I thought that even American cars used mainly metric bolts. Back in the 90s, when I actually worked on cars, we found that 3/4 of the bolts were indeed metric, excepting some dash screws, leftover common parts from over the years, and minor stuff. Fortunately, many were 14mm, and a 9/16" is just a hair sloppy on that, close enough for all but torqued bolts. Maybe they switched back to Imperial, I don't know, but then it was more metric than standard.
And as for Eurpean useage, we get stuff from Europe all the time (import equipment) and it is all in metric. It is just a matter of making new stuff metric, and making Imperial stuff to maintain the old stuff. screws, bolts, spacing, all in even metric. And these are primarily Belgian designs built in Moldova, so it spans the continent.
Money not spent buys security, and eventually, whatever is left over can be given to a good cause. It means I won't be dependent on Social Security, my wife won't be straddled with bills if I die early, I won't be in poverty if I can't keep working until I'm 70 due to health or other issues. And money not spent isn't "wasted". I don't have kids, but anything left over won't just sit there, it will go to a good cause.
And if someone wants to blow their money on frivolities, so be it. It is their money, and even blowing money makes jobs, as someone has to build the crap they buy. I just choose to live a simpler existence than my wallet would allow. Short term sacrifice for long term gains: stability and security.
It is quite possible to work more, make 6 figures and still be frugal. Not everyone making a good wage is an idiot in a McMansion, only most of them. Some people work over 40 hours because they actually LIKE what they do. And the money follows.
Was thinking the same thing. I never bought 3L bottles anyway, they went flat before I could finish them.
Now that I think about it, we already use metric for lots of stuff like colas and water (most are now metric, litres, half litres, 2 litres) Many can foods are done in metric (they have to have both by law anyway). Even car speedos are required to have metric. I love cruising the highway at 120kph. (and so does my lawyer). All medicine is metric. All science is supposed to be in metric (oops NASA!).
If you want to get us Americans to use metric, all you have to do is require the most important thing we deal with to become metric: gasoline purchases. Everything else will follow. Gas is the most important thing to us, it is what we spend half our income on, and what we bitch about the price of most. As to temperatures, I really don't see C being that much better than F (the degrees are too fat in C) but that isn't that hard to get used to. Rate cars only by litres per 100k, and change the laws so it has to be sold by the litre, and within 10 years, problem solved. Besides, the old die hards that insist on using Imperial...well, they don't die that hard, and they are getting older.
Speaking of metric, I have noticed that different European countries use metric differently as well. Some will list a 6+ ft item as 2m, some will call it 2000mm. Yes, it is the same thing, but each country seems to have a preference for the default.
You do realize that people DO use some of these already? And while OS/2 isn't free, it is still be used years after it was "obsolete". It runs our PBX, and still some ATMs. Dell ships systems with FreeDOS as OEM software if you like. (I've used it, a little different but good.). Solaris, well, if you don't know Solaris, I can see why you didn't log in to post, although OpenIndiana is a better fork to use. Open or closed, lots of iron still runs Solaris.
you are left with not much but Linux as an alternative!
FreeBSD, (and other BSDs), FreeDOS, Darwin, Haiku, Plan 9, Solaris just to name a few. FreeBSD in particular is quite competitive with Linux, since many of the same GUI elements and applications will run on both.
I am of the opinion that one should know as much as possible about the world that surrounds them, including how things work.. It's not so difficult to learn. I love learning.
I agree, but what about those that disagree? Many people have no interest in learning how things work, and just want them TO work. When it is reasonably possible, shouldn't things "work" well enough out of the box that they don't have to think about them. If for no other reason than to protect the rest of us from what could happen due to their lack of desire to become experts.
And the same could be said of your car. I completely understand how an Otto engine works, and can literally draw you a diagram of it. As a direct comparison, should we say that everyone *should* understand how an Otto engine works, and maybe even understand how to at least change their oil, rotate their tires and do basic electronic diagnosis of their car before we let them get a license?
And yes, for once, this a car analogy that actually fits.
And you keep making the same mistake the other half of readers here make: not reading the whole comment. If 100% of the digital signal gets transported over the cable, it doesn't matter if it is a $10 or a $1000 cable. I want to think I've use that 100% expression a few times in this thread.
I will make even more simple: If the cable can transmit all the data without error, you can't improve on that.
These same people think it is smart to buy a home just to get the tax deductions, so the interest rates don't bother them. And the world IS full of them. They think they understand business and taxes, but they don't. I hear that all the time at work. "So what, it's a tax writeoff" as if that means it is free money.
When it comes to transmitting analog information, there is a difference in many cables. Even speaker wire (which is analog) makes a difference, depending on quality of copper, gauges used, etc. Most people can't notice the difference, but between "cheap grade" and "good grade" they can. But a HDMI cable is digital. Either the signal is 100% getting there or it isn't. It can't get there "better", like it can with analog information. If a $2 cable transmits the digital signal with no loss, it will sound exactly the same as a $2000 cable, it is impossible to sound "better". Smart people may buy the $20 cable for durability and quality of construction, but can't improve the "sound" of the music like it does with analog. I keep explaining this, and not sure why I would have to so much on a tech website.
Either the digital signal is 100% getting there, or it isn't. That was the point and what is implied. It isn't like analog where getting most of the signal means lower quality but you can still play the source with the lower quality flaws (ie: snow).
Try reading the reviews for this one as well, just as mocking. And while they may list it for $10,000 on Amazon (at one place only, no ratings, just launched with Amazon so likely a test product), the actual review for the cable http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9967991-1.html and they also mocked it as nothing more than an overpriced ethernet cable. And show it priced at $500. The Amazon price is not authentic, just as the Best Buy price likely isn't, although they would likely be happy to take your money.
I feel your pain. Pharmboy isn't about pharmaceuticals, it is just that 20 years ago, "Ph == f" was k3wl and I like living a more rural existence. That gets misread all the time. Besides, my drugs of choice of natural plants or fermented, not pharmaceuticals.
He said that, and he was correct. You are not understanding what he is saying. There is a difference in a tax credit and a tax deduction, and he explained it well. Try reading it again or consult your CPA.
So, you are saying you really believe that this is an $1100 cable and that people actually buy these? This cable manages to transcend the laws of physics somehow, and while other digital cables either transmit the 100% digital signal, or don't, this one manages to transmit more than 100% of the 0s and 1s and delivers more data than was fed into it? Or do you really not understand how digital data works?
Didn't you read the reviews? One guy was watched a horror movie and it was so realistic, it traumatized him and he had to seek counseling. He couldn't even leave his couch. This is no ordinary $11 cable.
The price is justified by the market, not R&D. And a disproportionate amount of Occupiers have Apple products, ironically. Trying to read between the lines only gives you blank lines.
And as for what you were taught in economics, it it meaningless. Practice and theory might be the same in theory, but it seldom is in practice. The market decides what the profit will be, not your professor. Leave free market capitalism to those of us that practice it instead of those that teach it.
The countries that "hate" the US aren't the ones asking for aid...
Pakistan is just the tip of the iceburg when it comes to "enemies" we give money to. Cuba, Somalia and even China get aid. I don't understand it either.
In open and free markets, competitors catch up and price approaches marginal cost.
Correct, but it isn't instantaneous, and part of what Apple is selling is "cool factor", which is in short supply in the tech industry. IBM used to have outrageous margins on their hardware, and eventually it got so thin they left the desktop biz. HP was just debating the same thing recently. Apple has high margins but low volume on the desktop. The reason they still have high volume and high margins on tablets is that no one has produced a viable competitive product yet. The Kindle Fire isn't a directly comparable product but it will open up the floodgates. Rest assured, within two years, Amazon will have a 10" tablet. for half of what Apple sells them for. Then we will see what happens to the prices. Likely, Amazon won't have the cool factor, but will at least be able to compete on price/features.
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I now make minimum wage.
Maybe the problem is your skill set. Or your attitude.
I thought that even American cars used mainly metric bolts. Back in the 90s, when I actually worked on cars, we found that 3/4 of the bolts were indeed metric, excepting some dash screws, leftover common parts from over the years, and minor stuff. Fortunately, many were 14mm, and a 9/16" is just a hair sloppy on that, close enough for all but torqued bolts. Maybe they switched back to Imperial, I don't know, but then it was more metric than standard.
And as for Eurpean useage, we get stuff from Europe all the time (import equipment) and it is all in metric. It is just a matter of making new stuff metric, and making Imperial stuff to maintain the old stuff. screws, bolts, spacing, all in even metric. And these are primarily Belgian designs built in Moldova, so it spans the continent.
What do you spend your money on then?
Money not spent buys security, and eventually, whatever is left over can be given to a good cause. It means I won't be dependent on Social Security, my wife won't be straddled with bills if I die early, I won't be in poverty if I can't keep working until I'm 70 due to health or other issues. And money not spent isn't "wasted". I don't have kids, but anything left over won't just sit there, it will go to a good cause.
And if someone wants to blow their money on frivolities, so be it. It is their money, and even blowing money makes jobs, as someone has to build the crap they buy. I just choose to live a simpler existence than my wallet would allow. Short term sacrifice for long term gains: stability and security.
It is quite possible to work more, make 6 figures and still be frugal. Not everyone making a good wage is an idiot in a McMansion, only most of them. Some people work over 40 hours because they actually LIKE what they do. And the money follows.
Only because Netcraft confirmed that it is dying.
Was thinking the same thing. I never bought 3L bottles anyway, they went flat before I could finish them.
Now that I think about it, we already use metric for lots of stuff like colas and water (most are now metric, litres, half litres, 2 litres) Many can foods are done in metric (they have to have both by law anyway). Even car speedos are required to have metric. I love cruising the highway at 120kph. (and so does my lawyer). All medicine is metric. All science is supposed to be in metric (oops NASA!).
If you want to get us Americans to use metric, all you have to do is require the most important thing we deal with to become metric: gasoline purchases. Everything else will follow. Gas is the most important thing to us, it is what we spend half our income on, and what we bitch about the price of most. As to temperatures, I really don't see C being that much better than F (the degrees are too fat in C) but that isn't that hard to get used to. Rate cars only by litres per 100k, and change the laws so it has to be sold by the litre, and within 10 years, problem solved. Besides, the old die hards that insist on using Imperial...well, they don't die that hard, and they are getting older.
Speaking of metric, I have noticed that different European countries use metric differently as well. Some will list a 6+ ft item as 2m, some will call it 2000mm. Yes, it is the same thing, but each country seems to have a preference for the default.
Why on the moon? Why not in a high orbit around the earth.
You mean, like this one? ;)
You do realize that people DO use some of these already? And while OS/2 isn't free, it is still be used years after it was "obsolete". It runs our PBX, and still some ATMs. Dell ships systems with FreeDOS as OEM software if you like. (I've used it, a little different but good.). Solaris, well, if you don't know Solaris, I can see why you didn't log in to post, although OpenIndiana is a better fork to use. Open or closed, lots of iron still runs Solaris.
you are left with not much but Linux as an alternative!
FreeBSD, (and other BSDs), FreeDOS, Darwin, Haiku, Plan 9, Solaris just to name a few. FreeBSD in particular is quite competitive with Linux, since many of the same GUI elements and applications will run on both.
I am of the opinion that one should know as much as possible about the world that surrounds them, including how things work.. It's not so difficult to learn. I love learning.
I agree, but what about those that disagree? Many people have no interest in learning how things work, and just want them TO work. When it is reasonably possible, shouldn't things "work" well enough out of the box that they don't have to think about them. If for no other reason than to protect the rest of us from what could happen due to their lack of desire to become experts.
And the same could be said of your car. I completely understand how an Otto engine works, and can literally draw you a diagram of it. As a direct comparison, should we say that everyone *should* understand how an Otto engine works, and maybe even understand how to at least change their oil, rotate their tires and do basic electronic diagnosis of their car before we let them get a license?
And yes, for once, this a car analogy that actually fits.
And you keep making the same mistake the other half of readers here make: not reading the whole comment. If 100% of the digital signal gets transported over the cable, it doesn't matter if it is a $10 or a $1000 cable. I want to think I've use that 100% expression a few times in this thread.
I will make even more simple: If the cable can transmit all the data without error, you can't improve on that.
These same people think it is smart to buy a home just to get the tax deductions, so the interest rates don't bother them. And the world IS full of them. They think they understand business and taxes, but they don't. I hear that all the time at work. "So what, it's a tax writeoff" as if that means it is free money.
When it comes to transmitting analog information, there is a difference in many cables. Even speaker wire (which is analog) makes a difference, depending on quality of copper, gauges used, etc. Most people can't notice the difference, but between "cheap grade" and "good grade" they can. But a HDMI cable is digital. Either the signal is 100% getting there or it isn't. It can't get there "better", like it can with analog information. If a $2 cable transmits the digital signal with no loss, it will sound exactly the same as a $2000 cable, it is impossible to sound "better". Smart people may buy the $20 cable for durability and quality of construction, but can't improve the "sound" of the music like it does with analog. I keep explaining this, and not sure why I would have to so much on a tech website.
Either the digital signal is 100% getting there, or it isn't. That was the point and what is implied. It isn't like analog where getting most of the signal means lower quality but you can still play the source with the lower quality flaws (ie: snow).
Try reading the reviews for this one as well, just as mocking. And while they may list it for $10,000 on Amazon (at one place only, no ratings, just launched with Amazon so likely a test product), the actual review for the cable http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9967991-1.html and they also mocked it as nothing more than an overpriced ethernet cable. And show it priced at $500. The Amazon price is not authentic, just as the Best Buy price likely isn't, although they would likely be happy to take your money.
I feel your pain. Pharmboy isn't about pharmaceuticals, it is just that 20 years ago, "Ph == f" was k3wl and I like living a more rural existence. That gets misread all the time. Besides, my drugs of choice of natural plants or fermented, not pharmaceuticals.
He said that, and he was correct. You are not understanding what he is saying. There is a difference in a tax credit and a tax deduction, and he explained it well. Try reading it again or consult your CPA.
So, you are saying you really believe that this is an $1100 cable and that people actually buy these? This cable manages to transcend the laws of physics somehow, and while other digital cables either transmit the 100% digital signal, or don't, this one manages to transmit more than 100% of the 0s and 1s and delivers more data than was fed into it? Or do you really not understand how digital data works?
Didn't you read the reviews? One guy was watched a horror movie and it was so realistic, it traumatized him and he had to seek counseling. He couldn't even leave his couch. This is no ordinary $11 cable.
The price is justified by the market, not R&D. And a disproportionate amount of Occupiers have Apple products, ironically. Trying to read between the lines only gives you blank lines.
And as for what you were taught in economics, it it meaningless. Practice and theory might be the same in theory, but it seldom is in practice. The market decides what the profit will be, not your professor. Leave free market capitalism to those of us that practice it instead of those that teach it.
Maybe they want to know WHICH satellite it came FROM? That may give them some useful information somehow.
" Whoa, slow down there maestro. There's a NEW Mexico? "
If he told us what domains he was hosting, wouldn't that MAKE him a spammer here?
The countries that "hate" the US aren't the ones asking for aid...
Pakistan is just the tip of the iceburg when it comes to "enemies" we give money to. Cuba, Somalia and even China get aid. I don't understand it either.
In open and free markets, competitors catch up and price approaches marginal cost.
Correct, but it isn't instantaneous, and part of what Apple is selling is "cool factor", which is in short supply in the tech industry. IBM used to have outrageous margins on their hardware, and eventually it got so thin they left the desktop biz. HP was just debating the same thing recently. Apple has high margins but low volume on the desktop. The reason they still have high volume and high margins on tablets is that no one has produced a viable competitive product yet. The Kindle Fire isn't a directly comparable product but it will open up the floodgates. Rest assured, within two years, Amazon will have a 10" tablet. for half of what Apple sells them for. Then we will see what happens to the prices. Likely, Amazon won't have the cool factor, but will at least be able to compete on price/features.