This conversation is unbelievable. Debian-user is supposedly a list where voluntary people answer simple practical questions of users. Are you really going to enforce list members to watch such ego demonstrations and unfunny jokes?
> On 2/16/2013 3:50 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Jerry Stuckle <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>>> >>>> Agreed. And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no >>>> excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead >>>> of abusing SI decimal prefixes. >>>> >>> And who declared these made-up prefixes "official"? >> >> The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). >> >> > > Which, unfortunately, is the wrong organization for RAM devices. JEDEC, > the appropriate governing body, hasn't. > > And even then, it's not a standard until it's been accepted by the > mainstream. Please show where that has occurred. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
