[RFC] SI Units in KDE

Neil Stevens neil at qualityassistant.com
Fri Sep 20 20:41:48 BST 2002


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On Friday September 20, 2002 12:30, Thomas Zander wrote:
> - Filesizes reported in various applications are currently printed
> sometimes in Kb and other times in Mb etc. People ignore them now since
> they don't make sense. I doubt you can tell many people that 208111bytes
>  is indeed 199Kb...

Exactly!  Users are having that extra 24 bytes hidden from them!  So why 
waste effort to break an old convention?

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Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
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have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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