*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 538783 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538783
Asif Youssuff, I disagree with you wholeheartedly. I think that
changing SI units to IEC units everywhere would be wrong-headed,
illogical, and would create more confusion, and I am happy that Apple
took the initiative to finally work towards fixing this. Many
technically-oriented users have very strong opinions against this, but I
don't think they're objective or logical. It's just a matter of
perspective:
* If you were taught in an 80s computer course that KB = 1024 B, you
will think that this is the only true definition. You will think of
Windows file sizes, memory sizes, and 5.25 inch floppy disk sizes as
"correct", and everything else as wrong. The evil hard drive, flash
drive, and DVD manufacturers are all in on a conspiracy to defraud you,
Apple is in league with the devil for using marketroid measurements for
file sizes, etc.
* If, on the other hand, you are a scientist or engineer or European,
and were taught the metric system first, you will think that it is the
only true definition. Hard drive, DVD, processor speed, networking
rate, and other measurements are correct and logical, and the K = 1024
definition is a weird aberration created by early computer marketing
types so that they could say 32 + 32 = 64 instead of 65 when talking
with laymen. (See Donald Morrison 1968)
* If, on the other other hand, you're an average computer user without a
technical background, you don't know or care about the discrepancy
between the two units, but you'll occasionally run into problems like
trying to fit 4.7 GiB of data on a 4.7 GB DVD.
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Lucid reads file size wrong
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538165
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