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  • Quote: Originally Posted by Amorya My ideal solution is to ban drive manufacturers using decimal measures to report on an inherently power-of-two quantity such as disk space. There should be no decimal measure for disk space, since such a measure…
    in When will OS X use KiB, MiB, GiB?? Comment by manno March 2007
  • Quote: Originally Posted by gregmightdothat I'm now confused. Possibly. Hi, read this article and hopefully you will understand the root of the problem. http://members.optus.net/alexey/prefBin.xhtml
    in When will OS X use KiB, MiB, GiB?? Comment by manno March 2007
  • Quote: Originally Posted by gregmightdothat I want the reverse. 10^9 is way easier than 2^30. For example, what is 10^9? 1,000,000,000. What' 2^30 without using a calculator? I want DVD's and hard drives to remain being sold in metric giga…
    in When will OS X use KiB, MiB, GiB?? Comment by manno March 2007
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Amorya Words like Gibibyte sound stupid. Originally, Gigabyte was correct for the 1024 megabyte measure. Then someone somewhere decided "ZOMG, someone might confuse this with the metric system" and decided the computer…
    in When will OS X use KiB, MiB, GiB?? Comment by manno March 2007
  • Almost TWO years later, sad to see the problem still remains. Linux has already moved to the new IEC prefixes. Let's hope the upcoming Leopard at least supports this. Kickaha, you explain the current problem straight to the point. It IS a label prob…
    in When will OS X use KiB, MiB, GiB?? Comment by manno March 2007