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"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? **Indeed. That IS how they're spelt. It's getting a bit chilly, I think I'll turn up my heatre. And does that mean that the ghost is talking about Jim's petre? *ROFLMAO* |
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Porky wrote:
You know, we here in the US were blissful in our ignorance when we used imperial measurements, we had no problems with pints, quarts, and ounces; and yards, feet and inches were easy. ??? I was born in the US and have lived here all my life, and I've always found pints, quarts, ounces (would those be ounces or FLUID ounces? this confused me to no end in grade school) confusing. In fact, I have this plastic reference chart of the imperial system stuck to the side of my refrigerator with magnets because I have to refer to it to understand the imperial system. By the way, how many teaspoons in a cup? Once you work that out, how many teaspoons in a gallon? For instance, I was exactly six feet tall, now I'm 1.828 meters tall If you were exactly six feet tall (which, by the way, mathematically has a probability of exactly zero), then, yes, in your case the imperial system would be more efficient at representing your particular height. But what about the guy who's exactly 2 meters tall? If he's going to convert to imperial units and add a bunch of significant digits like you did, then he has to walk around saying he's 6 foot, 6.74 inches tall. Not very convenient. I used to weigh exactly 210 lbs, now I weigh 95.455 kilograms. Again, considering significant figures, what about the guy whose mass is exactly 100 kg? If he converts the other direction and bumps it up to 5 significant figures like you did, then he has to walk around saying he weighs 220.46 lbs. So does that mean we can conclude that lbs are complicated and inconvenient? How did taking whole numbers and converting them to forms of measurement that required decimal fractions to express simplify things? :-) They don't require decimal fractions. You can use decimal fractions if you'd like, you can also just as easily say you're 95 kg and leave it at that. Weight fluctuates up and down by 1 or 2 lbs every day anyway, so it's not accurate to say you're 210 lbs exactly and never 209 or 211 lbs. So 95 kg is probably accurate enough. And with height, you can easily express your height in centimeters. If you're 6 foot even, you'd be just a tiny bit short of 183 cm. I am personally 5'9.5", which makes me about 176 cm tall. 176 cm is actually a bit easier to deal with than 5'9.5". - Logan |
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:28:21 -0600, "Porky" wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? **Indeed. That IS how they're spelt. It's getting a bit chilly, I think I'll turn up my heatre. And does that mean that the ghost is talking about Jim's petre? *ROFLMAO* The language is *English*, you ignorami! There are *no* rules, words just is what they is, and the fact that litre and metre are correct spellings has no bearing whatever on any other words. I before e except after c, said the heirs to the throne and their neighbours. -- Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering |
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"George Gleason" wrote in message ... Trevor Wilson wrote: **Indeed. That IS how they're spelt. Certainly in Australia and England. MET RE, if you say so rast ro :-) At least in most countries we can tell the difference between an indicating device, and a unit of length. MrT. |
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"Porky" wrote in message
... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. All the best Leodis |
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Hill"
wrote: "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. All the best Leodis Or rather that would be the ark. d Pearce Consulting http://www.pearce.uk.com |
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Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* I thought English was an evolving language, unlike Welsh, for example, which doesn't create many new words. So someone speaking Welsh will intersperse all the Welsh stuff with the English "Washing machine", "Computer", "Britney Spears" etc, Changes of spelling and new words are what keeps the language alive. Live with it. Gareth. |
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message ... On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Hill" wrote: "Porky" wrote in message .. . "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. All the best Leodis Or rather that would be the ark. **Doesn't much matter. The story is just a child's fable anyway. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au |
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Hill"
wrote: Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. I believe an arc is typically 5000-30,000K. An ark would be much cooler. CubaseFAQ www.laurencepayne.co.uk/CubaseFAQ.htm "Possibly the world's least impressive web site": George Perfect |
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:00:39 -0600, "Porky" wrote:
BTW if you think that gasoline is expensive in the US today, just look at the prices in countries that sell it in liters, a liter there often costs much as a gallon here, and if they start selling gas in liters here it won't be long before that happens in the US too. Oh, THAT'S why we pay a lot for fuel in the UK! :-) CubaseFAQ www.laurencepayne.co.uk/CubaseFAQ.htm "Possibly the world's least impressive web site": George Perfect |
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:37:56 +1100, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote: Or rather that would be the ark. **Doesn't much matter. The story is just a child's fable anyway. Of course - everything in that book is fable wound on an armature of history - but quite fun. d Pearce Consulting http://www.pearce.uk.com |
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I believe an arc is typically 5000-30,000K. An ark would be much
cooler. Yes, back then when man was first invented, the unit of temperature was the Noah, subdivided into 24 Nellies. 20 degrees centigrade equates to approximately 7 Noahs and 13 Nellies. |
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"Peter Hill" writes:
It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out It is "Celsius", named after the swedish scientist Anders Celsius: http://www.astro.uu.se/history/Celsius_eng.html Oh, and there is nothing funny about gallons, US or imperial... with the arc. All the best Leodis Thomas |
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Trevor Wilson wrote:
**Actually, I think it would be a pretty good idea. Our roadsigns (here in NSW) are a joke. It must terrifying for interstate and overseas drivers to navigate around NSW (generally) and Sydney (specifically). In the US, I found roadsigns to be excellent, easy to read and placed in a timely manner, to allow appropriate lane changes. With the sole exception of the rather bizarre (to me) posting of signs which read: Sepulveda Blvd 13/4 Miles. Interstate 54 27/8 Miles. All very odd. Why not move the signs to read 2 Miles and 3 Miles respectively? The problem in the US is that signage varies a lot from state to state. Some states are excellent, some aren't, but the general standards change a lot too. Some roads have exits that increment by one with each exit, some have exits whose number is the mile marker they are at. The mile markers often change when you go from one state to another. In Virginia, exits are marked by a large green sign with the name of the exit and a smaller one with the number, and the smaller green sign is always to the right for right-exits an always to the left for exiting left. But in Maryland, they are all to the right even for left exits.... At least they don't stop you at the state line to check your passport. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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"Logan Shaw" wrote in message ... Porky wrote: You know, we here in the US were blissful in our ignorance when we used imperial measurements, we had no problems with pints, quarts, and ounces; and yards, feet and inches were easy. ??? I was born in the US and have lived here all my life, and I've always found pints, quarts, ounces (would those be ounces or FLUID ounces? this confused me to no end in grade school) confusing. In fact, I have this plastic reference chart of the imperial system stuck to the side of my refrigerator with magnets because I have to refer to it to understand the imperial system. By the way, how many teaspoons in a cup? Once you work that out, how many teaspoons in a gallon? You should note, also, that we don't use the imperial system in the US, but the avoirdupois system. Imperial units are slightly different; for example, an imperial pint is larger than an avoirdupois pint, which you can discover at any British pub. Peace, Paul |
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Trevor Wilson wrote:
"Andrew Chesters" wrote in message ... Logan Shaw wrote: Trevor Wilson wrote: SNIP Must say, it is highly entertaining to watch a Yank arguing with an Aus over the semantics and usage of English!! :-) **Kinda like watching two ants argue over a crumb of bread. As an aside, an entertaining read on the subject of the English language is "Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson. US by birth and lived in the UK for quite some time. |
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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:55:43 +0000, Laurence Payne
wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:34:30 +0000 (UTC), "Peter Hill" wrote: Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. I believe an arc is typically 5000-30,000K. An ark would be much cooler. But if the arcs were part of the contours of an ark, they would be cool too. Even most of the arcs that are not part of an ark can be cool. Tony (remove the "_" to reply by email) |
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"Peter Hill" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. Hmmm, if the weatherman says it's 20 degrees outside, I'm wearing my coat and gloves when I go out. While some temps are now measured in Celcius, the weather reports are still in Farenheit, so I measure room temps in degrees F as well, just to avoid confusion. I may be old fashioned and out of date, but I still think in inches, feet, yards, and miles, and in pounds and ounces, and in fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons. When I do metric, I still have to mentally convert. |
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"Jim Carr" wrote in
news:IfvVd.38312$Tt.4316@fed1read05: LOL! That was a good one, Ghost! How did you know my penis had a battery? I didn't, but I'm not surprised. It has to be somewhere because it certainly isn't in your brian. |
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"Porky" wrote in message ... "Peter Hill" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. Hmmm, if the weatherman says it's 20 degrees outside, I'm wearing my coat and gloves when I go out. While some temps are now measured in Celcius, the weather reports are still in Farenheit, so I measure room temps in degrees F as well, just to avoid confusion. I may be old fashioned and out of date, but I still think in inches, feet, yards, and miles, and in pounds and ounces, and in fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons. When I do metric, I still have to mentally convert. **Indeed. Your approach is the same as most people. In fact, it is much like learning a new language. People who learn a new language do not REALLY get the hang of it, until they start thinking in the new language, instead of mentally converting back to their native tongue, thinking, then translating and speaking. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au |
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"The Ghost" wrote in message
. 130... "Jim Carr" wrote in news:IfvVd.38312$Tt.4316@fed1read05: LOL! That was a good one, Ghost! How did you know my penis had a battery? I didn't, but I'm not surprised. It has to be somewhere because it certainly isn't in your brian. LOL! You are just *too* much! A battery in my brian...now *that* is funny! |
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alt.music.home-studio, rec.audio.pro and rec.audio.tech, on Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:13:39 -0600, "Porky" wrote: "Nat" wrote in message oups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room Actually, many of us have Attentuation Deficit Disorder. temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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Trevor Wilson wrote:
"Jim Carr" wrote in message news:ksRUd.31946$Tt.154@fed1read05... "Trevor Wilson" wrote in message ... BTW: While you're switching to Metric, see if you Yanks can spell Litre correctly. The rest of the planet manages to do so. According to Google, there are five times as many sites with liter as with litre. Americans won't go with litre for two reasons: First, it's from the French and second, it helps us remember that a liter is "lighter" than a quart. **You Americans have short memories, doncha? Without the French, you would still be British subjects. Since we are being SO literal about language, let's not forget there are two continents in the Americas. www.DeanTiernan.com |
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Paul Stamler wrote:
You should note, also, that we don't use the imperial system in the US, but the avoirdupois system. Imperial units are slightly different; for example, an imperial pint is larger than an avoirdupois pint, which you can discover at any British pub. See, I told it was confusing? How come we in the US are using a name with a French-sounding name when the French are now hawking this new system called the SI? It doesn't make sense, I tell ya! - Logan |
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Logan Shaw wrote:
Paul Stamler wrote: You should note, also, that we don't use the imperial system in the US, but the avoirdupois system. Imperial units are slightly different; for example, an imperial pint is larger than an avoirdupois pint, which you can discover at any British pub. See, I told it was confusing? Apparently, I was so confused, I couldn't even write coherently. I meant to say, "See, I told you it was confusing!". There, that's better. (Or maybe not.) - Logan |
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:55:21 -0600, "Porky" wrote:
"Peter Hill" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. Hmmm, if the weatherman says it's 20 degrees outside, I'm wearing my coat and gloves when I go out. While some temps are now measured in Celcius, the weather reports are still in Farenheit, Only in the US. so I measure room temps in degrees F as well, just to avoid confusion. I may be old fashioned and out of date, but I still think in inches, feet, yards, and miles, and in pounds and ounces, and in fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons. When I do metric, I still have to mentally convert. As do most of us old Imperial buffers, but it's not that hard, is it? -- Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering |
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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message ... On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:28:21 -0600, "Porky" wrote: "Trevor Wilson" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? **Indeed. That IS how they're spelt. It's getting a bit chilly, I think I'll turn up my heatre. And does that mean that the ghost is talking about Jim's petre? *ROFLMAO* The language is *English*, you ignorami! There are *no* rules, words just is what they is, and the fact that litre and metre are correct spellings has no bearing whatever on any other words. I before e except after c, said the heirs to the throne and their neighbours. Yeah. Weird, ain't it. Norm |
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"Peter Hill" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. Look out, or you'll get me started on the subject of measurement units, on which I have some definite opinions. e.g. fahrenheit degrees are a much better way of expressing ambient temperature than are Celsius degrees. Norm |
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alt.music.home-studio, rec.audio.pro and rec.audio.tech, on Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:13:39 -0600, "Porky" wrote: "Nat" wrote in message oups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room Actually, many of us have Attentuation Deficit Disorder. temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* ----- http://mindspring.com/~benbradley |
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"Jim Carr" wrote in message news:skaWd.39462$Tt.11321@fed1read05... "The Ghost" wrote in message . 130... "Jim Carr" wrote in news:IfvVd.38312$Tt.4316@fed1read05: LOL! That was a good one, Ghost! How did you know my penis had a battery? I didn't, but I'm not surprised. It has to be somewhere because it certainly isn't in your brian. LOL! You are just *too* much! A battery in my brian...now *that* is funny! Well, the ghost is obviously batty in his brain.... |
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"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Peter Hill" wrote in message ... "Porky" wrote in message ... "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room temps for audio gear, but now we're discussing measurement systems and spelling, and the ghost wants to talk about penises (or would that be penii?)! *ROFL* It's litre for a volume of something, and a metre for the length of something. Unless you're American, then it's liter or meter, although a meter is a measuring instrument. Then the USA has funny gallons as well, Safe room temperature is round about 20 degrees Celcius. Fahrenheit went out with the arc. Hmmm, if the weatherman says it's 20 degrees outside, I'm wearing my coat and gloves when I go out. While some temps are now measured in Celcius, the weather reports are still in Farenheit, so I measure room temps in degrees F as well, just to avoid confusion. I may be old fashioned and out of date, but I still think in inches, feet, yards, and miles, and in pounds and ounces, and in fluid ounces, pints, quarts and gallons. When I do metric, I still have to mentally convert. **Indeed. Your approach is the same as most people. In fact, it is much like learning a new language. People who learn a new language do not REALLY get the hang of it, until they start thinking in the new language, instead of mentally converting back to their native tongue, thinking, then translating and speaking. My point exactly. I grew up with inches, ounces, etc. Metric didn't come along in the U.S. until I was grown, and then it was so haphazard that there was no incentive to learn to think in metrics, mostly only in the auto industry and then only in nut and bolt sizes. All it did was force me to buy new wrenches and socket sets. Now I use a 14mm socket, but I still use a 3/8" ratchet handle to turn it, and when I buy fuel or vacuum lines, they come in fractions of an inch diameter, but the fitting to which they attach will most likely have metric threads. My tires are on rims measured in inches and are pressurized to 28lbs/sq in, but the tire size is metric except for the rim diameter. My gas tank is measured in gallons, my antifreeze comes in gallon containers, and my oil comes in quarts. That's a prime example of what happens when a government tries to legislate "standards" on an one industry. Had it not been for the resistance to that one stupid piece of legislation, it's quite probable that we would long agon have changed to metrics on our own. :-) |
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"Ben Bradley" wrote in message ... In alt.music.home-studio, rec.audio.pro and rec.audio.tech, on Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:13:39 -0600, "Porky" wrote: "Nat" wrote in message oups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room Actually, many of us have Attentuation Deficit Disorder. ADD is a fairly new term, but I'm sure I had it as a child. Thank goodness I outgrew it. Uh, what were we talking about? :-) |
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"Jim Carr" wrote in
news:skaWd.39462$Tt.11321@fed1read05: "The Ghost" wrote in message . 130... "Jim Carr" wrote in news:IfvVd.38312$Tt.4316@fed1read05: LOL! That was a good one, Ghost! How did you know my penis had a battery? I didn't, but I'm not surprised. It has to be somewhere because it certainly isn't in your brian. LOL! You are just *too* much! A battery in my brian...now *that* is funny! It obviously doesn't take much to amuse a mentally-retarded do-nothing, done-nothing nobody like Jim Carr. Too bad that he is too arrogant and too stupid to realize that few if any of the people who he is trying to impress are encumbered, as he is, with the mentality of a third grader. Anyone who thinks otherwise will undoubtedly appreciate his third-grade level of humor and his denial of reality which is exemplified in the following post. Newsgroups: comp.dsp, rec.audio.pro, alt.music.home-studio From: "Jim Carr" - Find messages by this author Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:59:06 -0700 Local: Wed, Jan 19 2005 8:59 pm Subject: Merry Christmas! Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse "The Ghost" wrote in message 30... What are your credentials? I saved every gold star I ever got in grade school. What are your areas of expertise? Needling blowhards Where did you get your M.D. and/or Ph.D? From a diploma mill in Zimbabwe. Where did you do your residency or post-doctoral work? My brother's garage. When did you ever hold a faculty position at either a medical school or university? When I was a professor there. What medical school and/or university courses have you ever taught? Introduction to Sarcasm. What awards, fellowships and/or research grants have you ever received? In college I was voted Most Likely to Aggravate an Imbecile How many years of research experience do you have? About a week. How many years of consulting experience do you have? Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, consult. What nationally-advertised seminars have you ever given? "Ignorant Imbeciles - Why we can't stop loving them" How many companies do you have consulting agreements with? Far more than those with which I have consulting disagreements. When was it that you were offered a research position at Bell Labs? Right after they realized their mistake of hiring Gary Sokolilch. How many papers have you published? I used to deliver The Washington Post. Does that count? How many patents do you have? They are all pending. How many MD's and/or Ph.D's do you have listed as references on your resume? As many as will fit. Do you even have a resume that anyone not having a Beavis & Butthead mentality would take seriously? You think Beavis and Butthead would take *any* resume seriously? What a maroon. For your sake I hope that your attorney has something more substantive than your infantile argumet to present in front of a judge and jury. Argumet? Isn't that a French sauce you put on snails? |
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"Ben Bradley" wrote in message ... In alt.music.home-studio, rec.audio.pro and rec.audio.tech, on Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:13:39 -0600, "Porky" wrote: "Nat" wrote in message oups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. You know, any normal person browsing the audio groups must think we all have Attention Deficit Disorder, we started off on the topic of safe room Actually, many of us have Attentuation Deficit Disorder. Yeah, all rock musicians have that! *LOL* Good one, Ben. |
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"Porky" wrote in
: "Jim Carr" wrote in message news:skaWd.39462$Tt.11321@fed1read05... "The Ghost" wrote in message . 130... "Jim Carr" wrote in news:IfvVd.38312$Tt.4316@fed1read05: LOL! That was a good one, Ghost! How did you know my penis had a battery? I didn't, but I'm not surprised. It has to be somewhere because it certainly isn't in your brian. LOL! You are just *too* much! A battery in my brian...now *that* is funny! Well, the ghost is obviously batty in his brain.... And porky the swine is obviously brain dead and half way on his final journey to the sausage factory. |
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Look out, or you'll get me started on the subject of measurement units, on
which I have some definite opinions. e.g. fahrenheit degrees are a much better way of expressing ambient temperature than are Celsius degrees. Is it ********. Everyone on the planet knows how cold 0 degrees C is. Ice. Everyone on the planet knows how hot 100 degrees C is. Boiling water. (unless you are in the Hymalayas) Give a number like 470 degrees bleedin Fahrenheit and nobody except North Americans has any idea what that means. What is the point of that? Pah, I spit on you stupid Fahrenheit system, it's rubbish. |
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Fascinating discussion! Here in Canada, the last Fahrenheit weather report
was broadcast around 1979 or 1980. Our gasoline is sold in litres, road distances are measured in kilometres, speeds in km/h. Our vehicles have metric speedometers and odometers (note the spellings -- "er" instead of "re" is correct, as is "My VU meter is a metre away from me right now.") Lumber and many tools still utilize old SAE and Imperial measurements. Many recipes still use teaspoons, tablespoons, ounces, cups, pints and quarts, rather than millilitres, litres, etc. So we're about 80 per cent metric, but kids still need to be taught to be conversant in the old measurements because they remain hanging around. As usual, we blame the United States. If it had been decisive about switching, our metrication (some say "metrification," in typical if-I-add-a-syllable-I'll-sound-smarter fashion [c.f. "orientated," "irregardless," et al]) would have taken place much more thoroughly. Gallons, feet and inches would be consigned to the same page of history as rods, furlongs, cubits and pecks. Whoever said the change has to be complete, the old "language" taken away, and people taught to think in the new measurements, was absolutely right. Miles (yeah, I know, my name's not metric. Brilliant people have been pointing that out since I was eight years old.) in article : "Ben Bradley" wrote in message ... In alt.music.home-studio, rec.audio.pro and rec.audio.tech, on Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:13:39 -0600, "Porky" wrote: "Nat" wrote in message ups.com... Does anyone know offhand what the range of safe room temperatures (in F, please) is for studio gear? Wait! if the correct spelling is litre than wouldn't a meter be spelled metre too? After all, they're both units of measurement. |
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Look out, or you'll get me started on the subject of measurement units, on which I have some definite opinions. e.g. fahrenheit degrees are a much better way of expressing ambient temperature than are Celsius degrees. Norm Now that would be interesting to see. Please enlighten me! Thomas |
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