kai wrote:
On Saturday 29 April 2006 05:35 am, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-04-29 at 13:32 +0200, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Well..... A4 is the international ISO stadard for paper size. Now you know the frustration for 5 billion other people on earth who try to use pretty much any software/OS that defaults to US Letter.. Not to mention all the engineers in the 21th century who have to have to revert to 18th century measurement "standards" when they try to speak with their US collegues. And that was the cause of the failure of one (two?) NASA missions to Mars: wrong unit conversions. It's amazing that Americans are still so backward as to stick with the Imperial measures.
Unfortuntately, the government decided to get involved in our "conversion" back in the '70s. That said, you see the results. :)
IIRC, Peanut Carter had started the switch and Reagan was stupid enough to cancel it.