[gameprogrammer] Re: Juan Carlos Cazar is out of the office.
- From: Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:18:55 -0500
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 07:55 -0700, David Cornell wrote:
> I'm American and I can't understand why we had to be so different and
> use our own systems of measure instead of Metric.
Oh, it is weirder than most people imagine. But, since 1893 all US
weights and measures are defined in terms of the metric system. So we
can at least convert from one system to the other.
> Honestly, I think just keeping everything convertible by multiples
> of 10 would be FAR easier. I still need a chart to tell me how many
> pints are in a gallon. Oh well, wishing and wondering don't change
> anything.
I agree completely. President Carter tried very hard to convert the US
to metric. That was when we started getting metric sizes and weights on
things you buy at the store. He tried to get speed limits posted in KPH
and MPH, but that didn't last long. And, for a while the speedometers in
cars had scales in MPH and KPH, but that eventually went away.
We will only change when we are forced by economic necessity to change.
Bob Pendleton
>
> Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:20 +0200, Christoph Harder wrote:
> > I still don't understand why american write mm/dd/yy but
> also use
> > something like "2nd december 2006", isn't the dd/mm/yy
> format more logical?
>
> Americans rarely use the form 2nd December 2006. We almost
> always say
> December 2nd, 2006. So, for us, MM/DD/YY is more logical
> because it
> matches the way we do things. Personally, I think that
> YY/MM/DD is more
> logical because it puts the units in order from largest to
> smallest just
> like numbers. Lets face it, this is not a question of logic,
> but of long
> established cultural pattern.
>
> > Same thing with this am/pm in the time, I never know what is
> when :)
>
> A.M. stands for Anno Meridian and P.M. means Post Meridian.
> Meridian
> refers to a line that runs from the north pole to the south
> pole. Your
> meridian is the line that runs through your location. Anno is
> Latin for
> before and Post means after. Anno Meridian is a time before
> the Sun
> passes over your meridian and Post Meridian is a time after
> the Sun
> passes over your meridian. Noon is when the Sun is directly
> over your
> meridian and midnight is when the Sun is on the other side of
> the Earth
> from you meridian. So A.M. is an abbreviation for a Latin
> phrase that
> means "before noon" and P.M. is an abbreviation for a Latin
> phrase that
> means "after noon".
>
> >
> > Anyway, why do Juan Carlos Cazar send this message to the
> maillinglist?
>
> He did not send it. His email system did. Most email systems
> allow a
> user to set a flag that says "I am on vacation" so that people
> who send
> email to them get a polite message saying that the person is
> on vacation
> and won't get the email for a while. That works fine unless
> the person
> on vacation is on mailing lists. Then, when the mailing list
> sends him
> email, everyone on the mailing list gets his automatic reply.
> Most of
> the time the email system will only send one automatic reply,
> but I have
> seem many situations where every email got an automatic reply
> and then I
> have to go in tell the mailing list to stop sending that
> person email.
>
> > I don't see any relationship.
>
> There isn't one :-)
>
> >
> > Christoph
>
> List Owner
> Bob Pendleton
>
> >
> >
> > David Olsen wrote:
> > > For just a moment, I thought he was going to be out for 10
> *months*,
> > > not 10 days... (I'm used to American date format).
> > > -Dave
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juan Carlos Cazar"
> > >
> > > To:
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 4:01 PM
> > > Subject: [gameprogrammer] Juan Carlos Cazar is out of the
> office.
> >
> >
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