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 8C9451387FD for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E5A0E0962; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ve0-f170.google.com (mail-ve0-f170.google.com [209.85.128.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7753BE0853 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 09:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f170.google.com with SMTP id pa12so7416910veb.29 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:23:08 -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:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hzfX7md0MwNYuI7ULS1Lu6N2ScHD5L8MjVdrpI585HI=; b=wEv8iOBboXdo2Mvf9ye44wCUaGiFLu/LEnwp9v6R09h9xNXK7SSBAzjUjPgk/U0Qhi R0nqnPmVdWV9bvOo6/rHRG4C2CkcIm4FOLWD9jBtB+c+FKbpD8cXrrRT16ZNA8sEqUp9 1i3OTmk8TBrfDQl+2lFhwuo0p9B9qZAkDnyMLVuePwcWWIApUtBSRn4h92yiybOYqQcN 8OyyT8bXT3uPWGqYyiQN9S3pa4FISGq7n6qty2c8aD16uwmQUNSP559FKOe9o18JAVMg 2D28JT8hVMmIcmogT6SLp/4f0aQ5HKV1hLg2EOjMlHGS0s1s2ZNtdpuMFlV2iEBdgVz9 08ig== 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 10.58.126.4 with SMTP id mu4mr17560218veb.0.1396171388608; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.29.142 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:23:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140330103342.76108bfb@pomiot.lan> References: <53342A5F.70903@gentoo.org> <20140330103342.76108bfb@pomiot.lan> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 05:23:08 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cvx16PODwvGRh0Rr1mKvmtMsivk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-04-08 From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Cc: "Anthony G. Basile" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: de6ae967-884a-4ff9-a29a-cf83d0d72966 X-Archives-Hash: 9af02752b265c45ddecdfd7416f01b8d On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny = wrote: > > ISO/IEC prefixes [1,2]: KiB (kibibyte), MiB (mebi-), GiB (gibi-) > -- unambiguously 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 > > 'old' prefixes: kB (kilobyte), MB (mega-), GB (giga-) > -- can mean 10^3 or 2^10 etc. depending on author's intention > -- SI people tend to use 10^N for consistency with other units To think that counting is the one situation where it is actually possible to have perfect precision, and we still manage to mess up the units... I'm a bit torn on this. I'm an American, so I am supposed to do something ambiguous and arbitrary (can we count bytes in baker's dozens?). I'm also a Chemist, and never met an SI unit I didn't like. We do need to keep in mind that the laws of physics dictate that boolean states can only be combined in groups of 8. That's a shame, because kibibits just rolls off the tongue and helps promote healthy fur. Now I need to get back to sleep because I have a 97.7 kibimeter drive tomorrow... Rich