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The guy isn't ranting. The article is matter-of-fact in tone. The mebi-/gibi-/...-byte (metric) definition was standardized rather late (late 90's). By that tim
by kitsune_ 14y ago
The guy isn't ranting. The article is matter-of-fact in tone. The mebi-/gibi-/...-byte (metric) definition was standardized rather late (late 90's). By that time the general public was already accustomed to the (now wrong) binary interpretation of a MB or GB.
Also of note: The GB was actually once defined by the IEEE as 1024^3 bytes.
- mbreese 14y agoThe entire thing read like a rant to me... I don't read him all that often though, so I don't know if that is his normal style.
- scholia 14y ago"Rant" means "to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave" http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rant http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rant So either you don't know what a rant is, or you don't understand English very well.
- jedmeyers 14y ago__WAS__ defined. How is it defined now by the IEEE?
- nessus42 14y agoFor better or worse, disk manufacturers have been using base 10 megabytes and gigabytes for a couple of decades now. Sure, that switch was marketing driven, but criticizing Apple for eventually switching to the same nomenclature universally used by the storage industry qualifies as a "rant" in my book. If Apple started doing that for RAM, which is still universally quantified using base 2 gigabytes, now that would be rant-worthy.
- Uchikoma 14y agoWith "general public" you mean "computer savvy people who know about number bases and binary in particular" while the "general public" gets on with 1000 GiB = 1 TiB.