That sounds neat and all, but I'm at a loss as to what use streaming video on a fridge would be. Our connecting to a tv, smart or otherwise.
You can bet that if Kim Cardassian's Refrigerator is streaming video from inside, some tools will be watching it. Probably become a new reality series.
The same problems apply to parking spaces. People don't want to book, they just want to park.
This is the problem with most Internet of things ideas. They require booking and planning ahead. Imagine when we're all driving Google Cars. we aren't going to just hop in and it will know where we want to go. You'll program every day's trips on your calendar app, and any changes will need to be manually done. This might be great for obsessive compulsive's who have to have a rigidly set schedule, but I might have any of 5 different work destinations, and sometimes don't know until halfway to work. So I'll be spared the inconvenience of making a quick decision with reprogramming on the fly.
Back to the refrigerator, I see the same problem. Instead of the terrible inconvenience of a notepad and pencil, we'll be able to program the thing, then I'll be damned if we won't see advertising when the refrigerator decides we're low on something. Then it'll be just fscking awesome when in a meeting with the director, and my phone alerts me to the milk situation being both low and 1 day away from the expiration date, but before that wants me to watch a commercial for Udderly Awesome Milk, in White, Chocolate or NEW! Hazlenut flavored!!!
There are good uses of technology, Internet connected refrigerators are not.
You obviously cannot see problems but let me illuminate you by suggestion what the features of a smart fridge are.
Facebook status updates; We're run out of tomatoes!
You forgot the most obvious one:
A Windows 10 refrigerator edition update screws up your compressor driver and the fridge blue doors and spoils all your food, then Slashdot shills call you an idiot because you weren't running the thing in VM mode.
I'm an animal person, and don't even kill insects if I can help it.
But two things I wonder about are Mosquitos and ticks. Exactly what the flaming taint of Satan's purpose do they have in ecology? As far as I can see - none. A remote possibility of some strange DNA exchange, but that's just conjecture, based on a few stories I've heard from some scientists.
I would love to see an experiment to eliminate either or both form an area to see if there are any negative effects before a total eradication efort happens. Maybe we could add fleas to that list.
90% of it is Security Theatre to get people flying. Politicians only care about what 50% + 1 of the voting public thinks and reacts to - not what actually works.
To get people flying? the incredible indignity, and waiting and hassles, of this is what caused me to stop flying. Last flight I took was in 2002, and although I love the experience of flying, stopping flying has actually been pretty enjoyable. I don't miss it at all.
This is 2016! Quality control was abandoned years ago in favor of lower cost and faster delivery times. Eating the cost for having to replace or rework stuff is considered cheaper than preventing bad things from happening, although it rarely is.
Sorry, but that might be an issue if all the batteries burst into flame, or even a majority of them.
Its actually a difficult task to pack that much energy into a tiny little battery, and while its possible to have QC issues, there is a whole lot of QC happening, or else the things wouldn't function at all.
We're so used to these little gadgets, that when we get a phone that's half as thin as the last one, but the battery lasts twice as long, we just say 'Kewl", and don't give a second thought to it, until we're pissed that we can't have a yet thinner phone with a battery that lasts 3 times as long as the last one.
there is one critical thing about the excessive heat that is being left out, the batteries are generating the excessive heat.
It all comes down to energy density. As customers demand long battery life, and marketing forces push thinner and lighter, we have largely accommodated them. But the margins between safe operation and a big problem become razr thin.
And the high energy density packed into a small space is just asking for trouble. It's a tribute to manufacturing that we've had a little trouble with battery fires as we have so far.
When banning likely harmful and useless ingredients from soap trips someone's totalitarian alarm, they might consider dialing it back a little.
I don't follow. If you think the ban is pointless and trivial, that proves their point, no?
My point, apparently lost on the Slashdot librarians, is that jack booted thugs re not going to send you to the furnaces if they find you with triclosan. Its ludicrous that some folks here are posting that kind of tripe. The ban itself is not trivial, but exactly what liberty is being infringed upon? There are some concerns about these chemicals.
And which is better, having soe tests done - or using regular people as test subjects? And if tests prove safe, then presumably it's just a fine thing. And tests prove a problem, is it infringing on teh manufacturers and teh public's freedom to remove the problem substance?
So you don't see the irony in genetically modifying a plant for the sole purpose of selling more herbicides?
So you don't see the ridiculousness of thinking that all genetically modified foods are for herbicide resistance?
Hint, Monsanto Roundup Ready does not equal all genetically modified food. And people who think genetically modified food is safe do not all think Roundup ready is da shitz.
This is just like saying you're "being guilty until you prove yourself innocent "... The FDA should have to prove harm, rather than the soap companies proving effectiveness.
Problem is of course, that some group of folks has used the "starve the beast" approach on the FDA. reductio al fundo
Don't get me wrong, I'm a pro GMO pro vaccine person.
But I am very concerned about the bombardment of chemicals we are hitting ourselves with. Humans have been hammering themselves with some pretty well proven nasty stuff, like estrogen mimics, and other chemicals that are being proven to have a bad effect on humans. I'll note that the estrogen mimics tend to have a worse effect on males, but let's please not turn this into an anti or pro SJW argument.
Meanwhile, make certain your children are getting enough bisphenol A in their diets. After all, manufacturers should be allowed to put anything they damn well please in the things our kids eat and drink from. Then we can find out if its really bad or not. Otherwise they'd have to run tests before they started. That would cost money and piss off the shareholders.
It's not collusion, they've been doing that for years, this is planned obsolescence. People aren't buying new hardware because they don't need it. Newer processors aren't any faster overall and haven't been for years now. You have to go back almost 5 generations to get a significant difference between mainstream Intel CPU's (single thread performance) that would be enough to justify buying a new processor. The focus on power efficiency has essentially stalled all growth in processor power.
So they are doing what they can, you want new hardware you need a new OS. They think it's a win win for both of them, though i think it will delay the upgrade cycle even more and will end up hurting them.
I have a W7 OS on my Mac running in bootcamp. Not too bad at all. It runs the one piece of Software I need Windows for. Uptime has been 100 percent so far.
The W10 Box, which I used for the same purpose has been borked a number of times, with issues running form sound card drivers, removing fonts that had no reason to be removed, changing all my security settings, and most recently, killing my ethernet driver and updating something else so it won't even use a USB to ethernt adapter. You leave it working, the next day it doesn't work. So I bye byed that W10 Box, and stopped supporting W10 as well. Life is good.
Point is, downgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is like trading in your cherry Z3 for that TransCamaro on blocks at that redneck down the road's trailer. Nope, nope, nope.
I don't see FUD at all. I see a deliberate and well-planned engineering effort. If that effort also pushes users to Windows 10, well, that is just gravy.
So you are saying that teh continual borking of Computers by the festering pus filld sack of tshit that is Window 10 is somehow a well planned engineering.effort?
Thou art either a Poe, or the most ironic Microsoft shill ever planted. As well as hilarious and the worst, all wrapped up in one silly package.
Ah, Slashdotters. Marking the above post as flame bait? Looks like that overly sensitive woman who went nuts because of a hula doll in a taxicab might have mod points today.
Is it that upsetting when you are toldl that the measurement system that is somehow irrefutable proof of your superioity over gthe fat stupid 'Murricans is just as arbitrary?
Don't answer that - we know it is upsetting for y'all
Been using it since 2005 as my net gateway. Runs a bunch of services and provides net to the home. Never had a problem. Upgrading every release, twice a year like clockwork.
I'm using it right now for a personal http/minecraft/cctv server. I like how minimal the install is. You get a base OS and then add the packages and customize the scripts as needed. I don't need 30 included text editors that are all terrible and 10,000 libraries that all need weekly security patches.
Which exactly what has 30 included text editors and 10,000 libraries that need weekly security patches.
You suffer from lying for anything that doesn't have systemd. Y'all are starting to look pertty folish at this point.
I'll be checking back for your list that you are going to provide for me. I'll even allow you to admit you were exaggerating, and cut down those 10 thousand libraries that need weekly updates to say, 5 thousand.
1,650,763.73 wavelengths of th eight given off by burning Krypton 86 or the distance light travels in 1/299 792 458 seconds is every bit as arbireary as grains of barley in a row.
True. But it's much more consistent.
True. I started to think of the standard Barleycorn as measured by some distance light travels over some amount of time. Then I decided that was probably the first step to insanity.
This is an old argument. The thing you're missing is that unit conversion simply isn't important to most people who aren't scientists or engineers. Think about Suzy Homemaker or HR Manager Bob: why would they ever need to convert between inches, yards, or miles? Or better yet, why would they ever need to do a unit conversion involving temperature? Very few people in society ever use the Ideal Gas Law outside of Chemistry 101, and the people who do don't use Fahrenheit, or Celcius, they use Kelvins. In short, the people who care about unit conversions are already using the SI system when they do such work, and those same people have zero trouble converting between English and metric as necessary. For everyone else, they simply don't care, and it doesn't affect their daily lives.
I think it is almost a Ford Versus Chivvy argument. Maybe allows some folks to feel superior to the fat 'murricans as well.
Even without all that, a whole lot of American stuff is done metrically now. Sometimes I wonder if part of the issue is that a lot of metalworking Machinery, which when taken care of will last a long time, is finally starting to wear down, possibly to be replaced by metric. At work, we had perfectly functional lathes that were manufactured during World War two. You have to make a pretty good argument to replace an entire infrastructure. Even a fair number of years ago, the CNC machinery could work in either metric or imperial. Poin tis though, a lot of the world was in ruins, and we had a lot of imperial machinery sitting around that was going to be good for the next 60 years or so.
Coupled with the crew who sees such things as SUV's or imperial measurements as somehow being patriotic, we have a completely silly argument about what's best.
I do have a metric Lathe and Mill in my garage. I can do either on it.
To your point, most people don't care that much. If you can get them to know that a quart is.946 liters, or a 13mm socket is pretty darn close to a half inch, you've done well.
Metric is better for one simple reason. Forget what it's based on, everything is based on something arbitrary to other things. The reason it's better is its easy.
so is all the others. I choose to know both, and it was absolutely zero problem.
It's also not being constantly revised. A kilogram is the weight of one litre of water,
The prototype Kilogram was efined in 1875.It was found to vary in mass over time. the ICPM in 2005 reccomended that it be redefined in terms of a fundamental constant of nature. In 2011 the CPGM decided that it needed to be redefined in termes of the Plank constant. That was deferreduntil 2014, then deferred again.
And when we get into the amount of accuracy needed, we even get into mass drift. Sounds insane, but there has been documented mass gain in the standard artifacts.
I'm not sure what the length is based on but probably not what you said.
Nice thing about this article, is it pretty much has everything laid out for you, having the Meter info also. From the article:
the meter is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum during a time interval of 1299,792,458 of a second. However, the meter's practical realization typically takes the form of a helium–neon laser, and the meter's length is delineated—not defined—as 1579800.298728 wavelengths of light from this laser.
Whacky thing is, none of that changed the value of th meter, however the Paris Meridian isn't accurate. for all of the bloviating about being based on sensible units based on 10 (the meter is supposedly 1/10 millionth of the distance betwenn the North pole along a meridian throught Paris. the original measurement was not accurate.
My point, if there is one, is that you only get bragging rights to superiority if you have a non-arbitrary base. Metric's is every bit as arbitrary as anything else.
1,650,763.73 wavelengths of th eight given off by burning Krypton 86 or the distance light travels in 1/299 792 458 seconds is every bit as arbireary as grains of barley in a row. Oh, and there is that seconds thing as well.
Anyhow, some of us make up for that in being adroit in several measurement standards. If you are less skilled, pick one and use only that one.
If the world switches to a new standard it will be because it's easier and simpler to use, not because of what it's based on. You stick with imperial and sing it's praises all you want, no skin of mine or anyone else noses but while everyone is getting on with it you'll be converting.
Umm, you not read what I been writing? I'll use either system I'm presented with. If you can only handle one, at least you can come up with rationales that allow you to feel superior to people who are much more flexible. So anyhow, your homework if you care to take some, is repeat back to me my quotes where I said that imperial was superior. Ypou accept the challenge, or just have imagionary conversations with people?
This isn't built anything like the solar panel on your roof. It's more like the model car in your dad's display cabinet. Shoot that thing with an airsoft gun and see what happens.
You mean someone's going to come out and beat your ass?
or did you want this to be a special elite club for those who have reached metric ascendancy.
You mean everyone except America and two other shit countries? That special elite club?
One problem with a lot of computer type geeks. They seem to masturbate while fantacising about monocuulture.
So what if I know and understand more than one way to measure things? Not a brain cell wasted anywhere. Easier than learning a new language.
Because for all of the haughty pronouncements at base, the metric system is based on being 1 ten millionth of the length measured from the north pole to the equator as measured through Lyons, France.
That's just about as arbitrary a measurement (and inaccurate, by the way) as we can get. And all other measurements stem from that.
And for all of it's supposed superiority, it is being constantly revised. As the artifact method of measurement is retired because of inaccuracy, and we switch to atomic methods of measurement, the arbitrariness is completely revealed.
The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. This replaced the 1960 convention based on the wavelength of Krypton88 radiation.
Such a absolute logical base kinda makes one quiver, eh?
But in the end, either system works, and could be implemented with equal accuracy. And some of us are capable of using either system. Check your superiority complex.
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That sounds neat and all, but I'm at a loss as to what use streaming video on a fridge would be. Our connecting to a tv, smart or otherwise.
You can bet that if Kim Cardassian's Refrigerator is streaming video from inside, some tools will be watching it. Probably become a new reality series.
The same problems apply to parking spaces. People don't want to book, they just want to park.
This is the problem with most Internet of things ideas. They require booking and planning ahead. Imagine when we're all driving Google Cars. we aren't going to just hop in and it will know where we want to go. You'll program every day's trips on your calendar app, and any changes will need to be manually done. This might be great for obsessive compulsive's who have to have a rigidly set schedule, but I might have any of 5 different work destinations, and sometimes don't know until halfway to work. So I'll be spared the inconvenience of making a quick decision with reprogramming on the fly.
Back to the refrigerator, I see the same problem. Instead of the terrible inconvenience of a notepad and pencil, we'll be able to program the thing, then I'll be damned if we won't see advertising when the refrigerator decides we're low on something. Then it'll be just fscking awesome when in a meeting with the director, and my phone alerts me to the milk situation being both low and 1 day away from the expiration date, but before that wants me to watch a commercial for Udderly Awesome Milk, in White, Chocolate or NEW! Hazlenut flavored!!!
There are good uses of technology, Internet connected refrigerators are not.
You obviously cannot see problems but let me illuminate you by suggestion what the features of a smart fridge are. Facebook status updates; We're run out of tomatoes!
You forgot the most obvious one:
A Windows 10 refrigerator edition update screws up your compressor driver and the fridge blue doors and spoils all your food, then Slashdot shills call you an idiot because you weren't running the thing in VM mode.
But two things I wonder about are Mosquitos and ticks. Exactly what the flaming taint of Satan's purpose do they have in ecology? As far as I can see - none. A remote possibility of some strange DNA exchange, but that's just conjecture, based on a few stories I've heard from some scientists.
I would love to see an experiment to eliminate either or both form an area to see if there are any negative effects before a total eradication efort happens. Maybe we could add fleas to that list.
90% of it is Security Theatre to get people flying. Politicians only care about what 50% + 1 of the voting public thinks and reacts to - not what actually works.
To get people flying? the incredible indignity, and waiting and hassles, of this is what caused me to stop flying. Last flight I took was in 2002, and although I love the experience of flying, stopping flying has actually been pretty enjoyable. I don't miss it at all.
This is 2016! Quality control was abandoned years ago in favor of lower cost and faster delivery times. Eating the cost for having to replace or rework stuff is considered cheaper than preventing bad things from happening, although it rarely is.
Sorry, but that might be an issue if all the batteries burst into flame, or even a majority of them.
Its actually a difficult task to pack that much energy into a tiny little battery, and while its possible to have QC issues, there is a whole lot of QC happening, or else the things wouldn't function at all.
We're so used to these little gadgets, that when we get a phone that's half as thin as the last one, but the battery lasts twice as long, we just say 'Kewl", and don't give a second thought to it, until we're pissed that we can't have a yet thinner phone with a battery that lasts 3 times as long as the last one.
there is one critical thing about the excessive heat that is being left out, the batteries are generating the excessive heat.
It all comes down to energy density. As customers demand long battery life, and marketing forces push thinner and lighter, we have largely accommodated them. But the margins between safe operation and a big problem become razr thin.
And the high energy density packed into a small space is just asking for trouble. It's a tribute to manufacturing that we've had a little trouble with battery fires as we have so far.
CNT's? Gee, no one's going to mock that.
When banning likely harmful and useless ingredients from soap trips someone's totalitarian alarm, they might consider dialing it back a little.
I don't follow. If you think the ban is pointless and trivial, that proves their point, no?
My point, apparently lost on the Slashdot librarians, is that jack booted thugs re not going to send you to the furnaces if they find you with triclosan. Its ludicrous that some folks here are posting that kind of tripe. The ban itself is not trivial, but exactly what liberty is being infringed upon? There are some concerns about these chemicals.
And which is better, having soe tests done - or using regular people as test subjects? And if tests prove safe, then presumably it's just a fine thing. And tests prove a problem, is it infringing on teh manufacturers and teh public's freedom to remove the problem substance?
So you don't see the irony in genetically modifying a plant for the sole purpose of selling more herbicides?
So you don't see the ridiculousness of thinking that all genetically modified foods are for herbicide resistance?
Hint, Monsanto Roundup Ready does not equal all genetically modified food. And people who think genetically modified food is safe do not all think Roundup ready is da shitz.
This is just like saying you're "being guilty until you prove yourself innocent "... The FDA should have to prove harm, rather than the soap companies proving effectiveness.
Problem is of course, that some group of folks has used the "starve the beast" approach on the FDA. reductio al fundo
Don't get me wrong, I'm a pro GMO pro vaccine person.
But I am very concerned about the bombardment of chemicals we are hitting ourselves with. Humans have been hammering themselves with some pretty well proven nasty stuff, like estrogen mimics, and other chemicals that are being proven to have a bad effect on humans. I'll note that the estrogen mimics tend to have a worse effect on males, but let's please not turn this into an anti or pro SJW argument.
Meanwhile, make certain your children are getting enough bisphenol A in their diets. After all, manufacturers should be allowed to put anything they damn well please in the things our kids eat and drink from. Then we can find out if its really bad or not. Otherwise they'd have to run tests before they started. That would cost money and piss off the shareholders.
Always? And pretty much every one of them did at least something to the tragedy of the commons that involves limits people from doing what they want.
Civilization inherently limits people's freedom. Slashdot Libertarians and anarchists might not like it, but there is a place for the rule of law.
When banning likely harmful and useless ingredients from soap trips someone's totalitarian alarm, they might consider dialing it back a little.
Windows 7 is not EOL. It's in the extended support (security and major bug patches only) stage.
Which has a lot to do with W7's better reliability at this point.
It's not collusion, they've been doing that for years, this is planned obsolescence. People aren't buying new hardware because they don't need it. Newer processors aren't any faster overall and haven't been for years now. You have to go back almost 5 generations to get a significant difference between mainstream Intel CPU's (single thread performance) that would be enough to justify buying a new processor. The focus on power efficiency has essentially stalled all growth in processor power.
So they are doing what they can, you want new hardware you need a new OS. They think it's a win win for both of them, though i think it will delay the upgrade cycle even more and will end up hurting them.
I have a W7 OS on my Mac running in bootcamp. Not too bad at all. It runs the one piece of Software I need Windows for. Uptime has been 100 percent so far.
The W10 Box, which I used for the same purpose has been borked a number of times, with issues running form sound card drivers, removing fonts that had no reason to be removed, changing all my security settings, and most recently, killing my ethernet driver and updating something else so it won't even use a USB to ethernt adapter. You leave it working, the next day it doesn't work. So I bye byed that W10 Box, and stopped supporting W10 as well. Life is good.
Point is, downgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is like trading in your cherry Z3 for that TransCamaro on blocks at that redneck down the road's trailer. Nope, nope, nope.
The whole Microsoft ecosysterm is devolving.
I don't see FUD at all. I see a deliberate and well-planned engineering effort. If that effort also pushes users to Windows 10, well, that is just gravy.
So you are saying that teh continual borking of Computers by the festering pus filld sack of tshit that is Window 10 is somehow a well planned engineering.effort? Thou art either a Poe, or the most ironic Microsoft shill ever planted. As well as hilarious and the worst, all wrapped up in one silly package.
Is it that upsetting when you are toldl that the measurement system that is somehow irrefutable proof of your superioity over gthe fat stupid 'Murricans is just as arbitrary?
Don't answer that - we know it is upsetting for y'all
Been using it since 2005 as my net gateway. Runs a bunch of services and provides net to the home. Never had a problem. Upgrading every release, twice a year like clockwork.
That's exactly how Grandma does it.
I'm using it right now for a personal http/minecraft/cctv server. I like how minimal the install is. You get a base OS and then add the packages and customize the scripts as needed. I don't need 30 included text editors that are all terrible and 10,000 libraries that all need weekly security patches.
Which exactly what has 30 included text editors and 10,000 libraries that need weekly security patches.
You suffer from lying for anything that doesn't have systemd. Y'all are starting to look pertty folish at this point.
I'll be checking back for your list that you are going to provide for me. I'll even allow you to admit you were exaggerating, and cut down those 10 thousand libraries that need weekly updates to say, 5 thousand.
True. But it's much more consistent.
True. I started to think of the standard Barleycorn as measured by some distance light travels over some amount of time. Then I decided that was probably the first step to insanity.
If you're happy doing conversions all roads then more power to you.
whe you work with them every day, it isn't a problem.
This is an old argument. The thing you're missing is that unit conversion simply isn't important to most people who aren't scientists or engineers. Think about Suzy Homemaker or HR Manager Bob: why would they ever need to convert between inches, yards, or miles? Or better yet, why would they ever need to do a unit conversion involving temperature? Very few people in society ever use the Ideal Gas Law outside of Chemistry 101, and the people who do don't use Fahrenheit, or Celcius, they use Kelvins. In short, the people who care about unit conversions are already using the SI system when they do such work, and those same people have zero trouble converting between English and metric as necessary. For everyone else, they simply don't care, and it doesn't affect their daily lives.
I think it is almost a Ford Versus Chivvy argument. Maybe allows some folks to feel superior to the fat 'murricans as well.
Even without all that, a whole lot of American stuff is done metrically now. Sometimes I wonder if part of the issue is that a lot of metalworking Machinery, which when taken care of will last a long time, is finally starting to wear down, possibly to be replaced by metric. At work, we had perfectly functional lathes that were manufactured during World War two. You have to make a pretty good argument to replace an entire infrastructure. Even a fair number of years ago, the CNC machinery could work in either metric or imperial. Poin tis though, a lot of the world was in ruins, and we had a lot of imperial machinery sitting around that was going to be good for the next 60 years or so.
Coupled with the crew who sees such things as SUV's or imperial measurements as somehow being patriotic, we have a completely silly argument about what's best. I do have a metric Lathe and Mill in my garage. I can do either on it.
To your point, most people don't care that much. If you can get them to know that a quart is .946 liters, or a 13mm socket is pretty darn close to a half inch, you've done well.
Metric is better for one simple reason. Forget what it's based on, everything is based on something arbitrary to other things. The reason it's better is its easy.
so is all the others. I choose to know both, and it was absolutely zero problem. It's also not being constantly revised. A kilogram is the weight of one litre of water,
The prototype Kilogram was efined in 1875 .It was found to vary in mass over time. the ICPM in 2005 reccomended that it be redefined in terms of a fundamental constant of nature. In 2011 the CPGM decided that it needed to be redefined in termes of the Plank constant. That was deferreduntil 2014, then deferred again.
And when we get into the amount of accuracy needed, we even get into mass drift. Sounds insane, but there has been documented mass gain in the standard artifacts.
I'm not sure what the length is based on but probably not what you said.
SRSLY? It isn't like you can't look it up.
I'll even help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nice thing about this article, is it pretty much has everything laid out for you, having the Meter info also. From the article:
the meter is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum during a time interval of 1299,792,458 of a second. However, the meter's practical realization typically takes the form of a helium–neon laser, and the meter's length is delineated—not defined—as 1579800.298728 wavelengths of light from this laser.
Whacky thing is, none of that changed the value of th meter, however the Paris Meridian isn't accurate. for all of the bloviating about being based on sensible units based on 10 (the meter is supposedly 1/10 millionth of the distance betwenn the North pole along a meridian throught Paris. the original measurement was not accurate.
My point, if there is one, is that you only get bragging rights to superiority if you have a non-arbitrary base. Metric's is every bit as arbitrary as anything else.
1,650,763.73 wavelengths of th eight given off by burning Krypton 86 or the distance light travels in 1/299 792 458 seconds is every bit as arbireary as grains of barley in a row. Oh, and there is that seconds thing as well.
Anyhow, some of us make up for that in being adroit in several measurement standards. If you are less skilled, pick one and use only that one.
If the world switches to a new standard it will be because it's easier and simpler to use, not because of what it's based on. You stick with imperial and sing it's praises all you want, no skin of mine or anyone else noses but while everyone is getting on with it you'll be converting.
Umm, you not read what I been writing? I'll use either system I'm presented with. If you can only handle one, at least you can come up with rationales that allow you to feel superior to people who are much more flexible. So anyhow, your homework if you care to take some, is repeat back to me my quotes where I said that imperial was superior. Ypou accept the challenge, or just have imagionary conversations with people?
This isn't built anything like the solar panel on your roof. It's more like the model car in your dad's display cabinet. Shoot that thing with an airsoft gun and see what happens.
You mean someone's going to come out and beat your ass?
or did you want this to be a special elite club for those who have reached metric ascendancy.
You mean everyone except America and two other shit countries? That special elite club?
One problem with a lot of computer type geeks. They seem to masturbate while fantacising about monocuulture.
So what if I know and understand more than one way to measure things? Not a brain cell wasted anywhere. Easier than learning a new language.
Because for all of the haughty pronouncements at base, the metric system is based on being 1 ten millionth of the length measured from the north pole to the equator as measured through Lyons, France.
That's just about as arbitrary a measurement (and inaccurate, by the way) as we can get. And all other measurements stem from that.
And for all of it's supposed superiority, it is being constantly revised. As the artifact method of measurement is retired because of inaccuracy, and we switch to atomic methods of measurement, the arbitrariness is completely revealed.
The meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second. This replaced the 1960 convention based on the wavelength of Krypton88 radiation.
Such a absolute logical base kinda makes one quiver, eh? But in the end, either system works, and could be implemented with equal accuracy. And some of us are capable of using either system. Check your superiority complex.
Will it teach me how to bend over and blow myself?
That went south quickly!