From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C861387FD for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59AE8E0B1C; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ve0-f175.google.com (mail-ve0-f175.google.com [209.85.128.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE32CE0B1B for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f175.google.com with SMTP id oz11so7435972veb.34 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:40:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=puXWIpSHsbabpfd9RVFt4o5NZnRqdh1QzhUJF/rmF7M=; b=EPQO8DXjctTgqzweqxSjpF8PXiPY1sogTag+Pc/m8iZo16VbBUJt1jlqCp2cdv4lol BXNPvH6Epi/BsBnwMKfcrprzzSN/fUQPloAQ8QKzn35gdeQV3acReTtVBJ2FWJXDvlDN apahFiYDQ2LeMuClU8ihHZ8J9DtKzqdsQiuUQDGygNfeLblzQwnW+V9//Sc8xc/wyVbh 5ghY5NIhMqrnISkfLOKoXQj08uyF5HsbozRWylHrJVtuY4TVZnurX941HaAR+m7IwXqR 5ZLKKVvCjLOjNwq4eQrGHc8P2GT9HbtZREtZdxuIIffRP/iRwB5xOT6N0NlBSO8FEGiW Uzrw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.163.3 with SMTP id y3mr18877937vcx.7.1396197635103; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.29.142 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:40:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140330173143.7b541b00@googlemail.com> References: <53342A5F.70903@gentoo.org> <20140330103342.76108bfb@pomiot.lan> <20140330163513.3e4cab1a@googlemail.com> <20140330173143.7b541b00@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:40:34 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2ADryLsa0LsQijK3II1uXO2I9qY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-04-08 From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 83116451-c29c-4de3-b55d-59cecc5abe70 X-Archives-Hash: a2784fe92aa4c2e0a3f4a01cbc2e7715 On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:27:34 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: >> As soon as you start getting into anything that involves the real >> world and engineering > > Which isn't the case here, so this whole thing is irrelevant. What prevents the output of a tool from being used in an engineering context? In any case, my concern is more with ambiguity (when software tells me I have 1GB of free space, what does that mean?). I think GB are more useful than GiB in most cases (though I explicitly stated in my first proposal that there are situations where this isn't the case), but I care more about ambiguity. Since definitions of units are generally standardized across all potential uses (do you want a km to be different depending on whether you're measuring road length, speed, or wavelengths?), it only made sense for the ISO/etc to pick definitions that were useful in the broadest sense. Rich