Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] Better Flash recs & handle mounted flash Q

Subject: Re: [OM] Better Flash recs & handle mounted flash Q
From: Gary Edwards <edwardsg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 20:38:36 -0600

Dylan Sutton wrote:

> Sheesh, you Americans!  The flash manufacturers all seem to give their GN
> in metres, why do you have to go and bring feet into it?
> Pounds, ounces, stones,  gallons, feet, inches, degrees fahrenheit, when
> will you stop using these antiquated measures?? Unnecessary conversion of
> units is just asking for trouble, as NASA learnt to their $400M chagrin...
> Dylan
> PS you still have nearly 10 months to enter the 20th century...get cracking!
>

Oh, no! Holy kilopascal, Batman! Now an SI-chauvenist flame war!  I've built a
boat in centimeters and designed a missile in millimeters, but I buy my milk in
gallons, thank you very much!

And it was $165 million not $400 mil!  For insight into the REAL problem with
the Mars Climate Orbiter, see the December issue of IEEE Spectrum.  Hint: it
wasn't really a failure to convert units, despite NASA's attempt to blame
Lockheed Martin.

OM content: well, I can't think of any, except that all of my Zuikos are metric.

Regards to my metric friends, including Dylan,
Gary Edwards
Happy Texas Independance Day! Remember the Alamo!
March 2nd


< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz