Why is there always Geek Talk at 2am! #0.6x5 (Enter at your own risk!)

Harm wrote in post #12018501
Engineering wise, the world outside of the US is mainly metric. So school, high school, university, work - I did everything with metric units. Move to the US, have to use Imperial methods. But with most of my work, outside of the US, but with US clients, I have to use both at the same time. A total arse when it comes to excel files, as they are bulked up with crap that need not be there, but to save a couple of executives on the client side, who can't live with the rest of the world

PITA! So much extra added by doing both.

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12018507
i remember my dad's speedometer having clear plastic stickers indicating the kilometers/hour he was driving, but at 100k he was still going 60mph nothing changed except the signs

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12018111
i'm the exact opposite of that Alex, when i hear 20c i have convert it to 73F to know how warm i'll be

Did you live somewhere else before Ontario? Well, I guess I should ask if you lived outside Canada.

20droger wrote in post #12018172
Well, here's where we part company, Mel.

Having been in circumstances where humans hunted humans for real, with rifles and bullets (among other things), I am against any sport or activity, physical or virtual, that makes such a thing a game. I believe such games desensitize people to the pain and suffering caused by the real activity.

I know a number of you out there will disagree with me. Feel free to do so. You have a right to be as wrong as you wish.

I can't speak for others, but I can speak for myself. Activities such as paintball, lazer tag, Nerf blasters, and first person shooter video games do not desensitize me to the pain and suffering caused by the real thing. And how could it? Any human death, whether or not it involved firearms, is a horrible thing. Wars, murders, gang shootings, human hunting, all of those are despicable things.

When I take part in activities that involve "shooting" at another person, I don't take sadistic pleasure in having "killed" someone. I regard paintball as a sport in which we attempt to tag the opposing players. There are many qualities to paintball as a sport when one follows all rules of safety and plays honestly and with respect of others, such as team building, learning good communication, and getting physical activity. There are always people who do not respect the well being of others and give a bad rep to paintball (as is true with just about any activity). I never condone individuals using paintball markers outside of a paintball playing field or facility to torment, injure, and sometimes even fatally shoot people. The same goes for lazer tag and playing with Nerf blasters (and Super Soaker water guns) as a kid. For me, there is a clear distinction between play and real life. I could never enjoy seeing someone suffer in real life, especially as a result of my own actions.

If anything, first person shooter video games are a lot worse than playing paintball. Most of them are basically a simulation of what you could do in real life with weapons that actually exist and scenarios that could truly happen. There are people who play those games, and then go out and try to replicate this in real life. They go buy a firearm and go shoot at people. This is reprehensible and disgusting. But that is something I would never do and about which I would never feel just indifferent. I presume that it also is something most sane people who have just an once of compassion would never do or feel okay about.

krepta wrote in post #12018577
Did you live somewhere else before Ontario? Well, I guess I should ask if you lived outside Canada.

Canada wasn't always metric Alex, i grew up with imperial in Ontario
as a vagabond i did live in new york, new jersey and philadelphia

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12018536
those vehicles that are mixed are a PITA, i worked for a company once that used to package using robertson screws

they used to send free screw drivers to all orders shipped to the states because they used phillips and slot head screws

My brother in law used to work for a company that would often ship crates of stuff to the southern states. They would always assemble them using Robbies, just to annoy the people on the other end.

pixiepearls wrote in post #12018416
Thats' why there are different maps, I have yet to get on a server that rotates maps. I don't like when they rotate a dozen maps, but about 4 or 5 maps is a nice rotation. Enough to learn them but not get tired of them. So far every server I have been on this week has had 1 map running, boooring

Yeah, I think that's one thing about this past weekend's play that made me crave for some DoD. I think on CS we were stuck on Office through four server changes. So it got kinda bleh!

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #12018444
Easy way to compare temps... typical room temperature is 21C or 70F

Not here! This winter, the temperature went up as high as 85°F inside my apartment (meaning it was even hotter outside). On average, it hovers around 76°F indoors. That's waaay too hot for me. My ideal temperature is 15C (59F), and 20C (68F) is warm for me. 25C (77F) is hot and my maximum tolerable temperature, which means I am often dying inside my own place. And I try to avoid using the AC to save on electricity; I open the windows when the sun is down, though. I hate it when I have to use the AC in the middle of winter. Not that you can really call it "winter" in Southern California...

Harm wrote in post #12018477
For those not good at calculating, to convert from °C to °F quickly; 0°C = 32°F. For every 5°C add/subtract 9°F (to give you a rough idea on temps)

The formula I use is:

C to F --> multiply by 9, divide by 5, then add 32.
20C x 9 = 180 ÷ 5 = 36 + 32 = 68F

F to C --> subtract 32, multiply by 5, then divide by 9.
77F - 32 = 45 x 5 = 225 ÷ 9 = 25C

20droger wrote in post #12018509
I only get confused at –40°. I can never figure out if it should be Fahrenheit or Celsius.

Let's start a movement to get all weather temperatures in Réaumur! Just for the hell of it!

Or, we can drop the degrees business and insist all temperatures be in Kelvins. This'll avoid the frustration of not having a "°" key on your keyboard.

Well, at least we know zero Kelvins is darn cold, as in, dead cold, and 273 Kelvins is not toasty at all.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #12018652
My brother in law used to work for a company that would often ship crates of stuff to the southern states. They would always assemble them using Robbies, just to annoy the people on the other end.

the first few times they shipped without screw drivers and got complaints they didn't have screw drivers

the Americans liked the screws they just had a hard time accepting that something ingenious came from Canada

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12018622
Canada wasn't always metric Alex, i grew up with imperial in Ontario
as a vagabond i did live in new york, new jersey and philadelphia

Oh yeah, I forget about that. I guess that makes me a youngin'.

To be fair, I never got to take Canada History since I moved to the U.S. the year before I would have had it, in secondary 3. I suppose that's not a really good excuse for ignorance...

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12018703
the first few times they shipped without screw drivers and got complaints they didn't have screw drivers

the Americans liked the screws they just had a hard time accepting that something ingenious came from Canada

Very true! They are a genius invention.

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #12018715
Very true! They are a genius invention.

slot head screw is the worst invention ever

Seems like Canadians spend the most time online in the world:

http://communities.can​ada.com …time-online-comscore.aspx

krepta wrote in post #12018691
The formula I use is:

C to F --> multiply by 9, divide by 5, then add 32.
20C x 9 = 180 ÷ 5 = 36 + 32 = 68F

F to C --> subtract 32, multiply by 5, then divide by 9.
77F - 32 = 45 x 5 = 225 ÷ 9 = 25C

Well, at least we know zero Kelvins is darn cold, as in, dead cold, and 273 Kelvins is not toasty at all.

I know that, but i said for those not good at calculating!

FJ LOVE wrote in post #12018731
slot head screw is the worst invention ever

Only good thing about a slot head is that you can use non-screwdriver tools on them. If I'm gonna stab myself in the hand, it's gonna be with a slot screwdriver. They are dangerous!

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #12018795
Only good thing about a slot head is that you can use non-screwdriver tools on them. If I'm gonna stab myself in the hand, it's gonna be with a slot screwdriver. They are dangerous!

That's true, they have their place.

However, that place is not anywhere where you would typically find a screw...

Harm wrote in post #12018773
I know that, but i said for those not good at calculating!

Oh sorry.

I think nowdays you can use your smartphone and have an app that does it for you (or just go online and google a converter). No need to calculate in your head anymore (and we're getting all dumber for it).

krepta wrote in post #12018833
Oh sorry.

I think nowdays you can use your smartphone and have an app that does it for you (or just go online and google a converter). No need to calculate in your head anymore (and we're getting all dumber for it).

**Goes into his iphone looking for an App to respond to this comment**

Damn it i though there was an App for everything like the commercials say