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One more thought that comes to mind is that the new logos implicitly uses English terminology. I wonder if terms like "gbps" will be understandable in all cultu
by 2sk21 5y ago
One more thought that comes to mind is that the new logos implicitly uses English terminology. I wonder if terms like "gbps" will be understandable in all cultures around the world.
- jve 5y ago1 datapoint from an european country with less than 2mil ppl: Yes, ofcourse, that is the terminology we use. And if you wish datapoint from the largest (land) country (Russia): Yes I mean if you use computer then how can you parse specs any other way but the way we are used to: as written by english people?
- Tijdreiziger 5y agoAFAIK, e.g. in France they use Go (giga-octet) instead of GB (and analogously, Ko/Mo/To).
- gspr 5y agoA French octet is a byte. The b here is a bit.
- nerdponx 5y agoI really like the idea of having distinct abbreviations for bytes/octets and bits!
- ziml77 5y agoSeriously! If I see something like mbps written I have to wonder whether it's saying megabits or megabytes per second. Bits is more likely only because it gives a higher sounding number, but outside of marketing either bits or bytes is equally likely.
- gspr 5y agoWe do: b for bits, B for bytes. People are just sloppy when using them.
- gspr 5y agoCome on, this isn't "English terminology": * G(iga) is an SI prefix (insert debate about SI's G vs. IEEE's Gi here) * b(it) is an IEEE unit * p(er) is Latin * s(econd) is an SI unit If there's any criticism to be directed here, it's definitely not that this is English terminology.