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[Darvi]

In French it's "*word that has no meaning outside this context* of the ground" and in German it's "earth projectile".

[miauw62]

In dutch its "gelijkvloers" wich, litteraly translated, equalfloor.

@above, french doesnt count. Its a horribly deformed mutation of Latin.

[GlyphGryph]

It's because European architects count from zero, just like computer scientists.

[Darvi]

Yeah, it also kind of makes sense when you tell somebody to go to the second floor that they have to go up two floors, no?

It's because European architects count from zero, just like computer scientists.

how many floors do they have in all then? 2?
0, and 1.

Not binary, silly.

[Aklyon]

It's because European architects count from zero, just like computer scientists.

So its the zeroth floor?

[hanni79]

Then lets put some oil in the fire :

There are differences regarding groundfloor / first floor between some of the german federal Lands 

Conclusion ? We are even weirder than the rest 

( On a second thought, maybe it's a side effect of the well documented German Angst, since Ground floor simply doesn't sound as high to fall off than first floor  )

[Darvi]

since Ground floor simply doesn't sound as high to fall off than ground floor  )

I didn't even know Germans could distinguish between capitalizations in spoken speech. I guess that helps explaining the grammar nazis or something _{please don't hurt me}.

[GlyphGryph]

It's because European architects count from zero, just like computer scientists.

So its the zeroth floor?

Exactly.

[Aklyon]

It's because European architects count from zero, just like computer scientists.

So its the zeroth floor?

Exactly.

The problem then is that non-architect non-techies have to be told what 'zeroth floor' means instead of 'not-actually-a-thing building level'

[Darvi]

If I were an architect, I'd designate the lowest basement as the first floor and would troll my way up the rest.

[hanni79]

@Darvi : More like a case for "read before you post"- Nazis, huh ? Thanks 

[i2amroy]

I'm thoroughly pissed off right now. I'm currently in an Engineering Design class that based the whole semester around LEGO NXT models. My team had ran hundreds of tests on our robot after finalizing software/hardware, and every one proved a success. Then on the two demo trials that counted, our ultrasonic sensor suddenly red zero for an instant, causing the program to trigger the ending sequence early; the reason of triggering is completely unknown (checked cables, sensors, distance, programing, you name it). As a result our grade on this two week long project just dropped from a ~105% (bonus points for time) down to a ~70%. Ugh. 

[Karlito]

The text in my dropdown and rightclick menus keeps turning yellow.

[Johuotar]

That happens to me when playing aurora, for reasons I dont know.

Lego NXT? Sounds like Im just starting similiar class as your on now i2mroy, were getting the legos in few weeks.

[Nadaka]

Global bacon shortage immanent!


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/09/25/bacon-shortage-pigs.html

Oh, the baconity!