On 05/31/2012 08:59 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Please can we try to keep this mailing-list "family friendly"? It is a good > point that marketing and PR often needs to say things that are not always > objective or quantifiable. A salesman's claim that something is 100% is not > the same as a programmers idea of 100% and neither may bear any relation to > what wide-eyed-end-users feel that they experience. Also, even if the benchmark testing is quantifiable and the speed increase is very significant users will find the speed increase variable. What does 100% faster really mean? > > Personally i think that when marketing people assign numbers to things they > tend to make a complete mess and so they should avoid it. It is why we now > have measurements such as GiB, MiB etc compared to GB, MB etc. While the "i" > is meant to mean absolutely right this time honest guv" marketing people just > misuse it just as they misused the original ones so we still don't know > whether people mean > 1 GB = 1024 MB or just 1000MB > compounded by not knowing if those MBs are 1024 Kb or not, so quoted figures > for any measurements can end up being completely useless and nothing to do > with real size. > > Why can't they just say things like "A LOT faster"?? Why drag in numbers > that are likely to be proven wrong in certain/all cases? > Regards from > Tom :) >
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