From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 22:03:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071103210321.GA25685@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711031645350.21255@xanadu.home>
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:50:54PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> [ heh, I knew someone would say something ]
>
> Yes, to me, 1MB is 1024 KB. Always been, until those idiotic hard disk
> manufacturers decided to redefine the common interpretation of what
> everyone else used to consider what a MB is just to boost their
> marketing claims.
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...
And you know what ? It's not only a matter of hard disk manufacturers.
How fast is gigabit ethernet ? Yep, 1000000000 bits/s
How big would people say a 44000000 bytes file is ? 44MB or 42MB ?
And my favourite: How many bytes in a 1.44MB floppy disk ? 1474560, that
is, 1.44 * 1024000.
Those who made this big mess are the ones who decided a KB was 1024
bytes, not the others.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-03 21:06 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 [this message]
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
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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