Chris Ridd wrote: > 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.
How are they confusing or silly? The old way of doing it left things open to a great deal of interpretation. Hence the long-winded paragraphs hard drive manufacturers or digital media player manufacturers plaster all over their product now explaining what they mean them to be. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
