The .beat Doesn't Go On

[+Prime Suspect]

Not sure when this happened, but I just noticed the "internet time" (that ultra-stupid marketing ploy by Swatch) has been banished from the cache pages. Yea!

[blocko1000]

That ploy didnt work on me!! I never knew it was there. I never noticed it.

[+Doc-Dean]

What am I going to do with my special edition internet swatch?!

[+Stunod]

I never sync'ed up with that internet time...I was always a beat off.

[ju66l3r]

I never sync'ed up with that internet time...I was always a beat off.

If only your dad was too...

 

 

*Stunod* knows I was kidding...do you?

[+Stunod]

*Stunod* knows I was kidding...do you?

Edited March 26, 2004 by Stunod

[Jeremy]

The .beat time was just a fun exercise on my part.

 

BTW, the idea of universal decimal time was an interesting concept. Swatch royally mucked it up in many ways, but especially by using their headquarters as the 0 hour, instead of GMT.

[+Stunod]

<SNIP> ...instead of GMT.

Groundspeak Mean Time??

[+Prime Suspect]

BTW, the idea of universal decimal time was an interesting concept. Swatch royally mucked it up in many ways, but especially by using their headquarters as the 0 hour, instead of GMT.

Well, 24 and 60 are really good numbers to use when you want to divide things up. Decimalization is good for math, but bad for fractions.

 

Numbers that evenly go into 10: 2, 5

Numbers that evenly go into 12: 2, 3, 4, 6

 

Numbers that evenly go into 100: 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50,

Numbers that evenly go into 60: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30

 

(Yes, I know I'm excluding 1 and the number itself.)

 

We as a species probably would have been better off if we had evolved with 12 digits instead of 10.