My friend works at an airport for a rental car company, and one of there american customers complained to him that the metric system was stupid and backwards. to which he proceeded to tell her why it was a great system of mesurement, one base unit with prefixes attached depending on how much it is, everything base ten.... I learned both metric and imperial in school, and to be honest with you, I have no idea how many feet there are in a mile, and how many pints in a hog's head(yes a real imperial mesurment) but I know metric awfully well. I am infact 198 cm tall and 78 kgs in weight. my car tops out at 135 (or so) km/h I drink 355ml cans of coke. My parents both grew up learning imperial. they know it pretty well. me, I know metric really well. start teaching metric only in your schools, within 20 years your country will have changed it's ways. vive la canada (and most of the rest of the world)
an AI program controling what I read and know? mmm reminds me of many a sci-fi story line... I ain't a neo-luddite, but to many people in this world would take evrything they read as the best thing since sliced bread. the possibility of something going awry (cracker/corporate takeover(hey it could happen look at slashdot/ AI getting smart (whole other topic)) would scare me to no end. a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
I personally find that with an increase in information and 'stuff to do' also comes with an increase in the ability to pare down what you want. thake slashdot for example. after work I come and bring up the site, puruse the headlines and blurbs. if something midly strikes my intrest I bring up the comments, if more so, I actually look at the article. this to me is highly individualistic. or take mp3's for example. I can copy exact songs from my cd's into different playlists, (no more switching cd's every 5 minutes.) before mp3's we had blank tapes. I like the look of a pda, and I'd lvoe to own a palm pilot, but I don't. why? because I don't need one because it is not suited to me and what I need. technology will run rampant on you if you don't take control of it. knowledge equals power, and knowledge feeds off of itself.
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My friend works at an airport for a rental car company, and one of there american customers complained to him that the metric system was stupid and backwards. to which he proceeded to tell her why it was a great system of mesurement, one base unit with prefixes attached depending on how much it is, everything base ten....
I learned both metric and imperial in school, and to be honest with you, I have no idea how many feet there are in a mile, and how many pints in a hog's head(yes a real imperial mesurment) but I know metric awfully well.
I am infact 198 cm tall and 78 kgs in weight. my car tops out at 135 (or so) km/h I drink 355ml cans of coke.
My parents both grew up learning imperial. they know it pretty well. me, I know metric really well. start teaching metric only in your schools, within 20 years your country will have changed it's ways.
vive la canada (and most of the rest of the world)
metalgeek
an AI program controling what I read and know? mmm reminds me of many a sci-fi story line...
I ain't a neo-luddite, but to many people in this world would take evrything they read as the best thing since sliced bread. the possibility of something going awry (cracker/corporate takeover(hey it could happen look at slashdot/ AI getting smart (whole other topic)) would scare me to no end. a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
metalgeek
I personally find that with an increase in information and 'stuff to do' also comes with an increase in the ability to pare down what you want. thake slashdot for example. after work I come and bring up the site, puruse the headlines and blurbs. if something midly strikes my intrest I bring up the comments, if more so, I actually look at the article. this to me is highly individualistic. or take mp3's for example. I can copy exact songs from my cd's into different playlists, (no more switching cd's every 5 minutes.) before mp3's we had blank tapes. I like the look of a pda, and I'd lvoe to own a palm pilot, but I don't. why? because I don't need one because it is not suited to me and what I need. technology will run rampant on you if you don't take control of it. knowledge equals power, and knowledge feeds off of itself.
metalgeek