RE: Standards wrt paper and standards

Subject: RE: Standards wrt paper and standards
From: Geoff Purchase <Geoff -dot- Purchase -at- ReTechGlobal -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:30:06 +1000



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|and there's a marked resistance to the cost involved in
|switching over by
|the taxpayers, who really don't see what it would gain them,

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|to argue with them on that score. If you can figure a way to
|make it cost
|them visible money to remain on their current system, you'll get their
|attention. Until then, it won't matter. That's why industry here has
|adapted to both systems, and many use the metric dimensions internally.

</snip>



One simple example: Mars Climate Orbiter
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/10/orbiter.02/

"Root cause: Failure to use metric units in the coding of a ground software
file, "Small Forces," used in trajectory models"

Geoff




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