Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 15:19 UTC
KDE developer Pinheiro revealed his ideas on the next KDE menu, dubbed 'Raptor'. "What is Raptor? Raptor is a an amazing project I have been working on in the last few days. It tries to be a fresh new way of finding your desktop applications, and interacting with its users." A design document (containing more screenshots) is also available [.pdf].
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2005-11-11
But *to this day* my brain still *thinks* in terms of degrees Fahrenheit, miles, feet, inches.
Oh man, no kidding. Tell me the height of a mountain in feet, and I can tell you how it compares to the tallest mountain in the states (mainland, and including Alaska), or to the Andes, or the Matterhorn or Everest or Australia's highest (Mount Ksomething or other), Antarctica's highest etc. Meters? Not so much. For me, the difference between 14,000' and 16,000' is a lot more memorable than the difference between 4,300 meters and 4,900 meters.
Same goes for distance between cities, long jump and high jump records (including my personal bests), height of the worlds tallest buildings and so on.
I understand 0C quite well, as it's easy to think of it as 32f, but start getting up into 30C and I want to know is it 90? 100? I don't know just how hot it is. 0-100f matches well with typical really hot and really cold as far as I'm concerned.
I'm cool with Metric, and think it should be used exclusively in scientific settings, but I'm not about to relearn the masses of numbers I know (some of them approximately) and retrain my brain to get used to them.
Yeah, well maybe you(the British)'ve reformed.
Not entirely. Road signs are still in miles and mph. At any rate, they should at least understand our reluctance to go with Metric, IMHO their attachment to the Pound over the Euro is similar. It's typical that two of the countries I visit most often in Europe are the UK and Denmark. The continent's common currency doesn't help me much