When will we be able to jump uncanny valley like that for humans?
Did the fish try to mate, too? It's 2010, and while we're far from the (promised...;/ ) flying cars, sexbots (of the more sophisticated kind than those already acceptable to woman, for a few decades) are way overdue.
Hm, there was some of it ("what for / useless / why those people won't just learn our script") on the occasion of last such ICANN news (regarding TLDs in, among others, Arabic script IIRC)
Yeah, the language is about communication. And in todays world, there are lots of people for whom even Latin alphabet itself looks like, say, Georgian alphabet to you. Accidentally, they are often amongst those with most to gain, if they had less roadblocks in communication.
That's a scenario at which given language (or its speakers, et al) should take affront before "exporting" itself throughout the world. After that it's no longer "our"...
That's circular; "we are pragmatic about not fullfiling our mission on the fastest growing type of web access because we made our browser in a way which makes it impossible" (nvm the proxy approach; though how the codebase runs would probably influence proxy headaches, too)
When it is at its densest point, 4 degrees C; it's nearly exact then. Which means either that you need a thermometer calibrated in this scale (easy enough with Celsius), or...simply fill the container with ice first (which you would need to do anyway, in most cases, to have 4 C after some time). When there's still a lot of ice, at 0 C, it will be also quite exact (or you might hunt for the moment "just after"); and the way buoyancy works means that the level of waterline will be the same even with some ice flating in it.
Sure, they're not used, but by simple means give values close enough for almost anything in daily life. In contrast, the only way to get decent imperial units is by...deriving SI units first and hoping to remember some weird ratios (that's really arbitrary), because that's how they are defined for some time now; objects around being mostly useless as a reference (except via the SI route) - see how long it will last before you'll find anybody, out of random group of people, with feet even close to 1 foot.
The real question is how did you manage to miss that MeeGo is essentially not a replacement, but rebranding? (and hardware of mobile phones supposedly wasn't there yet, in 2003)
But that, generally (especially when looking at huge delays in releasing "proper" Mozilla for mobile phones; essentially directly justified by "we'll just wait until the phones get faster"; while other, also "proper" browsers were doing it) seems somehow at odds with stated Mozilla goals, "to preserve choice and innovation on the Web" - suddenly it's "unless on a too slow device"?
iWould running such servers really be that big of a problem with their financials? Mozilla isn't the only more or less independent browser maker, and actually they even not relied the least on corporate granddaddies.
...and hence another possible Mars Climate Orbiter in the making.
Really, as a scientist you don't appreciate units which are probably damn close to (except meter, now, but sorting it out is in the making) "as near to natural units as possible while at the same time remaining convenient for daily use"? That what it is about water, 1 = 1, for property of most common chemical compound in the Universe and volume quite directly derived from the size of this planet; you're doing science and don't see some elegance of it / it's "as arbitrary as anything else"? Incidentally, the only reliable way to describe daily units you use is via SI... (and you not "needing to know" how much a liter of water weights is the point)
PS. Europeans? More like "practically whole world."
It is pole to pole; one twenty-millionth (or forty-millionth, if "between" the same pole). The ratio being chosen quite nicely - not only one of the few beautifully fitting with human love for base 10, also the unit ends up very human-scale. And you really need explaining why the temperature of melting ice and not "room temperature"?
What is such argument about anyway? Cleansing from any vestiges of human ambiguity? Tough luck, even Planck units are "unpure" like that...
It's derived from a division of planet circumference in a way which was one of few sensible ones, given size of humans and that decimal numbering system is most intuitive to them (likely due to anatomy). And seriously, kilogram is the base SI unit.
Hm...should we use or not use, as a basis of our unit system, a numeral system which is unavoidably most intuitive for virtually every human? What to do, what to do...
Not nearly so as you think it to be. 1000 kg is a mass of 1000 liters of water; that's a cube 1 meter on its side. Meter is derived from the size of the Earth (ancient Greeks could do it).
Yes, those are no longer definitions; but they give something very close from, as far as humanity is currently concerned, readily accesible (by unsophisticated means) constants around us.
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You have to help people a bit with that 93rd rule... ;p
Look at many places where familiarity with such nuances of EN is practically nonexistant. GIMP is still barely used.
So now only "proper" people can clarify what the specific goals of such mission are, I see...
So many questions...
When will we be able to jump uncanny valley like that for humans?
Did the fish try to mate, too? It's 2010, and while we're far from the (promised... ;/ ) flying cars, sexbots (of the more sophisticated kind than those already acceptable to woman, for a few decades) are way overdue.
Hm, there was some of it ("what for / useless / why those people won't just learn our script") on the occasion of last such ICANN news (regarding TLDs in, among others, Arabic script IIRC)
Yeah, the language is about communication. And in todays world, there are lots of people for whom even Latin alphabet itself looks like, say, Georgian alphabet to you. Accidentally, they are often amongst those with most to gain, if they had less roadblocks in communication.
That's a scenario at which given language (or its speakers, et al) should take affront before "exporting" itself throughout the world. After that it's no longer "our"...
Yeah, manual override, a thing which gave us Progress-Mir collision.
In that case, they would be disposed of by burning during reentry anyway; number of seats up&down should be the same, and Progress can have only "up"
Makes you wonder what kind hookers could actually be there...
And the bandwith already being used as much as possible, probably.
That's circular; "we are pragmatic about not fullfiling our mission on the fastest growing type of web access because we made our browser in a way which makes it impossible" (nvm the proxy approach; though how the codebase runs would probably influence proxy headaches, too)
When it is at its densest point, 4 degrees C; it's nearly exact then. Which means either that you need a thermometer calibrated in this scale (easy enough with Celsius), or...simply fill the container with ice first (which you would need to do anyway, in most cases, to have 4 C after some time). When there's still a lot of ice, at 0 C, it will be also quite exact (or you might hunt for the moment "just after"); and the way buoyancy works means that the level of waterline will be the same even with some ice flating in it.
(damn lack of Unicode (and degree symbol) on /.)
Sure, they're not used, but by simple means give values close enough for almost anything in daily life. In contrast, the only way to get decent imperial units is by...deriving SI units first and hoping to remember some weird ratios (that's really arbitrary), because that's how they are defined for some time now; objects around being mostly useless as a reference (except via the SI route) - see how long it will last before you'll find anybody, out of random group of people, with feet even close to 1 foot.
Not exactly, considering the bounds in which this old definition was used.
You can develop apps on Qt for Maemo already. MeeGo is not "based on Moblin" to such exclusive extent as you think it to be.
The real question is how did you manage to miss that MeeGo is essentially not a replacement, but rebranding? (and hardware of mobile phones supposedly wasn't there yet, in 2003)
But that, generally (especially when looking at huge delays in releasing "proper" Mozilla for mobile phones; essentially directly justified by "we'll just wait until the phones get faster"; while other, also "proper" browsers were doing it) seems somehow at odds with stated Mozilla goals, "to preserve choice and innovation on the Web" - suddenly it's "unless on a too slow device"?
iWould running such servers really be that big of a problem with their financials? Mozilla isn't the only more or less independent browser maker, and actually they even not relied the least on corporate granddaddies.
...and hence another possible Mars Climate Orbiter in the making.
Really, as a scientist you don't appreciate units which are probably damn close to (except meter, now, but sorting it out is in the making) "as near to natural units as possible while at the same time remaining convenient for daily use"? That what it is about water, 1 = 1, for property of most common chemical compound in the Universe and volume quite directly derived from the size of this planet; you're doing science and don't see some elegance of it / it's "as arbitrary as anything else"? Incidentally, the only reliable way to describe daily units you use is via SI... (and you not "needing to know" how much a liter of water weights is the point)
PS. Europeans? More like "practically whole world."
It is pole to pole; one twenty-millionth (or forty-millionth, if "between" the same pole). The ratio being chosen quite nicely - not only one of the few beautifully fitting with human love for base 10, also the unit ends up very human-scale. And you really need explaining why the temperature of melting ice and not "room temperature"?
What is such argument about anyway? Cleansing from any vestiges of human ambiguity? Tough luck, even Planck units are "unpure" like that...
How do you control what other people, "who it gets shared with", do with your own data?
It's derived from a division of planet circumference in a way which was one of few sensible ones, given size of humans and that decimal numbering system is most intuitive to them (likely due to anatomy). And seriously, kilogram is the base SI unit.
Foot is defined using meters for some time now. And for much longer time is way bigger than average human feet.
Hm...should we use or not use, as a basis of our unit system, a numeral system which is unavoidably most intuitive for virtually every human? What to do, what to do...
Not nearly so as you think it to be. 1000 kg is a mass of 1000 liters of water; that's a cube 1 meter on its side. Meter is derived from the size of the Earth (ancient Greeks could do it).
Yes, those are no longer definitions; but they give something very close from, as far as humanity is currently concerned, readily accesible (by unsophisticated means) constants around us.
Kilogram is a unit of mass...
Did they ever had even 1% of phone sales anyway?