And the general public, many Dilbertian managers, and even some of us professional nitpickers, think that a job running 1 hour instead of 10 is 900% faster, and that 1 is 10 times smaller than 10. 2+2 no longer = 5; now it equals chartreuse.
Fortunately architects and engineers know how to use mathematically accurate and precise terminology when describing the bridges they design and build, or we would have a lot more cars falling off of collapsing bridges. Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com * w: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012 On 22 May 2012 20:04:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >In <hj3lr7lassfuf88ovoeg000i1pp935e...@4ax.com>, on 05/21/2012 > at 03:51 PM, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> said: > >>I'm the last to see my own errors. Hopefully it was obvious I meant >>24/7/365 > >That's no better. Either 24/7/52 or 24/365 would be approximately >correct. > On a logical basis I agree with you but has the 24/7/365 shortcut for continuous availability become so pervasive that it is the shorthand way for saying it and is it the way that the general public as opposed to us professional nitpickers best understands it? Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
