From kde-core-devel  Sat Sep 21 21:30:15 2002
From: Ryan Cumming <ryan () completely ! kicks-ass ! org>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 21:30:15 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103264386907514

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On September 20, 2002 04:06, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> I'm with rikkus on this one.  Show me a computer that counts in base 10 and
> I'm all for converting to 1MB == 1000 bytes.  (Of course this would
> actually be vastly more data since a bit would have 10 possible states, but
> I digress...)
Does your car know how far a kilometer is? Or how long an hour is? Kilometers 
per hour obviouly aren't natural units for it to communicate it. Shouldn't it 
just show its velocity in revolutions of the drive axle per second, then?

The point is to hide these icky details from the user, not to propagate them. 

- -Ryan
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