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  From: David Lloyd <davidl@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>
  Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:17:33 +0930

Re: Highlander Laptops?

Michael

> Unfortunately, the context isn't always obvious, and if we continue
> misusing units, a case will arise where something *is* misunderstood.

I disagree.

> Indeed, I know many people who are confused when they buy a 20
> gigabyte hard disk drive, and the operating system reports it as
> 18.6 "gigabytes" (or less after formatting, reserved space, and so on).

That's because they are ignorant...

> Is it *that* hard to conform to standards?  What is the problem
> with doing so?

Yes, it is.

I refuse to search evey blasted IEEE standard and ISO standard blah blah 
before I say something.

DSL

(BE WARNED: I have not checked this e-mail against the Microsoft Word 
Grammar Checker -- it's probably grammatically very badly)




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