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Comment Re:US Metric System (Score 1) 1387

One of the original signatories of the convention of the Metre in 1875 was the USA ...

The US Customary units in everyday use are defined in terms of metric base units

US Dollars were one of the first decimal currencies

Most of the products you buy are manufactured in Metric and sold in metric but labelled with both metric and US Customary units ...

The US military and US scientists use metric almost exclusively, and many businesses use metric so they can deal internationally

It's not a case of when you go metric, it's just when are you going to finish....

Comment Re:better explanation (Score 1) 264

It's all a trick due to the weirdness of quantum states trying to be defined in classical terms

They change the quantum state of atoms with almost no energy, to a higher energy state and keep them there using less energy than the change in state ... so in classical terms the energy had to come from somewhere and so the average temperature must have gone down.... but the missing energy is not really missing and the real temperature is still positive ...

Comment Re:Get rid of printers (Score 1) 285

Now take the four pieces of paper on your desk, overlap them and look at them through a rectangular mask that stops you looking at the rest of your desk ...

Paper still has it's uses, they are much much less than they were, and paper is still overused but it is not dead ...

In the same way that Radio is not dead because of TV, there is a place for paper that vast amounts of very expensive technology can replace most of but not all ...

Comment Re:by my estimation (Score 3, Interesting) 146

Note the RIAA has never published music, and is not a music publisher so should have no right to fine uploaders/distributors /publishers

They represent some of the Music Publishers in the USA, but not all of them, and not all music publishers across the world

But they will and have tried to prosecute people for uploading material where the copyright is not owned by the people they represent, even outside the USA

Comment Re:haha (Score 1) 119

You have marketed and sold the value of your product based on an interactive interface that can inform, update and interact with the user, then set up a voting system where you inform them of the vote by email, and the voting system is seemingly not coping with the volume of votes when less that 1% are trying ....

As an exercise in proving the voting system is broken it worked very well

Comment Re:As much as I hate Microsoft... (Score 1) 724

Microsoft have their own infrastructure and inapp payments system and do not need to use Apple's resources at, Apple forces everyone to use theirs like it or not and charges them for the privilege

Microsoft Apps can use any or their own
Android Apps can use any or their own

Apple are the only Smartphone system that forces you to use their app store for all apps, forces you to use their system to make in app payments, and charges you for each ....

Comment Physical phone - no (Score 1) 445

The physical phone is not needed you can simply run a soft-phone on a PC/Laptop.

But a headset/handset/speaker(phone) is essential unless you hardly use it, it's just these are plugged into a computer instead of the handset

Note both Skype and mobile phones have very bad audio quality compare to copper or properly setup VOIP

Comment Re:crap system is proven to be crap (Score 1) 330

No it means that if someone can steal the password hashes then your passwords are known ....

Why is the database of passwords on a machine that is capable of being stolen in the first place, this is like the soldier having a list of challenges and responses written down where anyone he challenges could potentially see the entire list ...

The solution is for the user facing machine not to contain the hashes just an API to check individual passwords as needed

Comment Re:How to treat a loyal customer (Score 1) 571

It depends what you do with exchange, if it is just an email server then it is vast overkill ...there are better alternatives

If however you use it properly and completely then it is difficult to find an alternative, but many of the "properly and completely" features are integration with MS active directory, MS windows, MS Office, MS Sharepoint etc ... which unsurprisingly Microsoft can do better than anyone else ...

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