That's not on topic, actually. This topic is about the software and davidshah, not about assembly of the Pyra. If you want to go on topic, then let's talk about whether daveshah should get his Pyra sooner.
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I don't agree with what you wrote here. What you wrote is overly broad and lacks context. Here is what you missed:
1) Imperial == base 12
Base 12 counting is probably something like 10 000 years old, maybe older. The ancients used various types of counting systems but THEY NEVER used base 10.
The reason for that is that base 12 is perfect for low technology and relative precision types of industries and where you simply double numbers or halve them in fractions and that is good enough. So, for example, building ancient roads, ancient bridges and so forth is just good enough for the kinds of tolerences they worked with. Even today, in North America, we make houses to fairly crude tolerences of 1/16th of an inch at the most.
So, just consider that base 12 is designed for the kinds of normal things ancient and current people build, used by people whose kings and queens had less education than our grade 4 students.
On top of that, you have to consider that the upper bound for the amount of things that most regular people needed to count up to was 60 and base 12 fractions and multiplies nicely up and down 0 to 60 at reasonable and easy to understood tolerences that allowed ancient people to build small buildings, roads, houses, castles, roman bridges and even the pyramids without any education whatsoever. You can train someone to use base 12 with no knowledge of numbers or reading in a few hours because it is intrinsic to how use the tools them selves. You cannot do that with metric.
Imperial really is an amazing counting system.
I can't explain it, but at least in English speaking countries, it seems that 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch hard drives are generally referred to that way even in places where they exclusively use the metric system. Ironically, at least in the U.S., there are 2.5 inch 7mm drives and 2.5 inch 9mm (or 9.5mm) drives, so a combination of Imperial and metric measurements are employed to describe them as a standard practice. It is rather odd.
I, for one, welcome our new polydactyl overlords.
So I said. It's a one-character-string-two-meanings kinda thing. Don't know if it's incidental or if they come from the same roots - didn't look at the etymology.
So we waited all this time to get a unit without a camera or maybe two
There was never any plans of having a Camera in the Pyra. It was brought up during design time, it was voted down as it somewhat complicated things, I think if I recall at the time sourcing a proper camera was somewhat difficult and implementing it so that it wouldn't thicken the already thick device was a tad difficult. In the end just not having a Camera was the choice.
At the time? So then there might still be hope left…
Actually, its even worse. There are 12 inches to the foot, and 12 pennies to the shilling*, but 20 shillings to the pound (21 to the guinea), 14 pounds to the stone, 112 pounds to the hundredweight, 20 hundredweights to the ton, 8 pints to the gallon, andnice try;-) some unit ratios are base 12, but you are still using a decimal number system so its a mixed system, in other words everything becomes an unholy mess once you start calculating things or e.g. things like volumes are involved...Woops! This was a reply to Lambda.
I don't agree with what you wrote here. What you wrote is overly broad and lacks context. Here is what you missed:
1) Imperial == base 12
AFAIK the interface was made available on the display PCB, though, so that it could be modded into the lid without having to add cables between lid and base.
Only eight stone to the hundredweitght.
Yes. You need to be aware that a US gallon is shorter than an imperial gallon however.
I read that as medication first time around, but maybe that's just me.
