But BIPM does use 'kilogram' but 'litre'/'metre' on their webpage, so that suggests they prefer the -m spelling even when using -re.
You're probably right, but from the lack of consistency even on their own site it appears if there is a ruling on this it's not well known. They do seem to use "gramme" even in the same context as "kilogram", for instance.
The Slashdot summary reads "with the north pole's magnetic field at about 10-15 percent it's strength of 150 years ago". The NYT article says "The field's strength has waned 10 to 15 percent". I assume most readers can see the error (not just the grammatical one), as long as they understand "wane", that is.
Possibly the editors will have fixed it, but as Timothy wrote this and he seems not to give a fuck I'd be amazed.
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CorelDraw 2, back about 1991 was excellent. Since it was pre-Truetype and ATM, it had is own font engine, which was quite nice, BTW, if non-standard. Version 3 added support for TT and ATM fonts. I did a lot of work with those appas, still have Draw 3 on hand. I wasn't thrilled with what they did to Ventura though, I stick with the DOS version. As for WordPerfect, once they got the hang of Windows its main problem has been marketing rather than anything wrong with the product.
I resent the implication. I was merely pointing out the contradictions in what should be an authoritative reference. So I selected the part that was contradictory to show that. In any case, it's not at all clear if and when the spelling was standardised, as opposed to the definition of the unit.
For example, since many mass measurements of the time concerned masses much smaller than the
kilogram, they decided that the unit of mass should be the "gramme". However, since a one-gramme standard would have been difficult to use as well as to establish, they also decided that the new definition should be embodied in a one-kilogramme artefact. This artefact became known as the "kilogram of the archives".
Some AC wrote: >Do you think the US actually cares if you have to pay extra for putting a sticker on something?
Obviously not.
>Compared to translation costs and the like (most of the EU does not speak English), adopting UPC is not that big of a deal, and less so now given the standard.
EAN is actually the standard everywhere, not just Europe, except the US. There are other countries in the world that publish in English, you know (the UK, Australia, NZ, for a start). When they export books to the US, they had to either print a special edition or sticker them with UPCs.
You may notice that most books sold in the USA have two barcodes, an EAN-13 one (for the rest of the world) and a UPC one. It's a drag having to support those troglodyte US companies that insist on having their UPC. Books published overseas often have to pay to have a UPC code stickered to them.
Next up, metres and kilogrammes (you can spell them American if you really want).
the fact that people voted for the 3rd guy basically took away votes from the democrats
Is preferential voting, as practised in Australia, such a hard concept? It works like this: Say you have 2 major parties (A, B), and 2 minor ones (C, D) on the ballot. You like C, but are pretty sure they won't win. Of A and B you prefer A. In the US, you have to just vote A if you want your vote to count. In Australia you can vote "C,A,D,B". When counted, only the first preferences (above: C) are looked at to begin with. If no candidate has over 50%, the lowest candidate is eliminated, and his votes are given to the second one listed on those ballots (above, if C is eliminated, that vote would be added to A's). And so on, till one candidate gets over 50%. Basically, it's just rolling runoffs into a single ballot. The problem is that the only ones who can change the system are those that won the last vote, so no matter what they promise about reforming the system, they never get around to it once in power.
but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
Answered by: CmdrTaco Last Modified: 6/14/00
He's had FOUR FUCKING YEARS to "think it through", the problem has only gotten worse. His reasons for not doing it are alll easily answered -- eg: cache the pages befoer the site goes up; send an email to the site telling them what you're doing; put the cache link separately. The cached page can retain the origianl banner links and referrers -- pretty easy to automate as banners have predictable sites and URLs (As evidenced by the banner blocking software).
But Taco et al can't be bothered to spellcheck their one-paragraph items, so don't hold your breath.
No, it's not so trivial. Nukes have some bad flaws - they emit radiation and take a good deal of other baggage.
Look for imstance at the W54 warhead, weighed 54 lbs, developed in 1961. Yield only 0.18 kilotons, though. A look at some stats on Russian ICBMS shows they could deliver 2500 kg, which could be a single 20 MT H Bomb, or maybe a dozen smaller ones. These could easily be put in a shipping container. Radiation can be shielded. Maybe not well enough to survive a close examination, but would get by in most ports I think. Or brought in on a yacht, anchor in the port, detonate before anyone gets close, take out a city. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is that box cutters and suicide bombers are cheap and effective.
Another hard part is sneaking it in. It's not something that you put in a 2 litre bottle and drive around with.
But it would fit in a suitcase, or a 44-gallon drum, or a refrigerator,...
Just consider how much heroin, cocaine, etc, is smuggled in every day. Or Mexicans. Or how many 20-foot shipping containers arrive at ports. It's trivial to deliver a nuke, as long as you don't need to to get there immediately as on an ICBM. As far as nuclear terrorism goes, delivering it is the easy part.
But for every situation like DDT, there are thousands of antibiotics saving people's lives.
Well, DDT probably saved thousands, even millions, of lives. It was very effective at killing bugs like malarial mosquitoes that carry portentially lethal diseases. Over enthusiasm with agricultural use and resulting effects was the downside, and most of the bad bugs are immune to it now anyway. But on balance, it coes out a good invention.
I will commonly complete you-must-register-to-get-access forms with;
a nonsensical name, eg mickey_moose_99 a DOB circa 1900 the wrong sex an unlikely city and country, such as Krasnyy, Iran a 90210 area code an 0898 696969 telephone number
Even more irritating than forms that ask you for so much detail for no good purpose, are those that refuse to accept perfectly valid data becasue it isn't what they expect. Most common, sites that demand a Zip code, even after you've selected a foreign (non-American) country as your residence. Or who insist your phone number must be 7 digits. Etc. So that's when I just fill up their forms with garbage.
Even if you didn't remember one single line, how'll you prove it?
In this case, he had copied large slabs of code to his PC. So down the road, MS will have to prove that they don;t have any Altavista code.
MS has made a policy of luring away key staff of leading companies in areas they want to move into, and often been accused of blatantly stealing technology. Even when they've lost in court, they usually win -- making a small cash settlement after they've won the market and destroyed all competition.
Because they don't sell it. And advertising it would only raise the profile of alternative products -- they've got a large number of users who can't imagine there is any other way to access the web.
Mozilla's relative gain was 26%. That's significant.
A loss of 1 percent of the market may not mean much to Microsoft, but it translates into a large growth, proportionately, in the number of users running Mozilla and Netscape-based browsers. Mozilla and Netscape's combined market share has increased by 26 percent, rising from 3.21 percent of the market in June to 4.05 percent in July, Johnston said.
And there's more to read than what's "hot" this week. I read novels from the 1950s just as frequently as the 90s. Ocasionally earlier. Most of my reading is from libraries, or second hand. Just rummaging through the shelves of a second hand book shop is a window on a past era. There are LOTS of books that were popular, even best sellers, a few decades ago that are almost forgotten now. Sometimes deservedly so, but more often worth reading. If it isn't, you've wasted $1.
And though I read almost exclusively SF when I was young, I read more historical novels and non-fiction now. Ancient history can be just as alien as another planet; and I must admit, usually better written than your average SF.
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You're probably right, but from the lack of consistency even on their own site it appears if there is a ruling on this it's not well known. They do seem to use "gramme" even in the same context as "kilogram", for instance.
But "litre" and "metre" are definite.
Possibly the editors will have fixed it, but as Timothy wrote this and he seems not to give a fuck I'd be amazed.
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CorelDraw 2, back about 1991 was excellent. Since it was pre-Truetype and ATM, it had is own font engine, which was quite nice, BTW, if non-standard. Version 3 added support for TT and ATM fonts. I did a lot of work with those appas, still have Draw 3 on hand. I wasn't thrilled with what they did to Ventura though, I stick with the DOS version. As for WordPerfect, once they got the hang of Windows its main problem has been marketing rather than anything wrong with the product.
I resent the implication. I was merely pointing out the contradictions in what should be an authoritative reference. So I selected the part that was contradictory to show that. In any case, it's not at all clear if and when the spelling was standardised, as opposed to the definition of the unit.
Sorry, hard to tell the difference betweem real morons and those pretending to be one.
How odd. Especially see BIPM - the name "kilogram" which seems to use both forms interchangably.
Some AC wrote:
>Do you think the US actually cares if you have to pay extra for putting a sticker on something?
Obviously not.
>Compared to translation costs and the like (most of the EU does not speak English), adopting UPC is not that big of a deal, and less so now given the standard.
EAN is actually the standard everywhere, not just Europe, except the US. There are other countries in the world that publish in English, you know (the UK, Australia, NZ, for a start). When they export books to the US, they had to either print a special edition or sticker them with UPCs.
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I'm pretty sure the USAF uses height in feet. And I think the USN has depth similarly. Anyone on active service to verify?
>>Next up, metres and kilogrammes (you can spell them American if you really want).
>What do you mean yards and miles?
"meter", "kilogram"
Next up, metres and kilogrammes (you can spell them American if you really want).
Is preferential voting, as practised in Australia, such a hard concept? It works like this: Say you have 2 major parties (A, B), and 2 minor ones (C, D) on the ballot. You like C, but are pretty sure they won't win. Of A and B you prefer A. In the US, you have to just vote A if you want your vote to count. In Australia you can vote "C,A,D,B". When counted, only the first preferences (above: C) are looked at to begin with. If no candidate has over 50%, the lowest candidate is eliminated, and his votes are given to the second one listed on those ballots (above, if C is eliminated, that vote would be added to A's). And so on, till one candidate gets over 50%. Basically, it's just rolling runoffs into a single ballot. The problem is that the only ones who can change the system are those that won the last vote, so no matter what they promise about reforming the system, they never get around to it once in power.
The Macintosh SE case had screws that needed a quite unusual Torx spanner to open it, and even to add RAM you were supposed to take it back to Apple.
but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
Answered by: CmdrTaco
Last Modified: 6/14/00
He's had FOUR FUCKING YEARS to "think it through", the problem has only gotten worse. His reasons for not doing it are alll easily answered -- eg: cache the pages befoer the site goes up; send an email to the site telling them what you're doing; put the cache link separately. The cached page can retain the origianl banner links and referrers -- pretty easy to automate as banners have predictable sites and URLs (As evidenced by the banner blocking software).
But Taco et al can't be bothered to spellcheck their one-paragraph items, so don't hold your breath.
Look for imstance at the W54 warhead, weighed 54 lbs, developed in 1961. Yield only 0.18 kilotons, though. A look at some stats on Russian ICBMS shows they could deliver 2500 kg, which could be a single 20 MT H Bomb, or maybe a dozen smaller ones. These could easily be put in a shipping container. Radiation can be shielded. Maybe not well enough to survive a close examination, but would get by in most ports I think. Or brought in on a yacht, anchor in the port, detonate before anyone gets close, take out a city. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is that box cutters and suicide bombers are cheap and effective.
But it would fit in a suitcase, or a 44-gallon drum, or a refrigerator, ...
Just consider how much heroin, cocaine, etc, is smuggled in every day. Or Mexicans. Or how many 20-foot shipping containers arrive at ports. It's trivial to deliver a nuke, as long as you don't need to to get there immediately as on an ICBM. As far as nuclear terrorism goes, delivering it is the easy part.
Well, DDT probably saved thousands, even millions, of lives. It was very effective at killing bugs like malarial mosquitoes that carry portentially lethal diseases. Over enthusiasm with agricultural use and resulting effects was the downside, and most of the bad bugs are immune to it now anyway. But on balance, it coes out a good invention.
I will commonly complete you-must-register-to-get-access forms with;
a nonsensical name, eg mickey_moose_99
a DOB circa 1900
the wrong sex
an unlikely city and country, such as Krasnyy, Iran
a 90210 area code
an 0898 696969 telephone number
Even more irritating than forms that ask you for so much detail for no good purpose, are those that refuse to accept perfectly valid data becasue it isn't what they expect. Most common, sites that demand a Zip code, even after you've selected a foreign (non-American) country as your residence. Or who insist your phone number must be 7 digits. Etc. So that's when I just fill up their forms with garbage.
In this case, he had copied large slabs of code to his PC. So down the road, MS will have to prove that they don;t have any Altavista code.
MS has made a policy of luring away key staff of leading companies in areas they want to move into, and often been accused of blatantly stealing technology. Even when they've lost in court, they usually win -- making a small cash settlement after they've won the market and destroyed all competition.
Because they don't sell it. And advertising it would only raise the profile of alternative products -- they've got a large number of users who can't imagine there is any other way to access the web.
And there's more to read than what's "hot" this week. I read novels from the 1950s just as frequently as the 90s. Ocasionally earlier. Most of my reading is from libraries, or second hand. Just rummaging through the shelves of a second hand book shop is a window on a past era. There are LOTS of books that were popular, even best sellers, a few decades ago that are almost forgotten now. Sometimes deservedly so, but more often worth reading. If it isn't, you've wasted $1.
And though I read almost exclusively SF when I was young, I read more historical novels and non-fiction now. Ancient history can be just as alien as another planet; and I must admit, usually better written than your average SF.
I believe in XP that it will be restored automatically (I don't run it myself). Though that can be defeated, but not by the average user.