• Darth Paul (unregistered) in reply to RandomGuy
    JAPH:
    The metric system is only more useful when dealing with powers of 10. How do you represent 1/3 of a meter? No matter how many decimal places you display it's only an approximation.

    That's what someone recently said on a forum about Pi. Simple: you use as many decimal places as you need. In the case of Pi, 39 decimal places will measure the circumference of the visible universe to within the diameter of 1 hydrogen atom. So, for most projects, somewhat fewer than 39 decimal places should suffice.

    I've done a lot of measurements for building and drawing things in my time, and most often I need fine measurements. mm and ml are better because they are small whole units. It is easier to define something as, say (n)mm, than use n/32" or n/64" as a unit.

    If you are cutting a metre of wood into thirds, you only need as many decimal places as would take you to the width of the saw cut (not as many as you might think).

  • Darth Paul (unregistered) in reply to Rnd(
    Rnd(:
    So what about 1/5 foot? Or 1/5 of gallon?
    +1

    Captcha: secundum I secundum this motion.

  • Lincoln Kiwi (unregistered) in reply to RandomGuy

    The REAL WTF is the fact that the poster did not find the bug during testing and closed the issue as 'could not reproduce" LAZY LAZY LAZY and gives IT a really bad rap with users.

  • S (unregistered) in reply to dynedain
    dynedain:
    1 mile = a 20 minute walk

    Which is a perfect demonstration of why such measures are beyond useless, given a) walking speeds vary hugely between different people, and b) how accurately are you measuring your 20 minutes?

  • kiloseconds (unregistered)

    If you are going to go all the way with metric, shouldn't you demand a clock delimited by kilo-seconds?

  • staticsan (unregistered) in reply to Geoff

    Yes, there is. But this conversion was from a string representation, which one should really avoid doing in PHP.

  • Prof Foop (unregistered)

    The standard measures are in the binary system. A cup is 2^3 ounces, a pint is 2^4 ounces, a quart is 2^5 ounces, and a gallon is 2^7 ounces.

    The Babylonians originated the base-12 time of day system, because they had 6 fingers on each hand.

  • eric76 (unregistered) in reply to Bring Back TopCod3r
    Bring Back TopCod3r:
    True, but thanks to rob, I am now also aware of the lesser WTF of it showing 12 AM not 12 PM, and also of course 00 AM not 12 AM.

    Properly speaking, 12 noon is 12 M.

  • Captain Oblivious (unregistered) in reply to miko
    miko:
    TRWTF is definitely the murican AM/PM over-complication of it all. Why bother? Why not just give in and do like the rest of the world? The day starts at zero (00:00) and ends at 24 (24:00) because there are 24 hours in a day. Simple as that.

    Please convert to the metric system already, so we can speak to each other without confusion... "1 inch is 0.083333333 feet" and "1 cup is 0.0625 gallons" who can keep track of those decimal values? How do you even remember if it's 0.0833 or 0.0625?

    TRWTF is metric time.

  • Hannes (unregistered) in reply to Heavy Zed
    Heavy Zed:
    To me that leads to the conclusion that, regardless of what value these particular arguments have in terms of their appeal to logic, utility, or whatever, their presentation can have no impact on the current state of the discussion, therefore it is no use repeating them.

    Please don't spoil the fun for everyone here.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL
    ¯\(°_o)/¯ I DUNNO LOL:
    Jalopy:
    Bulk cooking springs to mind. This recipe says 1 cup of stock per person. I'm cooking for 50. I'm not going to pour 50 cups separately.
    Let's cook with Google!
    Good thing this is the site for WTFs.

    http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=50%20cups%20in%20gallons gives the same result as http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=50%20cups%20in%20gallons

    Fortunately it says US cups and US gallons, so we know Google Canada is doing it wrong.

    Even more fortunately, there are dropdowns to correct ... half of it. Google Canada lets us select imperial gallons but not imperial cups.

    An imperial cup contains 8 imperial ounces. There are 2.5 cups in a pint. There are 160 ounces in a gallon.

    A Japanese cup is 200ml. A Japanese gallon doesn't exist. I wonder what Google Japan's syntax is for unit conversions.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to jay
    jay:
    miko:
    1 cubic metre of water = 1000 litres = 1000 kilos.
    Why do you say 1 cubic meter OF WATER = 1000 liters? I believe 1 cubic meter of sand, or 1 cubic meter of iron, or 1 cubic meter of chicken brains, all would also be 1000 liters.
    Does "1 cubic metre = 1000 litres = 1000 kilos" work for sand, iron, or chicken brains?

    In the US you don't even get 1 ounce of water = 1 ounce of water, when you measure it and weigh it.

  • Norman Diamond (unregistered)
      if ($hour > 12) {
        $hour = 24 - $hour;
        $ampm = "PM";
      } else {
        $ampm = "AM";
    should be
      if ($hour > 12) {
    
    $hour = $hour - 12;
    $ampm = "PM";
    

    } else { $hour = 12 - hour; $ampm = "AM";

    'cause 0:00 in computer time is 12 hours before noon, 1:00 in computer time is 11 hours before noon, ..., 12:00 in computer time is 0 hours before noon, 12:00 in computer time is 0 hours after noon, ....

  • (cs) in reply to miko
    miko:
    Steve The Cynic:
    miko:
    No, I wouldn't know which to use, I heard there is also a difference between dry and wet ounces, and that fact alone is enough for me to NOT trust those scales.
    It's easy. A dry ounce is a unit of force, usually used for weights, while a fluid (not wet) ounce is a unit of volume.

    Kilogram is a unit of weight. Litre is a unit of volume. 1 Kilogram of water = 1 Litre of water = 1 cubic decimeter of water. Wet. :)

    You like FAIL points, don't you? The kilogram is a unit of mass. Weight is a force, and therefore measured in newtons. In most parts of the Earth's surface, a kilogram of anything can be approximated as 9.8 newtons.

    miko:
    Steve The Cynic:
    miko:
    1 cubic metre of water = 1000 litres = 1000 kilos. 100 degrees, water turns to gas. 0 degrees, water turns to ice. (under normal pressure) Same scale. Always 10 based. Simple. You should try it! :)
    Actually, water turns to gas at any temperature below the critical point, if the partial pressure of water vapour is low enough. It's called evaporation above the melting point, and sublimation below. You meant to say that water *boils* at 100 degrees centigrade. (And that centigrade part is important because the F scale is also degrees. Alternatively, go 100% SI, where water melts (at standard pressure) at 273.15 K (not degrees, because the kelvin unit is not a degrees unit).)

    Yeah. That's why I said "normal pressure". Of course pressure differs during the vaporization process, but if you push the temperature of your water to above 100 degrees celcius ("centigrade"), you will end up having all gas. And if you drop the temperature of all the water to below 100 you will have water again (or ice if you go below 0 as well). You know this. And you know it's what I meant.

    Pff. If you want to say that it boils at 100degC at one atmosphere ambient pressure, then say so. For preference using the word 'boils'.

    And if it's what you meant, you were wrong. If you cool your cloud of steam to 37degC (human body temperature), just under 1psi of it will remain in vapour form. (This is the pressure at the Armstrong limit, around 63000 feet altitude. If you get higher than that, unprotected human life is impossible because exposed bodily fluids (saliva, the water on the surface of your eyes, etc.) boil away. Of course, low pressure kills people below that altitude even with pure oxygen to breathe, but at/below 1/16 of an atmosphere, you die even quicker.)

  • Guestimate (unregistered) in reply to EvilCodeMonkey
    Technically, cellocgw is incorrect. The day ends at 23:59:59.999999999999
    Technically, you are also incorrect. "ending at" and "last defined unit in" does not mean the same.

    If I say that the schoolyard ends at the wall of that adjoining building, do you than truly think that that wall is part of the schoolyard to, and you should be able to place yourself where that wall is ? If so, you can get a darwin-award at my place. :-)

    If not, why do you guys think that when the day ends at 24:00.00 hours that that second is also part of that day ?

    What if I remove the minutes and seconds from it -- the day starts at 00 hours and ends at 24 hours -- is than suddenly the whole first hour of the next day part of the current one ? Really ?

    Also, when you say that a day starts at 00:00.00 hours and ends at 24:00.00 hours inclusive you would have a second overlap (24:00.00 equals 00:00.00). Or the day would need not start at 00:00.00, but at 00:00.01, which is not quite logical ...

  • Sargon II (unregistered) in reply to xaade
    xaade:

    Addendum (2013-07-09 10:18): 10 was a number we should have abandoned when we could start recording amounts. 10 is only useful because we only have 10 fingers. What's the fractional granularity of 10. 1/10, 1/5, 1/2. That's it. 1, 2, and 5. With 12 we get 1/12, 1/6, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, or 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. We only miss 5.

    It's much easier for humans to use fractions of 1/x or (x-1)/x. Other fractions are meaningless when we hear them. How do you compare 5/12 to 1/3 or 2/3? Takes a second?

    How do you compare 4/10 to 9/10? We can compare 4/10 to 8/10 quickly because 4/8 is 1/2. But 4/9? Not that useful.

    We use decimal because it allows us to write using only 10 symbols. If you had to use a sexagesimal counting system, you would need 60 different symbols (complicated leraning when your alphabet has twentysomething to thirty something glyohs) or use compound symbols, which is a mess like the roman numerals.

    So we use decimal system just because of historical convenience (and also maybe because we have 10 fingers).

    Captcha: facilisi, of course

  • Mike5 (unregistered) in reply to Peter
    Peter:
    Steve The Cynic:
    a US pint is 16 US fluid ounces, while an Imperial pint (the only way to measure beer, even if you call it 568ml) is 20 Imperial fluid ounces
    As a child, I was taught the mnemonic "a pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter" for the relationship between pints and fluid ounces. Years later, I was delighted to encounter the American equivalent "a pint's a pound the world around".

    Where "the world around" means "in the USA".

    Well, QED. Everyone knows that outside the USA "there be dragons".

  • Ferret (unregistered) in reply to Zagyg

    Oh freddled gruntbuggly Thy micturations are to thee Like plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee

    Groont! I implore thee My foonting turlingdromes Or I will render thee to the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon See if I don't!

    (only poem I know off by heart)

  • Hasse (unregistered) in reply to Guestimate
    Guestimate:
    Technically, cellocgw is incorrect. The day ends at 23:59:59.999999999999
    Technically, you are also incorrect. "ending at" and "last defined unit in" does not mean the same.

    If I say that the schoolyard ends at the wall of that adjoining building, do you than truly think that that wall is part of the schoolyard to, and you should be able to place yourself where that wall is ? If so, you can get a darwin-award at my place. :-)

    If not, why do you guys think that when the day ends at 24:00.00 hours that that second is also part of that day ?

    What if I remove the minutes and seconds from it -- the day starts at 00 hours and ends at 24 hours -- is than suddenly the whole first hour of the next day part of the current one ? Really ?

    Also, when you say that a day starts at 00:00.00 hours and ends at 24:00.00 hours inclusive you would have a second overlap (24:00.00 equals 00:00.00). Or the day would need not start at 00:00.00, but at 00:00.01, which is not quite logical ...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremum

  • Bring Back TopCod3r (unregistered) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    Horses for courses. The sort of measuring system you use depends on your needs. If you're baking bread, you don't need precision - 2 to one flour to water, by volume, a small amount of yeast, a correct amount of salt (~1 tsp per loaf, or so). Mix well, let sit overnight, and bake in a Dutch oven (preheated to ~450 or 500 F)

    If you're making pastries or cakes, you might want more precision. Use a good scale, keep track of what you do so your experiments are repeatable.

    What's to worry about? Use the thing that works best.

    I really hope 'Dutch oven' means something else Stateside.

  • Bring Back TopCod3r (unregistered) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    Horses for courses. The sort of measuring system you use depends on your needs. If you're baking bread, you don't need precision - 2 to one flour to water, by volume, a small amount of yeast, a correct amount of salt (~1 tsp per loaf, or so). Mix well, let sit overnight, and bake in a Dutch oven (preheated to ~450 or 500 F)

    If you're making pastries or cakes, you might want more precision. Use a good scale, keep track of what you do so your experiments are repeatable.

    What's to worry about? Use the thing that works best.

    I really hope 'Dutch oven' means something else Stateside.

  • Essex Kitten (unregistered) in reply to JAPH
    JAPH:
    The imperial units were fashioned to be easily divided.

    The metric system is only more useful when dealing with powers of 10. How do you represent 1/3 of a meter? No matter how many decimal places you display it's only an approximation.

    Oh... I'm so glad that the Imperial system is precise to the femtometre when divided, unlike that pesky metric system. I mean, it's easy to see how 1/3 of a mile is so much more precise than 1/3 of a km, or 1/3 of a foot doesn't need any approximation when measuring it, which isn't the case for 1/3 of a metre, right?

  • miko (unregistered) in reply to Flaming Shearer
    Flaming Shearer:
    miko:
    The day starts at zero (00:00) and ends at 24 (24:00) because there are 24 hours in a day.
    But noooo... The day does not end at 24:00. It ends just before that.
    For you maybe. I can party a little longer ;)
  • (cs) in reply to Mike5
    Mike5:
    Everyone knows that outside the USA "there be dragons".
    Oh, there be Dragons in the USA too. In fact, just about a hundred miles away from where I'm sitting right now, there's a famous couple of Dragons. You may know them better as the Captain and Tennille.
  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Heavy Zed
    Heavy Zed:
    Threads like this are fascinating. I'm betting very few people engaged in this discussion about measurement systems are actually reading anything they haven't seen before. They probably even realize this with some amount of frustration because "it's so simple, why doesn't everybody see my point of view?".

    To me that leads to the conclusion that, regardless of what value these particular arguments have in terms of their appeal to logic, utility, or whatever, their presentation can have no impact on the current state of the discussion, therefore it is no use repeating them.

    Given the frequency of aimless discussion threads like this one it seems this conclusion is either very uncommonly arrived at or is recognized and then ignored and I can't say I really understand why.

    If by "use repeating them" you mean "likelihood that people on one side will convince people on the other side to change their minds", well then of course the conversation is no use. Who said it was? The purpose of such conversations is not to change minds, it's the sheer entertainment value of the argument.

    I suppose next you'll say that listening to great music has no purpose because it doesn't increase the output of steel mills.

    Sheesh! What a pragmatist!

  • lesle (unregistered)

    Back in the day, bus, train, & airplane schedules were printed in lightface for A.M. and boldface for P.M.

    Noon being neither, that's why there were so many arrivals at 11:59 (lightface) and so many departures at 12:01 (boldface).

  • hank (unregistered)
    Surely the client must have been imagining things, Michael thought as he closed the bug
    Surely such informative diagnosis should've been included in the ticket resolution, either before or after the "tell them to go fsck themselves" part?
  • Jonathan (unregistered) in reply to Zagyg

    Oh nice, so time goes backwards from 12:00AM after noon.

  • Paul Neumann (unregistered)

    All these comments and yet, nobody has remarked that 11/24 of the conditions would have been incorrect. (That equates to 5 1/2 in/ft or 45.3̅3 cM/M for standard and metric comparison.) For all the extensive replication attempt, it would appear a random sampling of no more than 2 records had been performed before closing as unable to replicate.

    TRWTF is treating a commercial program like an open source bugzilla.

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to BrunoTR
    BrunoTR:
    Your measuring cups are graduated 1/12, 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 3/4;

    Our measuring cups mark the thirds and quarters, but no recipe ever asks for 1/12 cup; it would be "4 teaspoons" instead.

  • goochrules (unregistered) in reply to Sam

    even better is the DateTime::createFromFormat function, since given the name of the user's function (getTimeFromISODateTime), the format of the incoming datetime appears to be known.

  • JakartaDean (unregistered) in reply to Bring Back TopCod3r

    You can bake bread in a Dutch oven, but it doesn't turn out great. Best is in a campfire, where you can put hot coals on the lid and approximate an oven. If you get the pot hot first the contained steam will make a nicer crust.

    Interesting (to me) the use of the word Dutch here comes from the Anglo-English wars of the 17th century, when "Dutch" was used to deprecate many things, so a Dutch oven is a poor oven. My favorite: "Dutch treat" for not paying for your own meal.

  • JustSomeGuy (unregistered) in reply to miko
    miko:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Of course, if you are worrying about the conversion between cups and gallons, you're probably doing something wrong. (Notably: why the hell are you measuring cooking ingredients - the normal stuff you measure in cups - in **gallons**?)

    You are right - something is wrong when you measure in cups or gallons ;) Different households have different cups - some even have different sized cups for coffee and for tea.

    No, I wouldn't know which to use, I heard there is also a difference between dry and wet ounces, and that fact alone is enough for me to NOT trust those scales. I recently saw a graph of how much sugar is in a coke bottle, but the coke bottle volume was measured in ounces (I think) and the amount of sugar in it was measured in cups - how is that in any way relevant to each other? You guys mix your scales all the time, and it is so confusing.

    1 cubic metre of water = 1000 litres = 1000 kilos. 100 degrees, water turns to gas. 0 degrees, water turns to ice. (under normal pressure) Same scale. Always 10 based. Simple. You should try it! :)

    A cup doesn't happen to mean whatever cup you have lying around, any more than a foot is the length of YOUR foot. A cup is 250ml.

  • Bring Back TopCod3r (unregistered) in reply to lesle
    lesle:
    Back in the day, bus, train, & airplane schedules were printed in lightface for A.M. and boldface for P.M.

    Noon being neither, that's why there were so many arrivals at 11:59 (lightface) and so many departures at 12:01 (boldface).

    What cretin came up with that system? I still see flights with departure times of 00:01, perhaps to avoid date ambiguity?

  • RandomGuy (unregistered) in reply to Bring Back TopCod3r
    Bring Back TopCod3r:
    lesle:
    Back in the day, bus, train, & airplane schedules were printed in lightface for A.M. and boldface for P.M.

    Noon being neither, that's why there were so many arrivals at 11:59 (lightface) and so many departures at 12:01 (boldface).

    What cretin came up with that system? I still see flights with departure times of 00:01, perhaps to avoid date ambiguity?

    Some Guy I know sometimes suggests meeting at (e.g.) 12:75 when he means 13:15. And I saw actual digital clocks which displayed 23:59--24:00--24:01 ... and at some point switched to 0:0x. It looks very buggy, but there is actually no ambiguity there.

  • RandomGuy (unregistered) in reply to JustSomeGuy
    JustSomeGuy:
    A cup doesn't happen to mean whatever cup you have lying around, any more than a foot is the length of YOUR foot. A cup is 250ml.
    Or 236.5882365 ml, or 240 ml, or 284 ml, ...
  • (cs) in reply to Bring Back TopCod3r
    Bring Back TopCod3r:
    I really hope 'Dutch oven' means something else Stateside.

    Pass wind in bed then put the covers over your bedmate's head?

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    If you're baking bread, you don't need precision - 2 to one flour to water, by volume, a small amount of yeast, a correct amount of salt (~1 tsp per loaf, or so).

    But then something similar to bread, pizza bases, do need precision. Even 100mL of water makes a difference in a ~16kg batch. But then the temperature of the water and ambient temperature makes a difference too.

    I used to make pizza bases by the hundreds when I worked in a certain chain pizza shop during my uni years.

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to Prof Foop
    Prof Foop:
    The standard measures are in the binary system. A cup is 2^3 ounces, a pint is 2^4 ounces, a quart is 2^5 ounces, and a gallon is 2^7 ounces.

    The Babylonians originated the base-12 time of day system, because they had 6 fingers on each hand.

    ... which proves that (a) Lamarck was right about inheritance of acquired characteristics, (b) modern man descends from Swedish sawmill operators, and (c) human beings are intrinsically ambidextrous.

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to Bring Back TopCod3r
    Bring Back TopCod3r:
    I really hope 'Dutch oven' means something else Stateside.

    Now I really want to know what it means elsewhere.

    Here it means a large, deep cast iron pot, usually enameled, with a heavy and close-fitting lid. (which makes a great environment for baking, since the cast iron radiates heat evenly from all sides, and the heavy lid retains the moisture from the dough, producing a glorious crust)

  • JJ (unregistered)

    So any time after 13:00:00 & before 00:00:00 would be wrong. Maybe he tested it out of this time range. Still very bad. tch tch tch

  • Hannes (unregistered) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    Bring Back TopCod3r:
    I really hope 'Dutch oven' means something else Stateside.

    Now I really want to know what it means elsewhere.

    A friend from the UK told me once, that a "dutch oven" means: "Trapping" another person under a blanket (so that his/her head is covered) and than farting under said blanket.

  • jay (unregistered) in reply to Hannes
    Hannes:
    trtrwtf:
    Bring Back TopCod3r:
    I really hope 'Dutch oven' means something else Stateside.

    Now I really want to know what it means elsewhere.

    A friend from the UK told me once, that a "dutch oven" means: "Trapping" another person under a blanket (so that his/her head is covered) and than farting under said blanket.

    Wow, thank you for sharing that. This knowledge has truly enriched my life.

  • (cs) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    I find it easier to remember 12 inches to the foot and 8 pints to the gallon which combines with 2 cups to the pint to give 16 cups to the gallon.

    Of course, if you are worrying about the conversion between cups and gallons, you're probably doing something wrong. (Notably: why the hell are you measuring cooking ingredients - the normal stuff you measure in cups - in gallons?)

    Well, you might need to if you want to serve pancakes mixed in a cement mixer. Of course this being in Europe you measure everything in metric units and use decimal fractions. The imperial system is built around binary fractions - I find it hilarious that people that work with computers haven't figured it out. Nor have they figured out that usually the way to notate binary fractions isn't using decimal fractions. Binary fractions are nice rationals that are easy to deal with, I find that you don't ever have to use decimal fractions in an imperial kitchen.

    The photo I meant to link: www dot mmpoznan dot pl slash photo slash 1813125 and fuck akismet, by the way. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Fuck. And fuck some more. Oh, have I said fuck akismet yet?

  • Old Greek (unregistered)

    So this guy invented the boustrophedon approach to daytime. I just wonder why the US doesn't use this system, as they clearly are optimizing their time- and date-keeping for WTFiness.

    CAPTCHA: eros

  • urza9814 (unregistered) in reply to miko
    miko:
    TRWTF is definitely the murican AM/PM over-complication of it all. Why bother? Why not just give in and do like the rest of the world? The day starts at zero (00:00) and ends at 24 (24:00) because there are 24 hours in a day. Simple as that.

    Please convert to the metric system already, so we can speak to each other without confusion... "1 inch is 0.083333333 feet" and "1 cup is 0.0625 gallons" who can keep track of those decimal values? How do you even remember if it's 0.0833 or 0.0625?

    It's not a decimal system so OF COURSE nobody remembers the decimal value. And yes, it's stupid, and I agree that we should just go metric already...but there IS certainly logic to it. If I give you a liter bottle of water and ask you to fill it to the next smallest unit -- 1/10th of the bottle -- how accurate do you think that would be? It's hard to mentally divide something into ten. Imperial units are largely based on halves and thirds, which are much easier. Give me a bottle and I can fill it pretty close to halfway just by looking at it. Even a quarter. Two cups in a pint, two pints in a quart, and as the name implies, four quarts in a gallom. Nobody would EVER use 0.0625...we'd use 1/16, because they're fractional units. Which works pretty well for common usage, since it's much more likely you'll be halving or doubling a recipe than multiplying it by ten (note how I don't even know the word for 'multiply by ten', assuming we even have one, because it's so infrequently used.)

    Metric units are designed for science; Imperial units are designed for people.

  • urza9814 (unregistered) in reply to miko
    miko:
    Steve The Cynic:
    miko:
    No, I wouldn't know which to use, I heard there is also a difference between dry and wet ounces, and that fact alone is enough for me to NOT trust those scales.
    It's easy. A dry ounce is a unit of force, usually used for weights, while a fluid (not wet) ounce is a unit of volume.

    Kilogram is a unit of weight. Litre is a unit of volume. 1 Kilogram of water = 1 Litre of water = 1 cubic decimeter of water. Wet. :)

    No, the NEWTON is a unit of weight. Kilograms measure mass.

  • trtrwtf (unregistered) in reply to urza9814
    urza9814:
    Metric units are designed for science; Imperial units are designed for people.

    Bingo.

    And since they're freely convertible, it doesn't matter.

    For those that get really worked up about it, I'm working on an app for the google goggles that'll replace Imperial measures with metric in anything you happen to be looking at. The working title is the "Pretentious Fuckwad Eyeball Protection Scheme" but I'm open to other suggestions.

  • (cs) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    urza9814:
    Metric units are designed for science; Imperial units are designed for people.

    Bingo.

    And since they're freely convertible, it doesn't matter.

    For those that get really worked up about it, I'm working on an app for the google goggles that'll replace Imperial measures with metric in anything you happen to be looking at. The working title is the "Pretentious Fuckwad Eyeball Protection Scheme" but I'm open to other suggestions.

    chap map app

  • Hannes (unregistered) in reply to trtrwtf
    trtrwtf:
    urza9814:
    Metric units are designed for science; Imperial units are designed for people.

    Bingo.

    And since they're freely convertible, it doesn't matter.

    For those that get really worked up about it, I'm working on an app for the google goggles that'll replace Imperial measures with metric in anything you happen to be looking at. The working title is the "Pretentious Fuckwad Eyeball Protection Scheme" but I'm open to other suggestions.

    How about "People Inventing Stupid Schemes". The acronym would be fitting for the topic at hand. :)

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