On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:09:38 -0500, las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, someone claimed that Hz in universal. Is it really??? Is it
used in every country in the world?
Yes, it is ;) Seriously. Hertz is an ISO standard, used everywhere.
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
I think you are confusing dialect with slang.
No dialect. Slang is the use of a word that is not generally accepted by
scholars as a proper word. Dialect is the pronunciation and sometimes addition
of words into a language that make it different from the way
Bish Ashleigh wrote:
Larry -
you must be aware that the correct English spelling of 100 cm is one Metre.
A meter is an instrument that measures a variable. As we in England seem to
be the ones who originated the hash that eventually became English, 'twould
seem most fair if our spelling
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 31 Oct 2000
| What is spoken in the us is American then I guess. An English dialect so
| to speak. But the English have alone a pretty good job of bastardizing
| their own language. [...]
I think you are confusing dialect with slang.
[...]
| Why do we do
las wrote:
Also, someone claimed that Hz in
universal. Is it really??? Is it used in every country in the world?
Yep. Unless they haven't discovered electricity yet.
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* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 26 Oct 2000
| But it makes no sense to me to take something that is descriptive and
| give it a name that tells you nothing.
One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any other
unit of measure that we use.
[...]
| Now what about computer
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any other
unit of measure that we use.
That may be true, but in the case of cps, we had something in place that was
descriptive. Just because we use non descriptive terms for many things does
not
las wrote:
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any
other
unit of measure that we use.
That may be true, but in the case of cps, we had something in place that
was
descriptive. Just because we use non descriptive terms for many
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 31 Oct 2000
| That may be true, but in the case of cps, we had something in place that was
| descriptive. Just because we use non descriptive terms for many things does
| not make dropping the one descriptive term that we had excusable.
1000 cubic centimetres,
on 31/10/00 6:43 am, las at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the use the term metre is not used (unless they changed that too while I
was
sleeping) it's meter). Metre is used in Europe.
Larry
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las wrote:
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any other
unit of measure that we use.
That may be true, but in the case of cps, we had something in place that was
descriptive. Just because we use non descriptive terms for
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It is still used as shorthand, and it means Hertz now.
I don't the sound of it, sounds to Nazi to me.
I'm sure people with german sounding names will highly
appreciate such
Hertz was the one that gave the Italian Marconi the idea to try radio
transmission accross the Atlantic.
http://www.wsone.com/fecha/hertz.htm
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Hertz, a German physicist who was born in 1857 and died of
blood poisoning in 1894
Yann Weber wrote:
I'm sure people with german sounding names will highly
appreciate such an intelligent remark. Especially regarding
Heinrich Hertz who was Jewish.
Well now there you have me. I did not know that and I am Jewish. I
guess that it was wrong of me to draw any conclusions from
las wrote:
It is easy for someone who grew up using Hz to be comfortable with the
term and accept it. But what if you spent your youth drooling over
Fisher stereo components (Marantz too). These were the kings about 38
years ago when I was a kid.
??? I grew up with Hz as the standard
sherryl wrote:
But in the spoken word I still hear people refer to it as cycle as in
"sixty cycle". People don't call it Hertz.
Says who? I hear it being called Hertz all the time. Besides being
more universal, Hertz is easier and faster to say than cycles per
second.
Just for the
"J. Coon" wrote:
It is still used as shorthand, and it means Hertz now.
I don't the sound of it, sounds to Nazi to me.
Larry
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Martin Lazak wrote:
It's the same with cars which are often
only judged based on their hp, although there are many other factors that
affect their performance. And while hp does mean horse power, that doesn't
tell you that much, either.
Hi Martin, Of course horse power really doesn't
sherryl wrote:
The number of valves can make a difference. I have an old 1990 Pontiac
Grand AM that has a quad four engine (16 valves in four cylinders) that
will out perform many 6 cylinder cars.
I doubt it will outperform my 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera (3.2l flat six)...
:-)))
You have a
"J. van de Griek" wrote:
I doubt it will outperform my 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera (3.2l flat six)...
:-)))
Don't you remember that commercial for a small inexpensive car? I can't
remember which car it was but they say "We test our car against a blah blah
and we blew their doors off". Then
I imagine 50,000 will buy you even more, then... ;)
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"J. van de Griek" wrote:
"J. Coon" wrote:
Hey, us engineers don't want just everyone to know what the stuff
means. WE go to school for that. If every bloke know what it meant we'd
be out of a job. G
I thought that only applies to lawyers G.
Larry
las wrote:
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
Not like there is anything to convert. 1 Hertz = 1 cycle/second. They
just gave the unit of measurement a name (like Newton, Watt, etc).
But it makes no sense to me to take something that is descriptive and give
it a
name that tells you nothing.
"J. van de Griek" wrote:
CPS means cycles per second. That makes sense and tells you exactly with it is.
Not in German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Swahili or Afrikaans.
That might not be exactly correct. You'd have to find an old audiophile
who was from one of those countries and
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I would guess it had something to do with adhering to the international
standard units of measure. We were unwilling (or incapable) of converting
our use of miles to kilometers, but the engineering community was more
flexible than the public.
Now we have to get
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
Not like there is anything to convert. 1 Hertz = 1 cycle/second. They
just gave the unit of measurement a name (like Newton, Watt, etc).
--
But it makes no sense to me to take something that is descriptive and give it a
name that tells you nothing. CPS means
las wrote:
But it makes no sense to me to take something that is descriptive and give it a
name that tells you nothing. CPS means cycles per second. That makes sense and
tells you exactly with it is. Hertz or HZ means nothing and even if you only use
the HZ, all you are saving is one
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