Aside from that, it's what people grew up & are comfortable with.
I'm people, I didn't grow up with it and I'm not comfortable with it.
All that being said, there are a lot of things that are bananas in the USA compared to the rest of the world. Use of the Fahrenheit system is *way* down the list of crazy to the point where it's almost a rounding error.
In the very scientific scale of "really"s in the cartoon that you link, I would argue that 0F is way more really cold than 100F is really hot, or, in other words, 0F is more reallys on the cold scale as opposed to 100F is reallys on the hot scale.
At least they get health coverage for the next 18 months.
America is bananas. You lose your job with all the stress that entails, then on top of that you have to worry about whether you have the coverage required if your kid gets sick.
Hey USA, get with every other first world nation on earth (and a few second and third world ones) and get some universal healthcare for YOUR people.
Why not just use the non-emergency number that most police agencies have to report a parking infraction?
Because this provides photographic proof of the bad parking before they send out a meter maid.
This just puts millions of license plates at risk of being put online for the purpose of reporting a person's supposedly bad parking.
Never quite understood this whole 'privacy of license plates' thing. If I look out the window right now I can see a dozen+ license plates. If I went for a walk I'd see hundreds. How is it private if there are two of them on every car for everyone to see?
Look, the target area is only *two meters* wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. Only a *precise* hit will start a chain reaction which would destroy the station. Plus, the shaft is ray-shielded, so they'll have to use proton torpedoes.
I'll never understand these antagonistic replies on Slashdot. I suppose it's across the internet, but gosh darn it, why are people so *angry* all the time? Guy says, in his opinion, and with the passage of time, that maybe the device wasn't as bad as everybody makes it out to be.
You almost treat his post as a personal attack against your mother and everything else you hold dear.
Why?
It's a just a guy posting some stuff on a forum that 0.1% of the general public reads. Who cares?
Elucidate me. Why do people like you get so upset, resorting to silly replies like "Go get a job at Dell?"
Its the men who are being outsourced. Women can reproduce via sperm donor and if a computer can offer better companionship and more patience then... well you can see where things are going.
False.
Women will still need men around to open jars and put spiders outside.
There's no denying the Mac was a game-changer, but it's also important to note that when it was released it cost $5600 in today's dollars - Adding a printer pushed you well north of the $6000 mark.
Because social and infrastructure programs create an environment where capitalism can thrive - When you have a healthy, educated workface along with roads, airports, telecommunications and all the trappings of a modern society you create a scenario that, at its most basic level, creates a culture of people who can actually buy your stuff and at a more advanced level creates a place that fosters entrepreneurship.
There's a reason Germany has a surging economy and Somalia doesn't...
That's right, there's kids dying in Africa right now because their parents can't afford mosquito nets to protect them from Malaria. Luckily, they can take cold comfort in the fact that one day they'll be able to buy an OLED TV.
I can't imagine living in a world where 70 thousand dollars must seem like something obtainable only by the top 1%
??!?!
Unless you live on Mars, you *do* live in that world.
To BILLIONS of people "in this world" a $70K+ car is something obtainable only by the top 1%. To the deeply impoverished of Africa, India and Asia - And some parts of South America - Spending more money than they will see in their entire lives on a car seems unimaginable, especially when you consider spending $40K on a car and then spreading your 'leftover' $30K in an African village on goats, vaccinations, mosquito nets, school supplies and a well will improve their lives dramatically.
You will literally be saving the lives of children.
Sure you'll be driving a Leaf instead of a Tesla, but so what?
Yeah, yeah, I'm a commie. Whatever. Stop buying stupidly expensive cars and help your fellow man.
I think feeling is that they are moving OSX towards more of an iOS/Windows 8 model where you are not allowed to installed arbitrary software easily if at all.
For years OEMs have been struggling with the fact that hardware margins are slim, slim, slim. Obviously Apple's are 'less slim,' but still slim. They've realized their path to shareholder results is really software and services in an ecosystem, be it consumer or corporate.
If you don't want this there will always be open-platform solutions...
Hey Anonymous Coward, Bill Cosby was one of four boys. His mother was a maid and his dad was a seaman in the navy who was away a lot of the time.
He got where he was through hard work, and through a mother who raised him with values. Cosby talks a lot about how he didn't misbehave in his youth because he was worried about not embarrassing his mother.
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It really depends what you're using said units for. When cooking, I find it more convenient to speak of cups than liters Totally not the case.
Take rice. Rice is cooked at a ratio of 1:1.5 rice:water.
So if you have 3/4 of a cup of rice, you have 1 1/8 cups of water, or, 1 cup, 1 ounce.
That's confusing, no matter how you slice it.
Aside from that, it's what people grew up & are comfortable with.
I'm people, I didn't grow up with it and I'm not comfortable with it.
All that being said, there are a lot of things that are bananas in the USA compared to the rest of the world. Use of the Fahrenheit system is *way* down the list of crazy to the point where it's almost a rounding error.
In the very scientific scale of "really"s in the cartoon that you link, I would argue that 0F is way more really cold than 100F is really hot, or, in other words, 0F is more reallys on the cold scale as opposed to 100F is reallys on the hot scale.
Weather? Farenheit
No. Weather? Metric.
'Zero degrees? Uh oh, looks like it might snow.'
'It's FORTY-FIVE degrees in Las Vegas? Holy cow! That's nearly half-way to boiling!'
Oh dear, did somebody say "mattress" to Mr Lambert?!
That thing still around?
At least they get health coverage for the next 18 months.
America is bananas. You lose your job with all the stress that entails, then on top of that you have to worry about whether you have the coverage required if your kid gets sick.
Hey USA, get with every other first world nation on earth (and a few second and third world ones) and get some universal healthcare for YOUR people.
Why not just use the non-emergency number that most police agencies have to report a parking infraction?
Because this provides photographic proof of the bad parking before they send out a meter maid.
This just puts millions of license plates at risk of being put online for the purpose of reporting a person's supposedly bad parking.
Never quite understood this whole 'privacy of license plates' thing. If I look out the window right now I can see a dozen+ license plates. If I went for a walk I'd see hundreds. How is it private if there are two of them on every car for everyone to see?
Uh oh - What about the Nazis hiding out up there on the Moon? This can't end well...
The Death Star design team has a vacancy.
Look, the target area is only *two meters* wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. Only a *precise* hit will start a chain reaction which would destroy the station. Plus, the shaft is ray-shielded, so they'll have to use proton torpedoes.
That's impossible, even for a computer.
Yes, of course, bags too. That goes without saying. Certainly never in jars though.
4. A small orange that comes in a can.
In a can? Really? Here in Vancouver, ours come in 2-kilo boxes, with the oranges wrapped in green paper, usually around Christmas time.
Never seen them in a can.
http://www.vanwhole-produce.com/wp-content/themes/vwf/images/products/13.gif
it's like WALL-E meets Deliverance...
You win the internet today, my friend.
[Kicks him in the face]
That's for making me come to Mars!
[Kicks his groin]
You know how much I hate this fucking planet!
A big spinning wheel shaped vehicle should suffice
Naw, just install gravity plates.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gravity_plate
Doesn't help with the radiation, though.
[commie]
Wonder how many school lunches you could have served to poor kids for twelve million dollars.
[/commie]
I'll never understand these antagonistic replies on Slashdot. I suppose it's across the internet, but gosh darn it, why are people so *angry* all the time? Guy says, in his opinion, and with the passage of time, that maybe the device wasn't as bad as everybody makes it out to be.
You almost treat his post as a personal attack against your mother and everything else you hold dear.
Why?
It's a just a guy posting some stuff on a forum that 0.1% of the general public reads. Who cares?
Elucidate me. Why do people like you get so upset, resorting to silly replies like "Go get a job at Dell?"
Its the men who are being outsourced. Women can reproduce via sperm donor and if a computer can offer better companionship and more patience then ... well you can see where things are going.
False.
Women will still need men around to open jars and put spiders outside.
There's no denying the Mac was a game-changer, but it's also important to note that when it was released it cost $5600 in today's dollars - Adding a printer pushed you well north of the $6000 mark.
No wonder nobody I knew had one.
Because social and infrastructure programs create an environment where capitalism can thrive - When you have a healthy, educated workface along with roads, airports, telecommunications and all the trappings of a modern society you create a scenario that, at its most basic level, creates a culture of people who can actually buy your stuff and at a more advanced level creates a place that fosters entrepreneurship.
There's a reason Germany has a surging economy and Somalia doesn't...
That's right, there's kids dying in Africa right now because their parents can't afford mosquito nets to protect them from Malaria. Luckily, they can take cold comfort in the fact that one day they'll be able to buy an OLED TV.
Buying a Tesla does help your fellow man. We need to move to electric vehicles and reduce dependency on oil and coal
That's why I said buy a Nissan Leaf instead and use the leftover $30K to help some kids.
I can't imagine living in a world where 70 thousand dollars must seem like something obtainable only by the top 1%
??!?!
Unless you live on Mars, you *do* live in that world.
To BILLIONS of people "in this world" a $70K+ car is something obtainable only by the top 1%. To the deeply impoverished of Africa, India and Asia - And some parts of South America - Spending more money than they will see in their entire lives on a car seems unimaginable, especially when you consider spending $40K on a car and then spreading your 'leftover' $30K in an African village on goats, vaccinations, mosquito nets, school supplies and a well will improve their lives dramatically.
You will literally be saving the lives of children.
Sure you'll be driving a Leaf instead of a Tesla, but so what?
Yeah, yeah, I'm a commie. Whatever. Stop buying stupidly expensive cars and help your fellow man.
I think feeling is that they are moving OSX towards more of an iOS/Windows 8 model where you are not allowed to installed arbitrary software easily if at all.
For years OEMs have been struggling with the fact that hardware margins are slim, slim, slim. Obviously Apple's are 'less slim,' but still slim. They've realized their path to shareholder results is really software and services in an ecosystem, be it consumer or corporate.
If you don't want this there will always be open-platform solutions...
That is what we call a "Cosby-nigger"
Hey Anonymous Coward, Bill Cosby was one of four boys. His mother was a maid and his dad was a seaman in the navy who was away a lot of the time.
He got where he was through hard work, and through a mother who raised him with values. Cosby talks a lot about how he didn't misbehave in his youth because he was worried about not embarrassing his mother.