[MPlayer-users] Re: chopping off credits

[Jonathan Rogers]

D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 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.

Some of us think the endless confusion caused by the conflicting 
definitions of kilo, mega, and giga is stupid. I won't call your 
opinions stupid, but I will ask you to stop spouting them as fact. Who 
do you recognize as legitimate authority beyond your own swollen head 
anyway? Perhaps you invented the SI prefixes yourself?

Jonathan Rogers