On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:20:42AM +0100, Alex Jones wrote: > Then why bastardise an SI prefix? This surely serves only to confuse > people. Why don't we invent a new word? Should we call it the > "thousandbyte"?
Because computer people have always bastardised everything. Booting, window, mouse, etc. > It is simply a convenient accident that 2^10 ~= 10^3. As I'm sure you're > well aware, this approximation starts to become way off as you approach > tera-. In fact, that's about 10% error, which is simply unacceptable. > It's time to move on and accept that the approximation fails with big > numbers. > > And I suppose you think that differences such as that between the > American and the English ton are acceptable and desirable. Let it be > known that I strongly disagree with you here. :) The drive makers screwed up. They are the ones that should be fixed. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]