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Am I the only one that prefers my widescreen monitors flipped to portrait mode? I have it both in the office and at home, I only flip them when watching a movie.
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Atwood's an American. Writers will write what they know… they're hardly obligated to use an unfamiliar measurement system for your convenience.
Well, it depends. If Atwood's aiming at an international audience, then he should use both measurement systems. If he's happy with an American audience then there's no reason for him to bother. I note that the date of his blog post is the international-friendly “November 19, 2012” rather than the American numeric “11/19/2012”. But internationalising dates like this is easier than providing measurements in dual units.
That, and also Atwood's popularity among American readers gives him a great opportunity to encourage them to use metric.
In the meantime, use http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4751410 :).
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The solution to that problem is simple -- drive at 60 KPH (37 MPH) instead of 60 MPH. :) This would save gas too.
Actually it wouldn't in my Citroen C5. The fuel efficiency peaks precisely at 60mph/100kph. Something to do with the power transmission ratio. I get 2.83l/100km or 83mpg in old money out of that if I don't drive like an asshat.
But ... there it is. There really are such cars out there.
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> This principle is likely the reason imperial units stick: they're fantastic for fast fractional math. As opposed to multiples of ten, in the metric system? Huh?
Draw a line that's a third of a meter.
Or do you mean that it's difficult to know how to draw a third of a meter?
Why, is drawing a line that's one meter, or one yard, or one foot any easier?
Without a measure I can't draw accurately any of them.
Isn't the distance the screen is away pretty much dependent on the height of the screen? I know I don't see many laptops that the base is larger than the screen. Occasionally the back sticks out a bit for a larger battery but I've never seen a laptop where the keyboard/trackpad were not completely covered by the screen when closed.
Sorry, but that just reads like a sales pitch / marketing copy for windows 8.
Atwood is an admitted fan of Microsoft products, so yeah, this is written from that perspective. Blogs aren't encyclopedias - they don't have to be NPOV to be worth reading. If you don't want to read opinion posts written by people who are partial towards one platform or another, you're going to cut yourself off from an awful lot of potentially interesting writing. (E.g. Jeff Atwood & Ed Bott, John Gruber & MG Siegle…
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XX/XX/YY is a terrible format and I wish people would stop using it. 01/02/03 can be January 2nd or February 1st, and often there's not enough context to determine which was meant.
Actually it can be February 3rd. I've seen YY/MM/DD format in use. But yeah it's horrible.
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XX/XX/YY is a terrible format and I wish people would stop using it. 01/02/03 can be January 2nd or February 1st, and often there's not enough context to determine which was meant.
Actually it can be February 3rd. I've seen YY/MM/DD format in use. But yeah it's horrible.