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Thanks for catching the KiB on the Adventure (2600) page. Just fixed another one on Conventional memory. Man that guy bombarded all over the place with these things. -- Marty Goldberg 16:50, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the edit on my talk page. As far as his IP (217.87.99.127), it traces to a dial-up Bielfield, Germany. Most likely him again. -- Marty Goldberg 06:33, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
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His latest tactic appears to be individual debate on every entry he wants to push binary units in to and slowly sneak in more usage in an attempt to portray a weakened consensus. I've directed him to here and here to take it to the MOSNUM talk page. -- Marty Goldberg 07:48, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Well the latest development that proved the MiB, GiB notation is NOT accepted by the general public can be found at a slashdot article here: [1] . The article states:
"Seagate has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleges that the company mislead customers by selling them hard disk drives with less capacity than the company advertised. The suit states that Seagate's use of the decimal definition of the storage capacity term "gigabyte" was misleading and inaccurate: whereby 1GB = 1 billion bytes. In actuality, 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes — a difference of approximately 7% from Seagate's figures. Seagate is saying it will offer a cash refund or free backup and recovery software."
That should put to rest the seemingly still lingering notion that wikipedia should adapt the SI notations KiB MiB and that consequently the original notation of KB MB etc. should be converted to reflect decimal sizes such as 1000, 1000.000 etc. Mahjongg 11:34, 2 November 2007 (UTC)