The best about SI and Euro it is supernational thus makes it neutral for everyone!
I suppose many other countries will introduce within the next 20 years either the US$ or the € as currency, there is actually now way out in global economy! ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 3:53 PM Subject: [USMA:20015] Re: Adobe > 2002-05-12 > > You can go to the preferences and pick millimetres. The default may be > inches when it is downloaded from an English language server. Some > software, Microsoft products included, will set their defaults to metric > when sold in non-English countries. It is funny that Microsoft, and others > only give you two choices of measurement systems: SI and US customary. None > give you the 1600 choices Tony Bennett says the UN finds still in use. It > would seem that the final battle of the measurement systems is really > between SI and US customary. I have a feeling that even if the UK were to > stick to non-metric, imperial would soon die out and US customary would > become the standard. > > I even feel the US wants metric to wipe out all the rest of the world's > units. It is much easier for US customary to replace metric than for it to > replace other versions of FFU. This is the problem the French had. It was > far easier to start with a whole new system then to try to reform the > confused French system at the time. If the government would have decided to > use all the Parisian standards, then the people in the provinces would have > rebelled, each arguing for their version to be standard. Then, what about > the other countries? The Germans would have had their versions, the > Italians theirs, the Spanish theirs, etc. It wouldn't be until now with the > advent of the EU that someone would have had to decide to standardise > weights and measures just like they did with the Euro for money. > > > John > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, 2002-05-12 09:23 > Subject: [USMA:20010] Adobe > > > > > Of M R > > > Subject: [USMA:20009] Fwd: Re: American Strength > > > > > > If you get a Windows XP/MS Office with inches as > > > default unit of measurement, then it is FFU item. > > > > The same applies to Adobe Acrobat Reader. The page size at the bottom > > left uses inches. > > -- > > Terry Simpson > > Human Factors Consultant > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.connected-systems.com > > Phone: +44 7850 511794 > > > > >
