Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 09:24 +0100, Scott James Remnant a écrit : > Changing the unit prefixes is just a geek "precision" gratification that > will confuse everybody who is used to talking about "kilobytes", "and > gigabytes"...
The confusion lies in the current situation. Bringing precision doesn't bring any confusion. > "My computer has two gigabytes of RAM!" > "Aha! No it doesn't!" > "It says two gigabytes." > "No, you mean two gibibytes! A gigabyte is ten-to-the-nice > bytes, whereas a gibibyte is two-to-the-thirty bytes!" > *punch* > "Ow! You broke my nose!" We're not talking about spoken language here. Nobody cares about gigabytes / gibibytes when discussing how much RAM / disk / horsepower a computer has. We are talking of fixing computer programs with incorrect or confusing display. Of course, I don't usually care that file sizes in my browser window are displayed in kibibytes and mebibytes. Not until I select some of them, see the total size, and ask myself whether they fit on a DVD. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
