Comment Re:Revised Standard (Score 1) 177
"Old" is right. This was the standard from 1791 to 1795. Even in the eighteenth century, people considered this so bad a definition it was only in use for four years.
"Old" is right. This was the standard from 1791 to 1795. Even in the eighteenth century, people considered this so bad a definition it was only in use for four years.
You can not make water pure enough. You can't build a container cubical enough. And you can't account for the weight of your container exactly enough.
This has been suggested, but it is not yet possible to do to the same accuracy as the standard kilogram.
Because the definition of a unit has to be implementable as a measurement, so that it can be used to calibrate scales. A purely theoretical definition may be exact, but it is also completely useless if you can't actually build a scale.
And as we can't count hydrogen atoms, this one doesn't work.
Uh, pretty much everything?
He's in trouble, all right, but the trouble is mostly inside his head.
The practice has been officially banned, but apparently continues nonetheless.
Of course, we're not going to let that stop us from calling it "China's", as if it were some kind of official and mandatory procedure.
SPOILERS:
* Windows 8 isn't that bad.
* Apple Maps isn't that bad.
* The iPhone 4 antenna was not that bad.
* That terrible patent you just heard about isn't that bad.
* The internet always lies to you.
Remind me again what Japan is using while their nuclear plants are shut down?
And yet, overall violence does not decrease.
False.
You can kill a person just as easily with a knife - you can kill a lot of people just as easily with a knife.
Also false.
Er, there is a warrant out. That is why Julian Assange is currently hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy.
The whole reason they dropped Google Maps was that their contract with Google was up, and Google wouldn't renew it on terms acceptable by Apple. It wasn't about "supporting" or "helping" Google, it was entirely about what Google was asking in return for letting them use Google Maps.
He has not been "charged" because Swedish law requires him to be arrested before he can be charged. There is every intention to charge him once he is in custody.
It would add plenty of new problems to replace the current ones. For instance, no colour, inability to move the beam accurately enough, problems with filling surfaces, and no doubt plenty more.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible — just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.
Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can.
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. -- A.J. Perlis
