On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:35:18PM +0700, Edho P Arief wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Daniel Gracia Garallar > <danie...@electronicagracia.com> wrote: > > Manufactures use the 'giga' prefix in the International System meaning. That > > said, 1Gb would be 10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes. > > > > Computer programmers, OS and all around computer chit-chat use the prefix > > 'giga' to refer 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes. > > > > IEC recommends calling this GiB, but it's uncommon. > > > > Today, you could assume safely only manufacturers write Gb in the > > International System meaning; > > and Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 > > http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419
There are many stupid ideas in other operating systems, I don't see why we should be required to implement them.
