A friend of mine on twitter @benmcdowell (i recommend his Harmonica iPhone app by the way) recently twittered about the file size 1 kB being 1024 versus 1000. The reason being that Ubuntu has just made the shift to base 10. With Apple having made the shift in Snow Leopard it leaves Microsoft still clinging to a slightly outdated version of measuring file size.
It’s an interesting topic as it seems logical to shift to base 10 but it is obviously a lot easier to execute the ostrich manoeuvre and just stick your head in the ground and hope it goes away
Kind of reminds me of the classic metric versus imperial debate
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