[mythtv-users] What to call things

[David Brodbeck]

On Dec 7, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> In truth, the Dec 1998 IEC standard for binary prefixes is long enough
> for me, but not--it seems--for others.

I think for two reasons:

- It's awfully hard to redefine terms once they're in common use,  
even if the redefinition is in some ways more logical.  (See the  
"cracker" vs. "hacker" debate for another example.)

- "Gibibyte" is hard to pronounce, and if you say it out loud people  
just look at you funny.