holy shit dude, I had to deal with half cms in two of your cases!
One of the reasons things around you at present measure conveniently in feet is because those things have currently been designed in feet. Designing in cm, mm, m, whatever, things will conveniently measure in those. The metric system offers some more granularity than the imperial system does - it's not just for being able to multiply or divide by 10 to know the "next unit down".
That's crap - why is the fractional representation inclined towards arbitrary amounts at each order of magnitude? why are there 12 inches to a foot, but 3 feet to a yard, and 1760 yards to a mile?
I don't know enough about the other units to argue, but that right there is infuriating enough. SI units have an internal consistency that makes sense to me, and to 95% of the world's population.
We asked for a Smart Pres. and maybe we got one for once. He has FOUR years to get through, so he had to buy time not to get the famous Opposite Party Squash.
...
It's the SECOND term and in years 2-3 a Pres can go for broke.
Is it just me or does that scream "broken political system"? The guy at the top of the executive has to go 6 years before he can get anything done?
Now that somebody has done the dirty work to prove that this method of crowd-sourcing maps can work,
Mapmaker has been available outside the US in countries with more limited map data for years now - I worked on mapping parts of semi-rural India. The tools on OSM are good, better than Google's in many ways, but Google Maps does have a certain weight of presence. If putting in a minor update here or there helps people who use Google Maps by default (e.g., Android Navigation users), what is wrong with that?
Yeah, and then the US fought with the Spanish, won and took Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam, implementing free and equal democr-... no, wait...
Protesting against colonial masters wasn't the only form of pushing for democracy - the Swiss had their own federalist system, for instance, and there were others (the countries mentioned there might be small now, but at the time America wasn't anything huge.
Replacing a monarchy with a democracy wasn't a uniquely American idea, and while I'll concede that America is probably the oldest continuous democracy on a relevant scale, it certainly wasn't near today's ideal of universal suffrage for a long time. The French Revolution was more democratic, giving all men the vote without a qualification to own property - it didn't last, but that doesn't mean it didn't put the idea out there. The English House of Lords waxed and waned in power - I don't know why you think it is still made a mockery of, or at least any more so than your broken political model of a Senate.
Arguing that America was a shining beacon leading democracy around the world is disingenuous when it subsequently took almost 150 years after America's democratic government was established with the constitution before the majority of colonial possessions broke free.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or...well, you know the Americans weren't the first, right? And American-style democracy is hardly the only model in active use, let alone the one used in the majority of democracies? Or are you suggesting that without the American democratic model, the colonial powers wouldn't have given up their overseas possessions?
That's roughly how it's done in Australia, in OCR-readable format, and we do a census every 5 years. Someone comes to collect the form after "census night", but that's about it.
I can imagine it being cleverly implemented in something like LLVM, but that really says to me that you need to better define the boundaries in your program/algorithm. What's the use-case for write-to-copy beyond the abstract example above?
Because there's only so many hours in the school year and you have to teach everyone from the bottom of the heap to the top along the same lines. Speak to a teacher in a private setting to get an idea of the challenges they face just getting through the muddled curriculum they do have, let alone trying to teach students to both think of maths mentally and to learn how to use a program which would have no relevance in their exams.
It's not like there's "one true keyboard" when it comes to function keys. The caps lock can migrate over to the print screen/scroll lock/pause-break block of keys, finally four keys wide to line up with function keys and the num pad. It doesn't have to live right next to the A key on the home row any more.
Even if you weren't travelling or conducting business in Britain itself, 1869 was pretty damn close to the height of the British empire, and you would certainly be conducting trade with them. London was a centre of finance with greater weight in global commerce than even New York today, so it's not surprising to find an interest calculation in pounds.
Automation and specialisation does have an effect - in 1940, we had production lines where the workers put everything together. Now, we have specialised bots and specifically crafted moulds and presses that put many of the parts - re-engineering for materiel would take a longer "spool up" time, though I imagine once that's done it can turn around plenty quick.
(in any case, America's not half so badly off as some of the other countries which have nearly completely outsourced manufacturing - you think it's bad in the US, have a look around here in Australia.)
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You mean to say you don't even have a grasp of basic arithmetic? Let's see with a 30cm=1 ft. approximation:
1/2 = 15cm
1/3 = 10cm
1/4 = 7.5cm
1/6 = 5cm
1/12 = 2.5cm
1/5 = 6cm
1/10 = 3cm
holy shit dude, I had to deal with half cms in two of your cases!
One of the reasons things around you at present measure conveniently in feet is because those things have currently been designed in feet. Designing in cm, mm, m, whatever, things will conveniently measure in those. The metric system offers some more granularity than the imperial system does - it's not just for being able to multiply or divide by 10 to know the "next unit down".
Newtons are a derived unit - the SI Base unit for mass is still grams (i.e. kg on a usable scale).
That's crap - why is the fractional representation inclined towards arbitrary amounts at each order of magnitude? why are there 12 inches to a foot, but 3 feet to a yard, and 1760 yards to a mile?
I don't know enough about the other units to argue, but that right there is infuriating enough. SI units have an internal consistency that makes sense to me, and to 95% of the world's population.
We asked for a Smart Pres. and maybe we got one for once. He has FOUR years to get through, so he had to buy time not to get the famous Opposite Party Squash.
It's the SECOND term and in years 2-3 a Pres can go for broke.
Is it just me or does that scream "broken political system"? The guy at the top of the executive has to go 6 years before he can get anything done?
Pity the rest of their software sucks, but at least the maps are good.
You know, if you wanted that, there's these things on the market called "GPS Navigators"...
Now that somebody has done the dirty work to prove that this method of crowd-sourcing maps can work,
Mapmaker has been available outside the US in countries with more limited map data for years now - I worked on mapping parts of semi-rural India. The tools on OSM are good, better than Google's in many ways, but Google Maps does have a certain weight of presence. If putting in a minor update here or there helps people who use Google Maps by default (e.g., Android Navigation users), what is wrong with that?
Yeah, and then the US fought with the Spanish, won and took Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam, implementing free and equal democr-... no, wait...
Protesting against colonial masters wasn't the only form of pushing for democracy - the Swiss had their own federalist system, for instance, and there were others (the countries mentioned there might be small now, but at the time America wasn't anything huge.
Replacing a monarchy with a democracy wasn't a uniquely American idea, and while I'll concede that America is probably the oldest continuous democracy on a relevant scale, it certainly wasn't near today's ideal of universal suffrage for a long time. The French Revolution was more democratic, giving all men the vote without a qualification to own property - it didn't last, but that doesn't mean it didn't put the idea out there. The English House of Lords waxed and waned in power - I don't know why you think it is still made a mockery of, or at least any more so than your broken political model of a Senate.
Arguing that America was a shining beacon leading democracy around the world is disingenuous when it subsequently took almost 150 years after America's democratic government was established with the constitution before the majority of colonial possessions broke free.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or...well, you know the Americans weren't the first, right? And American-style democracy is hardly the only model in active use, let alone the one used in the majority of democracies? Or are you suggesting that without the American democratic model, the colonial powers wouldn't have given up their overseas possessions?
Goatse
(dude, seriously, you tried it like 3 posts prior as haxor32)
Yeah, that's what tends to happen when you get there first. It's not like they were going to reserve addresses on a per-capita basis.
That's roughly how it's done in Australia, in OCR-readable format, and we do a census every 5 years. Someone comes to collect the form after "census night", but that's about it.
I can imagine it being cleverly implemented in something like LLVM, but that really says to me that you need to better define the boundaries in your program/algorithm. What's the use-case for write-to-copy beyond the abstract example above?
You're not always comparing with a constant; far safer is to wrap the variables with accessor methods, so you get a break if you try
if (objectA.getX() = objectB.getX())
It might be a bit more effort to type up, but it catches a bunch of easy gotchas.
I think people are gonna object to being sold "greens" which are entirely black. Aesthetics matter just a teensy bit when it comes to food.
Zero to Godwin in less than double-digit posts? Well done, sir!
Because there's only so many hours in the school year and you have to teach everyone from the bottom of the heap to the top along the same lines. Speak to a teacher in a private setting to get an idea of the challenges they face just getting through the muddled curriculum they do have, let alone trying to teach students to both think of maths mentally and to learn how to use a program which would have no relevance in their exams.
It's not like there's "one true keyboard" when it comes to function keys. The caps lock can migrate over to the print screen/scroll lock/pause-break block of keys, finally four keys wide to line up with function keys and the num pad. It doesn't have to live right next to the A key on the home row any more.
Maybe we can substitute Palin's speeches?
Even if you weren't travelling or conducting business in Britain itself, 1869 was pretty damn close to the height of the British empire, and you would certainly be conducting trade with them. London was a centre of finance with greater weight in global commerce than even New York today, so it's not surprising to find an interest calculation in pounds.
Chapter 11.
there's no reason for West to play nicely anymore, since there's perceived to be no alternatives to capitalism.
China: you're so right... by the way, how's that free market capitalism thing working out for you these days?
Automation and specialisation does have an effect - in 1940, we had production lines where the workers put everything together. Now, we have specialised bots and specifically crafted moulds and presses that put many of the parts - re-engineering for materiel would take a longer "spool up" time, though I imagine once that's done it can turn around plenty quick.
(in any case, America's not half so badly off as some of the other countries which have nearly completely outsourced manufacturing - you think it's bad in the US, have a look around here in Australia.)
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