Really? Every intercontinental flight i've ever been on (quite a few, but none in the last 5 years) has shown altitude, speed, etc, in both normal and retarded units. Switching entirely to metric must be new - and is a welcome change, because it was mildly irritating waiting for the miles to change to kilometers.

And...?

Ik woon in Nieuw Holland.

That depends if you want height above ground level or height above the ellipsoid.

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.

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!

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".

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.

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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It'll be like Slashdot's autorefresh gimmick - maximum annoyance for minimum benefit. It interrupts my reading to save me absolutely zero effort.

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.

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.

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.