From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:23:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:22:54 -0400 Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.82]:25615 "EHLO mailout05.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:22:44 -0400 Date: 21 Jun 2001 09:33:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <83JR8lhmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: temperature standard - global config option? X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh7 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <200106082116.f58LGd2497562@saturn.cs.uml.edu> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org bootc@worldnet.fr (Chris Boot) wrote on 08.06.01 in : > > Only the truly stupid would assume accuracy from decimal places. > > Well then, tell all the teachers in this world that they're stupid, and tell > everyone who learnt from them as well. *All*? > I'm in high school (gd. 11, junior) > and my physics teacher is always screaming at us for putting too many > decimal places or having them inconsistent. Ok, *yours*. But yours is not all. I certainly don't remember ever seeing that attitude in school. And yes, this behaviour *is* stupid. Someone who thinks like that should never be allowed to become a science teacher. MfG Kai