> Networking rates are all discussed in base ten and nobody complains about those.
Modern networking rates pay hommage to the days of analog communication systems whose rates were measured in units baud, which adheres to SI rules; the imperative relationship here is time, which also adheres to SI rules. At today's scale, these are understood to be notional approximations. Even if Joe Average had the means to precisely measure throughput, who's really going to make a huge stink with all the overhead and uncertainties that exist in real-world networking?
Computer memory is physical and different. If a computer says a file is 1.42 MiB and Joe Average can't copy it to his "1.44 MB" diskette because it's too large, you don't have to be a computer scientist to be batshit annoyed by the antics of marketing.
> Megapixels are base 10 as well.
So? Whether we're talking about a physical display or digital picture, resolution doesn't have any inextricable relationship with computer memory.
> It is not merely tolerable, but is in fact more correct, to use decimal prefixes for computer storage.
Absurd. Digital computers are fundamentally base-2. No amount of marketing quackery can change that. The first week of a freshman course in digital logic is all that's needed to dispel such nonsense.
Modern networking rates pay hommage to the days of analog communication systems whose rates were measured in units baud, which adheres to SI rules; the imperative relationship here is time, which also adheres to SI rules. At today's scale, these are understood to be notional approximations. Even if Joe Average had the means to precisely measure throughput, who's really going to make a huge stink with all the overhead and uncertainties that exist in real-world networking?
Computer memory is physical and different. If a computer says a file is 1.42 MiB and Joe Average can't copy it to his "1.44 MB" diskette because it's too large, you don't have to be a computer scientist to be batshit annoyed by the antics of marketing.
> Megapixels are base 10 as well.
So? Whether we're talking about a physical display or digital picture, resolution doesn't have any inextricable relationship with computer memory.
> It is not merely tolerable, but is in fact more correct, to use decimal prefixes for computer storage.
Absurd. Digital computers are fundamentally base-2. No amount of marketing quackery can change that. The first week of a freshman course in digital logic is all that's needed to dispel such nonsense.