Le vendredi 01 juillet 2005 à 21:17 +0200, Chipzz a écrit : > On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > HAL is plain right and uses SI prefixes. gnomevfs is wrong. See > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301838. > > Historically IT has deviated from the 1000 rule and that's just the way > it is. Claiming 1kB is 1000bytes makes you sound like a marketing droid, > and I think it's false advertising. computer __science__. The BIPM rules scientific units. There's a real need for 'i' units because k/M/G are very misleading. I glad that you've never faced this kind of problems. I have. (Harddrive sizes are given in gigabyte. CD mebibyte. DVD in gigabyte. etc. Network people use kilo/mega/giga with bits and bytes. etc) > Totally opposed. There's enough of this bullshit yet. Don't call bullshit something you don't agree with. -- Benoît Dejean <TazForEver AT dlfp DOT org> JID: TazForEver jabber org GNOME http://www.gnomefr.org/ LibGTop http://directory.fsf.org/libgtop.html
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