one word...Football...Football would lose its meaning...30.5cmball would make no sense. In retrospect, naming a game using an imperial measurement was darn right stupid.
Yes folks, the US will never go metric because we stuck our foot in our mouths.
Two words and a contraction: You're an idiot.
What do they call linear progress in rugby?
It is not named after a lineal measure, it is named after the human appendage that is used on the ball.
Perhaps you did.
The US press measures everything in football fields. If they switched to soccer fields, it wouldn't even be in the same ballpark.
John
Nice pitch.
--Winston
One of the projects I worked on for the Army specified a maximum size in inches and a maximum weight in pounds, but required that the included software display distances in meters and masses in kilograms.
Groan :-) That's very good for groaner! Mike
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No problem. We can switch to StarLength. 1 SL is 1/10000 of an inch. I am already using it for PCB anyway, since many of the IC packages are either 500, 250 or 254 SL. We can all watch 120Kball and eating 120Kdog. In StarDate 120K, 120Kdog will cost 120K StarCredit anyway.
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Arrrgh!
It saddens me to think of all the bright technical minds in 'imperial measurment' countries that got turned off to applied physics because of our insistence on awkward, self- destructive measurement systems.
Beijing must be very happy about this.
--Winston
We do all our serious stuff in SI units. We use inches (in decimal, not fractions) for pcb layouts and mechanical stuff like sheet metal. I don't think it's a big deal.
I think physics is taught in SI units.
John
I think that early IC designers, the rubylith cutters, used 1" = 25 mm.
John
Actually, it should be 1000, 500 and 250 for the Imperial stuffs and
786 and 393 for the Metric stuffs. So, everything is rounded and proper.
If you imply passage over a head, you should at least get with the times. The modern sound effect is that of helicopter blades, but I am sure that one will go right over your head.
Nothing got past me, PeterD. It is clear that the D stands for dipshit or dumbass. Or you could be that total retard that ran the bar for years.
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I feel that it is a huge deal.
Your average precocious kid, curious about physics is handed a set of tools guaranteed to waste much of his (or her) energy, manipulating our weird-ass base-12 and base-16 units and multiple contradictory unit definitions.
'Way too late to ignite and foster a love of learning for kids.
The available tools are terrific aversion therapy, however. :)
--Winston
And F is for "fetish."
John
If they can't work in multiple systems, they aren't very bright.
JL > The US press measures everything in football fields. If they switched JL > to soccer fields, it wouldn't even be in the same ballpark.
Did you intend that to be as funny as it actually was?
Shouldn't your nym be 'dippix'?
Yeah, having to use hex ruins programmers. Maybe that's why software is so bad.
If your theory is true, the USA doesn't get many Nobel prizes in the sciences, or invent many new technologies.
John
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