From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 00:31:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071103233144.GA16734@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0711031546110.15101@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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 ?
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-03 23:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-03 5:32 [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-03 5:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-03 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-03 20:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-03 20:40 ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 20:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-11-03 21:03 ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-03 21:46 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-11-03 22:02 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-03 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-03 23:31 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2007-11-04 0:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-04 1:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-04 1:49 ` David Brown
2007-11-04 2:14 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-11-03 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-04 9:56 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-04 4:58 ` Jeff King
2007-11-04 13:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-04 14:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
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