Actually, "pint" is universally used for beer. In Argentina we use 100% metric system. Most people don't know how much and inch or a mile is. But beer is ordered in pints for some odd reason. Most people don't know how much a pint is either, and it's never ever used in any other context.
For one, I bet it would take up A LOT less time in school to learn just the metric system. Engineers won't need to learn a second system. People emigrating or going to other countries can communicate easier with locals who'll use the metric system. Products exported to other countries won't need to get relabeled.
I prefer Kelvin, where ZERO means "none" (much like 0metres means no distance, and 0 litres means no volume). 0 Celsius doesn't mean NO heat, it means 273.16K.
Actually, the hardware devs can submit it to the linux kernel for inclusion without any issue. The distribution mecanism of "download a binary and expect hardware vendors to packge for every distro" is what's broken. Linux isn't windows, software comes from package repositories where they have been properly configure and tested for that particular distro.
I've heard many respectable criticisms of Python, but I've never heard anyone say it looks bad. Visually, it's probably the most elegant-looking language there is.
The 3d driver situation on Linux needs to be addressed. Something along the lines of having up to date drivers in the basic repositories would be ideal, but even just having a download option on the vendor site would suffice.
Vendor site? Nope, wrong, drivers need to be in the kernel tree or packaged by your distribution, vendores should only provide source and/or documentation. This "vendor needs to provide binary drivers" model was popularized by window, and actually adds more burden on the hardware developer, and results in less OSs having proper support.
In Argentina, most plans have unlimited data. I'd say we're better than the US, except that speeds are so bad that voice calls are but a remote dream. Heck, our speeds are about as fast as a 56k connection.
1. That space is already well populated (e.g. Skype).
Facebook uses skypes for calls actually. It was announced time ago, and MS and facebook are buddies. Also, the Skype logo appears on facebook's videochat page: https://www.facebook.com/videocalling/
Good thing Canada doesn't produce dollar bills any more and instead uses the $1 loonie coin and $2 toonie coin.
The US has had a $1 coin in regular circulation since 1999 (and special printings in 1979-1981 before that). However, the government hasn't been able to convince people to use them instead of dollar bills.
The government couldn't conviced the people? I though the government represented the people! Silly me!
That aside, why on earth would one prefer coins? They're in no way superior to bills. I just dump them in a jar when I get home, and change them for a $50 every couple of months. Bills are lighter and more portable than coins.
What's a nickel? Not all of us live in Canada, and all I've found it to be is an element, an ugly chick, and some ancient coins that vary between $0.03 and $0.05.
PS3 games cost about 50-80 USD (twice that were I live). Steam games cost 7-15USD.
AFAIK, Steam also allows you to resell/gift games.
Also, you need a Sony console to play their games. Steam works on any windows-based desktop (and soon, GNU/Linux) I hate Steam, and avoid it like the plague. But Sony is worse by far!
I don't really care if it was on purpose or an accident. They clearly cannot be trusted as an Authority in security is they make this kind of mistakes.
HTTPS really means "probably more secure than plain text". Regardless of it's efficiency, TLS/SSL/PKI is the best thing we've got, sadly. I've yet to see a mechanism that can replace it. A few can complement it, but that's just about it.
Following that line of thought, why should the rest of the world trust US-based CAs? I mean, I'm pretty sure the NSA and a couple of other agencies can request that CAs emit certificates to them and force them to keep their mouth shut about it.
The major difference is that he can watch what he wants instead of relying on what the cinema is showing, whenever he want to. It's no really a matter of cost, but of luxury. It also includes being able to pause, or watch a movie naked, two thing you cant (usually) do at the cinema.
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Sure, there are issues migrating to metric system.
But if you never face these issues, they'll never go away.
Actually, "pint" is universally used for beer.
In Argentina we use 100% metric system. Most people don't know how much and inch or a mile is. But beer is ordered in pints for some odd reason. Most people don't know how much a pint is either, and it's never ever used in any other context.
For one, I bet it would take up A LOT less time in school to learn just the metric system.
Engineers won't need to learn a second system.
People emigrating or going to other countries can communicate easier with locals who'll use the metric system.
Products exported to other countries won't need to get relabeled.
I prefer Kelvin, where ZERO means "none" (much like 0metres means no distance, and 0 litres means no volume).
0 Celsius doesn't mean NO heat, it means 273.16K.
Why "kilometreage", and not "metreage", when "metre" is the base unit for distance?
Actually, the hardware devs can submit it to the linux kernel for inclusion without any issue. The distribution mecanism of "download a binary and expect hardware vendors to packge for every distro" is what's broken. Linux isn't windows, software comes from package repositories where they have been properly configure and tested for that particular distro.
Your question is "My OS is too old and unsupported to support brand new hardware".
The answer is quite obvious: "Update your OS".
I've heard many respectable criticisms of Python, but I've never heard anyone say it looks bad.
Visually, it's probably the most elegant-looking language there is.
It's the only thing you can run in a web browser.
FTFY.
[...]but lacking enterprise adoption on large applications.'"
Yeah, it's not like google, facebook youtube and a few other players use it for their frontend.
The 3d driver situation on Linux needs to be addressed. Something along the lines of having up to date drivers in the basic repositories would be ideal, but even just having a download option on the vendor site would suffice.
Vendor site? Nope, wrong, drivers need to be in the kernel tree or packaged by your distribution, vendores should only provide source and/or documentation.
This "vendor needs to provide binary drivers" model was popularized by window, and actually adds more burden on the hardware developer, and results in less OSs having proper support.
Provide a deb package, the community will repackage for the other distros.
It happens with plenty of closed-source software.
Gaming for Linux (or, more specifically, binary blobs in Linux) have absolutely no future, since every distro has its own version of every library.
Static compilation solves this easily.
In Argentina, most plans have unlimited data.
I'd say we're better than the US, except that speeds are so bad that voice calls are but a remote dream. Heck, our speeds are about as fast as a 56k connection.
1. That space is already well populated (e.g. Skype).
Facebook uses skypes for calls actually. It was announced time ago, and MS and facebook are buddies.
Also, the Skype logo appears on facebook's videochat page:
https://www.facebook.com/videocalling/
Good thing Canada doesn't produce dollar bills any more and instead uses the $1 loonie coin and $2 toonie coin.
The US has had a $1 coin in regular circulation since 1999 (and special printings in 1979-1981 before that). However, the government hasn't been able to convince people to use them instead of dollar bills.
The government couldn't conviced the people? I though the government represented the people! Silly me!
That aside, why on earth would one prefer coins? They're in no way superior to bills. I just dump them in a jar when I get home, and change them for a $50 every couple of months. Bills are lighter and more portable than coins.
What's a nickel?
Not all of us live in Canada, and all I've found it to be is an element, an ugly chick, and some ancient coins that vary between $0.03 and $0.05.
They should worry a lot more about privacy/not screwing up.
One problem like this is enough to kill the company. Forever.
PS3 games cost about 50-80 USD (twice that were I live).
Steam games cost 7-15USD.
AFAIK, Steam also allows you to resell/gift games.
Also, you need a Sony console to play their games. Steam works on any windows-based desktop (and soon, GNU/Linux)
I hate Steam, and avoid it like the plague. But Sony is worse by far!
I don't really care if it was on purpose or an accident. They clearly cannot be trusted as an Authority in security is they make this kind of mistakes.
HTTPS really means "probably more secure than plain text".
Regardless of it's efficiency, TLS/SSL/PKI is the best thing we've got, sadly. I've yet to see a mechanism that can replace it. A few can complement it, but that's just about it.
Following that line of thought, why should the rest of the world trust US-based CAs?
I mean, I'm pretty sure the NSA and a couple of other agencies can request that CAs emit certificates to them and force them to keep their mouth shut about it.
Actually, no. If you run paperless, you don't use scanners (what would you scan if you have no papers?).
The major difference is that he can watch what he wants instead of relying on what the cinema is showing, whenever he want to. It's no really a matter of cost, but of luxury.
It also includes being able to pause, or watch a movie naked, two thing you cant (usually) do at the cinema.
WebOS had some swiping of it's own as well, though it wasn't as mature as the N9.