Re: Well and truly [OT] - Anyone got a Peugeot 307?

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think our TomTom allows us to use different units (& languages) for
screen & voice ...

Chris

PS: have been disappointed by our TomTom ... our five-years old DVO is
much better



Ho Yin wrote:

> Yes!!!!
>
> Like with TomTom.
>
> I like it when they display the overal distance to cover in miles.
>
> But then when I come to a junction I don't want to be told how far
away it
> is in yards!! I want it in metres!
>
> But that is probably just me.
>
> Ho yin
>
>   _____
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kim Wall
> Sent: 05 January 2006 04:50
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Well and truly [OT] - Anyone got a Peugeot 307?
>
>
> Ian Lowe wrote:
>
> > What's the point of working out miles per gallon when you buy the
> stuff in
> > litres?
>
> Absolutely, the canonical unit of fuel consumption is of course the
> square metre.  :)
>
>
> > Ps> I, of course, am no better, struggling as I do to make
sense of
> pounds
> > and ounces - how do you get a handle on something that's a
multiple of
> > twelve or fourteen? It just seems so weird...
>
> Ah, the joys of being a modern brit.  We think in metric, unless it's
> speeds or long distances, beer, or (sometimes) the height and weight
of
> people.  Pounds are something you spend, feet are something that smell
> and stones are very small rocks.  We're a whole generation of Mars
> Climate Orbiter problems waiting to happen.
>
> I'm still waiting for Garmin et al to discover the children of the 80s
> and equip their GPS firmwares with the miles-and-metres system of
> measurement.
>
>
> Kim
>
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