Curious choices made by Cisco/Tandberg

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

On 3/3/2011 9:29 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 18:23, Bill Owens<owens at nysernet.org>  wrote:
>
>> Back when I used to do a lot of car maintenance on my Toyota, it
>> was very handy to know that I only had to reach for socket wrenches
>> on the metric side of my toolbox. If I only worked on that car I
>> could have simplified my tool collection substantially. However, I
>> also worked on my wife's Ford, and that meant that it was very
>> important for me to have the imperial sizes as well. Likewise, I
>> think that for some time it will be necessary to have v4 and v6
>> options for just about everything I do on the network. . .
>
> Let's hope the world is faster in adopting IPv6 than the USA is in
> adopting metric.
>

 From one point of view the US has adopted metric.  The places that
we don't use it are mostly unimportant, with building construction
being the worst, and the corner hardware stores being the second
worst.  (would it really kill anyone to bolt their kid's swingset 
together with metric bolts)?

Ted

>
> Richard
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