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One thing I'd like to know is why, with the
same picture in it, my message was only 8 kilobytes and Euric's was 213
kilobytes.
In neither case is the photograph actually
embedded in the message. (It's linked from a web site.)
Odd, that.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Gar nichts. Es is in den Vereinigten
Staaten, wohin die Zeichen und die Wegmesseren in Meilen sind. Es w�rde
schwer sein, die Einheiten zu �bersetzen.
Translation:
Euric's question was What is wrong
with this picture?
My answer is: Nothing at all. It is in
the United States, in which the signs and odometers are in miles. It would be
hard to translate the units.
Although all of us would rather everything
here was SI, it would simply be confusing to provide a foreign visitor with
units that didn't correspond to those on the dash of his/her rented car. Of
course, it would be much better (and more respectful) if the sign showed both
miles and kilometers.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Was ist los mit diesem Bild?
Sign advertising the White Sands Mall
English and German
Alamogordo, New Mexico
March 15, 2003
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