In reply to a post by tide:

Excellent, you are a professional.

What about the rest of us?

I know I am. And there and several more here who are too.

Carpets and flooring are not my area of expertise whatsoever, but I do recognise the units they are sold in.

I nipped any talk of such nature in the bud. Good to know you read the thread.

I know

3rd strike!

Do you have any idea how many times I have been right before, how things are the way they are now, not because the likes of you made them that way but because the voice of change, sparked by my ow, changed them.

When I am proven right you'll maybe remember this thread, but don't look back in anger.

But oranges are stored in crates - each of which has a fixed number of oranges inside.

You pick them at a rate of oranges per minue and sell them to the shop in crates, or bags. I buy oranges in bags with a fixed number and then consume them at a rate of oranges per minute or more exactly oranges per kilo minute or milli-oranges per minute

In reply to a post by tide:

All such forces and speeds can be converted, you know this.

However, for simplicity sakes there needs to be parity between measurements in something most find bewildering at the best of times.

Computers are not unfriendly any more, I don't have a problem with that.

As I said earlier you could just convert both to bits.

So a 4Mbit connection and a 10Mbit file. You probably scoff - but between bits and bytes only one is reasonably standardised and it isn't bytes.

Helpful inventions like kilo-, mega- and such like could be used to make everything manageable. All you'd need to do is make sure everyone understands to multiple or divide by 1000. Is that easier than currently where being able to multiple or divide by 8 gives you the same sort of result.

(As I'm feeling devious, do we have 1000 or 1024 bits in a kilobit?

I noticed what you did there. Moved on to oranges too I see.

Apples, Oranges...what a pair (pear!).

That's a new joke. Proof that not all new things are good. In fact, some are very, very unoriginal and bad...

I should not respond to this, but yes, I do believe object/materials will self heal and software to become organic in code so as to evolve and repair on its own.

Why not.

In reply to a post by tide:

If I can pick an orange from a tree at the rate of six per minute then it matters not their weight or size, averaged out of course.

Natch.

And you download at x bits/second... it's the underlying basis of the design.

The number of bytes/second depends on the size of the byte (and possibly on any compression applied). Just as the kg/min of oranges you can pick depends on the size of the oranges.