If it takes a capacitive touch screen (the only type that makes sense for most devices these days) to get a decent slab of glass on most laptop screens, I'll take it and might even use it. I'm not buying another laptop without some decent glass covering the screen - two screens with uneven backlighting and god-knows-what-the-hell-this-is dirt that won't come off are enough for me.
As a matter of fact, Windows 8 Pro allows for a downgrade to Vista (dunno why anyone would do *that*) or 7, possibly even XP (again, no real reason to do it).
Besides, if the start button and Windows 7-style start menu are all that you're missing, there's plenty of alternatives to bring them back.
Tax evasion has always been blatantly huge in restaurants, bars and cafés. It's no wonder the restaurant associations are up in arms with this. They've declared war on card payments too, which is something that pisses me off. They claim the bank rates are too high, but guess what the real reason is?
I'm curious as to how much pressure the government is actually willing to apply. A crackdown on under-the-table transactions is a lot more feasible when you can just look at the register and fine the owner for having unapproved software, since you don't have to prove tax evasion proper. They could definitely do a crackdown on suspected tax evaders more or less like the health authorities did their crackdown on the unsanitary chinese restaurants a few years back and scare most small businesses into compliance.
If the choice comes down to a western-style dictatorship that's friendlier to us than a bunch of islamists, and said islamists imposing their authoritarian regime, I'll support the former.
You wouldn't say that the distance between two places is 8800 yards, you'd say 5 miles. That's what's good about metric - you can just shift the decimal seperator to get a nicer number if you change the prefix.
The base unit is not the gram, but the kilogram. The kilogram is defined as the mass of an object sitting in some safe, the gram as one thousandth of a kilogram.
First sentence: "The kilogram or kilogramme (SI symbol: kg), also known as the kilo, is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK),[1] which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water. "
It's counter-intuitive, but that's the way it is, and that's why MKS makes a lot more sense than CGS. In practice, it doesn't matter and you get used to the one base unit which is prefixed.
With no paper or calculator: 1m^3 = 1000l -> 1l = 0,001m^3 = 1 dm^3
Cubic meter of water = 1000l ~ 1000kg of water = 1.000.000g of water
It's hardly arbitrary. Base 10 is our number system, so prefixes are powers of 10.
You're quite right about using MKS, since those are the SI units. Other combinations are niches that aren't useful except when the field still has some inertia from using the smaller units.
Now, tell me: What is so hard about dividing 1 by 2, 4 or 5 times? If you need half a kilogram, you need 500g. A quarter would mean 250g, a fifth 200g.
Is everything packaged in liter increments? Common sizes for drinks: 1l, 1,5l, 2l, 5l, 0.5l, 0.33l (soda cans and small water bottles) Less common: 0.2l, 0.1l.
Common sizes for solids (sold by weight): 50g (rare), 100g, 150g, 200g, 250g, 300g, 400g, 500g, 750g, 1kg....
You also seem to be thinking way too small. The base SI unit isn't gram, it's kilogram. That is much easier to visualize. A meter is an arbitrary length (any measure of length would be arbitrary) that can be easily imagined and roughly measured, and the second was inherited - not much one can do about it.
Easy: Get rid of Letter and use A4 like the rest of the world. There is literally no barrier to adoption (unless American folders are somewhat shorter than ours), since any printer will print A4 or Letter.
It's time for the US to get rid of the TSA, which has caught no terrorists, foiled no plots, cost millions, irradiated thousands with backscatter x-ray scanners, has stolen quite a few personal items and is actively trying to expand its sphere of influence.
Replace it with common sense and profile people. That's how airprort security works, not by wasting millions of dollars.
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Nuclear is the future... Embrace it.
I honestly believe they could market SimCity as a destruction simulator, where you develop a town so that you can destroy it over and over again.
What I mean is that their presentation and how the user interacts with them isn't quite the same as on Windows 7.
Classic Shell works nearly as well as the Windows 7 start menu and provides a lot of customization options.
Search, recent programs and the programs list aren't as good as Windows 7's, though.
a) You don't have to use it.
b) It actually works in some situations. Especially when you'd normally only have a touchpad.
If it takes a capacitive touch screen (the only type that makes sense for most devices these days) to get a decent slab of glass on most laptop screens, I'll take it and might even use it.
I'm not buying another laptop without some decent glass covering the screen - two screens with uneven backlighting and god-knows-what-the-hell-this-is dirt that won't come off are enough for me.
As a matter of fact, Windows 8 Pro allows for a downgrade to Vista (dunno why anyone would do *that*) or 7, possibly even XP (again, no real reason to do it).
Besides, if the start button and Windows 7-style start menu are all that you're missing, there's plenty of alternatives to bring them back.
Tax evasion has always been blatantly huge in restaurants, bars and cafés. It's no wonder the restaurant associations are up in arms with this. They've declared war on card payments too, which is something that pisses me off. They claim the bank rates are too high, but guess what the real reason is?
I'm curious as to how much pressure the government is actually willing to apply. A crackdown on under-the-table transactions is a lot more feasible when you can just look at the register and fine the owner for having unapproved software, since you don't have to prove tax evasion proper. They could definitely do a crackdown on suspected tax evaders more or less like the health authorities did their crackdown on the unsanitary chinese restaurants a few years back and scare most small businesses into compliance.
Fuel was probably just a case of overfilled tanks.
Shit happens with brakes in every airliner from time to time, same goes for cockpit windows.
Everything that goes on a plane is made not to burn. I'm sure they tried to light a mock fuselage on fire to see what happens.
You forgot the scrotum-sniffing.
I'm relatively sure Nokia's browser has the same feature, as they announced (if I'm not imagining it) some time ago.
Nothing to see here, move along...
If the choice comes down to a western-style dictatorship that's friendlier to us than a bunch of islamists, and said islamists imposing their authoritarian regime, I'll support the former.
And give them a heads up? Do you know how quickly sharks reverse-engineered the last weapon tested next to them?
1.87m.
You wouldn't say that the distance between two places is 8800 yards, you'd say 5 miles. That's what's good about metric - you can just shift the decimal seperator to get a nicer number if you change the prefix.
The extra contacts are also a dead giveaway
It's reasonable to ask management for lockers...
0 Kelvin is still 0 energy. All else is quantum physics, which is weird by nature.
The base unit is not the gram, but the kilogram. The kilogram is defined as the mass of an object sitting in some safe, the gram as one thousandth of a kilogram.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kg
First sentence: "The kilogram or kilogramme (SI symbol: kg), also known as the kilo, is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK),[1] which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water. "
It's counter-intuitive, but that's the way it is, and that's why MKS makes a lot more sense than CGS. In practice, it doesn't matter and you get used to the one base unit which is prefixed.
Stop spreading FUD.
With no paper or calculator: 1m^3 = 1000l -> 1l = 0,001m^3 = 1 dm^3
Cubic meter of water = 1000l ~ 1000kg of water = 1.000.000g of water
It's hardly arbitrary. Base 10 is our number system, so prefixes are powers of 10.
You're quite right about using MKS, since those are the SI units. Other combinations are niches that aren't useful except when the field still has some inertia from using the smaller units.
Now, tell me: What is so hard about dividing 1 by 2, 4 or 5 times? If you need half a kilogram, you need 500g. A quarter would mean 250g, a fifth 200g.
Is everything packaged in liter increments?
Common sizes for drinks: 1l, 1,5l, 2l, 5l, 0.5l, 0.33l (soda cans and small water bottles)
Less common: 0.2l, 0.1l.
Common sizes for solids (sold by weight):
50g (rare), 100g, 150g, 200g, 250g, 300g, 400g, 500g, 750g, 1kg....
You also seem to be thinking way too small. The base SI unit isn't gram, it's kilogram. That is much easier to visualize. A meter is an arbitrary length (any measure of length would be arbitrary) that can be easily imagined and roughly measured, and the second was inherited - not much one can do about it.
Use your head a bit.
1m^3 = 1000 liters (also known as 1000 dm^3, dm being 0.1m) = 1000 kg (The base unit is the kilogram, not the gram. Single confusing aspect of SI.)
True, but you just have to subtract/add 273.15 from Celsius/to Kelvin to get the other scale.
Easy: Get rid of Letter and use A4 like the rest of the world. There is literally no barrier to adoption (unless American folders are somewhat shorter than ours), since any printer will print A4 or Letter.
To be fair, some of that would've been used for real security, but they've certainly outright wasted millions...
It's time for the US to get rid of the TSA, which has caught no terrorists, foiled no plots, cost millions, irradiated thousands with backscatter x-ray scanners, has stolen quite a few personal items and is actively trying to expand its sphere of influence.
Replace it with common sense and profile people. That's how airprort security works, not by wasting millions of dollars.