On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:54:13 -0400, John Eells wrote: > >In reality, herding cats is easier than making absolutely sure that >everyone uses the correct full and short names all the time in all >contexts, formal and informal, but we keep trying. > I tend to think of Cnut commanding back the tides.
BTW, e.g., what would it take to get IBM to abandon its Humpty-Dumptyesque view that "mega" means 2^20 rather than 10^6? I am aware of long-standing international standards for the latter; none for the former. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
