Snow Leopard apparently, which was released in 2009. Ubuntu's policies on the subject seem to be about the same age.
I suppose I should've said that up until five years ago, nearly everyone was using powers of two for file sizes. And Windows/Mac never used the correct prefixes.
I don't think that giving the users something that _is_ wrong is a better solution...
Why not switching to GiB? Power users would understand, and others wouldn't even notice!
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Snow Leopard apparently, which was released in 2009. Ubuntu's policies on the subject seem to be about the same age.
I suppose I should've said that up until five years ago, nearly everyone was using powers of two for file sizes. And Windows/Mac never used the correct prefixes.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/06/11/97253...
It's a tricky topic and as Raymond correctly points out, giving people a term that they don't understand probably serves little to no good purpose.
I don't think that giving the users something that _is_ wrong is a better solution... Why not switching to GiB? Power users would understand, and others wouldn't even notice!
Why not switch to actual GB like the OS X did. I'm not sure why anybody prefers GiB.
Either way, as long as GB = 10^9, and GiB = 2^30