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How old is this article? It seems to use the old Fahrenheit temperature scale. I'm sure my grandfather would understand those temperatures but for myself I had
by billyjobob 14y ago
How old is this article? It seems to use the old Fahrenheit temperature scale. I'm sure my grandfather would understand those temperatures but for myself I had to convert each one into modern units. Eventually I couldn't be bothered and stopped reading.
- recursive 14y agoNew Fahrenheit is the same as old Fahrenheit. In other words, it never changed.
- lectrick 14y agoUnless you are joking, I think he was characterizing Fahrenheit itself as old, not saying there was a separate, "old Fahrenheit" scale.
- bitwize 14y agoFahrenheit is old. Celsius is modern. The real avant-garde give all temperatures in kelvins...
- walrus 14y agoQuit living in the past. We use Planck temperature now.
- lectrick 14y agoFrankly I'd rather use a system where 0 degrees is "fucking cold" and 100 degrees is "fucking hot", but neither fatally so, with 100 different steps in between.
- mpyne 14y agoMeh, I've stopped trying to ever argue stuff like this. There is simply a large class of people who will never believe in l10n if it involves en_US, only if it's any other country or region in the world.
- Locke1689 14y agoYou know Fahrenheit is used by the entire United States, right?
- dexter313 14y agoSwitch to metric system USA!
- lectrick 14y agoRead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_State...
- jtheory 14y agotl;dr: the US has a long and tragic history of half-hearted attempts to switch to metric, beginning in the mid-1800s (when metric was made an international standard, with the active participation of the US... one of the original seventeen signatory nations to the Metre Convention), and continuing on through today, where the US is one of three remaining countries (with Myanmar and Liberia) that has not adopted the International System of Units (SI) metric system as their official system of weights and measures. Along the way we get sad stories like the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1998, where everyone except Lockheed Martin was using metric units in the parts and software written for the orbiter. So come on, USA! Keep trying!
- jstanley 14y agoI didn't understand the temperatures either, and didn't even try to convert any. The article is really well written and you'd be well-advised to read it despite your grievances with the units.
- Mvandenbergh 14y agoYou could also mentally convert the temperatures, I can do it easily despite never having lived in a country where Fahrenheit is used.