[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;24970445]Nonsense. 16 ounces in a pound makes so much more sense than grams and shit.
Same with 8floz in a cup, 16floz in a pint, 128floz in a gallon. It all makes perfect sense in binary.
All we really need to do is change a foot to be 16 inches and we're set.
And a mile should be 1024 of the new 16 inch foot. (0x400).
So with some minor adjustments the US system would be the perfect binary measurement system.
Don't think of 16 as being 16, think of it as 0x10. The math would be just as easy, we'd just have sixteen symbols for digits instead of ten.[/QUOTE]
I like the way you think...
[QUOTE=ROBO_DONUT;24971620]Yep, 0x10/0x100/0x1000 is very simple and easy to follow.[/QUOTE]
Not everyone knows hexadecimal :smile:
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;24970445]Nonsense. 16 ounces in a pound makes so much more sense than grams and shit.
Same with 8floz in a cup, 16floz in a pint, 128floz in a gallon. It all makes perfect sense in binary.
All we really need to do is change a foot to be 16 inches and we're set.
And a mile should be 1024 of the new 16 inch foot. (0x400).
So with some minor adjustments the US system would be the perfect binary measurement system.
Don't think of 16 as being 16, think of it as 0x10. The math would be just as easy, we'd just have sixteen symbols for digits instead of ten.[/QUOTE]
They will change the foot to 16 inches when you grow one that's 16 inches long.
[QUOTE=esalaka;24973925]Not everyone knows hexadecimal :smile:[/QUOTE]
True, but they should.
We're learning Pascal and Visual Basic in my classes at college, and we're supposed to do some DarkBASIC at some point. The pascal bores the shit out of me, and the Visual Basic would be alright but there's some pure idiots in my class so we're moving at an incredibly slow pace.
[QUOTE=esalaka;24973925]Not everyone knows hexadecimal :smile:[/QUOTE]
Sure they do, they just don't know they do.
I mean "know hexadecimal"? What does that even mean? Do we really teach base 10? Not really. We teach people to count to a certain value and then carry it over into the next place. This can be done just as easily in base 16 as 10.
[QUOTE=RyanDv3;24977760]Do we really teach base 10? Not really. We teach people to count to a certain value and then carry it over into the next place. This can be done just as easily in base 16 as 10.[/QUOTE]
Carrying? Sure. But we [B]are[/B] taught base 10. And since SI-units mostly work with powers of ten, it doesn't make sense to switch back to empiric units.
[B]
IDEA[/B]: If you want to have units that are powers of 2 or powers of 16 or something, invent new names for them. Empiric units are retarded enough as-is. (Maybe you could have two centimetres be the base unit here? It's only half a centimetre less than an inch.)
You guys think you have it bad.
I'm being "taught" how to use Microsoft Office 2010.
From a teacher who has never used anything but 2003.
And is reading our lessons out of a book for 2007.
[QUOTE=<ToD> Aaron;25006805]You guys think you have it bad.
I'm being "taught" how to use Microsoft Office 2010.
From a teacher who has never used anything but 2003.
And is reading our lessons out of a book for 2007.[/QUOTE]
The real question isn't why your teacher is doing this but what the heck you are doing in there.
[QUOTE=<ToD> Aaron;25006805]You guys think you have it bad.
I'm being "taught" how to use Microsoft Office 2010.
From a teacher who has never used anything but 2003.
And is reading our lessons out of a book for 2007.[/QUOTE]
We're [i]learning[/i] that too.
[QUOTE=esalaka;25016345]The real question isn't why your teacher is doing this but what the heck you are doing in there.[/QUOTE]
It was that or Visual Basic. This course also fulfills my art requirement for graduation. I'm not very artistic.
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On a related note, that class is a great time to read some Ars Technica.
[QUOTE=<ToD> Aaron;25031059]It was that or Visual Basic. This course also fulfills my art requirement for graduation. I'm not very artistic.
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On a related note, that class is a great time to read some Ars Technica.[/QUOTE]
And you didn't take Visual Basic because?
[QUOTE=DeadKiller987;25035011]And you didn't take Visual Basic because?[/QUOTE]
Because VB is horrible?
[QUOTE=esalaka;25040101]Because VB is horrible?[/QUOTE]
But it's better than nothing (or office). Especially if you want to learn programming.
Or you could just get an easy A+ the entire year on every project. :smug:
I can actually do a 'real' computing course this year, and I'm learning Python.
[QUOTE=Ali Legend;25050111]I can actually do a 'real' computing course this year, and I'm learning Python.[/QUOTE]
Join the club. I was planning on learning python anyways so it's win-win for me.
We learned some sort of programming language to make simulations for physics, but it's nothing special. It's more of a glorified way of entering formulas.
[img]http://www.imgdumper.nl/uploads3/4ca4ea43d1e8f/4ca4ea43cc0ce-lolprogram.png[/img]
Voorwerp.
[QUOTE=Jawalt;25159738]Voorwerp.[/QUOTE]
That's also the first thing I noticed
Last year i was in a class where we had to use Qbasic, so I dropped the entire fucking subject.
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