I've never seen a weather forecast that tells the temperature with rational numbers. They don't exactly roll off the tongue. When was the last time you saw an oven that let you set the temperature to fractions of a degree? Rational numbers are great for scientific recordings, but not always for mundane numbers in life.
I have no problem with people using Celsius. I just don't see the same compelling argument to use that unit over Fahrenheit, like say using meters over feet/yards/miles. Unless I can hear a good reason why Celsius is better, why would I throw away my lifetime of familiarity with temperature points in the Fahrenheit scale?
Having values that make sense to someone that has been familiar with the Celsius scale their entire life is not compelling.
There's nothing wrong with it really, but unlike other measurement units, Celsius don't offer anything better than Fahrenheit. Temperature doesn't have the same peculiarities of other Imperial units like length and volume. For temperatures people are concerned with, there is a larger difference between 30C and 31C, than there is between 86F and 87F. It's a very subtle difference, but Fahrenheit has more resolution (without using decimals).
If people are truly pushing for the world to convert to SI units they would stop using Celsius and use Kelvin, but that's not the case.
Could you give any more information about these banks going down? I've never had a problem not being able to walk into my bank and withdrawal money as needed.
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988..
You don't have to look back 26 years to find a massive forest fire from the forest management policies we practice. I think you could find some examples from last summer. Most every year now there have been massive fires somewhere in the American West.
Ok. I'll go with your explanation of why humans feel they need to correct the issue should the wolves disappear.
The process of correcting the problem seems ridiculous. Wolves have a hard time surviving in an environment because humans have altered the climate and it is less than hospitable for them. Those wolves die off or leave. Then people just dump more wolves in the same place they had a hard time surviving? What kind of sense does that make?
If you think human caused climate change is hurting this wolf population, work on the human caused climate change rather than just dumping more wolves there.
There are two conflicting ideas here. I didn't read the article so I'm not sure which is being exploited for arbitrage.
a genuine arbitrage of journey segments that have lower cost per mile than a larger journey. In this case people are buying multiple small trips and trading them in a way to lower their total transit cost.
Fraudulently switching tickets to have a pair of riders both appear to have traveled less than they did.
One of these things is juvenile, as you said, and is also fraudulent and against the rules. The other is a valid probing of the pricing structure to get the best deal. It is no difference from discovering that you can buy a whopper, fries, and a drink separately at Burger King for less money than the packaged meal.
Here's a hypothetical situation of stops:
A--B------------E--------------C--D
One rider goes from A to C, and another goes from D-B. They meet in the middle somewhere at stop E and switch tickets. Now their tickets appear to be going from A-B and C-D, even though both of them crossed the large middle travel from B-C. Do you admit now that there is a possible way to switch tickets that is unfair? Given a large enough network of riders we could get a ticket switching system that has most people going a stop or two even if they crossed the entire city.
Please stop with the SI units. It's not going to happen. Why is it so great again? Unit conversion? I don't use a sliderule to make calculations and I can trivially convert between units.
How about if we use SI prefixes with imperial units. Pounds, centipounds, millipounds, etc. Would that be acceptable?
These are probable the same taxi drivers that claim to have no change for any bills too. Let's not have terrible merchants stop us from implementing newer systems.
You mean "The government follows your every step, it is getting worse than the commies ever were" doesn't work anymore? Because that's pretty much the message of today.
Considering the average American thinks commies just get free hand outs from the government, I don't think that works anymore.
Is it really baffling to use Fahrenheit temperature units when the country one lives in and all the people in one's life use that unit and don't have a good feel for Celsius?
If we follow your logical argument, the majority of the world should use US Dollars instead of their own money units. We should also stop with these other languages that only a small fraction of the worlds people speak.
For Temperature, Fahrenheit is better suited for temperatures that people live in. Celsius, is fine for all scientific and other uses, but weather forecasts are better in F. It makes little difference to the rest of the SI units if temperatures are all in Fahrenheit.
Designs are always changing. The new beta design is definitely a shock, but par for the course with many sites anymore. It's the new commenting system that makes me insane. Does anyone actually read/. for the stories? They aren't exactly getting the scoop on anybody. Without the commenting community the site is weak.
It looks like I can filter the Beta site comments by ranking, but there is then no way to read a parent comment if it doesn't make the cut. This gives me the choice of, read all this CleanPC shit, or not be able to read the low ranked parent of any highly ranked post.
It also appears that the post anonymous feature is gone. Now I'm going to have to completely log out to do that. I'm not impressed with this.
You're comma makes it sound like you are saying that Nintendo is somehow involved with Pac Man. It was a Namco game and it appears that Namco is still an existing entity. That still doesn't explain why there are Pac Man toys at Burger King 30 years after the game was popular.
They may be for sale, but how many copies of these could they really be selling? I don't think it would hurt Disney's bottom line to lose these old works. How many kids today even know what a 'Steamboat Willie' is without first thinking to look on Urban Dictionary?
Try to follow the thread. I asked a question that had nothing to do with why someone would wish to protect their privacy. I'm more interested in the GP's dealings with "organized crime things" to gauge how bad his run ins with Neo-nazis are.
The point is they are using a non-standard charging station that can only charge Teslas. By not using the standard they are reducing the number of possible charging stations for non-Tesla electric cars. This doesn't help the electric car market as a whole. I understand that Tesla doesn't care about other electric car manufacturers, but it's kind of a dick move.
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I've never seen a weather forecast that tells the temperature with rational numbers. They don't exactly roll off the tongue. When was the last time you saw an oven that let you set the temperature to fractions of a degree? Rational numbers are great for scientific recordings, but not always for mundane numbers in life.
I have no problem with people using Celsius. I just don't see the same compelling argument to use that unit over Fahrenheit, like say using meters over feet/yards/miles. Unless I can hear a good reason why Celsius is better, why would I throw away my lifetime of familiarity with temperature points in the Fahrenheit scale?
Having values that make sense to someone that has been familiar with the Celsius scale their entire life is not compelling.
There's nothing wrong with it really, but unlike other measurement units, Celsius don't offer anything better than Fahrenheit. Temperature doesn't have the same peculiarities of other Imperial units like length and volume. For temperatures people are concerned with, there is a larger difference between 30C and 31C, than there is between 86F and 87F. It's a very subtle difference, but Fahrenheit has more resolution (without using decimals).
If people are truly pushing for the world to convert to SI units they would stop using Celsius and use Kelvin, but that's not the case.
7 transactions per second? This will never be much of a currency with that sort of limit.
Could you give any more information about these banks going down? I've never had a problem not being able to walk into my bank and withdrawal money as needed.
There are a few out liners who take the third option...
The proper term is outliers.
And don't take US national elections as a measuring stick to the types of people that Americans are. There are many Americans that don't even vote.
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988. .
You don't have to look back 26 years to find a massive forest fire from the forest management policies we practice. I think you could find some examples from last summer. Most every year now there have been massive fires somewhere in the American West.
Ok. I'll go with your explanation of why humans feel they need to correct the issue should the wolves disappear.
The process of correcting the problem seems ridiculous. Wolves have a hard time surviving in an environment because humans have altered the climate and it is less than hospitable for them. Those wolves die off or leave. Then people just dump more wolves in the same place they had a hard time surviving? What kind of sense does that make?
If you think human caused climate change is hurting this wolf population, work on the human caused climate change rather than just dumping more wolves there.
One of these things is juvenile, as you said, and is also fraudulent and against the rules. The other is a valid probing of the pricing structure to get the best deal. It is no difference from discovering that you can buy a whopper, fries, and a drink separately at Burger King for less money than the packaged meal.
Here's a hypothetical situation of stops:
A--B------------E--------------C--D
One rider goes from A to C, and another goes from D-B. They meet in the middle somewhere at stop E and switch tickets. Now their tickets appear to be going from A-B and C-D, even though both of them crossed the large middle travel from B-C. Do you admit now that there is a possible way to switch tickets that is unfair? Given a large enough network of riders we could get a ticket switching system that has most people going a stop or two even if they crossed the entire city.
Then fuck yourself.
If he could do that, I doubt he would go through with the whole bus stop watching thing.
Please stop with the SI units. It's not going to happen. Why is it so great again? Unit conversion? I don't use a sliderule to make calculations and I can trivially convert between units.
How about if we use SI prefixes with imperial units. Pounds, centipounds, millipounds, etc. Would that be acceptable?
These are probable the same taxi drivers that claim to have no change for any bills too. Let's not have terrible merchants stop us from implementing newer systems.
You mean "The government follows your every step, it is getting worse than the commies ever were" doesn't work anymore? Because that's pretty much the message of today.
Considering the average American thinks commies just get free hand outs from the government, I don't think that works anymore.
Said the guy who never had fraudulent charges reversed on a credit card. Try doing that with cash.
There are definite negatives to using credit cards, but they have advantages as well.
Is it really baffling to use Fahrenheit temperature units when the country one lives in and all the people in one's life use that unit and don't have a good feel for Celsius?
If we follow your logical argument, the majority of the world should use US Dollars instead of their own money units. We should also stop with these other languages that only a small fraction of the worlds people speak.
For Temperature, Fahrenheit is better suited for temperatures that people live in. Celsius, is fine for all scientific and other uses, but weather forecasts are better in F. It makes little difference to the rest of the SI units if temperatures are all in Fahrenheit.
Designs are always changing. The new beta design is definitely a shock, but par for the course with many sites anymore. It's the new commenting system that makes me insane. Does anyone actually read /. for the stories? They aren't exactly getting the scoop on anybody. Without the commenting community the site is weak.
It looks like I can filter the Beta site comments by ranking, but there is then no way to read a parent comment if it doesn't make the cut. This gives me the choice of, read all this CleanPC shit, or not be able to read the low ranked parent of any highly ranked post.
It also appears that the post anonymous feature is gone. Now I'm going to have to completely log out to do that. I'm not impressed with this.
Nintendo makes repackaged 80s games the core of its business, Burger King's happy meal somehow is 'Pac Man,'.
You're comma makes it sound like you are saying that Nintendo is somehow involved with Pac Man. It was a Namco game and it appears that Namco is still an existing entity. That still doesn't explain why there are Pac Man toys at Burger King 30 years after the game was popular.
They may be for sale, but how many copies of these could they really be selling? I don't think it would hurt Disney's bottom line to lose these old works. How many kids today even know what a 'Steamboat Willie' is without first thinking to look on Urban Dictionary?
But if copyright only lasts 15 years, then anyone could make a terrible Robocop reboot instead of the one official terrible reboot.
Try to follow the thread. I asked a question that had nothing to do with why someone would wish to protect their privacy. I'm more interested in the GP's dealings with "organized crime things" to gauge how bad his run ins with Neo-nazis are.
(Neo nazis are one of the nastiest organized crime things I've ever seen!
I'm not doubting their nastiness, but how many "organized crime things" have you had dealings with?
Try reading all the words in a sentence.
The point is they are using a non-standard charging station that can only charge Teslas. By not using the standard they are reducing the number of possible charging stations for non-Tesla electric cars. This doesn't help the electric car market as a whole. I understand that Tesla doesn't care about other electric car manufacturers, but it's kind of a dick move.
Not every car honks when the doors are locked. Many cars have this as a configurable setting now.