So, please, is this a site for imperial fucktards, or one for geeks and nerds who use the metric system like every other human being on this planet?
Slashdot has openly been a U.S.-centric site and has been from the beginning.
And...?
Ik woon in Nieuw Holland.
wouldn't it be easier to use a GPS receiver (Garmin, GlobalSat, Android phone, iPhone) to calculate an accurate altitude instead of using Google maps? Just asking.
That depends if you want height above ground level or height above the ellipsoid.
It's the 21st. Fortunately we stopped Napoleon at Waterloo, so the french system of units didn't take over the civilised (English speaking) world.
By "civilised" world, i assume you mean the USA - because as far as i can tell, all the rest of the English speaking world use metric. Even the backward Brits use it for most things - except beer and babies.
What century is this again?
19th in the USA, 21st everywhere else. Even the backwards British have mostly caught up now.
That's why i do it - it's expected!
At most I get like 400MB/s for an advertised GB connection.
400 megabytes per second (MB/s) is 3.2 Gb/s (assuming 8 bits per byte) – what are you complaining about?
If you mean "megabits", that's "Mb/s".
We can offer 6-18mbps down and 1mbps up, on a single line.
Fuck, you're all at it! The symbol for mega is "M", not "m". "m" is the symbol for "milli" – i.e., 1000th. "1mbps" means one millibit per second, i.e., one bit every thousand seconds. Remind me not to get an account with your ISP.
My broadband speed is only like 25mb/s which is way faster than 56k modem [......]
No it's not, 25 millibits per second is 40 seconds per bit – way slower than 56 thousand bits per second.
Maybe you mean 25 megabits per second: 25Mb/s.
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I fail to see where any of this is saving me much time or effort compared to what I can do today.
It'll be like Slashdot's autorefresh gimmick - maximum annoyance for minimum benefit. It interrupts my reading to save me absolutely zero effort.
[......] just can't get the hang of that awful, awful Mac wrapper around the supposedly Linux core.
There's no Linux core to OSX - it's some type of BSD. But i agree, OSX is horrible, like Ubuntu's Unity.
I did a bit of documentation work for Wordpress a few years back and found them very helpful and easy to work for.
Because Photoshop is THE standard. GIMP lacks several key features for commercial use.
Just like ArcGIS is THE standard for GIS software - but it's a nasty, clunky, ugly piece of shit and open source QGIS pisses all over it.
there's a whole bunch of people i've encountered who [......] have never heard of specific programs they could use (i.e. firefox, open office)
I find it disturbing how many people i encounter who don't even know what a web browser is - even though they use one every day.
True. The median person thinks they're intermediate too.
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