Le lundi 11 juin 2007 à 19:56 -0500, Mark Reitblatt a écrit : > That's not "consistent". Kilobyte has always meant 2^10 bytes.
No, it has never. Kilo has always meant 10^3. Full stop. End of story. Bye bye. People didn't invent the SI just so that a small group of hackers decide that suddenly it is 2^10 just because it is more convenient. SI units are *universal*. There is a world outside computing, you know. Just ask anyone outside your small world how much bytes they think a kilobyte is. > "kilo" in "kilobyte" is not an SI prefix. "Kilo" is always a SI prefix. > SI prefixes only apply to SI measurements No. > There is no confusion; There seems to be in your mind. > the only place where a kilobyte != 2^10 bytes is in hard drive > manufacturer's advertising materials. No. A kilobyte is 10^3 bytes everywhere. At least, in all countries who use SI units. > This is the way it has been for > decades, and it is a perfectly acceptable and desirable standard. It has never been anything but a gross imprecision introduced by people incapable of following rigorous standards. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.