Maybe in the future but so far we are stuck with a single Thunderbolt port. Some how I do not think that you would want to put a RAID and a high end GPU on a single Thunderbolt port. Even if you did would want all those extra boxes spread out on your desk? A benefit of a tower or mini tower is a place to put stuff and a power supply. So would you want to set up a RAID and a high end graphics card externally?
ThunderBolt is really got potential but there is only one Thunderbolt port on these machines. So If want to to upgrade the video card. maybe Maybe I want to run a Quadro for CAD. Maybe in the future there will some strange box like external video cards that used Thunderbolt but not now. Or maybe I want a RAID for storage? Really you are just a stupid freaking brain dead wannabe Apple fanboi. You just can not get your mind around the fact that a developer might want something between the workstation class MacPro and the iMac? Then you freaking use insults like ricer? Really? So just how would you set up a RAID 6 array and a Quadro video card using the the single Thunderbolt port today?
Okay now just put that in a Minitower case with PCIe slots, sata connectors, and lots of Dimm slots. Sell it for under $1000 dollars. I know that Apple doesn't need that machine because they are making money hand over fist but there is a big gap between the iMac and the MacPro in expandability. Maybe we could call it the iMac II ?
Actually Google phones tell you when you first log on to them that they are going to collect position data for services in pretty clear English. I have had to work with legal documents a bit in the last few years. To me they resemble wishes in DnD more than anything else in my experience. You must word them with painstaking care so you get what you want without out any strange or terrible results.
Over Android. They say it infringes. After this purchase that may not be the case any longer.
Isn't it a sign of a broken system when a company can sue the customers for buying a product that infringes without suing the company that makes the product?
I tried to read the article but got a blank page. I can see this conversation going like this. Intel: Your happy with the X86 on the desktop so how about using it in your mobile products. Apple: No. Intel: How about we us our fabs to make your chips smaller, faster, and more power efficient then? Apple: Maybe, you may kiss the Holy ring of Steve and leave now. Just kidding about the last part. Actually Intel is probably really regretting selling off the StrongARM line. In many ways Intel is not in a great position these days. The I3, I5, and I7 are doing well in the mobile space but AMDs fusion is now making a push in the notebook space and AMD does really well in the Dollar per MIP race until you get to the higher end . Intel does really well in the server market but AMD is also doing pretty well. Intel is still sucking in the graphics space and that is going to hurt a lot. It looks like AMD is going deliver systems that out perform Intel systems. Intel's CPUs will probably be faster but when combined with their GPUs the total system performance will be lower than AMDs. Then you have the mobile space where both AMD and Intel are in a world of hurt. They both sold off the their mobile chips and now probably really regret it. AMDs became the Snapdragon line which is now in a huge percentage of none Apple Smartphones. Maybe Intel can make a deal to share tech with Apple and get back into the mobile space.
The data is based on cell towers and is not exact. It is used to build up a location database of wifi spots that is used to for their wifi enhanced GPS. Even reading your post makes my head hurt.
"Google's Terms of Service do not disclose its comprehensive tracking of users nor its use of a unique device ID attached to each specific phone. Google only discloses that it is seeking permission to obtain location information from its Android Operating System cell phone users. Plaintiffs and other users did not provide any sort of informed consent to the extensive tracking at issue in this case." Google asker to gather location data but the people where not informed? They did not disclose that they data would have identifiers? We are going to collect location data from your phone. What part of that did you not understand? Yea what ever since the carriers already do that level of tracking now. They know and record every cell tower that your phone uses and probably signal strength. Pull off the tin foil hat people because it was disclosed. What part of "We are gathering your location data did you not understand? Not we are gathering randomized location data but your location data. That one line is so self contradictory that it makes no sense at all.
Depends. One of the things with these patents is that Microsoft cross licensed them. The rest is just what I have heard so take it with a grain of salt. They did a cross licenses deal in perpetuity. with Nortel. If that is true and it transfers to Google then Microsofts attacks on Android based on patents could come to a screeching halt. So is that good? Well for a lot of Android users it is and for companies that are using android it is. For Microsoft and it's share holders it is evil. For Google shareholders it is probably a good thing. In cases like this Good and Evil in a large part depend on who is writing your check.
ummm. It is the law at least for the carriers to collect that info. That is how 911 location tracking works. The thing I can not stomach is this law suit is because "They are too stupid to read and understand and didn't bother to ask questions!" I mean really do people have no shame?
Ummm. Yea you don't 1. It is the size of a breadbox. 2. Sank into the ocean. 3. It had a few KM of water column to sink through with currents. 4. I doubt that the aircraft was sending it's postion in realtime all the way to impact. So it had a few KMs of air column to "fall through" with a pretty high rate of forward motion. 5. Just incase you didn't know water blocks radio except for ELF. ELF requires a trailing antenna that is a few KMs long usually. Not really practical for a fight recorders. 6. GPS doesn't use ELF so once it was in the water not more positon data. 7. What are you doing on Slashdot? Turn in your nerd card on the way out.
Well over the ocean you would have to use sat phone like tech like iridium which is not fast enough for all the data that a flight recorder keeps. Add in that Aircraft tech takes forever to certify and tends to be used for decades at a time. Global satellites like Iridium are actually still a bit on the new side the network may not be here in 20 years. If a plane starts to tumble or other issues it could stop sending data long before the crash, and finally what about sunspots or other solar events that cause issues with sat coms? In addition to and not a replacement for is a really good idea.
They should worry. There market share is dropping, and the buzz is all not good. Even their good news is not good because you hear things like "We are doing well in emerging markets". Blackberries becoming less and less popular in the US and probably Europe. And yes the US has a messed up mobile phone market between the carriers and two primary but incompatible systems GSM and CDMA but it really does seem to be one of the big centers of cell phone tech. Blackberry is one of those phones that people might keep, might replace, but they will very rarely buy new. It is in sort of the same position that Windows phone 6.x was in. My office is a prime example. We have a few iPhone users, mostly Android users, one WebOS hold out, and no Blackberry users. We did have one but she traded in her Curve for an LG optimus. Using an aviation metaphor it is in a spiral but has not hit the ground yet.
But at each dollar range AMD usually wins. Frankly At this point the CPU is rarely the bottleneck for most desktop users. They will usually get a lot bigger bang for buck with more ram, faster drivers, and a better video card than with a faster CPU. If you are a hard-core gamer then yea but for the 95% of PC users a Core2Duo or an X2, X3, or X4 is more than good enough.
You have not taken a statistics course have you? You can have one airplane and have it fall out of the sky or you can 1,000,000 and never have one crash and both systems could 9 9's safey. This is the risk of failure it isn't destiny. So to combat the FUD. 1. So far the death toll from the event is 18000. Death toll from radiation so far 0. 2. The nuclear plant didn't cause the disaster the earthquake and tsunami that followed it did. 3. People died in cars, buildings, on the street, and in a dam that also collapsed. 4. A lot of the lives where lost because of a failure of a sea wall.
So by your logic we really need to replace cars, buildings, streets, dams, and sea walls first since they all have caused so many deaths. Might I suggest a cave? Oh and no fire because that is also too risky. And keep away from those sharp stones as well.
There are a lot plus a lot of good projects that don't get enough help. For instance Firebird and PostgreSQL are both really good database projects. MySQL gets the most attention and is available on more web hosts so most projects make that the prime Database with often PostgreSQL as an after thought. http://www.firebirdsql.org/ isn't dead but is almost invisible. And then you have Lazarus + Freepascal which offers a very Dephi like system. It runs on Linux, Windows, and OS/X and there is a lot of cool code written in delphi out there that could now be ported to Linux but you hear very little about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE) Again the project is alive and kicking but almost invisible.
Actually it might not be too bad. Just change the calls to 8087 calls and say that you must have an FPU. The problem comes down how well the code is documented. Of course part of me is thinking just how freaking fast this would be. Using freedos on modern PC running this everything would probably fit in the L1 cache! Egads.
Exactly. PalmOS is probably still being used in some industrial, military, or medical device some where. It works and they see no reason to develop and debug a new one. There is also liability issues. For all a company may know there might be a Stupid software patent they didn't know about that they used in their code. Of course on the plus side there could be prior art in their code as well. A lot of the rest of the stuff just didn't make a lot of sense to me like Open sourcing the Flip? Get a CMOS camera sensor and a processor and you have an open source Flip. What made the Flip work was that it cheap. It was cheap because it was simple to make and they ALOT of them. Go to the local WalMart and you will see a lot of cheap video cameras right now. Also odds are you cell phone or pocket camera will do what the flip did as would the last gen iPod Nano. Not the Flip HD mind you but the Flip. The Ricochet depended on infrastructure to work There isn't a lot to open source there. I would like to see lots of things open sourced but that list didn't really Include them. How about this list. Lotus 123 , Improve, And Lotus Agenda? Lotus SmartSuite would be nice as well if not all of maybe Lotus SmartSuite. DBase V would be good but it is still being sold BION. BeOS. AmigaOS. STOS +Gem "The Atari ST OS" MacOS 1-9 and Newton OS VMS. Yes it is still being sold but it is a really good OS and would be great to have. The Cannon CAT software. "Look it up really" IBMs OS/2 Visual Basic Turbo Pascal, Borland Pascal, TurboBasic, TurboProlog, and all the toolkits they used to sell. Turbo Lighting, Quattro Pro, and Sprint. I think Quattro Pro is still for sale but I have net seen it in forever. SuperCalc.
Really there is a lot of software that could be useful or even a teaching tool.
AT&T was a regulated monopoly. They had all sorts of restrictions. Frankly most of them worked out well for the world. AT&T because it was monopoly spent a big pile of cash on all sorts of research. They upside and downs side was that AT&T was not allowed to get into other businesses. For example lets say AT&T invented something really great like a replacement for tubes. AT&T could make this wonderful device but they couldn't sell it. They could licenses the technology cheap to other companies and then buy parts from them. This happened with a little device called a transistor. And AT&T could do lots of research into computers and even build them for themselves to use but couldn't really sell them They could even do research into software like say OSs but they had all sorts of restrictions when it came to commercializing them. So when they developed Unix it was mainly giving to universities and research labs.
Drupal is not a framework. It is a CMS. Here is a fast comparison. Druapl is a CMS. Drupal is written in PHP. Django is a framework. Django is written in Python. Rails. is a framework. Rails is written in Ruby.
Drupal has a huge number of modules and themes available. You can create a pretty advanced website just from adding modules. If you need to allow multi level security, shopping carts, discussion forums, and so on Drupal may be the tool you need. Django and Rails are more for programmers to develop web applications than to create websites. Frankly for a lot of people WordPress is going to be good enough. The downside to both Django and Rails is going to be support. A lot of cheap hosts do not have ruby or python installed while everybody has PHP+MySQL. I have seen lots of good work done in Django and Rails but I have used them myself but My company runs it's website on Drupal and while there is a learning curve it does work and work well.
So they can look it up in Wikipedia. The vast majority of people have no idea what the Arc de Triomphe is or Trafalgar Square is or if you want to uses units of measurements a pascal, newton, or tor. A few Americans may take issue with standard measurements but most like myself can convert between them with ease. Now if you want to talk about absurd measurement systems Celsius wins in my book. WHY THE HECK DID THEY PUT 100 degrees between freezing and the boiling point of water! I am fine with them using the freezing point as zero but the boing point should be 180.
If you look you will see that there is a tube with a guide rope going through it. It was not suspended but looks as if it was guided along an cable that was anchored to the sea floor and probably a buoy on the surface.
It doesn't matter to me. I can do most conversions in my head I just find that giving fuel economy in imperial and tank size in metric to be the height of annoying when I want to see what the range on a bike is. When I was a kid back in the 70s there was a big push to go metric. Hey soda is sold in two liter bottles and 12 oz cans just for fun. Most items in the US have both units on them. And we still use really annoying really old measurements for wood here. The US has the same problem that the UK does. We have lots of old stuff and regulations for building and so on and there is no real benefit for the US to change our common measurements. Sure for things like electronics, aircraft, and cars we have gone metric or mostly metric for the new ones but for some things that isn't an option. Take light aircraft for example. Piper aircraft has been building the PA-28 line since the early 1960s. They got certified back then and if Piper was to change all metric then they would have redesign the aircraft or have one that was weaker or heavier then the current plane. They would also have to rectify it which would be too expensive. Then you have things like home construction. All the rules and permitting are for US measurements. Sure it may not be terrible for new construction but what about a home additions? I am sure that skyscrapers and big buildings like that have their structures in metric so like the UK we are moving a bit at a time.
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Maybe in the future but so far we are stuck with a single Thunderbolt port. Some how I do not think that you would want to put a RAID and a high end GPU on a single Thunderbolt port.
Even if you did would want all those extra boxes spread out on your desk? A benefit of a tower or mini tower is a place to put stuff and a power supply.
So would you want to set up a RAID and a high end graphics card externally?
Allienware? Ricers? What a stupid snob.
Yea Apple doesn't build anything like that http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html
So is a MacPro a ricer or a wannabe Alienware box.
ThunderBolt is really got potential but there is only one Thunderbolt port on these machines.
So If want to to upgrade the video card. maybe Maybe I want to run a Quadro for CAD. Maybe in the future there will some strange box like external video cards that used Thunderbolt but not now.
Or maybe I want a RAID for storage?
Really you are just a stupid freaking brain dead wannabe Apple fanboi. You just can not get your mind around the fact that a developer might want something between the workstation class MacPro and the iMac?
Then you freaking use insults like ricer? Really?
So just how would you set up a RAID 6 array and a Quadro video card using the the single Thunderbolt port today?
Okay now just put that in a Minitower case with PCIe slots, sata connectors, and lots of Dimm slots. Sell it for under $1000 dollars.
I know that Apple doesn't need that machine because they are making money hand over fist but there is a big gap between the iMac and the MacPro in expandability. Maybe we could call it the iMac II ?
Actually Google phones tell you when you first log on to them that they are going to collect position data for services in pretty clear English.
I have had to work with legal documents a bit in the last few years. To me they resemble wishes in DnD more than anything else in my experience. You must word them with painstaking care so you get what you want without out any strange or terrible results.
Over Android. They say it infringes. After this purchase that may not be the case any longer.
Isn't it a sign of a broken system when a company can sue the customers for buying a product that infringes without suing the company that makes the product?
I tried to read the article but got a blank page. I can see this conversation going like this.
Intel: Your happy with the X86 on the desktop so how about using it in your mobile products.
Apple: No.
Intel: How about we us our fabs to make your chips smaller, faster, and more power efficient then?
Apple: Maybe, you may kiss the Holy ring of Steve and leave now.
Just kidding about the last part. Actually Intel is probably really regretting selling off the StrongARM line. In many ways Intel is not in a great position these days. The I3, I5, and I7 are doing well in the mobile space but AMDs fusion is now making a push in the notebook space and AMD does really well in the Dollar per MIP race until you get to the higher end . Intel does really well in the server market but AMD is also doing pretty well. Intel is still sucking in the graphics space and that is going to hurt a lot. It looks like AMD is going deliver systems that out perform Intel systems. Intel's CPUs will probably be faster but when combined with their GPUs the total system performance will be lower than AMDs.
Then you have the mobile space where both AMD and Intel are in a world of hurt. They both sold off the their mobile chips and now probably really regret it. AMDs became the Snapdragon line which is now in a huge percentage of none Apple Smartphones. Maybe Intel can make a deal to share tech with Apple and get back into the mobile space.
The data is based on cell towers and is not exact. It is used to build up a location database of wifi spots that is used to for their wifi enhanced GPS. Even reading your post makes my head hurt.
"Google's Terms of Service do not disclose its comprehensive tracking of users nor its use of a unique device ID attached to each specific phone. Google only discloses that it is seeking permission to obtain location information from its Android Operating System cell phone users. Plaintiffs and other users did not provide any sort of informed consent to the extensive tracking at issue in this case."
Google asker to gather location data but the people where not informed? They did not disclose that they data would have identifiers? We are going to collect location data from your phone. What part of that did you not understand?
Yea what ever since the carriers already do that level of tracking now. They know and record every cell tower that your phone uses and probably signal strength. Pull off the tin foil hat people because it was disclosed. What part of "We are gathering your location data did you not understand? Not we are gathering randomized location data but your location data.
That one line is so self contradictory that it makes no sense at all.
Wait for RIM to be next.
Depends. One of the things with these patents is that Microsoft cross licensed them. The rest is just what I have heard so take it with a grain of salt. They did a cross licenses deal in perpetuity. with Nortel. If that is true and it transfers to Google then Microsofts attacks on Android based on patents could come to a screeching halt.
So is that good? Well for a lot of Android users it is and for companies that are using android it is. For Microsoft and it's share holders it is evil. For Google shareholders it is probably a good thing. In cases like this Good and Evil in a large part depend on who is writing your check.
seems like it is worth 50 million to me. I mean you can see how this did 50 million dollars worth of damage right?
ummm. It is the law at least for the carriers to collect that info. That is how 911 location tracking works.
The thing I can not stomach is this law suit is because "They are too stupid to read and understand and didn't bother to ask questions!"
I mean really do people have no shame?
Ummm. Yea you don't
1. It is the size of a breadbox.
2. Sank into the ocean.
3. It had a few KM of water column to sink through with currents.
4. I doubt that the aircraft was sending it's postion in realtime all the way to impact. So it had a few KMs of air column to "fall through" with a pretty high rate of forward motion.
5. Just incase you didn't know water blocks radio except for ELF. ELF requires a trailing antenna that is a few KMs long usually. Not really practical for a fight recorders.
6. GPS doesn't use ELF so once it was in the water not more positon data.
7. What are you doing on Slashdot? Turn in your nerd card on the way out.
Well over the ocean you would have to use sat phone like tech like iridium which is not fast enough for all the data that a flight recorder keeps. Add in that Aircraft tech takes forever to certify and tends to be used for decades at a time. Global satellites like Iridium are actually still a bit on the new side the network may not be here in 20 years. If a plane starts to tumble or other issues it could stop sending data long before the crash, and finally what about sunspots or other solar events that cause issues with sat coms? In addition to and not a replacement for is a really good idea.
They should worry. There market share is dropping, and the buzz is all not good. Even their good news is not good because you hear things like "We are doing well in emerging markets". Blackberries becoming less and less popular in the US and probably Europe. And yes the US has a messed up mobile phone market between the carriers and two primary but incompatible systems GSM and CDMA but it really does seem to be one of the big centers of cell phone tech. Blackberry is one of those phones that people might keep, might replace, but they will very rarely buy new. It is in sort of the same position that Windows phone 6.x was in.
My office is a prime example. We have a few iPhone users, mostly Android users, one WebOS hold out, and no Blackberry users. We did have one but she traded in her Curve for an LG optimus.
Using an aviation metaphor it is in a spiral but has not hit the ground yet.
But at each dollar range AMD usually wins. Frankly At this point the CPU is rarely the bottleneck for most desktop users. They will usually get a lot bigger bang for buck with more ram, faster drivers, and a better video card than with a faster CPU. If you are a hard-core gamer then yea but for the 95% of PC users a Core2Duo or an X2, X3, or X4 is more than good enough.
You have not taken a statistics course have you? You can have one airplane and have it fall out of the sky or you can 1,000,000 and never have one crash and both systems could 9 9's safey. This is the risk of failure it isn't destiny.
So to combat the FUD.
1. So far the death toll from the event is 18000. Death toll from radiation so far 0.
2. The nuclear plant didn't cause the disaster the earthquake and tsunami that followed it did.
3. People died in cars, buildings, on the street, and in a dam that also collapsed.
4. A lot of the lives where lost because of a failure of a sea wall.
So by your logic we really need to replace cars, buildings, streets, dams, and sea walls first since they all have caused so many deaths. Might I suggest a cave? Oh and no fire because that is also too risky. And keep away from those sharp stones as well.
There are a lot plus a lot of good projects that don't get enough help.
For instance Firebird and PostgreSQL are both really good database projects. MySQL gets the most attention and is available on more web hosts so most projects make that the prime Database with often PostgreSQL as an after thought.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/ isn't dead but is almost invisible.
And then you have Lazarus + Freepascal which offers a very Dephi like system. It runs on Linux, Windows, and OS/X and there is a lot of cool code written in delphi out there that could now be ported to Linux but you hear very little about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE)
Again the project is alive and kicking but almost invisible.
Actually it might not be too bad. Just change the calls to 8087 calls and say that you must have an FPU. The problem comes down how well the code is documented. Of course part of me is thinking just how freaking fast this would be. Using freedos on modern PC running this everything would probably fit in the L1 cache! Egads.
Exactly. PalmOS is probably still being used in some industrial, military, or medical device some where. It works and they see no reason to develop and debug a new one.
There is also liability issues. For all a company may know there might be a Stupid software patent they didn't know about that they used in their code. Of course on the plus side there could be prior art in their code as well.
A lot of the rest of the stuff just didn't make a lot of sense to me like Open sourcing the Flip? Get a CMOS camera sensor and a processor and you have an open source Flip. What made the Flip work was that it cheap. It was cheap because it was simple to make and they ALOT of them. Go to the local WalMart and you will see a lot of cheap video cameras right now. Also odds are you cell phone or pocket camera will do what the flip did as would the last gen iPod Nano. Not the Flip HD mind you but the Flip. The Ricochet depended on infrastructure to work There isn't a lot to open source there.
I would like to see lots of things open sourced but that list didn't really Include them.
How about this list.
Lotus 123 , Improve, And Lotus Agenda? Lotus SmartSuite would be nice as well if not all of maybe Lotus SmartSuite.
DBase V would be good but it is still being sold BION.
BeOS.
AmigaOS.
STOS +Gem "The Atari ST OS"
MacOS 1-9 and Newton OS
VMS. Yes it is still being sold but it is a really good OS and would be great to have.
The Cannon CAT software. "Look it up really"
IBMs OS/2
Visual Basic
Turbo Pascal, Borland Pascal, TurboBasic, TurboProlog, and all the toolkits they used to sell. Turbo Lighting, Quattro Pro, and Sprint. I think Quattro Pro is still for sale but I have net seen it in forever.
SuperCalc.
Really there is a lot of software that could be useful or even a teaching tool.
AT&T was a regulated monopoly. They had all sorts of restrictions. Frankly most of them worked out well for the world. AT&T because it was monopoly spent a big pile of cash on all sorts of research. They upside and downs side was that AT&T was not allowed to get into other businesses. For example lets say AT&T invented something really great like a replacement for tubes. AT&T could make this wonderful device but they couldn't sell it. They could licenses the technology cheap to other companies and then buy parts from them. This happened with a little device called a transistor. And AT&T could do lots of research into computers and even build them for themselves to use but couldn't really sell them They could even do research into software like say OSs but they had all sorts of restrictions when it came to commercializing them. So when they developed Unix it was mainly giving to universities and research labs.
Well it looks like Openfiler seems to be cropping up all over now http://www.howtoforge.com/openfiler-2.99-active-passive-with-corosync-pacemaker-and-drbd
But I do agree that more choices are better.
Drupal is not a framework. It is a CMS.
Here is a fast comparison.
Druapl is a CMS.
Drupal is written in PHP.
Django is a framework.
Django is written in Python.
Rails. is a framework.
Rails is written in Ruby.
Drupal has a huge number of modules and themes available. You can create a pretty advanced website just from adding modules. If you need to allow multi level security, shopping carts, discussion forums, and so on Drupal may be the tool you need.
Django and Rails are more for programmers to develop web applications than to create websites.
Frankly for a lot of people WordPress is going to be good enough.
The downside to both Django and Rails is going to be support. A lot of cheap hosts do not have ruby or python installed while everybody has PHP+MySQL. I have seen lots of good work done in Django and Rails but I have used them myself but My company runs it's website on Drupal and while there is a learning curve it does work and work well.
So they can look it up in Wikipedia. The vast majority of people have no idea what the Arc de Triomphe is or Trafalgar Square is or if you want to uses units of measurements a pascal, newton, or tor. A few Americans may take issue with standard measurements but most like myself can convert between them with ease. Now if you want to talk about absurd measurement systems Celsius wins in my book. WHY THE HECK DID THEY PUT 100 degrees between freezing and the boiling point of water! I am fine with them using the freezing point as zero but the boing point should be 180.
If you look you will see that there is a tube with a guide rope going through it. It was not suspended but looks as if it was guided along an cable that was anchored to the sea floor and probably a buoy on the surface.
It doesn't matter to me. I can do most conversions in my head I just find that giving fuel economy in imperial and tank size in metric to be the height of annoying when I want to see what the range on a bike is. When I was a kid back in the 70s there was a big push to go metric. Hey soda is sold in two liter bottles and 12 oz cans just for fun. Most items in the US have both units on them. And we still use really annoying really old measurements for wood here. The US has the same problem that the UK does. We have lots of old stuff and regulations for building and so on and there is no real benefit for the US to change our common measurements. Sure for things like electronics, aircraft, and cars we have gone metric or mostly metric for the new ones but for some things that isn't an option. Take light aircraft for example. Piper aircraft has been building the PA-28 line since the early 1960s. They got certified back then and if Piper was to change all metric then they would have redesign the aircraft or have one that was weaker or heavier then the current plane. They would also have to rectify it which would be too expensive. Then you have things like home construction. All the rules and permitting are for US measurements. Sure it may not be terrible for new construction but what about a home additions? I am sure that skyscrapers and big buildings like that have their structures in metric so like the UK we are moving a bit at a time.