Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
> One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any other
> unit of measure that we use.
>
That may be true, but in the case of cps, we had something in place that was
descriptive. Just because we use non descriptive terms for many things does
not make dropping the one descriptive term that we had excusable.
There used to be only two different types of gasoline to choose from. Regular
and hi test.
If you drove into the gas station today and asked for high test, the kid would
look at you like you are nuts. But what does "extra", "premium", "super",
"ultra", etc. mean?? What not say "87", "89", "93" etc.?
In the case of premium we are using 3 syllables to describe something that only
has 2.
In the use the term metre is not used (unless they changed that too while I was
sleeping) it's meter). Metre is used in Europe.
Using any word to describe the processor of a computer is really useless,
because there isn't always a true relationship between the "processor speed and
the actual speed of the computer. It's one more way to fool the consumer.
There should be a standard that reflects the true overall benchmark of a
computer that is listed on each computer.
The benchmarks for the processor, hard drive, video card, memory, etc. all have
to be considered.
Larry
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