From kde-devel Wed Jul 08 16:06:02 2009 From: Matthew Woehlke Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:06:02 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: How to configure konqueror to show KB and MB instead of KiB and Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=124707396524528 Michael Pyne wrote: > And if they don't have more than a vague knowledge of what a kilobyte is, what > does it matter (and more importantly, gain) what a kibibyte is? Who else uses > kibibyte? Nobody! ??? *Everybody* uses kibibytes. Some (KDE, GNU) actually call them that; many mislabel them (if they ever mention the full name at all). Besides hard disk manufacturers, I don't know who uses kilobytes (well, gigabytes rather, since HDD's aren't measured in kxxxbytes these days). The "nerds" are finally pushing people to not misrepresenting units, and IMO this is a good thing. It's not going to happen the other way around. (I'm also unimpressed by what M$ is doing. Keep in mind you're talking about a company based in the country that still uses the bloody *imperial* measurement system; adjust your expectations accordingly.) -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- .sig omitted due to budget cuts. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<