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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-09-20 19:41:48
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On Friday September 20, 2002 12:30, Thomas Zander wrote:
> - Filesizes reported in various applications are currently printed
> sometimes in Kb and other times in Mb etc. People ignore them now since
> they don't make sense. I doubt you can tell many people that 208111bytes
>  is indeed 199Kb...

Exactly!  Users are having that extra 24 bytes hidden from them!  So why 
waste effort to break an old convention?

- -- 
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
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