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On 3 Mar 2005, foofy@xxxxxx.xxx wrote:
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> Same reason nobody calls it the "zero-eth" floor. Users don't see the
> floor as starting 0 feet above ground level. Instead they see it as the
> first floor they have encountered.
Australia does, almost universally. Well, "Ground floor", which is the
same thing: the first floor is the floor *above* that.
Except when the people fitting out the building like the American model
better, or decide that the first floor should be at ground level.
Because ignoring the way the rest of the local culture does things is a
sure way to make people happy when they get there, wander to the right
floor, then discover they have to go back down because your tastes
differ, but you didn't sign it well.
Well, most often, if you didn't sign it at all on the ground floor, in
fact, and only have tiny little signs hiding the details of the floor
number on the upper levels because, you know, telling people how to
navigate your building looks makes it look like you can't do it entirely
intuitively, or gets lost behind the "art" of interior design...
Ahem. This is a list for /software/ rants, isn't it. Sorry.
Daniel
--
Copyright law is totally out of date. It is a Gutenburg artifact.
Since it is a reactive process, it will probably have to break
down completely before it is corrected.
-- Nicholas Negroponte, _Being Digital_, 1995
There's stuff above here
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