I understand your position on why this is a good feature for older systems that would experience such problems, but to get the "Core Vista Experience" you need a computer that is fairly recent. Vista is marketed as "Experience the Wow" or the "The wow is now", whatever I'm not sure on it, but that requires a computer that shouldn't experience the problems that this "feature" was intended to fix.
First they start taking pictures of every house in America and accessing blueprints and floor plans, then they're set. I know they're scheming for the day that they invade. After they have their pictures (which would be quite some time considering all the houses in America) they prepare their war plan and send in the roller troopers! Armed with M16s, Glock 9mms, and hockey sticks, they bring the war to the civilians.
Their vile plan to get the information on our homes must be stopped!
If we (Americans) were to convert to the metric system in everything, people would still work in the Imperial system and think they were working in the metric system. A good example would be speed limits. People look at the signs and passively notice them and sometimes follow them. When you convert 55 mph to km/h you get about 88.5 which would probably be rounded up to 90. When some idiot sees 90 on a speed limit sign, he or she is not gonna look at the km/h below it, nor will he or she look at the small km/h units on the speedometers of cars, he or she will look the large ones, the mph units and then we have a bunch of jackasses thinking it's legal to drive 90 mph. This will be a way for many people to get out of the many tickets that would follow, and it would be a continuous problem even if new cars were manufactured with the position of the mph and km/h were switched because that would not be a feasible reason for people to buy a new car.
And that's only one example, there are plenty of others. I do recognize the ease and scientific superiority of the metric system, but converting the U.S. to it would probably be pretty monumental and right now doesn't seem feasible. Just my thoughts.
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I understand your position on why this is a good feature for older systems that would experience such problems, but to get the "Core Vista Experience" you need a computer that is fairly recent. Vista is marketed as "Experience the Wow" or the "The wow is now", whatever I'm not sure on it, but that requires a computer that shouldn't experience the problems that this "feature" was intended to fix.
First they start taking pictures of every house in America and accessing blueprints and floor plans, then they're set. I know they're scheming for the day that they invade. After they have their pictures (which would be quite some time considering all the houses in America) they prepare their war plan and send in the roller troopers! Armed with M16s, Glock 9mms, and hockey sticks, they bring the war to the civilians.
Their vile plan to get the information on our homes must be stopped!
Viva la resistance!
...Is ignorant people.
If we (Americans) were to convert to the metric system in everything, people would still work in the Imperial system and think they were working in the metric system. A good example would be speed limits. People look at the signs and passively notice them and sometimes follow them. When you convert 55 mph to km/h you get about 88.5 which would probably be rounded up to 90. When some idiot sees 90 on a speed limit sign, he or she is not gonna look at the km/h below it, nor will he or she look at the small km/h units on the speedometers of cars, he or she will look the large ones, the mph units and then we have a bunch of jackasses thinking it's legal to drive 90 mph. This will be a way for many people to get out of the many tickets that would follow, and it would be a continuous problem even if new cars were manufactured with the position of the mph and km/h were switched because that would not be a feasible reason for people to buy a new car.
And that's only one example, there are plenty of others. I do recognize the ease and scientific superiority of the metric system, but converting the U.S. to it would probably be pretty monumental and right now doesn't seem feasible. Just my thoughts.