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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE fragile?
From:       Hans Meine <hans_meine () gmx ! net>
Date:       2000-09-14 7:34:15
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Rik Hemsley <rik@kde.org> writes:

> #if Uwe Thiem
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:21:23PM -0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > > AND THE USER IS RIGHT! Sorry for shouting but a desktop is about
> > > > users. ;-) If you say: "Sure, my coffee machine brews weaker coffee
> > > > because our supplier's heating element can't get water to 100C, but
> > > > our machine still is better. The heating element is beyound our
> > > > scope." users will laugh at you - and rightly so.
> > >
> > > 100C ? That's boiling point ! Remember never to accept coffee from you
> > > ! ;)
> >
> > The time you brew coffee (or tea as far as I'm concerned) is a different
> > from the time you serve it. ;-)
> 
> Um, if your coffee machine puts boiling water on coffee, it kills it. I 
> know coffee is supposed to be served hot - McDonalds told me ;)

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The "right" water temperature (as can be adjusted in tenth-degree-steps in
professional machines, i.e. those of the "Bremer Kaffeemaschinen" company
;-))) ) is certainly around 93°C, though many cheap home coffee machines do
not always reach that temperature b/c they already spit coffee before the
heating mechanism is hot enough. :-)
The "brewing temperature" - I mean the temperature which the ready coffee
has - is then only about 86°C.

BTW: Someone once posted RFC 2324 on kde-devel (konold?). I turned that into
HTML and uploaded it to 
  http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/RastaJoe/rfc2324.html
  "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)"

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