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U.S. MUST go metric!! (Page 5)
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Not to mention sobbing over a video standard.
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Originally Posted by ghporter 
...and now I think I see a reason to buy a Blu-Ray player-LOTR is coming out on BR soon... DRAT!
But will the discs play in an American machine? I mean, what with our Imperial units of measure and everything...
Screw that. I want LOTR on a 5- inch HD DVD to play on my 10-pound brushed metal player. I won't settle for anything less. 
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Originally Posted by Laminar
Uh...a couple posts containing equations is FAR less geeky than over EIGHT THOUSAND posts arguing a freaking video standard.
Quality triumphs over quantity.
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Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Originally Posted by Eug
Quality triumphs over quantity.
This thread may be nerdy, but it can't touch the geekiness of the video format thread.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
This thread may be nerdy, but it can't touch the geekiness of the video format thread.
Heh. You say Trekker, I say Trekkie.
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Tell you what, Eug, if you can degenerate this thread into an argument over the difference between a nerd and a geek, you have an outside chance of beating the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray thread.
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Originally Posted by Dakar V
Tell you what, Eug, if you can degenerate this thread into an argument over the difference between a nerd and a geek, you have an outside chance of beating the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray thread.
But we already have beaten the HD DVD/Blu-ray thread, and all the brushed metal threads!
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NNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSS!!! !!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
Who cares? The industries and applications for which the metric system is superior (engineering, medicine, the military, IT, etc) have already adopted metric system. The current system is fine for all other purposes.
Actually, none of the industries you mention have really switched over. Instead, they use both. Aircraft are still designed with gross weights in pounds and tons, and thrust is still spec'd in horsepower or pounds of thrust. Same with medicine: weights are still recorded in pounds, heights in inches, etc. And while much of the military is metric, snipers still think in yards and miles, vehicles have ranges of hundreds of miles and planes and ships still travel knots (1 nautical mile per hour).
Personally I'm all for metric, but I also know that social inertia is powerful.
edit: I think distances should be measured in points and picas. . .
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