The UK/Commonwealth is a bit ... odd at the moment, as they are still in the process of converting. As you state, there are imperial units still in use, as those are the ones people have grown up with and know "by heart".

Even in Denmark there is one place where people use primarily imperial units. TV sizes. We still say for instance 40 inch, even though we should really be using 101.6 cm. And the fraction are probably why we still use inches, as that is the sizes the screens are made in. Had they been made in for instance 60, 80, 100, 120cm screen sizes, inches would not make sense, as THEY would be fractions.
We love integers :P

The numbers on the cans/packaging are usually in cl (centiliter) for units below 1 liter, for instance 25cl, 50cl (or 0.5l) printed on the packaging.
1 liter is 100cl, so if you see a 25cl packet of cream, you know it's 1/4 liter.

Btw, the typical package size for milk seems to be is up to 1l, though there are some countries that uses 2l jugs (a little over 1/2 galUS).

I'm not entirely sure what it is you are trying to prove here.

You are supposing that an arbitrary unit based on the stamina of an ox is a better basis for area calculations than the meter?

IMHO, the "sell out" to franchises were needed to attract the attention of the kids. And it is a great idea, because at first the kids do have to follow the instructions, sorta. But after that, they hopefully start experimenting, building bigger, and more complex structures and games.

Lego were in trouble, the franchises did indeed help save the company.

Well, when doing cross platform, you sometimes have to code for the lowest common denominator

"with a Linpack benchmark of more than 17 petaflops a second"

Supercomputers calculate on an accelerating performance curve now?

The removed the resizing script that forced the size of the top ad to ensure the apology would be outside the screen, regardless of the resolution and size of your screen.
Instead they just set the top ad to the maximum size the resize script had it at. Aka a "big ass ad".

Is not always correct.

"People" keep saying Google+ is a ghost town.
"People" keep saying Linus is doomed on the UI.
"People" kept saying Linux was too hard to use and would never make it outside the server room

Common for all is that they were mostly wrong.

Nice cherry picking there.

Read the entire line before trying to make me say something I didn't.

often F/OSS is superior, I never said always, and yes, a lot is crap, same with closed source.

People will settle for less, when they get it for free, the question really is, how much less are people willing to settle for?

That said, often less is more (no pun) and F/OSS is the superior alternative.

People moved from Open Office because of the insecurity of its future, I'd hazard a guess that as graduated from the Apache Incubator, there is a good chance that things will look up, especially because of the name.

OO will be around for a while yet. Personally I use LibreOffice.

Beer is better everywhere else as well, only fair it cost a little more.

Lets hope the Earth crust is not a balloon...

That always happen.
With a little overhead, 1 Tbit/s is at most 100GiB a second. 2 Blu rays.