most of us in the US choose to be *delightfully ignorant* of anything that
doesnt fit into our 30 seconds (or less) lifestyle
metric system requires rudimentary math skills instead of entertainment so we
collectively choose not to think of such things
I spent 3 months outside the US this year and was *forced* to use my brain to
convert petrol containers from liters to US gallons
It was nice to be able to come back to the US to put your brain *in park* and
let the big brains in the statehouses and Washington
tell us -what to do and -provide us the funding to do their bidding
at least until 1 Jan 2013! so...why doesn't Postgres port to embedded systems?
Martin Gainty
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...place long-winded disclaimer here... Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:45:22 +1300
From: gavinflo...@archidevsys.co.nz
To: adrian.kla...@gmail.com
CC: mgai...@hotmail.com; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] New Zealand Postgis DBA job vacancy
On 27/12/12 08:33, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On
12/26/2012 11:20 AM, Gavin Flower wrote:
On 27/12/12 07:39, Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 12/26/2012 10:30 AM, Gavin Flower
wrote:
Please do not top post!
In New Zealand we generally use petrol, or diesel, measured
in litres -
though there are some cars powered by natural gas. I think
the USA is
one of the few places not using the metric system.
Actually we do, we just pretend we don't:)
Cheers,
Gavin
Actually, I learnt the metric system mostly from an American
textbook on
Physics at high school in year 12 (then called 6th form for us).
In a round about way, I came to use Postgres to help deal with our
split personality regarding the metric system. I was working at a
greenhouse at the time and new rules came down from the Federal
government dealing with the tagging of plant material for retail
sale. One of the rules was that the tags must list the volume of
the container the plant was sold in and that the volume should be
in both imperial and metric units. This was just the tip of the
iceberg, so I put together a database solution to track all the
necessary information. After some false starts I settled on
Postgres as the back end.
In New Zealand, we spend a lot more time putting down
Australians than
Americans - but if anyone was to try and invade Australia, then
the half
of New Zealanders not already living in Australia would rush to
defend it.
Sort of the way we look at Canadians, especially since half of BC
seems to be in town at the moment.
There is nothing wrong with prejudice, so long as it does not
interfere with business & friendship!
(I would steer clear of my wife's husband, as he has a perverse
sense of humour so he can't be trusted!)
I have a close friend who is working on embedded
software for a green house controller. He would love to
use PostgreSQL, but they started using SQLite and pg does not appear
to be suitable for embedded systems.
Cheers,
Gavin
