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[old.user4556]

Saw this link on Facebook on how to continously power the Sony A7 camera.

http://www.bodhivisuals.dk/continuous-power-sony-a7/

@Bodhi , is that you?

 

[Billargh]

The world needs more of this (whatever it is):

 

[Hawkwind]

That's cause Boeing is American and Airbus is French...

The point was that many people use both measurement types with no issues at all. A whole industry.

 

[DaGaffer]

John Wilkins invented the system..which kinda makes him the inventor of the metric SYSTEM..the measurements were allready around..he put them together into a system which the French adopted.

He didn't really; it was a suggestion as part of a wider thing called "The Real Character"* (or Universal Philosophical Language if you prefer) which was supposed to be a new and systematic way of looking at and describing the world, but never really took off. You can ascribe loads of things to those early Royal Society members, but in many cases this stuff never got beyond the suggestion stage. Metric as a practical system was definitely a French invention.

*By strange coincidence I've been re-reading The System of The World recently, and Wilkins and The Real Character feature quite heavily in the first book. Its the first time I've gone back to the trilogy since I read them when they first came out and its definitely a good idea to read them back-to-back, they are so dense, you forget tons of stuff in there, and read together they're incredibly good.

 

[Job]

invented..suggested..dreamt...pinched off a cornflake box...it's all the same thing.

 

[DaGaffer]

invented..suggested..dreamt...pinched off a cornflake box...it's all the same thing.

No, it really isn't.

 

[Job]

 

[DaGaffer]

Whole of the aviation industry works with metric and imperial. Boeing still use inches and Airbus cm.

Boeing (and Lockheed) have been under pressure to switch to Metric for decades (because it causes supply chain issues and their customers hate it). Also, Boeing aren't entirely Imperial; NASA stuff is metric and so are some defence projects (where there's a JV involved for instance). Eventually they'll switch; as a company Boeing are still about 50/50 domestic v international business, but shrinking defence budgets ultimately mean they will be more reliant on exports and that'll push them over to metric. To be honest if they didn't have so much Imperial legacy they'd have probably done it already.

Its all a bit stupid, and mistakes do get made; back in the day when I worked in the design office at BAe, you were often moving from Imperial to Metric projects and back again, and it could take some adjustment (although at least inches etc. were decimal versions not eighths and twelfths and all that shite), and it cost more in tooling, CADCAM system setup and lots of other areas.

 

[Job]

Good old car tyres are still measured height in inches..width in mm except for a few one offs..my old Granada had metric height wheels.

 

[Raven]

Boeing (and Lockheed) have been under pressure to switch to Metric for decades (because it causes supply chain issues and their customers hate it). Also, Boeing aren't entirely Imperial; NASA stuff is metric and so are some defence projects (where there's a JV involved for instance). Eventually they'll switch; as a company Boeing are still about 50/50 domestic v international business, but shrinking defence budgets ultimately mean they will be more reliant on exports and that'll push them over to metric. To be honest if they didn't have so much Imperial legacy they'd have probably done it already.

Its all a bit stupid, and mistakes do get made; back in the day when I worked in the design office at BAe, you were often moving from Imperial to Metric projects and back again, and it could take some adjustment (although at least inches etc. were decimal versions not eighths and twelfths and all that shite), and it cost more in tooling, CADCAM system setup and lots of other areas.

All true, but then having absolutely no idea about a unit of measure that is still widely in use (despite it being crap) is a bit dumb.

*although it would be mental to be taught primarily in imperial and metric second.

 

[Gwadien]

First woman on the Moon:
"Houston, we have a problem."
What?
"Nevermind"
What's the problem?
"Nothing"
Please tell us?
"You know what the problem is."

 

[Gwadien]

This gif is so satisfying, I don't know why.

 

[Billargh]

This gif is so satisfying, I don't know why.

You'll fucking love this then:
http://www.reddit.com/r/powerwashingporn

 

[TdC]

pitchfork has interviewed some artists about their first experience of the internet. this guy's the only honest one:

Do you remember your first time using the internet?

Yes

Where were you?

My office in Austin, Texas

How did you access it?

AOL 14.4K

What did you search for?

Porn

What was your first impression?

Slow

 

[Raven]

Ah, that wait for the full frontal nude photo, only to find it was a pre-op tranny.

 

[CorNokZ]

Downloading Napster on 56k dial-up.
Downloading a song(6 hours)
Playing daoc on 56k. "I might go LD..."
Downloading a nude photo, only to find out she wasn't nude at all

 

[DaGaffer]

Jeremy Clarkson in the Sunday Times today talking about Dutch people and Swaffling. I never realised it was an actual thing and not some weird Teedles-fetish. Live 'n Learn.

 

[old.user4556]

 

[BloodOmen]

anyone for some giant crab?

 

[Moriath]

pitchfork has interviewed some artists about their first experience of the internet. this guy's the only honest one:

Do you remember your first time using the internet?

Yes

Where were you?

My office in Austin, Texas

How did you access it?

AOL 14.4K

What did you search for?

Porn

What was your first impression?

Slow

9600 bbs from work. Yes cga pron for the win. 4 colours . That and Sam fox strip poker. I'm old .

 

[TdC]

oooh Sam Fox poker!

 

[Moriath]

oooh Sam Fox poker!

Black and white pixelated too

Kinda nsfw.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfoVR0JpVrU

 

[TdC]

lol yeah I remember that. the pics were so random and bad

I had another poker game with girls that were really just drawn from scratch. iirc there were 4 or 5 of them, and one...a yellow one??...actually was really hard to beat 0_o

 

[Lamp]

Anyone see that Ben Flowers punch?

 

[Raven]

I remember a game on the Atari (think it was) where you work in a strip bar, point and click game, was terrible and the amount of effort you had to put in just to see some heavily pixalated boobage was crazy.

 

[Billargh]

Anyone see that Ben Flowers punch?

Look on the previous page

 

[DaGaffer]

9600 bbs from work. Yes cga pron for the win. 4 colours . That and Sam fox strip poker. I'm old .

I think my first home connection was 14.4k with a CompuServe account, but I had an ISDN line at work, which was supposed to be for the graphic designers but me and my boss used to mess about with Mosaic; got my first internet job about three months after seeing my first web page.

 

[Gwadien]

I do believe our first tinternet was Pipex.

 

[Madmaxx]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8I25H3bnNw

 

[Madmaxx]

EDIT: Skip to 1:25 for the actual show, it's worth it.


View: http://youtu.be/gO_KyTtJg10