On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote:
> Note that the point in this discussion is not about the merits of > *metrics*, rather the merits of a common, shared system. So, it's not a > problem for me the fact that we'd use a decimal system for most measures, > base 60 for time and angles, and powers of two for disk and memory > capacity, and even inches for monitors, as far as we all use the same. Well, consider that money is a lot more complicated than this and is ultimately a shared concept, I don't see this getting changed any time soon. (Consider, at least the mile to meter conversion is constant.) Not to mention that I believe there are alternative calendars in the world. Also, I seem to recall there was a big todo about kilobytes measures on hard drive packages once upon a time. I'm assuming that just went away? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
