Hi, On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:48:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > > > How many grams in a kilogram ? How many meters in a kilometer ? How many > > > joule in a kilojoule ? ... How many bytes in a kilobyte ? Oh wait... > > > > How many 'u's in the word "colour"? > > > > Oh, wait - it depends on context, doesn't it? > > > > kB is 1024 bytes. The fact that "k" means something else in other > > contexts is simply irrelevant. > > What about the fact that "kB" means different things depending whether > it's used for bandwidth or memory capacity ? > > Does your brain have base 2 hard-coded so that you instantly know > 50000000 bytes are 47.68MB ? Are people unable to do so pondscum ? Get over it. kB is not the same as km. It really means something different. And all all people who actually _understand_ something of the matter know what a kilobyte is. Just because some _wankers_^Wbureaucrats decided to make life hard on those people who have actually a _clue_ on real life, does not mean that we have to accept it. 1kB = 1024 bytes. 1MB = 1024*1024 bytes. Everybody who claims anything else is just an annoyance to the rest of the world, who is not clueless, thank you very much. And hard disk manufacturers be damned, and should burn in hell. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
