Subj : Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
To   : slacker
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri May 09 2025 18:22:04

  Re: Re: Is a PC optical drive a "player"?
  By: slacker to Nightfox on Thu Apr 24 2025 07:50 am

 > In a tangentially related "old man yells at cloud" issue:
 >
 > KB vs KiB, etc
 >
 > For a good portion of my life I remember KB=1024 bytes. The past 10 years or
 > so, its now KB bytes and a KiB is 1024 bytes.
 >
 > I've come to terms with the change but I don't really like it.
 >
 > At work, the legacy system I work on refers to storage in base 2 so a
 > KB=1024 but interacts with newer services that are base 10 where KB=1000 so
 > there's a headache of conversions.
 >
 > Anyway, I don't really understand why that all changed. I've heard people
 > mention HDD storage manufacturers using base 10 as marketing and it stuck
 > but that seems like an odd reason to upend everything.
 >
 > ...that's the end of my rant on that. I'm probably wrong so take it with a
 > grain of salt. lol

I remember thinking that 14.4Kbps modems were actually supposed to get 14.4 * 1024 Kbps through-put and they never did! That's because in communications, K has *always* meant 1000 and never 1024. It was only in memory or disk storage where K=1024, so that got especially confusing over time and really did need a solution. KiB (and MiB, GiB, etc.) is that solution. It'd been better if we could go back in time and not use K=1024 to begin with, but oh well. Here we are. :-)
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