Why don't computers use American units?

[Pissmaster]

Megabytes, Gigahertz, Teraflops, all faggot metric SI units. We don't use faggot units anywhere else, why are our computers infected with them?

 

[InspectorGadget]

I use niggerbytes

 

[JethroTullamore]

Cum bites.

 

[SIGSEGV]

Megabytes, Gigahertz, Teraflops, all faggot metric SI units

As far as I know, SI prefixed units are solely used when presenting information to the user. In reality, your 16 "gigabytes" of RAM is actually 16 gibibytes (GiB), which is equivalent to 14.9 gigabyes.

Of course, at the lowest level, your computer doesn't even give a shit about these binary prefix units, because it cares about the exact number of bytes that something occupies in memory or on disk.

We don't use faggot units anywhere else, why are our computers infected with them?

Mine's not infected. You probably just have a virus.

 

[CognitiveDeficiency]

Bytes certainly seems like an American measure

 

[Apathetic Luigi]

We don't use faggot units anywhere else,

but you see the tech sphere is full of faggots of various degrees, so its natural for tech fags to use that shit, along with 24 hour clock shit

 

[Slav Power]

As far as I know, SI prefixed units are solely used when presenting information to the user. In reality, your 16 "gigabytes" of RAM is actually 16 gibibytes (GiB), which is equivalent to 14.9 gigabyes.
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Of course, at the lowest level, your computer doesn't even give a shit about these binary prefix units, because it cares about the exact number of bytes that something occupies in memory or on disk.

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Mine's not infected. You probably just have a virus.

And there's also the case of Microsoft showing the values in mebibytes but presenting units as megabytes, so when someone buys a 2 terabyte drive they see it as a 1.81 "terabyte" drive.

And yes, it led to lawsuits. And yes, both towards disk manufacturers and both towards Microsoft.

And Microsoft is still afraid of adding a "i" between two letters because it might confuse people even more.

And IIRC this is something that was a case since MS-DOS, or perhaps even QDOS. Another braindead archaism left in the bodged shitpile that is Microsoft Windows.

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

they should use burgers per minute or whatever

 

[SIGSEGV]

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