From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAXE1-0001Vw-FF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:31:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6GKUI5G003341; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:30:18 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6GKRrSt032712 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:27:53 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so4668ugf for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:27:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AHRoCdarL+g/FAbiBznD2/HTKAhsrk0SxqNrWQYL6zZRXXoC8JWKtOH2AOVEu5TtEx5chsUcRkyEs1/t7ooZ41MLVpCWIEMHnLNtFmdU9FAGnIKThD7y9azWeMGvTrEQSRPwPHC3FlRyvVm7tNaRR/0gSZ05lLpj+Tk9rENje/0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SVSIBXDnH/50RODYoHukCAK1GRp0dHndSu8e7tpuTBJqfOoWoio5ZgGN4OhUPyq/eg+7hOKWSEbrABFOvBr238T+k6VTz8a8QAneV/L/5MLwkqWyZMfygH/Dghr933gyDtFamMii43bh2gxCwWyasJYHYM2I4Z7lzjaT9vQnXNY= Received: by 10.67.30.3 with SMTP id h3mr32463ugj.1184617673154; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:27:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.78? ( [81.79.237.61]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z34sm41524363ikz.2007.07.16.13.27.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <469BD4C9.9030504@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:27:53 +0100 From: George Prowse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] So... References: <469BC1BD.50309@gentoo.org> <1184618502.5879.558.camel@fermi> <20070716201712.GC9769@superlupo.rechner> In-Reply-To: <20070716201712.GC9769@superlupo.rechner> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6GKUI7D003341 X-Archives-Salt: 8f1d9894-9908-4ca2-a14d-342ef14c9038 X-Archives-Hash: d944abedb34766e3bac7bb66a518c9ed Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:41:42PM +0000, Luis Medinas wrote: >> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 15:06 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote: >>> So it's 97 degrees outside.. it's pretty hot... Since everyone loves = to >>> debate non-technical things on this list.. Let's debate Fahrenheit vs >>> Celcius... >>> >>> Discuss! >>> >> Well Celcius isn't the S.I scale for temperature but it's related with >> Kelvin which is the S.I scale for temperature. The conversion formula = to >> Fahrenheit is =B0F =3D (=B0C =D7 1.8) + 32 and to kelvin is just K =3D= =B0C + >> 273.15. These days i use more Kelvin than Celcius because it's used on >> real life problems i have to solve. >=20 > Rankine [1] brings you the best of two worlds: Starting at scientific > 0 degrees, but using the convenient degree scale defined by some > obscure water-salt-mixture and a the slight fever of the average > gentoo-dev poster. :-) >=20 > cheers, > Wernfried >=20 > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine >=20 tbh, you really need a different one for developers that takes into=20 account how far above or below sea level you are because as the air gets=20 thinner the mass of the water that is used to regulate their temperature=20 would change in relation to the caffiene molecules --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list