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What is a cup?

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So nobody can define a cup? Don't say it's something you drink out of - because you can do that with a bottle. Uniquely identify a cup!
 
TheVrolok said:
This sounds like one of those team building/communication workshop type exercises.
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Yep, those never make sense either. I always felt like I should have held out for more money. I mean, if someone could convince them to not only shell out money for these team builders but, pay us to stand around not earning a dime, I could have hit them up for a lot more cash.
 
slugg said:
So nobody can define a cup? Don't say it's something you drink out of - because you can do that with a bottle. Uniquely identify a cup!
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Lots of folks have defined a 'cup,' you just haven't liked any of the definitions. So, when did you stop believing in cups?
 
slugg said:
So nobody can define a cup? Don't say it's something you drink out of - because you can do that with a bottle. Uniquely identify a cup!
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There are no less than 15 perfectly reasonable definitions of the word "cup" in this thread.

You've moved on and started defining the word "retard."
 
slugg said:
So nobody can define a cup? Don't say it's something you drink out of - because you can do that with a bottle. Uniquely identify a cup!
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A unit of measurement for volume.

There's multiple definitions though, is it really that hard to understand?

"ATOT: taking the "Tech" out of AnandTech since 1997."
 
There's two different definitions. One is 8 fluid ounces, as already stated. Another is an instrument of liquid containment meant for holding fluids suitable for human consumption. Stupid thread is stupid.

EDIT: Fine, and one with a large open mouth approximately of the same area as the body of the instrument, to exclude bottles.
 
a cup is a glass.





("glass" is a unit of measurement in the former soviet union, sometimes still used. since there was only one glass that everyone had-seriously, everyone had that exact same glass--it became the defacto unit of measurement for baking and cooking or whatever. "One glass of water" has a separate meaning for us)
 
I'll give this another go.

1 cup is ~ 236,588 cubic mm. We could further refine this number to more digits.

We can define a meter as the distance light can travel in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458th of a second.

We can define a second as 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom at rest at a temperature of 0K.

Aliens could understand that.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
 
I'm just pointing out that it's amazing how humans can completely understand a concept without be able to explain it. If you were to describe a drinking cup, chances are it's ambiguous... but even though it's not quite explainable with 100% clarity, we still know what it is and how it works. Computers, on the other hand, do not work this way.

Sure, it sounds pretty dumb to come up with an accurate description for a cup. That's my point... if it's so dumb, then why can't we do it?

MagnusTheBrewer: there hasn't been 1 definition that is completely unambiguous. And we're talking about a drinking cup, not a unit of measurement or bra size.

Nebor: if you're so smart, why don't you define it? Give us a definition that accurately describes a drinking cup and nothing else. It's not easy! A retard can't do it.
 
Leros said:
I'll give this another go.

1 cup is ~ 236,588 cubic mm. We could further refine this number to more digits.

We can define a meter as the distance light can travel in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458th of a second.

We can define a second as 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom at rest at a temperature of 0K.

Aliens could understand that.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
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Is it wrong that SI makes me a little warm?
 
HamburgerBoy said:
There's two different definitions. One is 8 fluid ounces, as already stated. Another is an instrument of liquid containment meant for holding fluids suitable for human consumption. Stupid thread is stupid.

EDIT: Fine, and one with a large open mouth approximately of the same area as the body of the instrument, to exclude bottles.
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This is my favorite so far... but you've described a jar :\
 
Leros said:
I'll give this another go.

1 cup is ~ 236,588 cubic mm. We could further refine this number to more digits.

We can define a meter as the distance light can travel in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458th of a second.

We can define a second as 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom at rest at a temperature of 0K.

Aliens could understand that.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
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Unless they exist in a solar system which is devoid of heavier elements like cesium. 😛:awe:



slugg said:
I'm just pointing out that it's amazing how humans can completely understand a concept without be able to explain it. If you were to describe a drinking cup, chances are it's ambiguous... but even though it's not quite explainable with 100% clarity, we still know what it is and how it works. Computers, on the other hand, do not work this way.

Sure, it sounds pretty dumb to come up with an accurate description for a cup. That's my point... if it's so dumb, then why can't we do it?

MagnusTheBrewer: there hasn't been 1 definition that is completely unambiguous. And we're talking about a drinking cup, not a unit of measurement or bra size.

Nebor: if you're so smart, why don't you define it? Give us a definition that accurately describes a drinking cup and nothing else. It's not easy! A retard can't do it.
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Human languages weren't written by programmers or engineers, so they aren't always rigidly defined, and people often don't take the time to learn them as they are, so there's a lot of word misuse and abuse going on all the time. Just today I heard someone use "ascertainable" when he meant "attainable."
It starts with "a," ends with "ainable," yeah ok, close enough.

Cup
- A unit of measure which is equivalent to 8 fluid ounces. The manner in which this fluid is contained is irrelevant to this definition.
- A rigid containment vessel, typically cylindrical in shape, thin-walled, and open on one end, used for holding a quantity of potable liquid prior to immediate consumption. It must also remain upright while containing the liquid, without the aid of any external supports. Its height:diameter ratio may be in the range of 2:1 - 1:1. Smaller vessels typically assume other names, though the precise delineation is not explicitly defined.
- Testicular armor.

You could probably write up a Wikipedia page on cups. (though it seems that there actually are various pages on this sort of thing...go figure)
Good old fuzzy logic thinking. 🙂

And no, computers don't think that way. They don't have enough processing power to think like we do. We still measure CPU dies in square mm or cm. Brains can be measured by volume. But give it time, I'm sure our technological progress will lead to machines that will make our brains look as sophisticated as a protozoan.
 
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slugg said:
I'm just pointing out that it's amazing how humans can completely understand a concept without be able to explain it.
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No, it's not. Everyone in here gave a perfectly sound definition for a cup. Just go to websters.com. You're being obtuse.
 
slugg said:
This is my favorite so far... but you've described a jar :\
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Mason Jars are cups...

Jars are cups, pretty much, except you can seal them and preserve them. Once you remove the top of the jar, I think it becomes a cup.

Cups are fucked, and humanity could forestall its doom at the hands of aliens by enticing them with all the different cups. 😛 Even an interstellar intelligence would spend years learning all the different cups. But cups do have definitions, it just depends on what cup you want.

The op is trolling some night-crawlers though...
 
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