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Can you tell me where you got that? Thanks. Redwolf24 02:04, 16 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

The show itself: they said something like "Even if your comments are deleted, we'll still be able to read them, so go ahead [without fear, etc.]..." -Liberty Miller 02:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC) p.s. A Template header! Now that's clever! -Liberty 16 August 2005Reply

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My reply: please see [1] . - Libertas 02:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

Update, 25 October 2007 : qft, from the "bot" talk page:

Bot malfunctioning According to the "bot generated" comment at Talk:Common_menus_in_Microsoft_Windows, "Rationales must be provided for each use of an image". A rational WAS provided on the image. I referred anyone who cares to my comments on the Talk page on the image. Now the image is deleted, the rational is deleted, and my comments are deleted. So I guess using a bot for things that need discussion isn't such a good idea? (Or perhaps this is a real person and not a bot?) Please consider undeleting the relevant image, image page, image talk page, and deletion log. Thanks. - Libertas 22:29, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

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Binary prefix edit

Thanks for your recent edit at Binary prefix; some of the changes do improve the flow. However, your assertion about "computing" contexts always using powers of two is inaccurate, consider storage devices (hard disks, floppy disks...), clock speeds, and data speeds ("1 kbps" = 1000 b/s). In fact, apart from RAM and some places in an OSes, there is no place where binary prefixes are always used. Could you fix your edit about "non-computing contexts" etc.? I'll do it myself if I get the time later. Thanks, Shreevatsa (talk) 15:42, 25 November 2008 (UTC)Reply


Actually I thought your recent edit detracted from the original so I reverted it. In particular, I also think characterizing the current set of binary prefixes as anything associated with "fundamental" ignores their close association withe decimal numbers. From a binary perspective, there is nothing fundamental about 210N where N=1,2,3 ... I go further than Shreevatsa and suggest there is no significant support of binary prefixes in any language nor in any significant computer architecture. They came into existence as a short hand in publications and then got confused when the UIs adopted them. Lets not have an edit war and see if we can work something out at the talk page Tom94022 (talk) 20:32, 25 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

To Liberty Miller- [Regarding Tom's comment above and at his changes:] obviously anyone who writes "there is no significant support of binary prefixes in any language nor in any significant computer architecture" doesn't know enough about the subject to be writing about it in the first place. Needless to say Tom's revert was reverted back to your version Liberty Miller because your edit improves the article and has been tweaked only slightly since then. Fnagaton 05:51, 26 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

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