Remember the huge debacle a few years back when the Mars lander crashed and was destroyed because one software group used Metric and another software group used "traditional" units? The number was passed from one subsystem to another and, well, uh....OOOPS.....Hundreds of millions of US$$$$ were lost.
Oh well. Greg ________________________________ From: Robert <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 3:50:08 AM Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Feature request: Hard metric Beg pardon :). I was basing this on my own personal experience and what an American engineer told me just recently. I should add that I've yet to meet a US engineer that didn't find the continued use of traditional units in their industry annoying or embarrassing, and NASA of course use metric. So scratch "US" from my list. Regards, Robert. al davis wrote: > On Thursday 09 July 2009, Robert wrote: >> America is the last country >> in the world where engineers prefer to use them. > > American engineers don't prefer traditional units. It's the > non-engineers. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo..com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.387 / Virus Database: 270.13.8/2226 - Release Date: 07/08/09 > 21:51:00 > ------------------------------------ Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question.. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links
