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Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release
CyberDragon777 writes "Ubuntu's future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other operating systems using binary prefixes, Ubuntu currently represents 1 kB (kilobyte) as 1024 bytes (base-2). But starting with 10.10, a switch to SI prefixes (base-10) will denote 1 kB as 1000 bytes, 1 MB as 1000 kB, 1 GB as 1000 MB, and so on."
Why?
To excuse hard drive makers for using this stupid format to grown their number artificially?
Hopefully this doesn't affect the command line... only gnome, right?
The "binary" prefixes have always been problematic and don't help new people entering the field to understand anything
This argument is outrageously ignorant. Everyone entering a field is expected to learn the field's nomenclature, de facto and de jure standards, and everything related.
The ones always having been making a fuss of this issue were the non-professionals, let me put it another way, people who after buying ocmputers became affordable bought them and thought that buying a PC makes them all-knowing.
This whole kibi/kilo mebi/mega etc. stupidity just doesn't seem to stop. There are too many idiots behind its enforcement. So the thing is, we have to live with it, and there's not much we can do.
But, at least, I can choose to use an OS that doesn't rub it in my face. So Ubuntu, burn.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
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