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AnonTechie writes:
"I have the following requests to members of this new forum:
1) Please use SI Units wherever possible. Alternative comparative units such as swimming pools, size of Florida, cars, libraries of congress, etc are also welcome ...
2) Please cover tech/science related stories from around the world. Please do not make this a US only website !!
Cheers and best wishes,
AnonTechie"
[ED Note: We as a community welcome submissions from around the world, as befits our international userbase. The Editorial team in particular is looking closely at including voices from outside the U.S. as we continue to grow. As for the units question in particular, stories will certainly arrive with a variety of units depending on the origin of the submission. We encourage, though do not require, submitters to include conversions where appropriate for clarity out of courtesy to your fellow readers. Though we try to use a light touch when making edits to story submissions, Editors may add these from time to time as well, should clarity demand and time permit.
Soylentils, does the current ad-hoc approach meet your needs, or do you favor a more formal approach from your news discussion site?]
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday February 23 2014, @11:04PM
As an old sailor I have a preference for wind speed in knots and distance in nautical miles. If I see wind speed in ms it is fairly easy to multiply by 1.94 to get knots (or if an approximation is ok x2). I can also deal with kilometers instead of miles mainly because I communicate with folks in Europe, Australia and New Zealand on a regular basis. The only thing I still have a bit of trouble with is temperature notation. When my friends in Australia say it's "It's a real cooker over 40 out", I have to go to a conversion site to realize that they mean over 104 Fahrenheit. Likewise when one of my friends in Finland says "It's warm out 10 degrees.", I'm thinking freezing but to them it's nearly tee shirt weather.
Of course if you are talking football fields, football is a different game in most of the world outside the U.S. The difference is 110 to 120 yards for soccer (futbol) to 100 for U.S. football. Australian rules football the field is 135 to 185 meters.
The whole point being: As long as the article and summary are consistent. I think everyone can deal with it. Now if there is one thing I think we all should agree on it's whither to use bits per second or bytes per second.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @03:31AM
And where "football" means "rugby", that's 144 metres (157 yards).
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @04:22AM
i agree about the temp thing. i'm pretty well converted after moving US to UK, i can visualise how long 1200mm is, but 8 degrees C? I'd have to convert to know whether that's sweatshirt or coat weather.
re the bits: fuck bits measured to make it easy in base 10. the fact that the marketing departments of the world changed the definition of a technical term to suit the heathens is a crime. they should be punished.
a kilobyte is 1024 bytes. a megabyte is 1024k. a gigabyte is 1024mb.
anyone that disagrees is just wrong.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:33AM
When my friends in Australia say it's "It's a real cooker over 40 out", I have to go to a conversion site to realize that they mean over 104 Fahrenheit. Likewise when one of my friends in Finland says "It's warm out 10 degrees.", I'm thinking freezing but to them it's nearly tee shirt weather.
That's more to do with what they are used to than the units they use to measure. I'd never go out in just a t-shirt if it were 10C. FWIW I have no idea about Fahrenheit either, so 104F is meaningless to me.
The difference is 110 to 120 yards for soccer (futbol) to 100 for U.S. football.
Okay, look, you guys need to think of a better name for your sport than "football". You seem to spend most of your time carrying the ball, and the ball isn't even a ball so neither "foot" nor "ball" are appropriate.
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