Re-read you post from a distance, the kind of distance of which a person stands when reading advertising and you'll see the unnecessary elements to your reply. Too much technical babble to fluff up you own position, but ultimately it'll put people off.

Don't deny what needs to be done; simplification of course.

That could all well have been made irrelevant if the motion to forward our clocks to central European time were to take effect, thank go it was abandoned.

Are you a bit simple or something, my clock is auto-adjusted according to how my OS sees time, this is out of my hands and thankfully so.

Grow up.

Unlike you tekkies I have a life, try stretching your legs sometime instead of becoming an NHS statistic; a casualty of computing inactivity.

I'll tell you this once and once only, not that I think I should pay credence to the idea, but I am a first time poster and will grind all of your arguments into dust for the time it takes that you have a single one left.

You can't ban a good argument, I've had not one reply to deter me in my conviction.

None. Get used to it.

You are entitled to you opinion, but you have to understand the issue for what it is, it not like you image. Whether technical minded or not, less complexity is best, so why not measure in MB, which is not "a change to internationally recognised standards" as you put it, it is a standard already... I urge you to look at the properties of any file >1MB and see what your OS does (Windows/OS X) and you'll see why I am calling for this.

People think like this already but they think Mb and Meg are the same as MB, they think everything is the same and that is the problem.

Your post shows exactly what I am up against, people who want to over complicate things, how many of you think you could really put an advert across to people telling them to divide or multiply by a factor of eight and get away with it... never going to happen.

You simply do not know how to talk to the public, but you lot are the ones in charge. Its going to change as connection get faster, before you legitimately got away with this but now we are in the multi-MB internet world and so advertising has to change.

HTML5 standards there are to streamline the MB/GB if your interested, but I'm afraid growth we as a western civilisation are wed too, if you don't like it you can become a Buhuddist monk.

Simplification comes in measurements that people actually use, nobody programs, nobody counts the bits but they do have an idea that a music file is about 3MB (or 26MB if lossless), they do understand that a picture can be about that too etc...

This is why people with ideas like yours need to be swept aside, the future isn't afraid of the past.

Its posts like these which bump up the count, check out mine and the concentrate on the title of the thread. I wish I didn't have to but sometimes people need to be nudged into the right direction.

Please stay on course thank you.

If you want to know the reason your views resonate here best is because others like you use these limited [of real world opinions in scope] forums to make yourselves feel good. But, in the real world you'll find that people do not do maths when they read an advertisement.

If you want to know the number of pennies in a car that costs £2,999 then it can be placed in the small print.

The speed increased and so will the Bits, so we need to migrate to MB, its inevitable.

e.g. "Kate Bush - Army Dreamers" is:

10.6 MB on disk (10,552,187 bytes) so says OS X (see which one they place in brackets!)

My thread was hijacked by people going on about the current Ofcom debacle of ISPs inflating speeds by using the "up to" moniker, while that has nothing to do with my thread.

What I am worried about is that even with more accurate numbers, people won't understand what the measurement is.

So when back on to that topic I can interject, as everybody else is missing the point - think of all those who read this and agree with me, who don't know about this forum... I could go to another forum but I need to know the best reasons for the status quo, don't think it wouldn't be easier somewhere else, but I like to know what I'm up against.

I don't feel like anybody here has a clue about the real world out with of their own immediate workspaces.