Re: Displaying file sizes in powers of 10, rather than 2

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le dimanche 03 février 2008 à 20:26 -0800, John Millikin a écrit :
> Could we please modify nautilus to display file sizes in decimal
> units?

The confusion between power-of-2 and power-of-10 is all the fault of
drive manufacturers' marketing departments who wanted to advertise more
capacity than what they really sold. You can't realistically make
power-of-10-sized RAM of flash chips, and the rotating harddrives are a
dying species, so the power-of-2 sizes are here to stay.

	Xav

PS: this is an opinion, and not from a nautilus dev