28 Jul
2006
28 Jul
'06
6:12 p.m.
On Thursday 27 July 2006 07:12 pm, Jules Richardson wrote:
Dave Dunfield wrote:
Yeah we do, or a lot of this stuff wouldn't come so naturally...
In a way it makes sense ... The general public
understands "thousand"
better than "k", so giving them the number of bytes in thousands will
give them a better idea of the actual number than a true "k" value
would - we computer geeks just think differently than everyone else
No we don't. We've just taken the trouble to learn something about the
tools that we use. At some point it has to be accepted that people need a
little education to
use a computer - so I don't see why a rudimentary understanding of how
computers operate shouldn't be one of them.
OTOH there seem to be an awful lot of people out there who will quite
willingly accept somebody's idea of how it *should* work and take that as
being the only way it *does* work which leads to all sorts of awful stuff.
Like HTML email for example...
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