On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Dan wrote: > >> Using i when you mean I can be tolerated as computer lingo but using >> m for M is downright confusing. I'm pretty sure that milli is always >> 1/1000 and never 1/1024 but whonoze? > > pffft. Real men use microFortnights.
Hey at least that idiotic 'kibi' official nomenclature never really caught on, we were supposed to say kibibits and kibibytes when we meant the binary versions, and kilobits and kilobytes for the decimal. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte> kibibytes is what my dogs eat, it comes in 40 pound bags :-) But, this has been around a lot longer than computers. You don't REALLY think motorcycle engines come in nice round numbers like 750CC, do you? ;-) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CB750> The famous Honda CB750 started life as 736 CC engine. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
