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It is true that non-technical customers often don't care. Although, they do care when they buy a 1 TB drive and get told by Windows (but not OSX) that it is onl
by brucedawson 11y ago
It is true that non-technical customers often don't care. Although, they do care when they buy a 1 TB drive and get told by Windows (but not OSX) that it is only 916 GB.
Imagine a customer with a 7.7 GB file (as reported by Windows) who purchase an 8 GB thumb drive to hold it. The inconsistent units mean that it won't fit. We should make our units consistent and we should use base-10 because people.
- paulddraper 11y agoYour argument is good for showing the value of consisent units. But it could be base 2 or base 16.
- khedoros 11y agoConsistency would be better, whichever way was chosen (base 2 or 10). Although even with base-10 being used all around, I might still end up explaining why an 8 billion byte file won't fit on an 8 billion byte USB key, while a disk image of the same size would because of file system overhead.