[X4U] How big is a DVD really?

[Michael Winter]

On Nov 22, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Simon Forster wrote:

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> On 22 Nov 2006, at 15:46, Michael Winter wrote:
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>> That whole 1000 vs. 1024 for "k" has caused problems since day 1.
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> Isn't that why we have kibibytes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> Kibibyte>?

Yes, but its caught on in popular use as well as using "web" to  
replace "www" at the beginning of just about every URL in the world.  
Regardless of how much better (just think how much easier it is to  
say "web" than W-W-W), it just hasn't caught on.

-Mike