Kilograms are more often a unit of force than mass.
The SI unit of force is the Newton. Kilograms are often loosely used for weight in normal use. This is normally close enough to mass when shopping.
120 volts is neither the nominal peak nor average voltage at a power outlet.
In Europe we don't use 120, we use 220/240 (close enough not to matter) which I beleive is root mean square, like hi-fi power ratings.
Light-years and parsecs are not metric units, nor are barns and Angstroms.
How often are these used in daily life? And barns and Angstroms have been replaced by nanometers.
European weather reports don't give temperatures in Kelvin, the proper SI unit.
No, but I can always add 273 and that's close enough for the weather. The nice thing about metric is that calculations are much simpler - you don't need most of those stupid factors that keep cropping up with Imperial.
I do NOT have cold salt water when hiking.
If I, by some odd chance of LSD-induced packing, only had cold salt water and my mouth with me, I could just as easily make a C thermometer as a F one.
But you do have some form of temperature sensitive device to calibrate such as a tube partially filled with alcohol or mercury and a reservoir of same?
Why not carry a thermometer?
I have a relative who runs a chip* shop and I think he still buys wet fish in stones. I still feel a touch confused when he talks about 3 stone of cod.
* For non-UK (and probably Aus and NZ) readers chips are what the US knows as French/Freedom Fries only thicker, tastier, healthier and much nicer. Should be cooked in beef dripping ideally. (the beef dripping makes them less healthy but more tasty). NB what the US calls chips we call crisps because, well, they are.
Try reading this post this post.
The point to consider is that the MySQL code is incompatible enough with ANSI SQL to not be considered a subset of Oracle (or other full-feature rdbms). NB Oracle is not the only option...
No keystrokes are really intuitive, they all have to be learnt. Some English speakers may claim C-s means save, but why not C-w for write,C-b for backup or C-d for disk etc?
With the vi command, you have (w)rite, then (q)uit.
so what does the: mean? Not all commands have to have a colon, do they?
Why do you have to w(rite) rather than s(ave), and why do you have to q(uit), or is :wq not really the save command?
Standard keystrokes or standard icons, or both, are best as that way we only have to learn two ways to save things.
As stated elsewhere it's "Little Lost Robot", and it was by Asimov. I'm still in shock - my first thought was that it was a brave choice to cast Will Smith as Dr. Susan Calvin.
I'll think I'll give it a miss but I'll be surprised if they can resist having Smith be revealed as a robot at the end. But then I was disappointed at Ridley Scott and his assertion that Deckard was supposed to be a replicant. That's not how Ford remembers it either... how many other people prefer the original Blade Runner as I do?
OK, I'm no Perl guru but hopefully I'm learning, so why not use Tie::File? According to the docs the file size shouldn't affect the memory footprint, but it seems to in practice. Of course a faster HDD might speed things up...
It wasn't just early Americans. Until sometime in the 50s iirc if a book wasn't first published in the US then US law didn't recognise the copyright. It was quite a scandal in the UK in the late 19th & early 20th Centuries how US publishers pirated the best sellers.
Only a hundred or so years to go from not respecting copyright to the DMCA and perpetual copyright...
Here in the UK we have Radio 4, which is generally more intelligent and better informed than almost all TV - and usually very interesting.
Some of it is available on the World Service I believe - if you can get it on your car radio. At other times it's streamed on the net, and about a weeks archive is availble too. Current affairs, drama comedy, history, science, ethics...
Ahem, true BOFHdom is when 'they' are too scared of you to even think of firing you - they remember what happened to the last manager that tried... but his widow is doing alright now.
I'm with you really, but it's horse for courses:-) I also use something called FOCUS a fair bit, more than I'd like actually. It was originally billed as a 4GL back when it was trendy, you remember? Back before Ted Codd and his 12 rules became the next Big Thing. Before OOP, before Java/XP/ASP/.anything/whatever.
I used to call SQL SQuirreL because it drove me nuts:-) For a long time I was a mainframe guy, but with a lot of PC stuff on the side. In the mid '80s I converted a GWBasic program on a NewBrain (iirc) to C on a PC, - that was a pain. The only way I could get it running was effectively a line by line conversion of the original uncommented gosub ridden spaghetti and then rationalise and optimise the resultant mess of C code, but it did work and ended up almost reasonable. High level assembler may be meant as harsh but I used to hack 6502 assembler before I got paid to code, so C wasn't that bad.
I used 77 at uni as part of my physics degree. I may be weird but I actually liked Fortran. Some of the shine wore off when I encountered IBMs bastard version where the strings were all words - max length was 4 char so you had to use lots of them. I'm glad I didn't have to use it much.
Of course I also liked lisp and APL had a morbid fascination. I didn't even mind PL/1 but Cobol is an abomination. Now I use Java, Perl, Lisp, Rexx with an occasional side order of C. Oh, and <looks embarrased> Visual Basic </looks embarrased> and a few others that have slipped my memory.
Seriously if you don't like coding you need to find something else to do.
Came as standard with my P800, of course I checked the S/E website for later versions, but it worked oout of the box. Now I only need to boot into windows for games, syncing (pda and phone) and Autoroute...
I really must investigate if I can run any of these under WINE, but I don't do any of them that often.
Lower prices and increased dividends are all well and good if you have an income and can afford to buy goods and shares in the first place. When/if enough jobs are moved overseas there will be a reduced market in the US for the goods these companies supply. Then the companies will either have to move into new markets (e.g. India - which they are already doing) or cease trading. More market forces in action as some companies will put themselves out of business. Eventually the cheap labour pool in the US (or UK where this is happening also) will attract jobs outsourced from India, or China.
I wonder if this process will accelerate, as I suspect it will.
On the subject of courage and not being in the military there were numerous examples in the UK during WWI of Conscienscious Objectors* refusing to fight but becoming ambulance drivers or medical orderlies and going to the fromt lines. They wouldn't fight but they certainly weren't cowards. Quite a few were killed and several won awards for bravery under fire.
* They weren't really Conscientious Objectors in WWI, that term is ususally used to refer to those who refused conscription in WWII, there was no conscription in the UK in WWI. I'm really referring to pacifists who joined the Red Cross.
With a little work (not much) you can organize your windows start menu a la KDE. Just create subfolders under the Start Menu folder and move the shortcuts however you see fit. There's no real excuse for living with the mess that default installations leave you with.
When I use windows (work mostly) I use WinKey.
This lets you set up shortcuts using the windows key, e.g. I have WinKey+X set to open Excel, WinKey+Esc to open Emacs, Winkey+1,2,3 etc to open network shares and so on. You can also use Ctl, Alt, Shift as additional meta keys.
OK so I have a small cheat sheet taped to the monitors to remind me of the infrequently used combinations but I remember most of them.
I have NO icons on my windows desktop as I think it looks horrible, they're always covered by various app windows anyway - and it seems that people with dozens of icons spend ages looking for the one they want. Most of the time I'm not using the mouse so it makes me quicker getting work done.
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You can of course count to 1023 on your fingers if you use binary.
Kilograms are often loosely used for weight in normal use. This is normally close enough to mass when shopping. In Europe we don't use 120, we use 220/240 (close enough not to matter) which I beleive is root mean square, like hi-fi power ratings. How often are these used in daily life?
And barns and Angstroms have been replaced by nanometers. No, but I can always add 273 and that's close enough for the weather. The nice thing about metric is that calculations are much simpler - you don't need most of those stupid factors that keep cropping up with Imperial.
Why not carry a thermometer?
* For non-UK (and probably Aus and NZ) readers chips are what the US knows as French/Freedom Fries only thicker, tastier, healthier and much nicer. Should be cooked in beef dripping ideally. (the beef dripping makes them less healthy but more tasty).
NB what the US calls chips we call crisps because, well, they are.
No, you only experience g forces (NB small g, big G is the Gravitational constant) when you either
A) undergo acceleration,or
B) experience gravitational attraction.
Of course without an external reference you can't tell which of those it is either.
Ignoring gravity if you're pulling g you're being accelerated, and yes the scalar component of the acceleration may be negative.
Try reading this post this post.
The point to consider is that the MySQL code is incompatible enough with ANSI SQL to not be considered a subset of Oracle (or other full-feature rdbms). NB Oracle is not the only option...
No keystrokes are really intuitive, they all have to be learnt. Some English speakers may claim C-s means save, but why not C-w for write,C-b for backup or C-d for disk etc?
so what does theWhy do you have to w(rite) rather than s(ave), and why do you have to q(uit), or is
Standard keystrokes or standard icons, or both, are best as that way we only have to learn two ways to save things.
C-x,C-s is far more intuitive than :wq... :-)
Surely?
I'm still in shock - my first thought was that it was a brave choice to cast Will Smith as Dr. Susan Calvin.
I'll think I'll give it a miss but I'll be surprised if they can resist having Smith be revealed as a robot at the end.
But then I was disappointed at Ridley Scott and his assertion that Deckard was supposed to be a replicant. That's not how Ford remembers it either... how many other people prefer the original Blade Runner as I do?
OK, I'm no Perl guru but hopefully I'm learning, so why not use Tie::File? According to the docs the file size shouldn't affect the memory footprint, but it seems to in practice. Of course a faster HDD might speed things up...
And how much will they (MS?) charge for managing this?
Only a hundred or so years to go from not respecting copyright to the DMCA and perpetual copyright...
Here in the UK we have Radio 4, which is generally more intelligent and better informed than almost all TV - and usually very interesting.
Some of it is available on the World Service I believe - if you can get it on your car radio. At other times it's streamed on the net, and about a weeks archive is availble too. Current affairs, drama comedy, history, science, ethics...
Ahem, true BOFHdom is when 'they' are too scared of you to even think of firing you - they remember what happened to the last manager that tried... but his widow is doing alright now.
I also use something called FOCUS a fair bit, more than I'd like actually. It was originally billed as a 4GL back when it was trendy, you remember? Back before Ted Codd and his 12 rules became the next Big Thing. Before OOP, before Java/XP/ASP/.anything/whatever.
Don't you just love the Fashion^WIT business?
I used to call SQL SQuirreL because it drove me nuts :-)
For a long time I was a mainframe guy, but with a lot of PC stuff on the side. In the mid '80s I converted a GWBasic program on a NewBrain (iirc) to C on a PC, - that was a pain. The only way I could get it running was effectively a line by line conversion of the original uncommented gosub ridden spaghetti and then rationalise and optimise the resultant mess of C code, but it did work and ended up almost reasonable. High level assembler may be meant as harsh but I used to hack 6502 assembler before I got paid to code, so C wasn't that bad.
I may be weird but I actually liked Fortran. Some of the shine wore off when I encountered IBMs bastard version where the strings were all words - max length was 4 char so you had to use lots of them. I'm glad I didn't have to use it much.
Of course I also liked lisp and APL had a morbid fascination. I didn't even mind PL/1 but Cobol is an abomination. Now I use Java, Perl, Lisp, Rexx with an occasional side order of C. Oh, and <looks embarrased> Visual Basic </looks embarrased> and a few others that have slipped my memory.
Seriously if you don't like coding you need to find something else to do.
No problem, just post your telephone number here and I'm sure it'll be tested...
Now I only need to boot into windows for games, syncing (pda and phone) and Autoroute...
I really must investigate if I can run any of these under WINE, but I don't do any of them that often.
I wonder if this process will accelerate, as I suspect it will.
* They weren't really Conscientious Objectors in WWI, that term is ususally used to refer to those who refused conscription in WWII, there was no conscription in the UK in WWI. I'm really referring to pacifists who joined the Red Cross.
With a little work (not much) you can organize your windows start menu a la KDE. Just create subfolders under the Start Menu folder and move the shortcuts however you see fit. There's no real excuse for living with the mess that default installations leave you with.
OK so I have a small cheat sheet taped to the monitors to remind me of the infrequently used combinations but I remember most of them.
I have NO icons on my windows desktop as I think it looks horrible, they're always covered by various app windows anyway - and it seems that people with dozens of icons spend ages looking for the one they want. Most of the time I'm not using the mouse so it makes me quicker getting work done.
Why does this make Python superior to Perl?
This is one of the things I like about Perl.