On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 11:59:54 (+0200), Martin Geisler wrote: > Would you consider changing the texts to reflect the IEC standard of > KiB for 1024 bytes, MiB for 1024 KiB, and GiB for 1024 MiB?
Boy I hope not. Such nonsense has no place in Enlightened software. > I think it makes things clearer in the long run if we begin using > these units. No it doesn't. When you're dealing with bytes, units are multiples of 1024 instead of 1000. It doesn't get any clearer than that. Catering to the ignorant is a never-ending landslide of suck. Next they'll be wanting us to stop pronouncing the "G" in "GNOME" and "GNU" and stop using recursive acronyms to make it "clearer in the long run" (i.e., easier for the clueless to remain clueless). Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Take me in to the Holy of Holies. Take me in by the blood of the Lamb. Take me in to the Holy of Holies. Take the coal; cleanse my lips; here I am." -- Petra ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
