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Karovorak posted...

The concept of using multiple scales of the same dimension just because it's a different object (but still of comparable size) that gets measured eludes me anyways.

Try living in Canada and dealing with people who uses both systems.

It's normal, and it'll probably be that way for quite the forsee-able future.

I use both Metric & US Customary here in the US.

Depending on what I want, I'll switch between the two.

e.g.

Do you prefer your Monitor/TV/Display size in "Diagonal Inch's" or "Diagonal Centimeters".

For me: "Diagonal Inch" has a more meaningful impact change in Display Area, so I prefer at least whole "Diagonal Inch increment" changes.

But for Monitor Bezels, I prefer the bezel to be 5 mm on all sides if possible on LapTops/Desktop.

Worst case scenario, I'd want 1 cm / 10 mm to be the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM Bezel thickness for DeskTops.

LapTops need to follow Dell's design trend and be 5 mm on all sides.

In the current era, displays needs smaller & smaller Bezels to look good.

If you can get rid of them completely w/o risking the displays structural integrity, so be it.

But since Structural Integrity & protection of the delicate panel needs to be considered, some amount of protective bezel usually must exist.

For Human Height: how accurately can you measure/guesstimate a persons height w/o using any actual measuring tools.

The only thing you have is your eye-balls and limbs to guess by.

How accurate can you be w/o measuring tools?

I think you can easily get down to the decimeter by stacking objects that are close to a decimeter in size on top of each other.
Usually my fist is about a decimeter wide and I can stack them one on top of each other for a rough guesstimate.

If stacking foot steps on top of each other when the persons lying down, I can get down to individual feet with some fuzziness / change.

Karovorak posted...

If you didn't notice, it's currently the US people who go around in this topic saying that Fahrenheit is "objectivly better" or makes "more sense" and that Celsius is "cartoonishly arbitrary" and that our countries are "worse off" for using it.

It's better for human usage for temperature control of HVAC/Heating/Cooling units, but only in that instance.
Granted that's a very common use case.

I still prefer using Celsius for figuring out if my Electronics are overheating since if you're anywhere near 100C, your CPU/GPU will have a very bad time.

The (1-100)C scale is superior for electronics temperature stability and easier to understand.

Never did I say that Celsius is superior at all.

There are some folks that believe Celsius/Metric is superior to all, along with trying to force the last hold-out of measurement systems to convert.

But when I hear others making up some arguments like "EVERYONE is acquainted with it, so it's better!", ofc I shake my head and say "wtf, no".

It's better for us in the US, you folks have already converted and prefer to stay converted.

Those in Canada:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a56c35f9.jpg

reincarnator07 posted...

The big issue comes when you have to convert between systems, which is literally only an issue with America.

Most people are telling you that Americans are fine with it, if we need to convert, that's our problem.
We can deal with it just fine.

You can use your Metric System and not convert to US Customary units if you don't want to.
Just keep everything in Metric and don't worry about US Customary units.

We'll do the conversions when we need to.

Why do you feel the need to force everybody else to assimilate to your system?

Are you the Borg? Do you need everybody to think and do things the exact same way?

When Aliens become friends with humanity, will you try to force the Metric System on them as well?

If they don't comply and don't care, what will you do?

reincarnator07 posted...

I don't know what units that spacefaring aliens will use, but I guarantee they will be based on constants. For example, how do you measure 1/86400 of an earth day if you're nowhere near earth?

You know what will be hilarious, the first Alien humans meet, their standards aren't based on a "Universal Constant" but use a arbitrary measurement like we used to do.

Because the second is derived in a standard way using chemical elements.

But your Chemical Element choice was arbitrarily decided by committee long before you & I were born.

1 Hz is 1 cycle per second. Lol.

You're missing the point, the definition of 1-second might not be the same between species and different measurement systems.

Hell, they may not even use Base-10 numbers.

I really think you're struggling with the term "universal constant".
Like, they're physical and fundamental. A temperature of absolute zero is the same for all aliens, no matter where they are and no matter how they think.

That's the lowest we can measure, at the moment.

Scientists Are Trying to Create a Temperature Below Absolute Zero
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-are-trying-to-create-a-temperature-below-absolute-zero-4837559/

What we know about the limits of science, is just that, it's limited by the knowledge we have and the accuracy that we can measure down to.

It's not the end all, and scientists are trying to go beyond current known limits.

Ok, I'm gonna slowly edge out of the room.

You do that.

DarkDoc posted...

"US Customary"? Is that what they call it these days? I always found it funny that Americans thought they were using the old imperial system, but actually they weren't (ie an American pint isn't even the same as an old English pint).

That's always been the official name for it.
Just many people are ill informed about it.

Either way, this is gonna hold you back. It's one of the reasons the USA is losing its way in science.

We literally can use metric if needed. It's not an issue.

Remember the fall of the Roman empire was partly caused by their number system holding them back.

Our # System is the same as yours.
Our US Customary is referenced around the Metric System.
You can literally go look it up.

All of those constants are universal. The speed of light is the speed of light. Same for all those other constants. As I said, nobody decided how much each measurement should be. Everything is calculated based on fundamentals. That's the whole point of the system. It's not based on one person or one object, it's not based on where you are or the time period you live in.

And I'm saying that everything your current SI standard is based around was arbitrarily chosen based on the maximum accuracy they could get at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium_standard

Caesium atomic clocks are one of the most accurate time and frequency standards, and serve as the primary standard for the definition of the second in the International System of Units (SI) (the modern form of the metric system). By definition, radiation produced by the transition between the two hyperfine ground states of caesium (in the absence of external influences such as the Earth's magnetic field) has a frequency, Cs, of exactly 9192631770 Hz. That value was chosen so that the caesium second equalled, to the limit of human measuring ability in 1960 when it was adopted, the existing standard ephemeris second based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun.[2] Because no other measurement involving time had been as precise, the effect of the change was less than the experimental uncertainty of all existing measurements.

It's based on the accuracy of humanity to measure Caesium-133 precisely in 1960.

Obviously, we have more accruate atomic clocks since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock

Accuracy
The accuracy of atomic clocks has improved continuously since the first prototype in the 1950s. The first generation of atomic clocks were based on measuring caesium, rubidium, and hydrogen atoms. In a time period from 1959 to 1998, NIST developed a series of seven caesium-133 microwave clocks named NBS-1 to NBS-6 and NIST-7 after the agency changed its name from the National Bureau of Standards to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[9] The first clock had an accuracy of 1011, and the last clock had an accuracy of 1015. The clocks were the first to use a caesium fountain, which was introduced by Jerrod Zacharias, and laser cooling of atoms, which was demonstrated by Dave Wineland and his colleagues in 1978.
The next step in atomic clock advances involves going from accuracies of 1015 to accuracies of 1018 and even 1019.[a] The goal is to redefine the second when clocks become so accurate that they will not lose or gain more than a second in the age of the universe.[b] To do so, scientists must demonstrate the accuracy of clocks that use strontium and ytterbium and optical lattice technology. Such clocks are also called optical clocks where the energy level transitions used are in the optical regime (giving rise to even higher oscillation frequency), which thus, have much higher accuracy as compared to traditional atomic clocks.[61]
The goal of an atomic clock with 1016 accuracy was first reached at the United Kingdom's National Physical Laboratory's NPL-CsF2 caesium fountain clock[62][63][64] and the United States' NIST-F2.[65][66] The increase in precision from NIST-F1 to NIST-F2 is due to advances in liquid nitrogen cooling technology for atoms.[67]
The performance of primary and secondary frequency standards contributing to International Atomic Time (TAI) is evaluated. The evaluation reports of individual (mainly primary) clocks are published online by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM).

There are base SI units. Everything else is derived from those (eg speed is distance over time, and density is mass over volume). You can't derive things any other way.

And the fundamental time basis that derives from that is based on a arbitrary picked accuuracy in time.
We've improved Atomic Clock accuracy by ALOT since then.

The scientists who work on these super accurate clocks have even moved past Caesium.

Crimsoness posted...

A Mazda Cx5

How do you like your CX5?

Crimsoness posted...

I know it's just depression and anxiety getting to me.

Has your meds been helping?

BucketCat posted...

when I'm asked my height, I tell the truth if I'm saying it in metric (1.89 meters) but if I'm saying it in imperial, I lie and say I'm 5'11" even though I'm slightly taller than 6'2"

Why even bother lying?

Why not just admit that you're 18.9 Decimeters tall?

reincarnator07 posted...

Aliens may divide time differently to us, but our definition of a second is universal. It's based upon something that will always provide the same result, no matter where in the universe you measure it.

This was by design too, all base SI units are based on constants to ensure accuracy. For example, if a second is 1/86400 of a day, the length of a second will change because Earth's rotation isn't constant.

And what if Aliens find different constants in the universe to measure against derive their units?

Ones that we haven't discovered or even considered?

Or even base their units on measurements on things that we don't consider "Constant"?

What we've discovered via science might not the be the end all be all at the moment.

We're constantly discovering new things over time.

If they are able to travel the stars, they might know more about science than we do and use completely different ways of measure that are different/better than what we do.

boxoto posted...

agreed (also born & raised in Cali)

I grew up & was raised in Cali as well & I concur with TC & your assessment.

DarkDoc posted...

You can. Use whatever you want. Just don't expect anybody to respect you for it. You're basically the odd one out. If you don't understand what others are saying it's your own fault.

Many of us still know how to use Metric, it's not an issue.

We just prefer US Customary, since that's what we're used to and will continue to do so.

DarkDoc posted...

Actually, yes. SI units are based on science. Any alien civilisation capable of interstellar travel will have a great understanding of science. SI wasn't just made up. Things like the speed of light, the Planck constant, the elementary charge, the Boltzmann constant and the Avogadro constant are fixed and constant everywhere in the universe. It will make sense to derive your units from those.

But what if they don't derive units from them?

They have their own form of derivation based off different things?

Example, the second, symbol s, is the SI unit of time. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the caesium frequency, Cs, the unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom, to be 9192631770 when expressed in the unit Hz, which is equal to s1.

What if aliens used a different frequency and a different definition of time?

1 Hz to us might not be the same 1 Hz to them or whatever is equivalent to 1 Hz in their units.

Revisited posted...

You would think so, however being stubborn trumps being lazy, and America is definitely stubborn if nothing else, almost prideful about it

Why should everybody convert to Metric?

Why can't America just be America and use our existing "US Customary Units"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

Do you think Aliens will be using the Metric System once we meet them and compare standards?

If we have a "UFP (United Federation of Planets)" like system, do you think you can convince countless alien races to give up their local "Units of Measure" to the "Metric System"?

That's highly unlikely, especially if a species has their own system or several systems that has been in use longer than humanity has been alive.

It's okay to have "Diversity" in measuring systems.

Not everybody has to be "Assimilated" into one system.

The US has already officially aligned with the "Metric System" and derive all our modern incarnations of "US Customary Units" relative to the existing "Metric System".

The majority of U.S. customary units were redefined in terms of the meter and kilogram with the Mendenhall Order of 1893 and, in practice, for many years before.[3] These definitions were refined by the international yard and pound agreement of 1959.

That should be "Good Enough".

Dom needs to get sent down to NXT, he hasn't done his time yet.

TC, you do know that Sharks can't breathe out of water, so short of putting them in a giant water tank that you're going to push out of a plane with a massive amount of parachutes to make sure the water tank doesn't shatter on impact, you're just starving the sharks of oxygen by taking them out of their native aquatic habitat.

Xenogears15 posted...

I've heard of PC gamers speak these terms before, so I kind of just relegated it in my mind as belonging to the realm of PCs, not console gaming. So I just never bothered to learn about it. Maybe it's a generational thing, too: for me, going from box TVs to flatscreens, I was only worried about getting my console to run on the TV I was playing on. I didn't care about how to make it look better, or why it was doing what it did. I just accepted it as is.

I guess it's why I laugh at kids who claim they can only play games in 60 fps, because I grew up playing in 30 and find it just fine.

On some games on the PS5, you can play your games at 120 fps if you have the TV & cable to support it.

Once you go 120 fps, you'll never want to go back down to lower refresh/frame rates.

Xenogears15 posted...

What is a refresh rate?

Refresh Rate = How many image frames on a Display/TV can show every second.

Usually, most Monitor/TV Displays have a upper limit.

You usually want to match the Upper Refresh Rate of your Display to be higher for smoother animation of your video feed.

Just wondering, how have you managed to be into gaming for so long and not learned all these basic technical aspects of gaming?

Xenogears15 posted...

I'm sorry, that's just somep pretty colors to me. What does it mean?

The table tells you the maximum frequency that you can send across HDMI at the listed resolution with the given spec of communication across the cable.

Bigger # = Better Refresh rate capability at listed resolution
Lower # = Worse Refresh rate capability at listed resolution.

You pick the resolution you want to watch your content / play your game at, then you settle for whatever resolution & refresh rate your (Display can handle / Source can produce).

Starks posted...

It's far behind DisplayPort in terms of future proofing. Only about half of the bandwidth. The HDMI connector is also disappearing from computers and HDMI alt mode is dead. Whenever you attach HDMI to a dock or USB-C port, you're now using DisplayPort signaling.

HDMI will always play second fiddle to DP on PC and non TV/TV related electronic devices.

I don't think TV manufacturers will ever care enough to move away from HDMI though. But there's no road map for the future of the standard. The fractured HDMI 2.1 standard might be the end.

Not when their royalties are on the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

As of January 2021, nearly 10 billion HDMI devices have been sold

That's ALOT of $$$ to go back to the HDMI foundation.

HDMI still can't connect multiple monitors with a single port.

I don't think the HDMI foundation cares about that feature, or they would be working on it.

There objective is to get the most amount of HDMI ports out there due to licensing Royalty fees.

And since the HDMI foundation were made by the big TV conglomorates, they have no reason to ever see HDMI fail, no matter the cost.

Starks posted...

There's also the problem with HDMI becoming a dead end. No easy pathway to 5K 120hz or 8K 60 Hz without compression, which DisplayPort can do over a USB-C connector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f327f837.png
Yeah, you'll have to settle for < 5K 120 hz.
60-89 Hz w/o Display Stream Compression.

Will_VIIII posted...

IMO we're also hitting diminishing returns. Next consoles would have to target native 4k 60fps and I question if 8k gaming would even be considered yet

The hardware isn't there on the PC side.

We're only barely entering making 4K playable at high frame rates with top end GPU's.

And 5K Resolution is next.

I HIGHLY doubt 8K on consoles will be possible next gen, no matter the marketing.

Sure, if it's a ancient game remastered, I can see it being 8K, but nothing modern AAA that stresses the system will be 8K.

Native 4K at best with 60 fps w/o upscaling from a lower res is what I expect.

Here's what I mean by 5K resolutions:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cbae8f01.png

bigblu89 posted...

Assuming it took 4 years to get to "halftime", another 4 years till the PS6 comes out, that's about the normal life cycle of a PlayStation.

PlayStation was 1996
PS2 was 2000
PS3 was 2006
PS4 was 2013
PS5 was 2020

So 6-7 years is the normal "life cycle" for a PlayStation.

PlayStation Launch Dates:
PS1 = 1994/12-03
PS2 = 2000/03-04
PS3 = 2006/11-11
PS4 = 2013/11-15
PS5 = 2020/11-12

PS1 -> PS2 = 5 years, _3 months, _2 days
PS2 -> PS3 = 6 years, _8 months, _8 days
PS3 -> PS4 = 7 years, _0 months, _5 days
PS4 -> PS5 = 6 years, 11 months, 29 days

Given that the gap is growing with almost each generation as the PS generations progress, I expect:
PS5 -> PS6 7-8 year gap

Especially since the Pandemic screwed up logistics and delayed everything.

Glob posted...

I doubt it. Several people in my year group were over six foot and well on their way to becoming beasts by that point. They might not have the full muscle mass they will when theyre adults, but three or four like that are going to wipe the floor with just about any adult who isnt either a giant or well-trained.

If the teacher is a well trained 7' 3" 'Nigerian Giant' Omos from the WWE?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2508ab0e.jpg
416 lb Nigerian Giant vs (30+ 15 y/o's)

ForsakenHermit posted...

Height in Metric is fine as long as it's done in cm. Using Meters for height is just dumb.

Decimeters should've been used for height IMO.

Bandit_Keith posted...

I literally never said it was an "easy" fight. That guy I quoted said the fight went exactly how he thought it would, with the 3 guys blitzing and wrecking the 1 guy. They did not. He wrecked them.

But alot of that has to do with round stoppages and him picking them off one by one.

SecretBase posted...

They're literal 5 year olds. Lack of size/weight/strength/intellect aside they'd be sobbing from a single hit. >_>

A Classroom of 15 y/o's.

One Big Man vs 30+ 15 y/o's.

Bandit_Keith posted...

...Did you watch the whole thing? He took them all out. Made each one of them tap. Well, two of them. The first guy was out cold so he couldn't tap out. The one guy beat the three. So that goes precisely against everything you just said.

But it wasn't an easy fight, he had to survive multiple rounds, and he isn't getting out of that multi-round match w/o getting significantly battered.

Harpie posted...

You think there will be a crackdown in the future?

Yes, it's too powerful of a tool to use in academia, it will make cheating too easy.

Basically, a full ban on tech in school will happen.

Back to paper/pencil with students looking up at the teacher and taking notes.

https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Striking_%26_Shielding
Striking & Shielding

The ability to strike through others' protecting powers while shielding oneself from others' penetrating attacks. Sub-power of Protection Manipulation. Technique of Defense Manipulation. Variation of Absolute Lock Manipulation.

Capabilities

The user has the ability to penetrate any shield-like/protection related powers and a counter that blocks or protects oneself from others' penetrating/protecting powers.

I got a pretty neat ability.

Near Simultaneous Offense/Defense & Anti-Defense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIZHsGjNfNg

CRON posted...

UPDATE: Apparently he was fired because he went behind Anthem (the owner of TNA's) back and attempted to buy the company out with the help of a banking firm.

Anthem was DUMB to not accept his $$$ offer and thinking they can shove a random suit into his position and solve the problem.

I think "Cody vs Roman" will be the "Main Event" of WM Night 1
The ending will be obvious, Cody will win.

Then it'll be "The Rock vs Roman" will be the "Main Event" of WM Night 2
Then "The Rock" can claim that he's in "The Main Event" of WM since it's the final match on the card.
And it can be for who's going to become "the new Tribal Chief & the Head of the Family" and who sits at the "Head of the Table".

That should solve all ego stroking issues and move things on.

They finally got the "Classic" Wolverine X-Men costume to look good in live action by blending the Yellow Spandex design into Yellow Leather like costume.

burns112233 posted...

It looks like the Rock needed to heal his bruised ego a bit.

"One of the loudest ovations I've ever experienced in my career."

Oh really?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e573c6f5.jpg

Another post from the Rock. He's either trolling or delusional.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/dcf86e04.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJ_okHO8TU

According to WrestleLamia, the real reason for all this is because "The Rock" would get his $30 million pay day if he gets back in the ring and has his match before the end of the year.

He seemingly wants to "Rush the match" to get paid, even though he doesn't need to have the match at WrestleMania and can probably stand to wait until "Crown Jewel" or any other major PPV to have the match.

Since Dwayne Johnson now has 100% OwnerShip/Control of his name-sake IP "The Rock" and doesn't have to pay WWE for usage of it, he also has significant control / voting power in TKO.

That puts him in higher power than HHH at the moment.

But the main issue is that $30 million pay day that's part of his contractual agreement and he's willing to screw up Wrestlemania for it.

Hopefully, HHH can convince Ari Emanual and the other members to not let "The Rock" run with his ego / greed and try to force his will for that pay out.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/16411d5b.jpg

UnholyMudcrab posted...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmann%27s_and_Best_Foods

So the marketing divide is along the Rocky Mountains, interesting.

Harpie, have you tried Japanese Brand "Kewpie" Mayonaise?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7108d576.jpg

BucketCat posted...

idk if it's a convention, but I liked how Chrono Cross did it for their spell tiers
-Fire Ball
-Magma Bomb
-Fire Pillar
-Magma Burst
-Inferno
-Volcano

casting "Volcano" feels way more badass than "fire 3" or "firaga"

The only issue is which spell does more damage than the other?

If you were new to the spell system and you just had to look at a list, w/o trying each spell out and no other informational clues, which one does more damage?

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Fire 1
Fire 2
Fire 3

The 1st iteration of a Spell should be clearly labelled IMO.

Then you could put all the iterations of the spells behind the "Fire Spell Folder" and go "Hexadecimal" in the labeling"

• Fire 0
• Fire 1
• Fire 2
• Fire 3
• Fire 4
• Fire 5
• Fire 6
• Fire 7
• Fire 8
• Fire 9
• Fire A
• Fire B
• Fire C
• Fire D
• Fire E
• Fire F