[filmscanners] Re: FW: VueScan file size

["Bob Frost" <bob@frost.name>]

Peter,

You've still not got it right!!! Kilobytes should be kB (if you mean 1000
bytes), not KB and definitely not kb - the latter means kilobits.

Well, the first reference book I picked up uses them - Scott Mueller's
'Upgrading and Repairing PC's' 14th Edition published by Que 2003.

International Standards are often ignored, particularly in America it seems.
I believe you still use our old 'Imperial' system of inches and feet,
instead of the International metric system, with sometimes disastrous
results. Was it a Mars Lander that crashed because one lot of its engineers
were using metric and another lot Imperial?

These changes take time to work their way through the system; often they
don't become established until the old generation die off, and are replaced
by a new generation who have been taught the new standards in school. That
is what is happening in the UK; the old folk still think in feet, inches,
pounds, etc, while the youngsters are perfectly happy with centimetres and
kilograms. Old scientists like me have always had to use metric at work, so
my brain is bi-standard. It still flips back into Imperial at times, like
when thinking of photo sizes.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message -----
From: <peter@softwell.co.uk>
>
> So, we should now be using:-
>
> Ki (Kibi) for the Kilobinary value of 1,024
> Mi (Mebi)for the Megabinary value of 1,048,576
> Gi (Gibi) for the Gigabinary value of 1,073,741,824
> etc.
>

I'm a professional Technical Author / Editor in the computer industry and,
although I was aware of the new terms, I have never seen then used.

The computer world still use K and k and B and b happily.  My guess is
that the first you'll see of these is when the advertising world is forced
to use them to define disk sizes.

In the meantime folks, PLEASE use KB not kb when referring to kilobytes.

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