Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clockmeister" <clockmeister@internode.on.net>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection


>
> On 23/04/2014 8:33 AM, MikeS wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clockmeister" 
>> <clockmeister@internode.on.net>
>> To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 8:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 23/04/2014 3:38 AM, MikeS wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Rittwage" <peter@rittwage.com>
>>>> To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
>>>> Cc: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 1:53 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Interesting programming description for bank selection
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, April 22, 2014 1:21 pm, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
>>>>>> On 04/22/2014 08:21 AM, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess that the reluctance to implement
>>>>>>> certain international standards, such as the Metric system, is 
>>>>>>> coming
>>>>>>> from that too (American people are too used to the imperial system).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's no excuse, everyone else managed to move to metric just fine 
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> if the USA was willing to do it, it would be done in one generation.
>>>>>> That means it's a lack of will or lazyness. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After all, where it counts (soda bottles :)), the move to metric (2l
>>>>>> bottles) was no problem at all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We learned it in school back in the 1970's, and learned how to convert
>>>>> back and forth.  Most Americans can convert on the fly when needed.
>>>>> It's
>>>>> just that not everything here is sold that way... With nothing to 
>>>>> force
>>>>> it
>>>>> to happen, it doesn't need to... It's not like it stops trade or
>>>>> anything.
>>>>> We buy many things that are measured metrically, just not everything.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gas is in gallons, large soda in liters.  Small soda's are ounces,
>>>>> cocaine
>>>>> is in kilos.. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> We just accept it as some things are measured one way and some things
>>>>> another.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Pete Rittwage
>>>>
>>>> There will always be people who will insist that there is only one
>>>> "correct" way of doing something and denigrate anyone who chooses to do
>>>> things differently (often applying epithets like "lazy", "lack of will"
>>>> and worse to entire nations (races, religions, ages, genders, etc.) of
>>>> people...
>>>>
>>>> Why does the US or any of its citizens need to 'make excuses' for
>>>> retaining Imperial measurements in some areas where they make sense? 
>>>> They
>>>> are not the only nation to do so, by the way...
>>>>
>>>> Reassuring to see that judgment and prejudice have survived the mid 
>>>> '40s;
>>>> let's hear it for the One World Order - one language, one currency, 
>>>> etc.
>>>>
>>>> When was the last time that the US still using Imperial measurements 
>>>> for
>>>> *some* categories has affected any of you folks ?
>>>>
>>>> (I'm not American BTW)
>>>>
>>>
>>> The last time I worked on a Jeep and didn't have the correct imperial
>>> socket even though most of the car was in fact metricated.
>>
>> Pshaw! That's why the Americans invented Vise Grips!
>>
>
> Heh ;-)
>
>> Can't please some people; complain about the Yanks using the (British)
>> *Imperial* system, and still complain when they try to make you happy by
>> switching to metric...
>>
>> Bet you don't have those odd Torx-like bits/sockets they use in Audis and
>> Mercs either, for example...
>>
>
> I do as a matter of fact, and there is nothing odd about them.

There is in the US ;-)

What are they called, BTW? 


       Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list