how long will it take?" > And "It's a bad plan to change now" usually also means "It will be worse > to change later". Just look at the way all you Americans [ducks away from > Paul] have resisted ditching your obsolete feet, miles, pounds etc. [ducks > away from every other American]. What's with the "All you?" First off, I'm Oregonian, not American. The America I know would have flushed the government a second time over the rigged election three years ago and started fresh like the last time someone tried to force thier rule on us to line the pockets of the rich. I think the dissenting opinion to ill-gotten leadership the first time it happened on this side of the pond started something like, "In Congress, July 4, 1776, The unanimous decision of the thirteen states of America..." On a lighter note, I can't really blame anybody's approval of California's statehood, they probably made it look really good on paper to sneak such a money pit hellhole past Washington. 8:o) Second, given that I've been planning for far longer than America's currently messed up national situation to emigrate, I've travelled western Canada quite extensively and have many friends throughout the region, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, so I've grown pretty accustomed to metrics and I'm starting to prefer it. It's hot enough out when it's 30 without all the bank signs reading 86, and kilometers definately better describe distances in the city. Would work out nicely in the states, too: Pretty much every city but Portland assumes 10 blocks to the mile, Portland assumes 20 in downtown and is clearly a grid attempting to sit on diagonal farm highways and ~20 major creeks and 4 rivers outside of downtown (for this reason, traffic is irrevocably bad and people need to stop moving here, we're out of space on the roads and there never was place to build more, and there's even less now). > > 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. > > Never seen a 1.44MB floppy? That's actually 1440kB, or 1440 * 1024 bytes. I don't count marketroids as people, so my statement still stands. But I did forget about the floppy manufacturers pulling the same BS that the hard drive guys are. - -- .''`. 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+3dF6J5vLSqVpK2kRArrXAKCw4oSyzczjmgPs1JV1liTqgnV48ACfdoMS 1ah/uXtq+QZX26jFVOos5JA= =2d0q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
