base 2 or base 10.

[Steve]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:58:06 -0000, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Steve Flynn  
> <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Steve Flynn  
>> <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I note with some amusement that Slashdot and several other sites are
>>> alight with the news that Ubuntu are about to provide the option to
>>> display filesizes in base 10 or base 2.
>>>
>>> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/27/1451238/Ubuntu-Will-Switch-To-Base-10-File-Size-Units-In-Future-Release?art_pos=6
>>>
>>> Any positive or negative reactions to this from the users here? Moving
>>> the buttons from right to left caused some people pain - how do you
>>> feel about this "improvement" to the UI?
>>
>> Hit send too early...
>>
>> Personally, I welcome the correction to using kilo to mean 1024 but
>> the old computer science degree in me is spinning in its grave at this
>> travesty of injustice
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve
>
> Switching it to base 10 was just a marketing ploy in the first place,
> it makes drives look bigger. We are counting bits so base 2 is the
> correct way to go. Problem is that base 10 has been marketed so long
> now that most people think it IS standard and correct.
>
>
Doesn’t really matter which system is used as long as it’s consistant  
across all apps.  1GB or 1GiB is meaningless to most people.
>


-- 
Steve (Yorvyk)
http://www.lubuntu.net