Walter wrote:
> "Roberto Mariottini" <Roberto_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
> news:cvul5o$250v$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>In article <cvmsiv$bel$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>>But I still can't remember which is on or off, "O" or "|". I suppose it's
>>>fair, though, because now everyone is equally confused.
>>
>>So you agree it should be "false " and "true"? :-)
> 
> 
> LOL. I checked, and "O" means "on" and "|" means "off". So if you think of
> it as looking like zero or one, it's backwards. What moron ever came up with
> that?
> 
> 

Darn it!  And I thought I knew the answer to that one.  I was sure 1 meant "on" and 0 meant "off," just like the binary digits.  So much for that!

- JJR

Walter wrote:

> LOL. I checked, and "O" means "on" and "|" means "off". So if you think of
> it as looking like zero or one, it's backwards. What moron ever came up with
> that?

Somehow, it just gotta be Marketing... :-)

--ander

I would guess that the circle represents a complete/closed circuit for on, while the bar is for incomplete/open, ie off.

Though I must admit that prior to reading this thread I thought it was like binary, hence the other way around.

Alix...

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Walter wrote:
> 
>> LOL. I checked, and "O" means "on" and "|" means "off". So if you think of
>> it as looking like zero or one, it's backwards. What moron ever came up with
>> that?
> 
> 
> Somehow, it just gotta be Marketing... :-)
> 
> --ander

"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in news:cvvuap$he3$1@digitaldaemon.com:

> 
> "Roberto Mariottini" <Roberto_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cvul5o$250v$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> In article <cvmsiv$bel$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>> >
>> [...]
>> >
>> >But I still can't remember which is on or off, "O" or "|". I suppose it's fair, though, because now everyone is equally confused.
>>
>> So you agree it should be "false " and "true"? :-)
> 
> LOL. I checked, and "O" means "on" and "|" means "off". So if you think of it as looking like zero or one, it's backwards. What moron ever came up with that?
> 
> 

So far has this topic traveled, it can no longer tell which direction is home. LOL, I agree with Anders, it just has to be marketing. Many useful products have been brought to their knee's by greedy marketing grad's.

In article <cvvuap$he3$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>
>
> I checked, and "O" means "on" and "|" means "off". So if you think of
>it as looking like zero or one, it's backwards. What moron ever came up with that?

I can't believe. Here (in Italy, Europe) the "O" means "zero", "nothing" (and is
generally red), while "I" (written like an uppercase i) means "one", "something"
(and is generally green). Moreover, electric power switches are normally put in
a way that pulling up switches it on and pushing down switches it off.

Ciao

Roberto Mariottini wrote:
> In article <cvvuap$he3$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
> 
>>
>>I checked, and "O" means "on" and "|" means "off". So if you think of
>>it as looking like zero or one, it's backwards. What moron ever came up with
>>that?
> 
> 
> I can't believe. Here (in Italy, Europe) the "O" means "zero", "nothing" (and is
> generally red), while "I" (written like an uppercase i) means "one", "something"
> (and is generally green). Moreover, electric power switches are normally put in
> a way that pulling up switches it on and pushing down switches it off.
> 
> Ciao
> 
> 

I live in the US, and I've only ever seen ones where the 0 Means off and the 1 means on...
Though most stuff I have anymore just has a single button for both that you push to toggle between the two.

-- 
-PIB

--
"C++ also supports the notion of *friends*: cooperative classes that
are permitted to see each other's private parts." - Grady Booch

John Reimer wrote:

> Darn it!  And I thought I knew the answer to that one.  I was sure 1 meant "on" and 0 meant "off," just like the binary digits.  So much for that!
> 
> - JJR


If you think that's bad...

I have a lamp that has O for off, I for high power, and II for low power.


What I love is when my mind used to tell itself "It's exactly opposite to what you think it is", and then I took turns with what I thought it was.

-Jared