On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:14:24AM -0800, Lew wrote: > On Thursday, November 24, 2011 7:50:07 AM UTC-8, Spooky wrote:
> It is universal in the computer world to use "KB" to mean "kilobytes". > You weren't aware of this? It's been like this for decades. Correction: that's kB (lowercase 'k'. And yes, I have known this for decades. Uppercase 'K' is a common mis-use, but that doesn't make it correct any more than mb is correct for MB. Next time you try to correct someone on units used in telecom, networking, etc., try not to do so with a senior network engineer. > "In non-standard use, K is often used as a symbol prefix to the units bit > and byte to designate the binary prefix kibi = 210 = 1024." > - > < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix#Units_used_in_computing_and_telecommunications> Yep...just looked at that. Notice that the chart shows a *lowercase* 'k'. Thanks for proving my point. > So basically, you chimed in merely to berate the OP for something they > hadn't even done wrong, but not to answer their question? You have "too > much to do this morning" but still found a few minutes to troll, eh? After seeing someone post about how their app was something like 8 mb (8 millibits) in size...yeah, I felt like the mis-use of these prefixes is getting out of hand.... > Good you have your priorities straight, at least. Do you have any idea how many times I've run into cases where throughput is listed as kb/s in one spot, and kB/s in another, on the same screen, with the same numbers? So which fscking value is it? You tell me. Later, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | Peter da Silva: No, try "rm -rf /" [email protected] | Dave Aronson: As your life flashes before < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | your eyes, in the unit of time known as an ICBM / Hurricane: | ohnosecond.... (alt.sysadmin.recovery) 30.44406N 86.59909W | Android Apps Listing at http://www.jstrack.org/barcodes.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
