In one word, CPAN. You can find modules that do _everything_ and are enough tested to rely on them. Operations with dates, files, web services, anything you wish. And if you take seriously best paractices and write code following the rules (syntax, unit testing...), you can write perl easy to maintain and as fast as you can type glue code.
I'm also glad that a yard has 36 inches (and a day has 24 hours), since it has more useful factors.
Probably that's the point. I remember from my time in an american school that you are much more used to fractions than to decimal numbers. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think the problem -if there's one- comes from your use of factorizing vs our decimal divisions in your daily routine.
You're right. But it's much easier to graduate a thermometer knowing two processes that happen everytime at the same temperature (freezing and boiling) and dividing the two extremes into a easy-to-calculate number of parts. If you give me that those are the most useful points to calibrate (easy to find, cheap and coherent) I think that dividing it into 10, 100 or 1000 divisions look logical.
Anyway, the metric system as a whole uses base 10 to make all divisions, so, with an engineering mind and knowing the solution order of magnitude, operations are easy. Not only with temperatures but with all measures. Can you calculate on your head the ounces of ice you'd need to cold a gallon of water from 100F to 90F? For a liter of water, you'd need about 220 grams (-10C*1000grams of water/-44cal/g) of ice to cold it from 50C to 40C given a specific heat of 44cal/gram of ice
And I think a base 10 for time would be a good idea, too.
In celsius degrees, 0 is the water freezing point, so, if temperatures approach zero, you know it's freezing. If you're driving, you'll likely find ice, and it's dangerous. In Farenheit, you need to remember 32 as a magic number. The boiling temperature is 100ÂC. In farenheit it's 212. Another magic number.
Distances, volumes and weights:
In metric units, the basic distance is 1 meter. The volume of a cube with 1 meter side is a cubic meter. The 1/10 part of a meter is a decimeter, and a cube with a decimeter side has exactly one liter. So, a cubic meter has 1000 liters and a cubic meter of water weighs, in starndard conditions, 1000Kg or one metric ton. In imperial units, there's no simple relationship among inches, feet, yards, pounds, ounces, gallons and so on, so, IMHO, scientific calculations have to be much harder.
Anyway, I realize that changing the american system is hard and it'd take several years, but can't understand why, even technical people, are resisting to that.
That's not true. I can -and do- write HTML compliant documents, by hand or using one of many editors, and they validate correctly against its DTD. I think that you meant that there are no user agents that include the full HTML/CSS specification, but that's not the same thing, since if you use a tool -the only one that exists- to create a OOXML file, and can't parse it later according to the spec, it's a dead end.
Slashdot is read by people around the world, and some of us don't have English as our primary language. It is difficult sometimes to find the meaning of an acronym, and moreso with something as short as "IS"
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IDDQD!
unless you use pyglet or pygame that make graphic programming trivial and funny
Or maybe "Hasta la vista!"
You're right. English wine is a little bit like marmite, you've got to be English to enjoy it
In Perl I worry about one thing: variable tainting.
And what's the problem using perlTaint mode? (#!/usr/bin/perl -T)
In one word, CPAN. You can find modules that do _everything_ and are enough tested to rely on them. Operations with dates, files, web services, anything you wish. And if you take seriously best paractices and write code following the rules (syntax, unit testing...), you can write perl easy to maintain and as fast as you can type glue code.
I'm also glad that a yard has 36 inches (and a day has 24 hours), since it has more useful factors.
Probably that's the point. I remember from my time in an american school that you are much more used to fractions than to decimal numbers. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think the problem -if there's one- comes from your use of factorizing vs our decimal divisions in your daily routine.
You're right. But it's much easier to graduate a thermometer knowing two processes that happen everytime at the same temperature (freezing and boiling) and dividing the two extremes into a easy-to-calculate number of parts. If you give me that those are the most useful points to calibrate (easy to find, cheap and coherent) I think that dividing it into 10, 100 or 1000 divisions look logical.
Anyway, the metric system as a whole uses base 10 to make all divisions, so, with an engineering mind and knowing the solution order of magnitude, operations are easy. Not only with temperatures but with all measures. Can you calculate on your head the ounces of ice you'd need to cold a gallon of water from 100F to 90F? For a liter of water, you'd need about 220 grams (-10C*1000grams of water/-44cal/g) of ice to cold it from 50C to 40C given a specific heat of 44cal/gram of ice
And I think a base 10 for time would be a good idea, too.
Temperatures:
In celsius degrees, 0 is the water freezing point, so, if temperatures approach zero, you know it's freezing. If you're driving, you'll likely find ice, and it's dangerous. In Farenheit, you need to remember 32 as a magic number. The boiling temperature is 100ÂC. In farenheit it's 212. Another magic number.
Distances, volumes and weights:
In metric units, the basic distance is 1 meter. The volume of a cube with 1 meter side is a cubic meter. The 1/10 part of a meter is a decimeter, and a cube with a decimeter side has exactly one liter. So, a cubic meter has 1000 liters and a cubic meter of water weighs, in starndard conditions, 1000Kg or one metric ton. In imperial units, there's no simple relationship among inches, feet, yards, pounds, ounces, gallons and so on, so, IMHO, scientific calculations have to be much harder.
Anyway, I realize that changing the american system is hard and it'd take several years, but can't understand why, even technical people, are resisting to that.
That's not true. I can -and do- write HTML compliant documents, by hand or using one of many editors, and they validate correctly against its DTD. I think that you meant that there are no user agents that include the full HTML/CSS specification, but that's not the same thing, since if you use a tool -the only one that exists- to create a OOXML file, and can't parse it later according to the spec, it's a dead end.
Reading the comments I get the feel that 90% of the slashdotters intend to buy a Wii.
I will, for sure.
I think there's room in the market for a cheap version. Probably a usb camera version... I'll think about that.
Slashdot is read by people around the world, and some of us don't have English as our primary language. It is difficult sometimes to find the meaning of an acronym, and moreso with something as short as "IS"
In Spanish, DEP stands for "Descanse En Paz", or "Rest in Peace" in English