It’s being implemented now. IPv4 addresses officially ran out last year in some places
Good luck with that! I understood it until I read a Microsoft Training book that explained it wrong - like, seriously, their math didn’t work out in their own examples. Really messed me up. Now I always second guess myself.
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I learned the metric system in grade school… when is it actually going to be implemented?
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Two of my three daughters use centimeters instead of inches and feet, meters instead of yards, but then they use pounds, miles, and gallons. They’ll both use liters sometimes too, and have no real concept of how much an ounce is, but don’t have a metric measure for it either.
The third is too deep into canning old recipes to bother with metric.
Canada has been metric for 30+ years now. It’ll never be completely converted. Not even after the US goes that way. There is so much in the way of that happening, that I can’t see it every working in my lifetime.
First, there is the Americainian mindset that seems to be against any kind of change. “Don’t take my guns. Don’t change my temperature or measurement system.”
Second, there is a huge investment in the conversion process. This includes documentation that is in a different system. Records keeping, cookbooks, sports, etc. Imagine if football and baseball were changed to metric. People would lose their freaking minds!
Third, confusion.
I bet even if converted these two sports wouldn’t change. It would become part of the lore and mystique of the sport or some shit.
Hell, the British still use Stones for weight. Most people still use hands for horses. Bushels for fruit. Cords and ricks for wood, and ricks aren’t even standardized. Explosions are still tons of TNT.
It’s implemented in pretty much all gear, just not in heavy use unfortunately. Hopefully soon.
Some network admins got scared as IPv6 makes NAT less of a thing, and depsit ebeing hit with a club labeled “NAT is not security!” for a few decades, well…
IPv6 is more secure than IPv4. According to my book, it also allows about 54 million IP addresses per square meter of the earth’s surface, so we shouldn’t run out any time soon.
Can we block out Nigeria from that?
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New Zealand went decimal in 1969.
I am 6ft tall and 115kg.
Yep, almost 50 years into decimalisation and we still mix and match imperial with decimal.
To a large subset of Americans it’s all about not wanting to be like Europe because apparently that’s bad or something.
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Well you know, we aren’t Europe. It’s not like Japan walks around wanting to be like South Korea all day. Maybe Argentina wants to be like Brazil, or The Congo wants to be like Botswana.
There are an awful lot of people who think they can solve every problem here by taking European policies, filing the numbers off, and bolting them onto the US government. There is some question whether some of those policies actually work in Europe, so I’m not a fan of moving them here. I don’t call Europe a success in most things, so I’d rather not go their direction.
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Plus, we’re not them. People seem to understand that you can’t try to make us do $thing like Japan or whatever, because it just wouldn’t work in a different culture. Why, then, do so many think that $EuropeanThing is magically perfect for us - we’re not them, our cultures and customs are different.
Eh, that’s all I can verbalize (typalize?). I’m still tired from being sick over the past week or so, so my brain isn’t running at optimal efficiency.
That’s not what I’m saying, @Woodman. I agree. We’re not Europe (or Japan or anywhere else besides the USA). That doesn’t mean that the odd European or Japanese policy wouldn’t work here. I’m not saying we should become completely like any other place. But to discount an idea out of hand simply because it came from somewhere else is the height of arrogance and stupidity.
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True, the pendulum swings both ways. Just because one thing doesn’t work does not mean something else wouldn’t either.
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Just on the metric vs imperial theme, I’ve just found this useful article:
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I did read something a while back that said Fahrenheit was a better measurement for weathermen. Since it gives you a lot more gradients to work with. 0 being really cold, and 100 being really hot. Where with Celsius 0 is sort of cold, and at 100 you are dead.
I’m more sensitive to changes in temperature than temperature alone. While 60 might be cool, going from 70 to 60 can give me a cold, which is why I was constantly getting chest colds in august when I had to go from 80 degree weather to air-conditioning and back again.
Yep, as usual, Europe is totally doing it wrong:
I don’t consider emigrating to another country and leaching off their tax paid education system a valid alternative. And if you read that article, only about two or three of those countries would be cheaper. Then you have to deal with having a degree that may or may not count in the US. A friend of mine came from Poland with a Masters in Mathmatics, no one gave two shits, her husband had a doctorate and it was OK since he was published and well known, but she was screwed.
Universities in Europe also don’t waste millions of dollars on multicultural centers, and employ dozens of cultural awareness and sexual harassment coaches. Or massive sports team expenditures and student centers. And I’d bet their admin to educator ratio is better. And I bet there are fewer people making six and seven figure salaries.
I’m not sure that Europe’s solution to college is worse than ours, it might be better, but I have no idea how you’d get any buy in to change. Their results seem to be slightly worse, and they rank slightly worse in general, but if it’s just being treated as a 4 year extension to high school does it matter?
And they end up with fewer universities on this list.
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