> No; nerds have always meant 2^20 bytes when they said "megabyte", and
> marketers have always meant 10^6.

Not quite.  Marketers are capable of working in real megabytes - when
was the last time you saw a 268-MB stick of RAM advertised?

I've always felt the little "based on 1GB = 1000000000 bytes" footnote
is saying "we know we're being deliberately deceptive and we're going
to keep right on doing it anyway" and should be treated like any other
deliberately deceptive advertising.

I've occasionally wished I owned a memory maker, so that when a disk
maker ordered (say) a 256-MB SIMM, I could ship them one that stored
256000000 bytes....

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