Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 3.5.4: 100% faster

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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