Chris Ridd wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> 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.
>
> There were only two possible interpretations - one used by everyone, and
> the other one was only ever used if you were in the business of selling
> bits of spinning rust. A very special case, and I note the vendors
> measuring disks in powers of 10 measure their SSDs in powers of 2, so
> perhaps even a diminishing special case.
Despite your concerns, there a growing number of well-known projects tha
use the new standard:
* The Linux kernel[44]
* GNU Core Utilities[45]
* GNU diffutils
* GNU Units
* Launchpad
* Flyspray[46]
* bugs.mysql.com[47]
* GParted[48]
* DFSee[49]
* disktype[50]
* raidutil[51]
* FreeDOS-32[52]
* Lynx
* Mozilla Firefox
* ifconfig[53]
* GNOME Network[54]
* GNOME System Monitor
* Nautilus CD Burner
* SLIB[55]
* Cygwin/X[56]
* HTTrack[57]
* Gmane
* Azureus
* BitTornado
* DC++
* Deluge[58]
* gtk-gnutella
* MUTE
* The Pirate Bay
* zFTPServer[59]
* yafc[60]
* tnftp[61]
* WinSCP[62]
* Pidgin (IM client)[63]
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Adoption
The most glaring example is GNOME itself -- part of OpenSolaris 2008.05.
As such, I consider it completely logical to adopt the new standard.
--
Shawn Walker
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