Re: When computer geeks start defining time
- From: Skywise <into@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:51:18 -0000
Eric <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:Ir-dndKT-
sVglxDenZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> Tim Killian wrote:
>
>> Now that time standards are divorced from any events in the sky, here
>> come the proposals to "rationalize" and/or metrify time units:
>>
>> http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/
>>
>> A soulless system for a gray, soulless world.
>
> yeh, dont feel bad, the french tried to do the same thing with computer
> units with the creation of kibibits, mebibits etc which are utter nonsense.
> Eric
<spew> WHat?!?! hahahahaha!!!
It's bad enough that HD manufactures now rate their drives in
billions of bytes and not true gigabytes anymore.
1,000,000,000 vs 1,073,741,824 bytes
Brian
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