Nomenclature (Please post on MxO forums for me.)

[Anonymous]

If anyone could post and credit this for me in the UI focus group on the Nomenclature thread, I would appreciate it immensely. Also, replying to it here and starting a debate would be wonderful, too.


"I concur with rovman.net. Information would be a great name for ingame currency, but I can't envision information quantitatively, unless it's the means to make information.

Here's how I see it:
1 unit of information would be similar to a bit. This is quantitative. You have a bunch of ones and zeros, and you can do stuff with it, like upgrade abilities. To upgrade a level one ability, it's 800 information, right? So, this translates to 800 bits. 800b, or 80B (the case representing whether it's bits or Bytes). You're spending 800 bits of coding to clean up your ability code, removing spaghetti code and streamlining how it interacts with the Matrix. You're adding lines to provide room for error in certain instances. You're adding lines to increase your brain's acceptance of what's happening.

This is valued... why? Anyone can write code!
Actually, the Matrix holds all the bits, you can't create them; that would break the status quo. You can only rearrange them to serve your function instead of something else's.

If not this, then I can't see what one unit of information represents. Each unit would be different: "Mary has red hair." "John wears mis-matched sock." "Adams Street has a bridge over it." You can't give someone the same bit of information twice, because they already know it. It's not worth anything to them. There's not value. A monetary system is based on society's acceptance that the unit has value, whether it be dollars, yen, stocks, or bread."

[Ketamininja]

So, this translates to 800 bits. 800b, or 80B (the case representing whether it's bits or Bytes).

- 8 bits in a byte,
- 800 bits = 100Bytes

I know i know...

[Anonymous]

Yes, I know, too. However, this will undoubtedly confuse newbies, so rovman.net proposed we Dewey Decimal it.

EDIT: Actually, no. Not all bytes are 8 bits.

[Ketamininja]