Re: TI-H:calc 3.5mm plug

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Re: TI-H:calc 3.5mm plug


I have to agree on the unnecessary difficulties of the English system.  I
think the Fahrenheit scale was made, however, because Joe Fahrenheit or
whoever thought that it was dumb to base our temperature scale on water
and instead based it on his own scale, with 100 and 0 degrees being the
extremes in temperature bearable to humans at that time.  (Personally I
think 0 is a lot more extreme than 100, but I guess they didn't have A/C
back then).

-Noah

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 03:41:32 +0200 Olle Hedman <oh@hem.passagen.se>
writes:
> 
> 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! :)
> 
> //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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