Re: TI-H:calc 3.5mm plug
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Re: TI-H:calc 3.5mm plug
well i must say, im an american. but i wont defend the dumb old english
system it is rediculous as you stated, and the cause of many problems. One
thing i will answer, is the fehrenheit system was an attempt to base the
temperature scale on the body temperature of humans, 98.5 degrees F. They
were trying to make that 100 degrees F, but somebody screwed up or soemthing
like that. anyway, i personally think that the centigrade/celsius scale is
crap as well, you know. Kelvin should be universily used. any if not
kelvin direclty, then say Kelvin*10^2+n where n is the value. rather than
Celcius=Kelvin-252 or whatever
oh well. i cant haveeverying
And i think the time system in SI isstill archaic. They are just too lazy
to update it. They shoudl try to make the value a nice round number of
cesium vibrations, rather than the hodgepodge afterthought number it is.
And whats up with the 60 seconds in minute, 60 minutes in hour? it should be
dekasecond and hectasecond, each defined as the rest of the system is.
well, im rambling, but anyway...
-kaus
----- Original Message -----
From: Olle Hedman <oh@hem.passagen.se>
To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H:calc 3.5mm plug
>
> at least the metric system is logical. :) all the metric units are
connected to
> eachother in nice cubes, quadrats or multiples of 10.
> a litre for example is 1dm^3 exactly. nice and clean.
> How can you bare with something as illogical as feet and inches? totally
> rediculous.
> and that farenheit thing? what is it based on? the freezing point of
mercury?
> heh..
> Celsius is 0 at the freezing of water, and 100 at the boiling of water..
and
> equally stepped in between.. there you have nice logic.
> btw.. It is your fault the recent mars sond failed. some stupid
americans
> coded in feet and stuff, while the rest of coders used the metric system
as
> specified.. no good..
> so! defend yourself! :)
>
> file://Olle
> (no I'm not angry or anything.. :))
>
>
> John Teffer wrote:
> >
> > Markus Räty wrote:
> >
> > > P.S. You actually should be able to tell the 2.5mm plug from the 3.5mm
one
> > > just by looking if you ever want to do something audio related for
> > > example...
> >
> > Well, I'm sure if I had both plugs side by side I could tell the
> > difference. :)
> >
> > It just when you Commies start talking in your crazy "metric
> > system" and fluorinating the water that I get confused.
> >
> > - John
> >
> > --
> > Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
> > --
>
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