Messages in this thread | | | From | Nicholas Knight <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p. | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:13:27 -0800 |
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On Thursday 20 December 2001 03:12 pm, Wilfried Weissmann wrote: > [snip] > > David Weinehall wrote: > >>>(no, i'm not arguin, i don't particularly care. but i'm > >>>pointing out that some people have completely firmly set > >>>definitions and some other people also have firm definitions > >>>and neither will agree the other's right. MiB is the > >>> international standard for a 2^10 B(yte) specification. so if > >>> you mean 2^10 bytes, you mean MiB, not MB, even if you don't like > >>> it :) > >> > >>This "international" standard seems to have excluded a few > >> countries. It wasn't until it was SET that I even heard of its > >> existance. (And then only through SLASHDOT!) > >> > >>Everyone I know has been using KB/MB/GB for 1024 forever. The > >> *only* exception is networking, and the occasional FLASH/ROM size. > >> The latter isn't very common discussion, and among those that it > >> is, they'd know what the other was talking about. For the former, > >> I can distinguish easily depending on who it is. > >> > >>Someone without a lot of experience: I have a 1MB connection. (this > >>user has a 1 Megabit connection) > >> > >>Someone with experience: I have a 1mb/Mb connection. (This person > >> has a 1 megabit connection has used a "standard" abbreviation.) > > > > You have a 1 millibit per Megabit connection?!?! > > Yeah, she/he uses compression! *ROFL* Sorry, couldn't resist! :)))
engineer 1: how can we drive network users more insane? engineer 2: new compression scheme! engineer 1: yeah! how about we add a bunch of random data to the end of every packet? engineer2: brilliant!
3 months later: Nicholas Knight introduces the world to mPM compression.
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