2000-12-09
Han,
This dinosaur could be a woman. Maybe Greg can clarify that for us.
There is no reason that printers and scanners can't go to millimetre pitch,
like monitors do. Luckily most people who use printers are not asked to set
sizes in dpi, or they would eventually get use to it. I'm sure most people
out there don't know what a dpi is, and if they heard the term wouldn't know
what it meant. But, there are those parrots out there who love to use FFU
words just because they sound nice to them and have no idea what they are
talking about.
What you experienced in the eighties was the American influence. But, as
you can see, once the average person was confounded by inches, there was a
silent rebellion and order was restored by giving the world a computer
friendly to SI. Yet, the US still tries to sabotage international standards
by trying to sneak in FFU. The rest of the world really needs to YELL
LOUDLY and say NO to FFU.
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der sich irrt�mlich
glaubt frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Han Maenen
Sent: Saturday, 2000-12-09 04:59
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:9651] RE: Paper sizes
Greg,
Who knows, soon that dinosaur may reach retirement age anyway and if the
other administrator takes over, the inches can be dealt with.
Maybe this man
has lumber instead of brains in his head.
I would still use metric margins and measures if I had to use 11 or 12 inch
paper.12 inch paper was a European size, and I used that for the
time being.
As John states, those who use ISO paper sizes do not need to know the
dimensions. I do not need to know the formula used for A0, just as I do not
need to know the definition of the meter when I measure something. Some
ifp goons really claim that users of metric must know such things!
I repeat:
the coming of new printer technology lead to a massive reversal to ISO
paper sizes in Europe.
Now I am waiting and longing for the day when I can stop using the dpi.
Then I will drop it as a hot coal.
Computers can force the most implacable enemies of ifp to use it. I always
have asked myself if this was all part of a giant anti-metric plot: use
computer technology (hard and software) to corrupt metric countries so that
the
metric system will collapse sooner or later. And I feared during the
eighties that
they might succeed and that we would one day go USC: Hannibal ante portas!
I could never understand why such futuristic technology was based on
medieval units. In that period the computer center of Nijmegen University
had
engineering software that only allowed the use of ifp. Anyone who wanted to
have his
designs processed in that center, had to convert all his data to inches!
Han
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: vrijdag 8 december 2000 20:28
Subject: Re: [USMA:9610] RE: Paper sizes
> Han, et al.
>
> My wife has been asking the network administrator at her high school to
set the computers' default measurement to metric. She is teaching
typing and
refuses to use "1-inch" margins on "8� x 11-inch" paper and would
rather the
students set them to 2.5 cm on 21.5 x 28 cm paper.
>
> The response she got was this (I am paraphrasing):
> 'The paper is still in inches so we're not changing the settings on the
computers. When the paper changes, we'll change. Lumber uses inches, too.'
>
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