-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEU1fktTMYHG2NR9URAn0LAJ9ohDvmzN8csKDasc3y68GYf5uLowCcCFxU 0DGDEs9HDshVV4dp+BHhBIM= =3zH/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----