Except those "highly accurate" crystals are not so highly accurate. Their frequency changes with temperature and as the crystals and other components in the circuitry age. The value of using the power line as a reference is not that it is all that accurate in the short term, it's that it is highly accurate over long periods because it is continually adjusted to be so.
Yes, your battery-backed-up clock will keep time while the power is off, but keep that clock running on battery for a month or so and you will find it inexorably drifts off the right time. You'll end up periodically having to adjust the clock manually. That's not the case if you sync to the power line -- for now, at least.
Now where will the drug dealers be able to market their products to kids?!?
Not to worry... NYC still has schoolyards
Don't you have to be a citizen in order to be charged with treason?
That's such pre-9/11 thinking.
I really want to know what people are going to write for the statement that Neil Armstrong made when he stepped off the LEM ladder.
"Hey, Houston! I just cut the cheese!"
Tell me, exactly what does the US government have to do to its citizens for it to be newsworthy?
Tax them. Apparently, that's the only government activity that's objectionable.
Aren't they just proposing removing the dependence on the 1 kilogram cylinders?
Yes, but what fun would it be to make that the headline?
Today's front-runner for "Slashdot headline that most sounds like a headline from The Onion."
Human urine is quite sterile, believe it or not.
Yet, I stand by my belief that it's better to be pissed off than pissed on.
I'm really tired of the
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I know what you mean. It's almost as tiresome as the way people generalize about the
Clearly, you should hire an MBA to write your software, a developer to design your web page, and a designer to run your company. Then all will be right in the world.
Fnkmaster, do you work at my company? Cuz' that's pretty much what we gots here.
Factorials were someone's attempt to make math LOOK exciting.