Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: >> Christopher Chan wrote: >> >> >>> You've completely missed what the whole thread is about. The age old and >>> faulty convention is base2 for space and file sizes. That is what the >>> Ubuntu team wants to get rid of. But thanks for supporting my 'argument' >>> anyway. :-P >>> >> >> I can't quite understand how _you_ have missed that this thread is >> actually about your refusal to concede that only dinosaur geeks want to >> keep KB and >> MB to show powers of 2. You're 100% right that the base2 convention is >> faulty - and have utterly failed to show any reason why we shouldn't >> correct >> the fault. It's _not_ however true that it was ever universally used - >> and that's why its faulty. >> > > As far as kilobytes/megabytes/whateverbytes in the COMPUTING WORLD, it > was and still is universally used as multiples of 1024.
Oh <plonk>. It is not... -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
