I came across this old saved email, which made wonder again what might be
happening in New York or Alabama to complete the coverage of the revised
UPLR allowing metric-only packaging.
Anyone have any updates, perchance?
Regards,
Ezra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Vlietstra" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:32 PM
Subject: [USMA:40172] RE: UPLR Jurisdictions
Bill,
I was reporting what I had read on sidenote on page 121 of the 8th Edition
of the SI brochure. See
http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf.
Also see NIST's view: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.
I am of course open to correction as to whether you have a 100 Mib/s line
or
a 100 Mb/s line.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Bill Potts
Sent: 19 January 2008 23:06
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:40164] RE: UPLR Jurisdictions
Not true, Martin.
See my subsequent reply to Gene on this topic.
Bill Potts
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Martin Vlietstra
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 10:56
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:40157] RE: UPLR Jurisdictions
Hi Gene,
Just to be pedantic - are you sure that you have a 100 000 kilobit line or
is it 100 Mib/s line (1 Mi = 1024^2).
Regards
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of [email protected]
Sent: 19 January 2008 17:04
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:40156] RE: UPLR Jurisdictions
Bill,
NIST Handbook 130 is separated into clickable sections, so choosing to
examine the UPLR section only should take much less than a looooong time.
At my rural home, I have only dial-up access to the Internet, very slow,
at
the best of times only a few tens of kilobits per second. DSL is not
available because of low population density. However at my office on the
UI
Campus, access speed is 100 000 kilobits per second (yes, 100 megabits per
second) I go there when I anticipate long downloads.
Gene.
---- Original message ----
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:01:45 -0800
From: "Bill Potts" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:40152] RE: UPLR Jurisdictions
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
I should have added that, in this case, 295 pages translates to just
under
22 megabytes. For dial-up users, that represents a looooong download time.
