Unless you set it for jumbo fonts, or have super vision, for many tasks it seems like that would be too small to add much benefit -- at least to me.
That's a side effect of operating systems which don't scale properly. Windows doesn't do it properly and most other operating systems screw it up in various ways too.
I, for one, appreciate that it takes money to protect my freedom from terrorists. I have nothing to hide
And innocent people have nothing to fear.
Hey, guess what. YOU don't get to determine what's "innocent".
Back in the 1800s, Heroin was a commercial product, cocaine was legal and you could stockpile weed without ending up in prison. These days, buying fertilizer can get you in trouble. For decades, alcohol was illegal There is virtually nothing so innocuous that some group cannot get all worked up about and make illegal and suddenly all your records about your little hobby can be used to put you away. Not just the obvious vices, but things like photography, home vegetables, choir practice and more.
We are one major (not a joker or protester) incident away from having crippling regulations put on radio control aircraft.
I thought they made a really compelling argument for Apple Radio. They are pushing on the idea of a distinction between radio and algorithmically-driven playlists. Of the role of a djay in curating music and placing it in a cultural context. On the very notion of pop music not as a pejorative term but as a dimension of our shared experience.
Ok sure, I'll bite, at least for the trial period. $10/mo sounds expensive, tho.
$10/mo is cheap compared to SiriusXM. SiriusXM is a terrible company, their customer service is awful and their marketing machine makes the people selling fake viagra blush. Advertisements on some channels (Comedy in particular) are some of the sleaziest late-night ads I have ever heard. But I have struggled to find something better. The barrier to entry into online services is a bit high- every online service there is requires some tweaking, customizing, or "learning your tastes" period, whereas I can just turn on Sirius and go to a genre channel and get exactly what the channel says it is.
I'm guessing shorter chains make it more likely for the donors involved to agree, as it's less "anonymous". Also; why make these chains any longer than necessary. At the end of the day though, these chains should be as long as necessary, and I'm thoroughly impressed by the organisational skills involved here and the willingness of the donors to go through with it.
I think it has more to due with what happens when a kidney is rejected. With a single swap, if things go bad, that is tragic but the two matches probably got to know each other a little bit. With a long chain, the chances of at least one of the kidneys being rejected increases, and the politics may get more complicated when that happens.
When you factor it out, what you're left with is advantage of their divisible by ten units versus the more varied divisions in imperial.
One thing to realize is that Imperial measurements are often simpler to work with, they're in more handy increments than metric.
Unless you're doing scientific stuff you don't often compare inches of something with miles of something else.
I remember reading that chefs and cooks over in Europe are 'rebelling' against metric because it's a pain in the ass when cooking. Imperial - tablespoons, cups, and such are actually more convenient once you've learned it. You can triple or quadruple a recipe, cut it in half or thirds, pretty easily in your head. Not so easily for metric.
Same deal with inches, feet, and yards when constructing a building.
I completely agree with cooking in metric being a pain. I've tried to make some Japanese and eastern European recipes, and it generally involves a LOT of weighing. Weighing is probably more accurate, but it becomes a huge chore. Especially when you get to the point in the recipe when you have to weigh out precise amounts of egg whites.
Really, with all the important issues that should occupy a president's attention, if this is even on your radar, you're not qualified for the job.
Converting to metric is not just a fun science nerd issue no one cares about.
Really it's an economic issue, and I'm surprised it hasn't been made more of a big deal. When we follow international standards, we can better share ideas and better trade goods. If the US used metric, we'd be in a much better position to sell our goods worldwide, as we wouldn't need to re-tool or re-calculate all the time.
Great example: our US engineers are mostly trained in the English system. My wife used to work in an industry that is now heavily developing and building things overseas. The American engineers had to build everything to metric standards, since they were building in India and what not, and really had trouble with it, as they weren't properly trained to do metric calculations and the equipment they wanted to buy from American companies didn't always come in a metric size. Instead, the engineers would have to half-ass some crazy scheme (like buying parts and then cutting them -- makes sense until you realize you'd have to pay field guys to do this 10,000 times) to get it to work. The quality suffers, and since there's all these problems, I get the sense that many international companies would rather just hire Germans or whatever to do it.
This is an anecdote of one industry, sure, but if our engineers were trained in metric, and our businesses made the jump to make metric products in the first place, we'd probably be a lot more competitive in the world market. We wouldn't need to spend all this extra time and money on customization, we could just do it. I imagine all this effort has long ago exceeded the cost of buying new tools once; we should have just switched then and told businessmen to shut up about costs.
All of that absolutely doesn't matter. The US doesn't export cheap manufactured goods. We just don't do it. We're too high on the standard of living pyramid to make it work economically.
For expensive precision goods, I have yet to find a machinist who can hit a dimension of 4.000" +/- 0.001" but can't machine the same part to 3.937" (100mm). The machines all have toggle switches, but to reduce errors it is better to just have the engineer do all the conversions to inches right on the drawing or in the CAM program.
Even in Metric countries like Canada, many people still use imperial units for a lot of things. Go to the lumber store and you can get a 2x4, and they are sold in 6, 8, 10, and 12 foot lengths. Plywood is sold in 4x4 foot sheets. Just about everybody I know refers to their weight in pounds and their height in feet and inches. Almost nobody can tell you the metric equivalent without a calculator. We order a pint of beer at the pub, and most people still refer to a block of butter as a "pound of butter". . British people still use "stone" to express their body weight, and they are supposed to be metric as well.
You can standardize all you want, and print whatever you want on the packaging, but people are still going to use whatever they are used to. You could have the US go metric tomorrow, but people will still use Imperial measurements for another century
And Pizza diameters. I've been all over the world and have found Pizza sizes advertised in inches in some very strongly metric countries.
You don't count (almost) all the other countries on the planet being metric as a huge push?
No, because it doesn't matter. Anyone doing business internationally can set their CNC machines to "metric" mode and toggle their digital calipers to metric with a single button push. That's if the design isn't in metric already, some are. Machinists, at least in my industry, really doesn't care if the dimension they are trying to cut is 4.000" or 3.937" (100mm). It's just a readout on a digital display to them.
The US doesn't export building materials ("2x4"s, etc.) in any significant amount so that is irrelevant. Anyone shipping products to the US can go to the trouble of making them in imperial measurements if that is important for the product. For most products these days, it isn't.
I saw the article linked with things some folks want, and hated most of it. Vehicles? Really?
Done the right way, I think they could do vehicles right. Just look at GTA5- if you play in first person all of the time, the game is a believably realistic crime simulator. They sunk a lot of time and effort into making every aspect of the vehicles realistic, including believable damage models (cosmetic AND physical), realistic handling physics, etc. It is quite a departure from the arcade feel of the previous GTA games and IMO a huge improvement.
The last Fallout games, on the other hand, could do with a dose of realism. But Bethesda has shown time and again that they can't make a physics engine not be buggy.
Aren't party members invincible?
Not commonly so in any of the Fallout games I have played. Keeping party members alive has always been a challenge.
Why would you go for that when the Toshiba SCS-T160 is far cheaper and can be installed in a US home for $30 in parts (excluding the electrical outlet)?
I rarely use the water spray, but the heated seat and no-slam lid are very nice.
Be careful with water. Don't get me wrong, I plan to incorporate water features into my house. But humidity has profoundly negative effects on many aspects of housing, from the walls to your furniture to your books and so forth, and a water feature with inadequate circulation is a good recipe for high humidity. In a bad case (as a plant nut I've had this happen), in a cold winter it can make its way through the ceiling and the insulation and freeze out on the roof, and then when it warms up melt back into your house.
Water can be nice, but don't skimp on the ventilation!
I'm 99% sure that the parent was referring to outdoor water features. Like fountains, waterfalls, and ponds.
Back in Pentium 66 days Intel shipped a bunch of mother boards that made it impossible to disable power management.
We were shipping a 386 mode extended DOS batch application (long story). To keep the machines from powering down during a run we suggested a workaround. A thermal water cup pecking bird with a paper clip attached to hit the shift key on every peck.
I sent a copy of the 'tech bulletin' to a friend who worked at Intel, thinking they should make it an official workaround. They never did.
Because you made it all up? Anyone who has actually played with the drinking bird knows that they can't generate anywhere near as much force as the keyboards of that era required in order to register a keystroke.
If you think Micro-A USB is popular, wait until you see your grandkids getting devices with USB-C.
Surely you can't be serious? USB has only been around for 20 years and in that time they have gone through 10 different types of plugs, 7 of which I have personally used and probably 5 of which most people would agree were "commonly used". We'll have a new plug in less than 10 years, probably less than 5. Unless you already have grandkids of walking age, I really can't agree with your prediction.
"Free markets select for winning solutions." -- Eric S. Raymond
