[MPlayer-users] Re: chopping off credits

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:20:34AM -0500, Jonathan Rogers wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >>later. When trying to fit a movie on one 700-800MiB CD-R, I've cut the 
> >>
> >>of a mebibyte and much sharper than the MPEG-4 video would have been.
> >
> >
> >Are you just using these ridiculous-sounding units to annoy people, or
> >to try to "convert" people, or what? I've noticed them appearing at
> >least 3 or 4 times in your past couple posts...
> 
> Yes, I'm a mind-slave of the IEC and we're trying to take over the 
> world! You just keep on attacking anything that you don't understand. 
> We'll see who ends up sounding ridiculous.
> 
> <URL:http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>
> <URL:http://www.iec.ch/online_news/etech/arch_2003/etech_0503/focus.htm>
> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/manual/coreutils-4.5.4/html_chapter/coreutils_2.html#SEC4>
> <URL:http://www.gnu.org/manual/coreutils-4.5.4/html_chapter/coreutils_2.html#IDX51>

I'm quite familiar with all that and it's stupid. They have no
legitimate authority to redefine terms, especially ones used in
someone else's field. Regardless of whether one accepts their horrible
"standard", your repeated use of "MiB" "GiB" ... makes it look like
you are trying to influence people rather than write something
relevant to mplayer.

Rich