https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471335 Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jreidinger@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |yast2-maintainers@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471335 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471335#c2 Felix Miata changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL| |http://physics.nist.gov/cuu | |/Units/binary.html --- Comment #2 from Felix Miata 2009-02-05 07:07:02 MST --- (In reply to comment #1)

Seriously, why would ANYBODY want that?

Broadened standardization? Consistency across disciplines? The computing world many moons ago hijacked decimal multiples for use in binary. This would be a part of undoing the confusion that created. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471335 User trans@michael-skiba.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471335#c4 --- Comment #4 from Michael Skiba 2009-02-05 15:03:04 MST --- The fact, that the windows world doesn't use it, doesn't change the fact, that it is a standard :) Yes, I know this is an highly biassed pov, but one I hear often "Windows does it this and that way, why doesn't Linux do it that way too?", because Linux isn't Windows, in many things it's superior, why not in this case too? KDE 4 uses it, opensuse had and will have a huge amount of KDE users (in the past there were more KDE users, than gnome users in oS, I don't have recent stats, but I think it's the same). For me that'd be reason enough. The comment "This would be a reason to use another distribution" is (sorry) just nonsense, why would ANYBODY do that? This markup thing is just a minor thing, there are many apps which are switching to that standard and YaST is for sure not the center of the action for a normal openSUSE user. But to add some 'hard fact' to the end, the SI units you quoted yourself state explicitely that the SI-Prefixes, kilo-, mega-, giga- are only to use by the meaning of a power to ten! not to two. [QUOTE] These SI prefixes refer strictly to powers of 10. They should not be used to indicate powers of 2 (for example, one kilobit represents 1000 bits and not 1024 bits). The IEC has adopted prefixes for binary powers in the international standard IEC 60027-2: 2005, third edition, Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology – Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics [/QUOTE] (See the right sidebar: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter3/prefixes.html - Notice that the BIPM is the organization that officially maintains the SI standards) Please also notice that the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) has published as an harmonized document. Also wikipedia states that it has been adopted as a European Standard. So it's legally binding. IEEE points their authors to use correct SI units too. So all the switchs have been layed out - the only other "important" organization that doesn't use this standard is Microsoft. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.