Metric is better whn you are steeping out side becasue you cna easily do the math to make conversion of wind shill.
" why many meteorologists are including a "feel" scale"
no, the include a feel scale to try to stay relevant and excuse there high paychecks by trying to be friendly; when in reality there isn't really a need for one on the vast majority of news shows.
No one who lie in an area for more then a year needs a 'feels' indicator'.
IT's not about good and useful it's about getting better. Metric is better becasue its cheaper, easier, and a standard.
Stone knives and bear skin cloths were good and useful.
Nice upvote for completely ignoring the meat of my argument.
Making things easier to calculate only makes them easier to calculate, not better and a base 10 doesn't always make calculating easier. This is especially true when talking about temperature, because Fahrenheit allows for a higher degree of accuracy without including a decimal place.
Good arguments have been made here that converting to metric has actually increased costs.
Standards are nice, but not necessarily useful in to or applicable to daily life.
Newer does not make something better, and age does not make something obsolete. Animal hides (cow, sheep, alligator, bear and more) are still used extensively today, particularly in clothing, because it's still relevant and useful. Knives made from obsidian (a stone) are highly prized and are even used today in certain kinds of delicate surgery. So animal skins and stone knives ARE, not were, useful.
Furthermore, Fahrenheit was developed in 1724, and Celcius was developed in 1743. Relatively speaking, they're the same age.
It was just to prove that the point the parent poster made (0 F is friggin' cold, and my body temperature hovers around 100 F) are as arbitrary as any other point on the temperatur scale by pointing out two other points on the temperature scale that make as much sense.
There is nothing in the Fahrenheit scale which is inherently better than the Celsius one. And the only reason we use Celsius in our daily lives and not Kelvin is that it's nice to have something which includes 0 at a point that is relevant to our daily lives - while still being totally arbitrary, the triple point of water is important for the carbon based live all of us have.
This assertion always drives me nuts. Let's talk about comfort. If you set your air conditioner to a comfortable temperature, what do you set it at? Probably different temperatures in the winter and summer. For me in the winter, 22c feels too cold when i'm not active but 23c feels too hot and I can't set my thermostat at a more comfortable 22.5 degrees. Fahrenheit has a finer scale where it matters to the human body, so I have about three steps in Fahrenheit to your 1 step in Celsius and this is pretty huge because the human body can easily sense a temperature change of 1 degree Fahrenheit. So there is good reason for the 0-degrees-is-dangerously-cold and 100-degrees-is-dangerously-hot scale.
Yes, the Celsius scale is good and useful. But the same is true for Fahrenheit. And neither are very useful when you step outside because there are a huge number of variables like wind, humidity, and air pressure that make the same temperature feel colder or hotter which is why many meteorologists are including a "feel" scale like wind chill and heat index to relate that information to the public.
I had to equip my shop, and among other things picked up a set of socket wrenches, in both SAE and metric sizes. One thing I noticed, though, was that the socket drives were all in English measurements (1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 3/4") and that there were no metric-drive sets around anywhere. Just curious, are there any metric drive standards in Europe, and why haven't they found their way to the US? I'd expect at least some metric size sets from China to sneak in...
And with that, you've hit the reason for the lack of complete conversion in almost any country that uses the metric system. France, the leader of the metric revolution, still produces wine in "standard" bottles which are 750ml rather than a liter. Japan still measures (and taxes) land size, room size, and many other things with traditional measurements. England uses a baffling conglomeration of metric and imperial units (pints at the bar, miles on the motorway, litre at the petrol stand).
The reach of an industry (in terms of breadth and duration) affects the feasibility of conversion. So do other things like tradition, public safety, entrenched standards, and money, all of which are often more important than some idealistic notion of the metric system's A Good Thing (tm). That's why, if you think about it, you'll find that traditional measurements often trump metric measurements in certain areas in all countries. Yes, the metric system has benefits but it's also not without problems as many people here have already pointed out. Sometimes traditional measurements are simply better, but the reality is that sometimes there's really no reason to switch to metric in some industries.
In case you're curious, socket drives in Japan are also sold in inch drive sizes.
Essentially, you and every other car on the road takes up the space of 4 people. Other cars (the ones next to you and the ones in the opposing lane) are keeping you from going around the bicycle, not the bicycle.
As to the airlifting, you're more likely to get airlifted as a result of an auto collision than a bicycle collision.
For example in this study did they consider the food usage of someone sitting on a bus or driving a car in their study - I would guess not.
From TFA
There's been a lot of hemming and hawing about how biking or walking might not be so eco-friendly because your body burns more calories during those activities than while driving. But, frankly, that's bunk: As the Pacific Institute has shown, you'd have to be eating an all-beef diet to offset the environmental benefits of walking or bicycling. Given a "typical U.S. diet," you would have to ride your bike instead of driving for around 400 miles to cover the bike's initial carbon footprint.
It seems to me that this would preclude the use of massive windmills (i.e., flywheels), such as the one on the craft. Later, the rules specifically prohibit flywheels:
Secondly, the "windmills" are indeed sails which are (considering the total weight of the vehicle) fairly lightweight and have trivial kinetic mass (ie. not massive). Also relevant is that for a flywheel to be efficient, the mass should be as far from the axle as possible.
So in this case no, rotating sails =/= flywheels and the spinning mass of the sails is a "trivial force", especially considering the weight of the vehicle against the weight of a driver, since the driver would most likely counteract any intentionally or unintentionally placed flywheel of a mass relative to the total weight of the vehicle.
Watch the video again. Clearly there is MORE contrast between the background and the black guy than with the white woman because the background in that video is the light colored ceiling
It's not about contrast between the face and the background. Its about contrast within the face itself. The facial recognition feature is programmed to triangulate differences in contrast on the face itself. This way, the software can tell the difference between a face and something else that just happens to be around or near the camera.
You can't create more contrast on a dark face. So unfortunately, this means that the software cannot recognize a dark skinned face from something that just happens to be around or near the camera.
But, TFA indicates that the difference in games were found when switching from XP to Ubuntu, not from Vista to Ubuntu. So, really it doesn't matter if Vista games are different or even better than Ubuntu.
IF that's not a cultural predisposition to imported goods, then what is?
I can't believe you got modded up for this. You're putting humans on the same value level as a purchasable object? Please. Wanting, or not wanting our stuff has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not they want or don't want us personally.
Seriously, I just don't get it. It's like they're adding pixel count because they can without stopping to consider whether they should.... Above about 3 MP, a cell camera makes no sense given the lens size, quality, and mounting tolerances. Maybe 5 MP. Maybe.
Actually, the phone I was referencing was mostly a camera, and only partly a phone. It had great optical zoom, and a good sized lens. It was as good if not better than many dedicated pocket digital cameras. A bit bulky, but worth it because you don't have to carry around a phone AND a camera.
LOL! yeah i know watching TV in ur phone is pretty sweet but if u want to update ur phone u will have to replace it with a new one! get new apps on those phones ITS IMPOSIBLE!! I left japan in Oct 14/08 but seriously! those phones are outdated everymonth so its like using toilet paper for 300bucks. tell me the best cellphone its out there and put it vs the iphone. will do hardware and software fight. i can control my fucking pc by using my IPHONE vnc from the other side of the earth!!! IM SORRRRY that U dont own a iphone u would now what im talking about.
I have plenty of addon apps for my phone. Including an ssh shell where I can indeed get CLI access to my home server, I can also pull up my music server, and play my music. I don't use it often, because it's a pain to enter commands, but in emergencies, it's been handy. There's even a java development kit available for it, which means that if I knew Java (I don't), I could write, and upload, whatever program I wanted.
I suppose you could call it "IMPOSSIBLE!!" if you can't read Japanese, so perhaps you didn't know about addon apps for your phone because you couldn't navigate the docomo imode site and find them? I only ask because you're making claims that are just false.
It's also buggy as hell (as all Japanese phones are), but I suppose if 3 inches of Japanese TV gives you a woody, get a plane ticket, man.
Don't know where you get that information from. I haven't had a single problem with mine. Early firmware was buggy, but that was two years ago for the P905i. Mine is rock solid, takes great pictures, and has a great music player.
Really, the only thing that got me was that the thing couldn't play mp3's. Only plays wma. Everything else was a slam dunk. It even interfaces tolerably well with my Linux machines.
It's all relative and relative to the US market the iPhone is not a piece of crap. It's great to talk about the Japanese market, the cool gadgets, and how much better they are. But guess what? If we can't get/use them here it's irrelevant.
It's perfectly relevant to TFA, which is discussing why the iPhone can't make it in Japan.
In Japan, there were already touch screen phones, and phones with full web browsers built in long before the iPhone was even announced. What you have on the iPhone now is about where Japan was around 4 or 5 years ago. The P905i mentioned in TFA was on the market in 2007 when Steve was making his iPhone keynote.
How long ago did you live in Japan... 10... 15 years ago?
The P905i is already outdated. I've had mine for over a year now. Lots of the phones they have now make the P905i look like ancient tech. Motion sensors which rotate the clock display so it stays upright as you turn the phone 10Mpx cameras with touch screens for selecting your photo subject. 4 inch tv screens with multimedia capability that would make your head spin. You can record your favorite TV show while you're at work, bring your phone home, plug it into your TV and watch the show on the big screen. Complete webkit stack (Yes, that means you can become a walking web server).
Seriously, you're iPhone sucks compared to what's out now.
I was able to terminate my 2 year contract (after one year) with Sprint for no charge. I just told them I was moving out of their service area. I assume this technique would work with other carriers (landline included) as well. This was about 4 years ago though... YMMV.
Does anyone have more information about this? I don't live in Verizon territory, so I don't have first-hand experience. Presumably the username/password in question is for PPPOE, but I would expect them to simply tell you what it is, then have you type that into their Windows-only config program, not the other way around.
TFS: Some (not all) Verizon PPPoE internet setups use a DirectX script to "assist" the user with modem setup. All queries to 192.168.1.1 are redirected to the DirectX setup. If you do not have DirectX, you are given a page that says your OS is not supported. To bypass this problem, you must disable the 192.168.1.1 redirect in Firefox before you can access the modem configuration page.
I was horrified when I went to Japan recently and had to let them take my fingerprints and a picture. I was even more horrified when I complained to my Japanese friends and they let me know that America has the same practice.
I think this program is security theater more than anything else but our entry/exit requirements still aren't that onerous compared to other countries I can think of.
Of all the countries (a lot) I've been in and out of, the U.S. has recently become the most troublesome. And, I carry a U.S. passport. I can't even imagine how difficult it is for non-U.S. citizens. It's embarrassing.
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Metric is better whn you are steeping out side becasue you cna easily do the math to make conversion of wind shill.
" why many meteorologists are including a "feel" scale" no, the include a feel scale to try to stay relevant and excuse there high paychecks by trying to be friendly; when in reality there isn't really a need for one on the vast majority of news shows.
No one who lie in an area for more then a year needs a 'feels' indicator'.
IT's not about good and useful it's about getting better. Metric is better becasue its cheaper, easier, and a standard. Stone knives and bear skin cloths were good and useful.
Nice upvote for completely ignoring the meat of my argument.
Making things easier to calculate only makes them easier to calculate, not better and a base 10 doesn't always make calculating easier. This is especially true when talking about temperature, because Fahrenheit allows for a higher degree of accuracy without including a decimal place.
Good arguments have been made here that converting to metric has actually increased costs.
Standards are nice, but not necessarily useful in to or applicable to daily life.
Newer does not make something better, and age does not make something obsolete. Animal hides (cow, sheep, alligator, bear and more) are still used extensively today, particularly in clothing, because it's still relevant and useful. Knives made from obsidian (a stone) are highly prized and are even used today in certain kinds of delicate surgery. So animal skins and stone knives ARE, not were, useful.
Furthermore, Fahrenheit was developed in 1724, and Celcius was developed in 1743. Relatively speaking, they're the same age.
It was just to prove that the point the parent poster made (0 F is friggin' cold, and my body temperature hovers around 100 F) are as arbitrary as any other point on the temperatur scale by pointing out two other points on the temperature scale that make as much sense. There is nothing in the Fahrenheit scale which is inherently better than the Celsius one. And the only reason we use Celsius in our daily lives and not Kelvin is that it's nice to have something which includes 0 at a point that is relevant to our daily lives - while still being totally arbitrary, the triple point of water is important for the carbon based live all of us have.
This assertion always drives me nuts. Let's talk about comfort. If you set your air conditioner to a comfortable temperature, what do you set it at? Probably different temperatures in the winter and summer. For me in the winter, 22c feels too cold when i'm not active but 23c feels too hot and I can't set my thermostat at a more comfortable 22.5 degrees. Fahrenheit has a finer scale where it matters to the human body, so I have about three steps in Fahrenheit to your 1 step in Celsius and this is pretty huge because the human body can easily sense a temperature change of 1 degree Fahrenheit. So there is good reason for the 0-degrees-is-dangerously-cold and 100-degrees-is-dangerously-hot scale.
Yes, the Celsius scale is good and useful. But the same is true for Fahrenheit. And neither are very useful when you step outside because there are a huge number of variables like wind, humidity, and air pressure that make the same temperature feel colder or hotter which is why many meteorologists are including a "feel" scale like wind chill and heat index to relate that information to the public.
I had to equip my shop, and among other things picked up a set of socket wrenches, in both SAE and metric sizes. One thing I noticed, though, was that the socket drives were all in English measurements (1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 3/4") and that there were no metric-drive sets around anywhere. Just curious, are there any metric drive standards in Europe, and why haven't they found their way to the US? I'd expect at least some metric size sets from China to sneak in...
And with that, you've hit the reason for the lack of complete conversion in almost any country that uses the metric system. France, the leader of the metric revolution, still produces wine in "standard" bottles which are 750ml rather than a liter. Japan still measures (and taxes) land size, room size, and many other things with traditional measurements. England uses a baffling conglomeration of metric and imperial units (pints at the bar, miles on the motorway, litre at the petrol stand).
The reach of an industry (in terms of breadth and duration) affects the feasibility of conversion. So do other things like tradition, public safety, entrenched standards, and money, all of which are often more important than some idealistic notion of the metric system's A Good Thing (tm). That's why, if you think about it, you'll find that traditional measurements often trump metric measurements in certain areas in all countries. Yes, the metric system has benefits but it's also not without problems as many people here have already pointed out. Sometimes traditional measurements are simply better, but the reality is that sometimes there's really no reason to switch to metric in some industries.
In case you're curious, socket drives in Japan are also sold in inch drive sizes.
That was already addressed way back here: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2379032&cid=37088242
Essentially, you and every other car on the road takes up the space of 4 people. Other cars (the ones next to you and the ones in the opposing lane) are keeping you from going around the bicycle, not the bicycle.
As to the airlifting, you're more likely to get airlifted as a result of an auto collision than a bicycle collision.
For example in this study did they consider the food usage of someone sitting on a bus or driving a car in their study - I would guess not.
From TFA
There's been a lot of hemming and hawing about how biking or walking might not be so eco-friendly because your body burns more calories during those activities than while driving. But, frankly, that's bunk: As the Pacific Institute has shown, you'd have to be eating an all-beef diet to offset the environmental benefits of walking or bicycling. Given a "typical U.S. diet," you would have to ride your bike instead of driving for around 400 miles to cover the bike's initial carbon footprint.
Right. Because running a cable will work perfectly well for "iPods/iPads, Android tablets, and a variety of Wi-Fi enabled cell phones".
It seems to me that this would preclude the use of massive windmills (i.e., flywheels), such as the one on the craft. Later, the rules specifically prohibit flywheels:
First, the total weight of the vehicle is only 450 pounds (204 kg).
Secondly, the "windmills" are indeed sails which are (considering the total weight of the vehicle) fairly lightweight and have trivial kinetic mass (ie. not massive). Also relevant is that for a flywheel to be efficient, the mass should be as far from the axle as possible.
So in this case no, rotating sails =/= flywheels and the spinning mass of the sails is a "trivial force", especially considering the weight of the vehicle against the weight of a driver, since the driver would most likely counteract any intentionally or unintentionally placed flywheel of a mass relative to the total weight of the vehicle.
Yeah. Obviously you only find brown color schemes in old outdated videos, because back then the more modern primary colors hadn't been invented yet.
It's not about contrast between the face and the background. Its about contrast within the face itself. The facial recognition feature is programmed to triangulate differences in contrast on the face itself. This way, the software can tell the difference between a face and something else that just happens to be around or near the camera.
You can't create more contrast on a dark face. So unfortunately, this means that the software cannot recognize a dark skinned face from something that just happens to be around or near the camera.
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/product/foma/prime/n06a/index.html
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/product/foma/prime/f09a/spec.html
Actually, almost any phone here
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/product/foma/prime/index.html
But, TFA indicates that the difference in games were found when switching from XP to Ubuntu, not from Vista to Ubuntu. So, really it doesn't matter if Vista games are different or even better than Ubuntu.
I miss pinball too.
I can't believe you got modded up for this. You're putting humans on the same value level as a purchasable object? Please. Wanting, or not wanting our stuff has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not they want or don't want us personally.
Actually, the phone I was referencing was mostly a camera, and only partly a phone. It had great optical zoom, and a good sized lens. It was as good if not better than many dedicated pocket digital cameras. A bit bulky, but worth it because you don't have to carry around a phone AND a camera.
I have plenty of addon apps for my phone. Including an ssh shell where I can indeed get CLI access to my home server, I can also pull up my music server, and play my music. I don't use it often, because it's a pain to enter commands, but in emergencies, it's been handy. There's even a java development kit available for it, which means that if I knew Java (I don't), I could write, and upload, whatever program I wanted.
I suppose you could call it "IMPOSSIBLE!!" if you can't read Japanese, so perhaps you didn't know about addon apps for your phone because you couldn't navigate the docomo imode site and find them? I only ask because you're making claims that are just false.
Don't know where you get that information from. I haven't had a single problem with mine. Early firmware was buggy, but that was two years ago for the P905i. Mine is rock solid, takes great pictures, and has a great music player.
Really, the only thing that got me was that the thing couldn't play mp3's. Only plays wma. Everything else was a slam dunk. It even interfaces tolerably well with my Linux machines.
It's perfectly relevant to TFA, which is discussing why the iPhone can't make it in Japan.
In Japan, there were already touch screen phones, and phones with full web browsers built in long before the iPhone was even announced. What you have on the iPhone now is about where Japan was around 4 or 5 years ago. The P905i mentioned in TFA was on the market in 2007 when Steve was making his iPhone keynote.
How long ago did you live in Japan ... 10 ... 15 years ago?
The P905i is already outdated. I've had mine for over a year now. Lots of the phones they have now make the P905i look like ancient tech. Motion sensors which rotate the clock display so it stays upright as you turn the phone 10Mpx cameras with touch screens for selecting your photo subject. 4 inch tv screens with multimedia capability that would make your head spin. You can record your favorite TV show while you're at work, bring your phone home, plug it into your TV and watch the show on the big screen. Complete webkit stack (Yes, that means you can become a walking web server).
Seriously, you're iPhone sucks compared to what's out now.
Isn't that what reference letters and a reference list is for?
Seriously, it's not like the internet invented corporate networking.
And if the voltage at the mains does change, so what? It's not like power can't be generated at whatever voltage is required.
I was able to terminate my 2 year contract (after one year) with Sprint for no charge. I just told them I was moving out of their service area. I assume this technique would work with other carriers (landline included) as well. This was about 4 years ago though ... YMMV.
Sorry, DirectX -> ActiveX
More info about the ActiveX component here: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r20521695-DSL-Activation-Crapinstallation-without-user-permission
Here is a detailed explanation of the problem: http://www.humans-enabled.com/2007/06/verizon-dsl-doesnt-support-linux.html
TFS: Some (not all) Verizon PPPoE internet setups use a DirectX script to "assist" the user with modem setup. All queries to 192.168.1.1 are redirected to the DirectX setup. If you do not have DirectX, you are given a page that says your OS is not supported. To bypass this problem, you must disable the 192.168.1.1 redirect in Firefox before you can access the modem configuration page.
You have your friendly neighborhood DHS to thank for that one: http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/e/info/tinfo-customs.html
Of all the countries (a lot) I've been in and out of, the U.S. has recently become the most troublesome. And, I carry a U.S. passport. I can't even imagine how difficult it is for non-U.S. citizens. It's embarrassing.