Work on what became the metric system began before the Revolution; there was at the time dozens of regional definitions of common units in France (which you can still witness in such mind boggling vestiges such as "Troy ounce" or "avoirdupois ounce"). Starting over with an entirely new, rational base avoided having to pick a favorite.
Fahrenheit degrees are another story; they're just a fucking stupid unit. Using the human body's temperature as a reference point.. that's just retarded.
It's not necessarily as simple as you claim
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"Digestible" isn't a boolean value. For instance, as we all know, most adults can't digest lactose. Most white adults can, because they have the right enzyme. However the range of the amount of enzyme available from individual to individual must be quite large. I doubt that those in the lower end of the range get as much energy from drinking the same large amount of milk as those on the higher end.
Why are those (wrong) platitude upvoted?
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The fucking article is about fructose. You know why it's spelled with F-R-U-C-T and not G-L-U-C? Because it's not fucking glucose, irrespective of Dr. Lustig's claims validity.
To exercise the non-compete clause, they have to pay a significant portion of the former employee's former salary for the length of the clause (1y max if I'm not mistaken). They then have to pay no matter what, even if the employee didn't really intent to work for the competition, and they can only prevent him from working for the direct competition, no vague "same area" bullshit. So the end result is that it's rarely ever used.
The question is as insightful as "democracy or republic" — i.e. not at all, because the answer is very obvious: it's both, and there's absolutely no contradiction despite what a poorly educated mind might think.
They look like toys compare to the iPad — very buggy toys. And none of them even compares to the iPad in the one feature at made me buy one: 10h battery life. And that's not even mentioning the touchscreen quality.
They have NOTHING on the market right now. When their stuff's actually out, Apple can simply release a new OS version. In fact they might already have one ready, since unlike HP and BB they don't do vaporware.
They typically have decent to excellent central systems, and it feels like they're treating it seriously and spending lots of money to maintain and upgrade them.
Now at the periphery... the interconnections, for electronic payment and so on, they're a disgusting mess. It doesn't help that some protocols are truly horrible and should have died 40 years ago, but even when they've moved into the IP era, they keep on using outdated shit and/or idiotic settings.
I paid €600 for my Wifi 32G iPad. I use it every day for, in order: reading books and PDFs, browsing the web, mail reading, notetaking and mindmapping, watching videos. I could do that, and used to do that, on a netbook. But I had to buy a new one anyway, and what I can't do with the iPad I can do better than on a laptop on my workstation.
€600 for something you use all the time is not expensive.
An entry-level iPad is the same price ($500) as a decent smartphone. While they don't replace a smartphone, they certainly are better at some thing.
Now some people compare it to an entry-level laptop, which can be cheaper and have more computing power. Well that's might be a valid comparison if you have to pick one or the other, except that you won't find a laptop below 1kg and with 10h battery life — the last spec being the only one that made me buy an iPad. I used it for a whole transatlantic flight, including shuttling to and from the airport.
They suck at software. Every EMC-provided piece of software I've had the misfortune to look at has been a profound disaster. Their Linux drivers generate kernel oops as a matter of routine -- and it's even documented -- if you don't deactivate things in the right order.
in selling overpriced Windows 3.11 machines with lots of overpriced disks in them. They are also world famous for having the worst user interface, the most buggy device drivers (do not use EMC with Linux!) and the most unusable support website -- PowerStink(tm)
Considering how EMC's crap is overpriced, it doesn't take much to make $1 million.
There's one thing that's more astonishing than how expensive their crap is: how crappy their software is. It looks like it's written by deranged apes. Not just because of the million bugs, the offensively useless help files or the fact that their appliances are running on Windows 3.11 (true fact!). No, there's something to it that's simply _wrong_.
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Work on what became the metric system began before the Revolution; there was at the time dozens of regional definitions of common units in France (which you can still witness in such mind boggling vestiges such as "Troy ounce" or "avoirdupois ounce"). Starting over with an entirely new, rational base avoided having to pick a favorite.
Fahrenheit degrees are another story; they're just a fucking stupid unit. Using the human body's temperature as a reference point .. that's just retarded.
"Digestible" isn't a boolean value. For instance, as we all know, most adults can't digest lactose. Most white adults can, because they have the right enzyme. However the range of the amount of enzyme available from individual to individual must be quite large. I doubt that those in the lower end of the range get as much energy from drinking the same large amount of milk as those on the higher end.
The fucking article is about fructose. You know why it's spelled with F-R-U-C-T and not G-L-U-C? Because it's not fucking glucose, irrespective of Dr. Lustig's claims validity.
It's not like most of them cared about it changing!
To exercise the non-compete clause, they have to pay a significant portion of the former employee's former salary for the length of the clause (1y max if I'm not mistaken). They then have to pay no matter what, even if the employee didn't really intent to work for the competition, and they can only prevent him from working for the direct competition, no vague "same area" bullshit. So the end result is that it's rarely ever used.
... that's why he chose a Cæsar cipher instead.
... a country whose main language is English, or a country where an Indo-European tongue is spoken?
Also, are most people in the U.S. not illiterate, or can most Americans read?
Is roughly 50% of the population female, or has half of it a Y chromosome?
Is there freedom of speech in the U.S., or is Congress prohibited from passing laws restricting the press?
Finally, is it a Republic OR a Democracy?
Remember, in every case, you have to pick ONE case, they're all obviously(*) mutually exclusive!
(*) if you're a Republican
The question is as insightful as "democracy or republic" — i.e. not at all, because the answer is very obvious: it's both, and there's absolutely no contradiction despite what a poorly educated mind might think.
They look like toys compare to the iPad — very buggy toys. And none of them even compares to the iPad in the one feature at made me buy one: 10h battery life. And that's not even mentioning the touchscreen quality.
They have NOTHING on the market right now. When their stuff's actually out, Apple can simply release a new OS version. In fact they might already have one ready, since unlike HP and BB they don't do vaporware.
Push a shortcut to their desktop for the web application that requires IE6 that opens it with IE6.
Push a shortcut called "The Googlez" that starts Firefox or Chrome for general purpose web browsing.
There's rendering and all kind of things that don't need write access to the DOM and can thus be threaded out.
You might be surprised to learn that weight is an important factor for most users of *mobile* devices.
They typically have decent to excellent central systems, and it feels like they're treating it seriously and spending lots of money to maintain and upgrade them.
Now at the periphery ... the interconnections, for electronic payment and so on, they're a disgusting mess. It doesn't help that some protocols are truly horrible and should have died 40 years ago, but even when they've moved into the IP era, they keep on using outdated shit and/or idiotic settings.
I asked you to find me a laptop (implied, today) with 10h battery life, to point how much it costs if it exists at all.
I paid €600 for my Wifi 32G iPad. I use it every day for, in order: reading books and PDFs, browsing the web, mail reading, notetaking and mindmapping, watching videos. I could do that, and used to do that, on a netbook. But I had to buy a new one anyway, and what I can't do with the iPad I can do better than on a laptop on my workstation.
€600 for something you use all the time is not expensive.
without 4 extra packs.
>richer interfaces (keyboard, touchpad, ports).
Have you tried the iPad's touchscreen? It's just ten times better than a crummy netbook touchpad.
An entry-level iPad is the same price ($500) as a decent smartphone. While they don't replace a smartphone, they certainly are better at some thing.
Now some people compare it to an entry-level laptop, which can be cheaper and have more computing power. Well that's might be a valid comparison if you have to pick one or the other, except that you won't find a laptop below 1kg and with 10h battery life — the last spec being the only one that made me buy an iPad. I used it for a whole transatlantic flight, including shuttling to and from the airport.
And it's not the NSA.
is the numero uno top maximum priority most people look for in a phone.
Right.
That's neocon propaganda. That's not insightful.
They suck at software. Every EMC-provided piece of software I've had the misfortune to look at has been a profound disaster. Their Linux drivers generate kernel oops as a matter of routine -- and it's even documented -- if you don't deactivate things in the right order.
in selling overpriced Windows 3.11 machines with lots of overpriced disks in them. They are also world famous for having the worst user interface, the most buggy device drivers (do not use EMC with Linux!) and the most unusable support website -- PowerStink(tm)
Considering how EMC's crap is overpriced, it doesn't take much to make $1 million.
There's one thing that's more astonishing than how expensive their crap is: how crappy their software is. It looks like it's written by deranged apes. Not just because of the million bugs, the offensively useless help files or the fact that their appliances are running on Windows 3.11 (true fact!). No, there's something to it that's simply _wrong_.