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  • That wasn’t because of unit conversions, that was a major failure of systems management.

    I say this as someone in IT where we have multiple no involved people verifying work we do. Mistakes happen, so you have external validations. I’m not even permitted to touch the systems for which I’m responsible - I have to document changes, with extensive lab testing that is vettwd by someone who’s never seen these systems.

    NASA should be shamed for dropping the ball so badly.

    Ams those are the only two cases you can come up with, compared to the trillions it would take to convert, and the billions of errors that would occur with trying to convert now.

    Just look at a single machine shop, that’s using large from 1945 (because that’s all they need for accuracy). Should they upgrade their lathes to new ones with metric indicators? How much steel isn’t going to take, coal, aluminum, energy just to transport the lathe to that one shop.

    Then all their tools. The world doesn’t have the manufacturing capability just to make measurement tools for all the industries that would need it.

    And then you’d still have the conversion problem between one business and the next during the decade’s long transition. How many conversion mistakes do you think would happen then?

    You people who scream about this all the time have never had to even look at what it would take. You act like it’s a simple problem.


  • This is merely ROI, it doesn’t capture things like watching what you want.

    I started from needing a server for mobile devices to sync to, music, general file storage, and some virtual machines for testing stuff.

    That put me at about 1TB. I already had a bunch of DVDs that I wanted to watch more conveniently, so I just upped the stotage and started converting my own stuff.

    So my setup isn’t just for media/replacing subscriptions - that a knocks on effect.

    Still this is a nice calculator for me to better visualize what things actually cost.


  • Well it’s a pretty good start (and I do agree with you on using the appropriate terminology). I’ve had to look at it differently and use it with the ideas only head being misrepresented on screen. Still the idea is great.

    Sounds like you’d be a great co-conspirator for OP to really make this project exceptional.