Actually, the Irish currently change their road signs to km and km/h. They hope to have completed it all by September 2004. Once the British govt realizes that they now finally have a land border with a country with metric road signs, they'll probably switch, too. Then the US will really remain as the last and only country on the planet to use miles.
By the way, there's an entire newsgroup on this topic: misc.metric-system.
We had to replace already the Lelon capacitors mentioned in that story in more than half a dozen SunRay1 clients, which had failed exactly in the way described (details
and photo).
Nice to hear the newly emerging espionage-twist of that story...
The decay curve in my paper is realistic and nothing is "rigged". The monitor is the first one I tried, a very common model, and operated under default conditions. Other decay curves that you might have seen in the literature before (see the phosphor literature that I quoted and discussed) were most likely measured with *significantly* slower photosensors that miss the initial spike in the first microsecond completely. The use of a photomultiplier with around a nanosecond raisetime in this test is critical to obtain this result.
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Actually, the Irish currently change their road signs to km and km/h. They hope to have completed it all by September 2004. Once the British govt realizes that they now finally have a land border with a country with metric road signs, they'll probably switch, too. Then the US will really remain as the last and only country on the planet to use miles.
By the way, there's an entire newsgroup on this topic: misc.metric-system.
We had to replace already the Lelon capacitors mentioned in that story in more than half a dozen SunRay1 clients, which had failed exactly in the way described (details and photo).
Nice to hear the newly emerging espionage-twist of that story ...
The decay curve in my paper is realistic and nothing is "rigged". The monitor is the first one I tried, a very common model, and operated under default conditions. Other decay curves that you might have seen in the literature before (see the phosphor literature that I quoted and discussed) were most likely measured with *significantly* slower photosensors that miss the initial spike in the first microsecond completely. The use of a photomultiplier with around a nanosecond raisetime in this test is critical to obtain this result.