Re: JPMorgan Chase to strengthen offshoring to India

From: Donald Tees <donald_tees_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:00:32 -0500
Message-ID: <AeCnf.1534$PQ3.356351@news20.bellglobal.com>

Howard Brazee wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:55:56 +0000, Chris Hills <chris_at_phaedsys.org>
> wrote:
>
>

>>I know what you mean. In the UK it took about 30 years to switch and
>>that was with metric being the only system taught in schools. Most
>>people over 50 in the UK still tend to use Imperial unless their job
>>requires metric. However in another 15 years very no one will use the
>>old imperial units.

>
>
> Although if their golf courses are marked in meters, do they still use
> yards?
>
> If their speedometers & speed limits are km/hr, do they still say
> m/hr?
>
> We don't estimate that much, but let machines do that work for us.

They still build houses in Imperial here, and probably always will. 2*4 studs on 16 or 18 inch studs will be a standard for a long time.

The defacto standard for years has been the 2 foot by 4 foot piece of plywood. The standard evolved around minimum cutting of that piece of wood. I doubt it will change any time soon.

Donald Received on Tue Dec 13 2005 - 10:00:32 CST