Indeed, when will the EU complete metrication: 1. Jeans trousers use inch - and ounce sizes 2. Aircraft navigation and building 3. Computer hard- and software. For instance 'metric' rulers in 2.54 cm increments, idiotic metric numbers like 209.9 mm, rough and inferior metric resolutions and options as opposed to superior inch resolutions etc. The metric options in the Adobe Reader are inferior and when downloaded all language versions default to inch and have to be personalized.
I have bought a scanner, and there is no way I can steer clear of ifp here, the units dpi and lpi are absolutely unavoidable when making scans. Those who are subscribed to these German magazines should write to them and make them see the error of their ways. Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-08-19 15:05 Subject: [USMA:21807] Re: Dual labeling "Wizard of OS" wrote on 2002-08-19 11:05 UTC: I suppose Canada will be in 10 years completely metric and UK and Eire in 20 years! > When will Germany go completely metric? At least the Personal Computer business there is still deeply contaminated by US FFU practice, in particular designation of display sizes and floppy disks. I even see occasionally references to 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" CD-ROMs (which are actually 120 mm and 80 mm large), even in reputable magazines such as c't. [To be fair, I don't know anybody who measures anything in Germany in FFU, but the system survives still in the informal names of product types, such as "17-Zoll Monitor" or "2-Zoll Wasserrohr", and I still see the most dreadful/ignorant "3.5-Zoll (8.89 cm) Floppy Disk" being advertised in Germany.] Markus
