Andrei Popescu wrote: > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The confusion between 1000 and 1024 has been solved. Take a > > > look at > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#IEC_standard_prefixes > > > It's a really, REALLY good idea to adopt this.
> > > > No. They're simply too insufferably ugly. Yeah, well...ever see the AIM, MSN, even some IRC types having a conversation? now *that's* ugly. It's become more and more ever-increasingly difficult to express in writing, what one would convey through "speech' - (moore's law hath overfloweth into many areas of culture)....and it ain't pretty. <sigh> The world has gotten itself into one big great *hurry*. If using only the symbols (ki mi gi etc.), it almost appears that a letter has been dropped/lost, inadvertantly, by whomever has written it. (read on). > > In the vast majority of cases it's quite clear from context which is > > meant. > > > > Disk-Drive advertisements are one notable case where things are > > confusing, but really, you shouldn't be adjusting your language to suit > > marketing! > > > > -Miles > > We are talking about numbers here! Context is IMO not enough. I sure > hope that standard gets widely adopted. For me, this has (almost) > nothing to do with marketing. You just can't use the same symbol for > different things. It's like having the same symbol for miles and > kilometers! > > Andrei Unfortunately, it's already a runaway train... The problem is that we're literally swimming in a sea of *acronym stew!* Type in the term/keywords like 'define:IDE', 'define:SMB' into a googler...(these aren't even good examples, but hopefully will suffice). The FOSF has been using the IEEE 1541-2002(?) standard for quite some time now (AFAICT - in it's literature) -- But, in the real world, from what I've seen, and within the *same* industries; it's the marketing and advert bozos who are the ones that resist in defiance. It's not entirely their fault, since 'context' matters. I think 'we' (FOS) community can *push* much harder on the HDD manufacturers, by constantly using the *full names* (kibi, mebi, gibi), _not_just_ the the symbols (ki, mi, gi). I've only been noticing a slipshod/piecemeal version being used anyway (GiB, MiB, KiB); that's only used to represent 'B'ytes....how does one correctly represent [kilo, mega, giga] BITS ? It doesn't seem outlined in the IEEE standard, but I'm likely overlooking something. (I touched upon a few of these thoughts in my last post, to date, in that previous thread) Also - someone (perhaps a Jeweler :-)) mentioned 'K' = Karat, in the other long thread, though the wikipedia article claims the SI version of 'K' = Kelvin, and 'B' = Bel (deciBel, dB)....Then we have the m=milli SI to contend with also. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
