Re: Sizes and notation

2006-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:45:39AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > Disk-Drive advertisements are one notable case where things are > > confusing, > > Every disk drive box I've ever taken a good look at had a footnote > clarifying that 1 GB = 1000,0

Re: Sizes and notation

2006-04-19 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:45:39AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Disk-Drive advertisements are one notable case where things are > confusing, Every disk drive box I've ever taken a good look at had a footnote clarifying that 1 GB = 1000,000,000 bytes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sizes and notation

2006-04-19 Thread Willie Wonka
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved. Take a > > > look at > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes > > > It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt

Re: Sizes and notation

2006-04-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt this. No. They're simply

Re: Sizes and notation

2006-04-19 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved. Take a > > look at > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes > > It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt this. On 19.04.06 09:46, Miles Bader wrote: > No. They're simply too insuff

Re: Sizes and notation

2006-04-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved. Take a > > look at > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes > > It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt this. > > No. They're simply too in

Re: Sizes and notation

2006-04-18 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved. Take a > look at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes > It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt this. No. They're simply too insufferably ugly. In the vast majority of cases it's q

Re: Sizes and notation (was: RAID Sizes)

2006-04-18 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:09:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >There is no ``big K'', though there's now a big Ki. (And I > always wondered how one built a millibit, as in ``10 mbps > network''. That's just 100 seconds per bit, a speed one might use when modulating gravity waves. --

Sizes and notation (was: RAID Sizes)

2006-04-18 Thread max
[Sorry about not using `Reply'; my mail is weirdly broken at the moment.] Dear Debianistas: The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved. Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt this. Willie Wonka wrot