I am a Brit. When I was a kid almost 69 years ago we measured weather temperature in Fahrenheit. We decided to join the rest of the world an converted to Centigrade. We survived, some people grumbled but we learned new numbers, the sky did not fall in. Are you saying that the peoples of the USA will not be able to cope? The best you can say is 'we survived, the sky did not fall in'? Surely there must have been some enormous benefits to the average citizen to justify the change, right?
OK, maybe not enormous benefits. Some benefits? Any benefits? We survived. But, by doing this and going through the changes and "surviving", what exactly were the major net benefit to the citizens after the change?
I mean, I don't really see any compelling reason for the US to switch in that doing so, would cause problems, and yet, I can't really see a perceptible benefit? I am an American citizen, and yes, the majority of my fellow citizens will be completely unable to cope. There has been a very successful IQ Reduction Program over the past few decades.
OK, obviously superior super genius. How about you lay out for us simpletons, in easy to understand terms, EXACTLY what benefits we can expect from changing to the metric system.
And be sure to include any associated costs. It's what the majority of the world uses. The cost savings will be the elimination of the need to convert. Not to mention the increase in sales to customers who don't want to stock two sets of tools.
You don't add 's' to stone the weight measure when it's used as a plural. This is an informal way of measuring weight, applies to one specific application people! Either everything is sold on slightly different size sheets and you need double the stock at places like home depot until 4'x8' becomes so rare my house isn't particularly well made and is years old, so it'll be a while that 4x8 becomes a specialty item and requires cutting from bigger sizes with scrap.
And Fahrenheit [wikipedia. Next you'll be wanting me to give up all my recipes, teaspoons tablespoons, cups and pints!!?!? For the love of god yes.
Use weight, not volume. It's much more consistent because you don't have to worry about compacting stuff. Back in the real world, conversion tables work just fine which is how I cooked non American recipes with American kit and how I cook American recipes back home. I asked all my nerd friends in our Moms' basements about 69 and got nothing but blank stares.
So I did a poll: What's your favorite number? It's similar to the reason mile marker in Colorado was removed.
All those people who thought it would be funny to have the marker when they're off getting stoned, completely ignoring the cost to replace the sign. Now there is a mile marker at Fucking, Austria [wikipedia. There's some gold in that article: "The Germans all want to see Mozart's house in Salzburg; the Americans want to see where The Sound of Music was filmed; the Japanese want Hitler's birthplace in Braunau; but for the British, it's all about Fucking.
Step 4: Profit. No doubt someone at Apple got tired of all the screenshots with 69 F at PM being posted to Reddit every day with a title of "nice". This site is marketed as "News for Nerds".
If 69 is not an important number to nerds, then I don't know what is. Go to weatherunderground. Open the Wundermap. Behold, all the weather stations near you right now.
There's one in the park half a block from my house. Total for my small city is something like four dozen station. When I look at the temperature I am seeing the exact temperature for the station nearest me. Not the exact temperature for the whole city. Just the station nearest me. It's not a difficult concept. You even quote the article as saying "At a given location.
Apple's licensing terms probably has something about not being suitable for life safety applications. I know that's just an expression but you got me wondering. Since thermometers weren't available at those times, I was wondering what that might actually be. Of course it was basically just:. Specific artisans like potters, blacksmiths and bakers probably had some markers of temperature that were more subtle--different colors, how quickly something bubbles in a pan, etc.
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To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Or 68 degrees. Any temperature but 69 degrees, actually, because it turns out that the built-in weather app on some versions of iOS — including the current version, iOS A possible explanation for the issue as pointed out by several people on Twitter is that Apple may be sourcing data for its iOS Weather app in Celsius and then converting it to Fahrenheit.
For example, 20 degrees Celsius converts to 68 degrees Fahrenheit, while 21 degrees Celsius converts to The app appears to have similar issues with temperatures like 65 degrees where 18 degrees Celsius converts to A phone running iOS The weather icon on the iPhone's homescreen always reads a pleasant 73 degrees and sunny.
It has since the original iPhone was released, a comfortable, inoffensive temperature that matches the comfortable, inoffensive homescreen on iOS.
The prevailing opinion after the iPhone 5 announcement is that it's boring, but still pretty great. The hardware is without a doubt impressive from a technical and engineering standpoint, but iterative on previous designs. The software is as competent as we've come to expect from Apple. Together they make for a product that's not surprising — and therefore a little boring. The new iPhone is timid. Apple has taken very few — if any — real chances.
It's a safe, pleasant, and sunny 73 degrees on the iPhone. Thoughtful, beautiful, and a wonder of modern engineering — but it is not radical. As we noted in our hands-on with the iPhone 5 , the thinner and taller design feels incredibly light yet still very sturdy. Apple has tossed in the usual assortment of spec bumps: a faster processor, improved camera, and a larger screen.
That last item is a bigger change than usual for Apple, but it actually does very little with the extra space from a software perspective. Moreover, compared to the other smartphones, Apple's small adjustment in screen size still leaves its smartphone at the bottom end of the spectrum. Phil Schiller told us that "The design language is an iteration, but otherwise this is a completely new phone. With this unique relationship people have with their iPhone, we take changing it really seriously.
The most important part of the iPhone's physical design has always been its minimalism. It's primarily a window into the software, where all the action is on smartphones. If software is the main design element on modern smartphones — and it is — then we should be seeing Apple sweating each and every pixel just as it sweated each and every micron.
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