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RE: Please use ISO units
By theapparition on 3/19/2009 1:07:12 PM , Rating: 4
I have no problem with the assumption that people who read German tech/science sights are German. Since DailyTech is American, I see no reason why it should cater towards other nationalities. I'd wager that well over 90% of respondants here are Americans. All of a sudden, everyone wants to cater to the minority. Wrong, cater towards the majority.

Of course everyone is welcome to read/participate in any discussion, but there should be an understanding that if you visit an American site, you will be subjected to American customs.

For as wrong as it is, Americans still use the Farenheit scale for temperature measurement. I'll praise the day when we accept Celsius, but until then, giving Farenheit measurements on an American run website seems appropriate.

RE: Please use ISO units
By gmyx on 3/19/2009 3:17:05 PM , Rating: 4
I'd bet willing to bet that Americans don't come close to 90% of this site's users. Only someone with access to the servers could tell us that.

RE: Please use ISO units

I'll praise the day when we accept Celsius

Why don't you make an initiative to adopt SI measures?
it would be a nice step towards modernization.

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RE: Please use ISO units
It wouldn't work.


Canada did this, and it worked.





RE: Please use ISO units
By ninus3d on 3/20/2009 10:18:58 AM , Rating: 2
There are no European equivalent as good as DailyTech and very few of the "localized" pages even come close.
Internet really isn't about localization and when was it ever?

If there was a page on the same bar as DailyTech hosted in Europe the base of preference would most likely not be whether you were American or European but more or less as randomly as whether you are an Ati or Nvidia fan.

RE: Please use ISO units
By CityZen on 3/20/2009 12:18:49 PM , Rating: 3
I'd wager that well over 90% of respondants here are Americans

It just so happens that you'd lose the wager :D

See Alexa's traffic details of DailyTech:

You can quickly discover that only 52% of DailyTech are Americans. A healthy 48% are NOT Americans. Yes, that is still a majority, albeit a very slim one.
However, even if Americans were only 30% of the readership, I guess this site would still have to use the Fahrenheit scale, given that most Americans are incapable of understanding a temperature in Celsius degrees. On the other hand, most international readers who visit this site are probably able to understand the unscientific Fahrenheit scale (and yes, this is a wager of mine). So it's just case of adjusting to the lower standard :)

In any case, given that the American - international readership is almost a 50-50 split, this article would have been much clearer if temperatures had been given in both scales and displaying in each case the proper degree symbol.
For example: "down to minus 90ºF (-68 C)", instead of just "down to minus 90 degrees".
Is it THAT difficult?


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