From kde-core-devel Thu Sep 19 21:35:25 2002 From: Neil Stevens Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:35:25 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103247137003715 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday September 19, 2002 02:39, Martijn Klingens wrote: > On Thursday 19 September 2002 23:26, Neil Stevens wrote: > > This change would cause short term, medium term, and long term > > confusion and annoyance. If you want consistency, go tell those hard > > disk manufacturers to go back to using the true binary convention. > > Ehm, how many people in this world calculate using the decimal system? > And how many prefer using 'kilo == 1024' over that? In computers? Very few. > Why do you think a kilometer is 1000 meters? Much easier calculating, > for one, and consistent with liters, grammes, and all other SI-units. When does KDE use 1024 for km, kL, kg? I thought we were talking about bytes, which also has the accepted practice of powers of 2. - -- Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9ikMdf7mnligQOmERAnafAJ9tHd6NrEgqS5FmgMZDEJ5Jlk5KaQCcCJph +KXStiqw7Xzmawqn/KijAH0= =F2uy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----