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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:06:52 +0100
From: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@sirius-cafe.de>
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> Re: Configure.help editorial policy
> 
> 
> > Standards exist to make peoples lives easier, the fact the hard drive
> > and memory vendors currently don't use these phrases right now doesn't
> > make the standard wrong --- this world is full of clue-less marketing
> > people and nothing will change this.
> 
> Oh, it can be changed. Just the way car advertising has been changed to
> use kW. (Well, it has over here.) And the way monitor size advertising is
> in the process of being changed to use SI units, not US ones.
> 
> Fair advertising laws can be rather effective.
> 

 frankly speaking, the advertising on cars, monitors and other stuff
only changed, because it is illegal to do otherwise (you can use the old
units, but not alone and not prominently). IMHO in most peoples minds
the old units are still prevalent.

 When looking at the new new notation for binary units, I just think the
standards organisations made a huge maistake :-( But standard is
standard. Better take it now.

Martin
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|Martin Knoblauch                                     |
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|e-mail: knobi@knobisoft.de                           |
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