On Tuesday 02 June 2009 7:19:12 am Andrew Sayers wrote: > "Mega" is also a problem because accessibility isn't just about the > ability to understand something, it's about the amount of mental effort > required. Grab a non-technical friend or family member and ask them how > many million in a billion, then how many kilobytes in a megabyte. > You'll find they have to think longer and harder to answer the second > question, if they can do it at all. I'm not clear what extra value > "mega" provides that's worth so many wasted cycles.
Nor does such tedium matter to them! What matters is "I have a 4GB MP3 player. An MP3 is about 3 or 4 MB, whatever a MB is. That means I can fit about 1000 songs on my MP3 player." Anything smaller than 1MB is written off as sufficiently miniscule. It's like worrying about a few grains of rice when measuring it bushels. Yes, the grains add up, but when the time comes to make more space are you going to scoop out a few grains, or are you going to pitch it by the gallon? -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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