Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release 984
CyberDragon777 writes "Ubuntu's future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other operating systems using binary prefixes, Ubuntu currently represents 1 kB (kilobyte) as 1024 bytes (base-2). But starting with 10.10, a switch to SI prefixes (base-10) will denote 1 kB as 1000 bytes, 1 MB as 1000 kB, 1 GB as 1000 MB, and so on."
Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:5, Funny)
First, screwing with GUI buttons, now this? Mark Shuttleworth, I'm calling you out on your BS
;)
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:1, Funny)
Why moan? Apple have been doing this for years, and everyone knows anything using Gnome is the tramps version of OS X.
Re:Really annoying (Score:5, Funny)
What's next? Imperial units for us Europeans?
Hell no. Imperial units for file sizes. A byte will be twelve bits, a kilobyte will be 3 bytes, and a megabyte will be 5280 bytes. A petabyte will be 5.87849981x10^12 megabytes. There won't really be such things as terabytes or gigabytes, which will make drive manufacturers happy because most of their drives are measured in TB or GB.
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:5, Funny)
Kibibytes always makes me think of cat treats.
Is that what we want? More lolcats in our hardrives? Fuxxoring up our filesizes?
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:4, Funny)
And there was me, with 38910 BASIC BYTES deeply ingrained into my brain...
Re:Really annoying (Score:5, Funny)
I feel that base 10 is the wrong way to count.
You must have a horribly difficult time in this world.
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:0, Funny)
Of course. (Score:1, Funny)
For version 10.10 everything should be in base 10. I expect they'll switch to base 11 for Ubuntu 11.11.
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:4, Funny)
Actually 'B' is 'Bel' like in decibels - dBs. So kB is kilobels etc. This causes me no end of confusion as I wonder why hard-drive manufacturers are measuring drive capacity on a logarithmic scale compared to some unspecified standard size.
I think we should decimalize completely, remove the confusing 8-bit byte and introduce a new 10-bit unit called a "dyke".
That way there'd be no confusion.
Re:ubuntu joins apple... (Score:5, Funny)
So yes, SI as base-10 precedes the standards-breaking use among computer engineers and computer scientists by well over 100 years.
Wait a second. Are you talking 100 years, or 102.4 yirs?
Re:Just use the right prefix (Score:3, Funny)
I'd prefer they not display numbers in base 2. Reading a long string of ones and zeroes is difficult.
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:5, Funny)
I am glad for everyone who might eat your baking.
locale (Score:3, Funny)
May I humbly suggest that for locale C, we retain the base-2 prefixes. Then for POINTLESS_PEDANT locale, use SI prefixes. To specify base-2 prefixes without maintaining the rest of the C locales semantics, I recommend GET_OFF_MY_LAWN. Or maybe just an environment variable to indicate DISK_MANUFACTURERS_ARE_GREEDY_BASTARDS with 0, empty or non-existence assuming you have traveled back in time or are living in denial.
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:2, Funny)
2. Using gay names like mebi instead of mega
Everyone likes happy names! Oh, wait, you were probably using that in a derogatory fashion, in which case, I doubt SI prefixes have a sexual orientation or gender.
Base-19 which base (Score:4, Funny)
The number 10 is different depending upon which base you use.
There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Re:Base-19 which base (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:5, Funny)
Mebi? Or mebi not.
Re:ubuntu joins apple... (Score:1, Funny)
>> How many bits per second does your gigabit network carry?
1 giga
Re:Really annoying (Score:2, Funny)
byte 8
word 16
double word 32
quad word 64
kilobyte 1000
Obviously it makes more sense this way
Re:Mod parent up (Score:2, Funny)
This is just proof that the planet is actually being run by a secret cabal of dogs. Note how they have arranged our society so that instead of living out in the woods and having to chase mice for a living, they can lounge around on soft cushions while we wait on them hand and foot. And now they are going to the next step - introducing doggish words into our standards - it's all about the KiBble !!
Re:And the pussification/retardization... (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, I really hate when the tools are use daily are made more standardized and sensible. I mean really, I know how you feel. I was RAGING the day I worked on my first motherboard that didn't require me to fiddle with jumpers and man, oh man, I about blew a gasket when I didn't have manually configure my autoexec.bat file anymore so I could play games.
What the fuck is wrong with people trying to make computers accessible? Fucking pussies and their keyboards and their mice. Gimme my damn punch cards!
Re:Cannonical is just trolling us (Score:3, Funny)
Stonewolf you lose.
"...Hate speech becomes hate speech by being use by the haters. That is the same way your favorite words have come to be hate speech."
It goes the other way too.
And quit the psycho analysis, you suck at it.
For the record, I deny the word 'gay' is hateful in the context used today in this forum, and so does the lesbian sitting next to me.
Re:Base-19 which base (Score:1, Funny)