EPTDo you use Imperial or Metric? - Page 71
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Salteador Neo
Andorra5591 Posts
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MrEko
Canada37 Posts
On April 07 2012 06:32 Salteador Neo wrote: I don't even know how much is an inch or a yard >.< (especially a yard, got no clue) Its about 1 meter. | ||
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Hinanawi
United States2250 Posts
At least it's not quite as bad as using 'stones' as a unit of measurement. The fuck, Britain. | ||
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RibsNGibs
64 Posts
The worst is units of measurement for cooking. Fluid ounces is volume and ounce is mass? Ok, recipe calls for 3/4 cup of sugar, but I'm halving the recipe... so 3/8 cup. How many tablespoons is that? Or: 2.5 tablespoons? OK, go down to the next smallest unit of measurements. 2 tablespoons and 1.5 teaspoons? :/ | ||
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Elderbury
United States10 Posts
I defy you to defeat that logic. U S A!, U S A! (actually I think it's silly that we in the U.S. haven't yet adopted the metric system. I myself am a research scientist, and in practically all the sciences, metric units of measure are the norm...except for at NASA, where they still can't get it right.) | ||
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DreadKnight
United Kingdom123 Posts
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HiTeK532
Canada171 Posts
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Smoot
United States128 Posts
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
Just throwing that out there. Isn't the computer American? | ||
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Arlenius
United Kingdom49 Posts
On April 07 2012 08:05 HiTeK532 wrote: I use a metric clock instead of 24 hours in a day we only have 10 but there's 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a minute so it all balances out. would be so cool if you had thought that through and it actually balanced out...nice try though metric is better for life in general though | ||
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Loanshark
China3094 Posts
On April 07 2012 08:15 Euronyme wrote: I've never actually thought about it, but the computer system of kilobytes, megabytes etc are also metric. Just throwing that out there. Isn't the computer American? Clearly the Americans who designed it were metric-savvy engineers. Thank God for that, can you imagine if we had some imperial measurement for file size? And depending on what you count as a megabyte, it could be either 1000KB or 1024KB, so it's not entirely metric. | ||
Myles
United States5162 Posts
On April 07 2012 08:43 Loanshark wrote: Clearly the Americans who designed it were metric-savvy engineers. Thank God for that, can you imagine if we had some imperial measurement for file size? And depending on what you count as a megabyte, it could be either 1000KB or 1024KB, so it's not entirely metric. Yea, he forgot about the whole hexadecimal system. | ||
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yeaR
United Kingdom100 Posts
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Nouar
France3270 Posts
On April 07 2012 08:43 Loanshark wrote: Clearly the Americans who designed it were metric-savvy engineers. Thank God for that, can you imagine if we had some imperial measurement for file size? And depending on what you count as a megabyte, it could be either 1000KB or 1024KB, so it's not entirely metric. No. A MB is 1024KB. A Mb is 1000Kb. There is a difference between a bit and a byte (8bit). I don't really know if we can call bytes counting metric, since kilo/mega etc are multiples of 2 in that case :/ | ||
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ZasZ.
United States2911 Posts
On April 07 2012 08:13 Smoot wrote: Do you know how many man hours are wasted in the US (specifically in engineering) because of Unit conversions from Metric to Standard? I'm ball-parking hundreds of millions of dollars (IE: man-hours) are being wasted every year because we don't switch to 100% metric. Apparently your "ball-park" estimation (read: bullshit) doesn't account for all the man hours wasted converting all of our records from Imperial to Metric. It wouldn't be cost-effective to switch, sorry. | ||
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cape
United States142 Posts
On March 23 2012 20:51 Conti wrote: And that, dear ladies and gentlemen, is the reason why the rest of the entire world thinks the US can be pretty darn arrogant at times.  Also, there are actually 3 countries left in the world that still use the Imperial System, not just one. The other two are Liberia and Myanmar. I'm not going to make a "countries that matter" joke here. It was clearly a joke. | ||
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Melvin0000
United States32 Posts
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
On April 07 2012 08:58 Nouar wrote: No. A MB is 1024KB. A Mb is 1000Kb. There is a difference between a bit and a byte (8bit). I don't really know if we can call bytes counting metric, since kilo/mega etc are multiples of 2 in that case :/ The words are literally there though. deca 10, hecto 100, kilo 1000, mega 1.000.000, giga 1.000.000.000 etc. Dunno how they managed to screw that up =( | ||
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evilm0nkey
53 Posts
On April 07 2012 08:15 Euronyme wrote: I've never actually thought about it, but the computer system of kilobytes, megabytes etc are also metric. Just throwing that out there. Isn't the computer American? Kilo is greek and means one thousand. If you say: "give me 1k bucks plz" you are not using the metric system either. Bytes are not officially units of the metric system. The k is even a lie because 1kB = 1024kB as computers use binary numbers which are almost as weird as the imperial system for a human with 10 fingers. | ||
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Rice
United States1332 Posts
 of course, I think most people would prefer if the U.S. switched to metric, but I dont really see it happening. | ||
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