Comments on: Snow Leopard, Binary Prefixes, and Congressional Dereliction of Duty http://techliberation.com/2009/09/04/snow-leopard-binary-prefixes-and-congressional-dereliction-of-duty/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:44:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bill P. Godfrey http://techliberation.com/2009/09/04/snow-leopard-binary-prefixes-and-congressional-dereliction-of-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-65851 Bill P. Godfrey Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:56:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21040#comment-65851 Yes! Everyone should use decimal measures! Only programmers should ever care about binary numbers.<br><br>As a programmer myself, *I* care that a date is the number of seconds since 1970, but what would you think if I suggested that I should show that number to the user instead of the more familiar form?<br><br>IMO, it should be the same for storage capacity. People are taught what kilo, mega, giga and tera mean at school. Users don't (nay, shouldn't) care that we programmers have some other terminology that doesn't really effect them. Yes! Everyone should use decimal measures! Only programmers should ever care about binary numbers.

As a programmer myself, *I* care that a date is the number of seconds since 1970, but what would you think if I suggested that I should show that number to the user instead of the more familiar form?

IMO, it should be the same for storage capacity. People are taught what kilo, mega, giga and tera mean at school. Users don't (nay, shouldn't) care that we programmers have some other terminology that doesn't really effect them.

]]> By: Bill P. Godfrey http://techliberation.com/2009/09/04/snow-leopard-binary-prefixes-and-congressional-dereliction-of-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-61544 Bill P. Godfrey Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:56:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21040#comment-61544 Yes! Everyone should use decimal measures! Only programmers should ever care about binary numbers.<br><br>As a programmer myself, *I* care that a date is the number of seconds since 1970, but what would you think if I suggested that I should show that number to the user instead of the more familiar form?<br><br>IMO, it should be the same for storage capacity. People are taught what kilo, mega, giga and tera mean at school. Users don't (nay, shouldn't) care that we programmers have some other terminology that doesn't really effect them. Yes! Everyone should use decimal measures! Only programmers should ever care about binary numbers.

As a programmer myself, *I* care that a date is the number of seconds since 1970, but what would you think if I suggested that I should show that number to the user instead of the more familiar form?

IMO, it should be the same for storage capacity. People are taught what kilo, mega, giga and tera mean at school. Users don't (nay, shouldn't) care that we programmers have some other terminology that doesn't really effect them.

]]> By: Bill P. Godfrey http://techliberation.com/2009/09/04/snow-leopard-binary-prefixes-and-congressional-dereliction-of-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-61327 Bill P. Godfrey Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:56:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21040#comment-61327 Yes! Everyone should use decimal measures! Only programmers should ever care about binary numbers.<br><br>As a programmer myself, *I* care that a date is the number of seconds since 1970, but what would you think if I suggested that I should show that number to the user instead of the more familiar form?<br><br>IMO, it should be the same for storage capacity. People are taught what kilo, mega, giga and tera mean at school. Users don't (nay, shouldn't) care that we programmers have some other terminology that doesn't really effect them. Yes! Everyone should use decimal measures! Only programmers should ever care about binary numbers.

As a programmer myself, *I* care that a date is the number of seconds since 1970, but what would you think if I suggested that I should show that number to the user instead of the more familiar form?

IMO, it should be the same for storage capacity. People are taught what kilo, mega, giga and tera mean at school. Users don't (nay, shouldn't) care that we programmers have some other terminology that doesn't really effect them.

]]> By: eee_eff http://techliberation.com/2009/09/04/snow-leopard-binary-prefixes-and-congressional-dereliction-of-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-61322 eee_eff Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:55:14 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21040#comment-61322 It gives Congress the power, but NOT the duty.<br>This is also true for copyright; Congress has the power but no affirmative duty... It gives Congress the power, but NOT the duty.
This is also true for copyright; Congress has the power but no affirmative duty…

]]> By: Berin Szoka http://techliberation.com/2009/09/04/snow-leopard-binary-prefixes-and-congressional-dereliction-of-duty/comment-page-1/#comment-61231 Berin Szoka Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:28:13 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=21040#comment-61231 <i>All: Who controls the British crown?<br><b>Who keeps the metric system down?</b><br>We do! We do!<br>Karl: Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?<br>Lenny: Who keeps the Martians under wraps?<br>Alien: We do! We do!<br>All: Who holds back the electric car?<br>Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?<br>We do! We do!<br>Skinner: Who robs cavefish of their sight?<br>Homer: Who rigs every Oscar night?<br>All: We do! We do!</i><br>- <i>The Simpsons</i>, "The Stonecutter's Song" All: Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Karl: Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Lenny: Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
Alien: We do! We do!
All: Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Skinner: Who robs cavefish of their sight?
Homer: Who rigs every Oscar night?
All: We do! We do!
- The Simpsons, “The Stonecutter's Song”

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