Danek Duvall wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:53:30PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote: > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541 >>> >>> "After a trial period of two years, in 2005 IEEE 1541-2002 was elevated to >>> a full-use standard by the IEEE Standards Association, and as of 2007, it >>> was scheduled for maintenance." >>> >>> In short: to address the fact that manufacturers, consumers and others >>> often disagreed on the interpretation of numbers the IEEE and other >>> organisations decided enough was enough and standardised on a particular >>> system for unit of measure. >>> >> Interesting. I'll be curious to see if KiB (or the other XiB) notations >> every become commonly used. My guess that KB, MB are fairly firmly >> entrenched, but it will be interesting to watch the social effect this has. > > Yeah, please don't use the "i" versions here. They're just nasty and no > one in their right mind cares about them.
+1, as the cool kids say. The "i" notations are confusing and plain silly, though I'd have no objections if they were only made available in some locale that I didn't have to use. Cheers. Chris _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
