hey craig can you come up with a great audio analyzer for members

Something tells me tomorrow is the day... :)

Leadfoot

robert_e_bone
We tried going metric for about 2 weeks once back in the 70's.  Everyone thought it too much work.
 
Bob Bone
 

I still have nightmares about that...

I believe that is was mandated into law for a while for schools to teach it. I was actually in about 4th or 5th grade at the time, and we were taught the metric system, and I still remember the conversions.  Also, because of my Science/Engineering background, I'm still well versed in it.  I can pretty much do lb-kg and mi-km conversion back and forth with pretty good accuracy without a calculator.

forkol
  I can pretty much do lb-kg and mi-km conversion back and forth with pretty good accuracy without a calculator.

How are you with cubits to centimeters?
Furloughs? Leagues?
Short and long tons?
Knots?

Chains, Furlongs & Hectares?

YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson

forkol
  I can pretty much do lb-kg and mi-km conversion back and forth with pretty good accuracy without a calculator.

How are you with cubits to centimeters?
Furloughs? Leagues?
Short and long tons?
Knots?

As a child growing up in the UK pounds shillings pence, feet and inches and Fahrenheit was all we knew. In spite of being a quirky system, it worked. I do believe metrication is the way to go so why stop there. Surely we need metric time.... :)
 
Units of time starts out ok, nanoseconds, milliseconds and ends ok with decade, century and millennium. It's just the bit in the middle that needs some modification.
 
1 day = 100 hours
100 days = 1 Month
10 months = 1 year
 
Simples
 

Base 10 is like too reasonable. Don't ya know.
 
Yesterday I needed a wrench to tighten the battery clamp on my Honda. Used pliers. Not pretty.
 
Just today I needed a metric socket of a size I do not have to repair an electric heater. More than annoying.
 
Really tired of having two sets of tools: sockets, wrenches, hex, saws, knives, adjustables,...
 
Wine: 750 ml
Beer: 24 oz
 
Like stupid.
 

Up until recently in the UK, I would buy wood labelled as "10 feet of 44mm x 24mm"
 
The one redeeming feature of the Imperail System was that using a base of 12, there were so many integer divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6) compared to metric (1, 2, 5)

Don't leave out, "stones to pounds". And I still hate when an EU company gives dimensions in cm's.
 
I hope that FEB update includes some fixes.
 
Jim
 

Bristol_Jonesey
The one redeeming feature of the Imperail System was that using a base of 12, there were so many integer divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6) compared to metric (1, 2, 5)

As an ex-woodworker (for now) I appreciate inches being divisible into halfs, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc.  Easy to find the centers of things and do simple calculations.  I tried going metric but it's really weird in this context.  Whoever invented the metric system wasn't a woodworker.
 
We also have our share of oddities, like a 4' x 8' sheet of 19mm plywood  (very common).