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Re: GiB? MiB? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over?
by Diederik van der Boor on Friday 02/Nov/2007, @09:12

Nope, the point is apps like Dolphin tend to display GiB instead of GB.

Personally I find this a bit overdone. Can't it just be GB like the rest of the world? ..which indeeds screws SI over, but try explaining Gigabytes (GB) instead of Gigibytes (GiB) :-P

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Re: GiB? MiB? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over?
by german on Friday 02/Nov/2007, @09:24

In German "..GiB Frei" >> Give free.... why not GB????

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Re: GiB? MiB? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over?
by David Johnson on Friday 02/Nov/2007, @10:24

Gawd I hope this is configurable. I would hate to think that Dolphin is going to look like a GiBbering idiot.

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Re: GiB? MiB? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Over?
by Leo S on Friday 02/Nov/2007, @10:35

No kidding. The time to be pedantic about GB/GiB is over. Everyone is using GB these days, how about we just conform to that instead of being different over a little thing. I guarantee there are gonna be a lot of "GB is spelled wrong in the taskbar" comments.

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