From kde-core-devel  Fri Sep 20 09:57:46 2002
From: Christoph Cullmann <crossfire () babylon2k ! de>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:57:46 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103251745105045

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> Making a web page about something doesn't make it true.  This hijacking of
> kilobyte is just an attempt to rewrite history, and is as doomed to fail
> as the crusade against calling 2000 the new millennium, or against the
> popular meaning of "hacker."
>
> >  MB is officially 1000000. MiB is 1048576. And people are starting to
> > use MiB instead of the now a bit ambiguous MB when they mean 1048576,
> > albeit slowly.
>
> Some self-appointed group may say at the top of their lungs that a Kibiby=
te
> is officially 1024 bytes, but that doesn't change how stupid that sounds,
> and it doesn't dislodge decades of history.
>
> But the important thing here is the configurability.  Even if you dismiss
> that there is an established tradition for a kilobyte being 1024 bytes,
> you're not going to be able to dismiss other established unit systems so
> easily.
I would say use MB with 1000*1000, MiB with 1024*1024, as the standards say=
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as these standards are world wide accepted. They are perhaps confusing, but=
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who cares ? It is not our thing to make the standards but to use them. (I=20
don't like them, but it is simply correct to use them, but we could come up=
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with just an other standard, like 1023*1023 =3D MkdeB ;)).

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Christoph "Crossfire" Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann@kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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