Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Foiani
> "Jan" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use Jan> k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem Jan> gone. The one-letter abbreviations are identical to SI prefixes, except for "K", which is us

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Tony Foiani
>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Foiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tony> How fast is your Ethernet port? 100Mbps or 95.37Mbps? >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> Same lie like with harddrives. It's arou

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-20 Thread Tony Foiani
> "David" == David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> The way RAM and flash are measured is correct. In my experience, RAM and flash *drives* are measured differently. I understand that individual flash chips come in powers of 2, but by the time they're packaged as a "flash drive"