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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to configure konqueror to show KB and MB instead of KiB and
From:       Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde () carewolf ! com>
Date:       2009-07-02 9:35:29
Message-ID: 200907021135.29311.kde () carewolf ! com
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On Thursday 02 July 2009, Josh Berry wrote:
> My whole argument has been that such usage, contrary to your
> assertion, IS NOT COMMON.  It is an EXCEPTION that is common only
> among geeks and power-users, and we are being INCORRECT by propagating
> it.
>
People are commonly using the binaries number even if they don't understand 
them. If Windows or Mac tells them their document is 4.0megabytes they will 
tell their friends the document is 4.0megabytes not 4.1megabytes or 
4.0mibibytes.

So common use is binary, there is no denying that.

`Allan
 
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