It is definitely something about the currency, In the U.K. I would always use change wherever I could. Since moving to the USA, there's a change jar that fills up pretty quickly.
In addition to your suggestions, I would also offer this one. In the U.K., sales tax is included in the price of items listed. This means that with a bit of mental arithmetic, I can work out exactly how much I am going to have to pay and get it ready while I am standing in the queue. Also, purchases tend to be rounded to multiples of 5 or 10 [yes, yes, multiples of 10 are multiples of 5] pence. In the U.S., the sales tax means that you usually don't know the cost until it's time to fork over the mulah. At this point, you don't want to seem like some old lady fishing about for change so you just fork over a wad of bills and let the cashier do the change thing.
Something else I've noticed is that in the U.K., I'd keep my notes in my wallet. Here in the U.S., I just keep them in a separate pocket. I suspect this may be because it is easier to sort and recognise U.K. bills in a wallet whereas for U.S. ones, you really require them out and in your hand to get a good recognition of the different denominations.
Well, my e-mail address is a.co.uk address but I live in the U.S.
Yes, it would require something as big(or bigger) than DNS. Maybe it would be an impossible problem, maybe not. It should definitely be considered though.
It is the fact that it is Microsoft that is an obstruction to interoperability that is the issue with file sharing. *Of course* the fact that we are forced to work within microsoft's territory puts us at a disadvantage.
The thing to remember is that SMTP came into wide use in a time when enarly everyone on the internet was identifiable. Nearly everyone was either edu, mil or com and had a shell account on a Unix box and all the people running the boxes were pretty much seeing eye to eye. Transgress and you could lose your account.
Now, *anyone* can hook a host into the internet and look where we are.
I would propose a new transport layer consisting of a "club" of voluntary participating ISPs. (Or why even have it be ISPs? Have commercial e-mail account providers too). All ISPs agree to validate their users and if any ISP consistently allows spammers onto the network, they are out of the club.
Ideally, this would also include e-mail portability so that if your ISP gets booted from the club, you can just transfer your address to a different ISP (or one of the pre-mentioned commercial providers)
The IBM Deskstar I bought to replace the drive in my Thinkpad is *very* noisy. It makes the drive I took out sound practically silent. And that's just the spin noise, not the seek noise.
Ah, so what is needed is a multi-protocol standard address/calendar sync interface (that can work over bluetooth, TCP/IP, serial, USB etc) in the same way that twain works for scanners. Then Mozilla needs to implement *that*.
And not wearing underwear is an invitation to rape.
And not having 10' high barbed wire fences around your property is invitation to trespass.
Just because someone shoul dknow better than to leave things open does not lessen the crime at all. The intent of the transgresso is important however. If the trespass or computer intrusion was accidental, then that's different but if the transgressor's intention was to hack the computer, it doesn't matter if they broke a 128 bit key or tapped the spacebar twice.
If you're watching movies, you won't be listening to music. If you're not listening to music, you won't be buying it. Therefore RIAA deserves a slice too.
Since the U.S. and the U.K. seem to be borrowing each others worst ideas these days, you may want to check out this site to see what may be coming your way.
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That's gotta be some kind of bug. I prefer my helicopters to be helicopter shape.
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Thank god he didn't spam usenet where each posting costs "hundreds if not thousands of dollars"
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Well, hey, in the U.K., the 2p coin is bigger than the 5p and the 20p I think the 10p is bigger than to 20p too (it's been a while)
I do miss the old 50p though. That was some serious coinage.
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In addition to your suggestions, I would also offer this one. In the U.K., sales tax is included in the price of items listed. This means that with a bit of mental arithmetic, I can work out exactly how much I am going to have to pay and get it ready while I am standing in the queue. Also, purchases tend to be rounded to multiples of 5 or 10 [yes, yes, multiples of 10 are multiples of 5] pence. In the U.S., the sales tax means that you usually don't know the cost until it's time to fork over the mulah. At this point, you don't want to seem like some old lady fishing about for change so you just fork over a wad of bills and let the cashier do the change thing.
Something else I've noticed is that in the U.K., I'd keep my notes in my wallet. Here in the U.S., I just keep them in a separate pocket. I suspect this may be because it is easier to sort and recognise U.K. bills in a wallet whereas for U.S. ones, you really require them out and in your hand to get a good recognition of the different denominations.
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Yes, it would require something as big(or bigger) than DNS. Maybe it would be an impossible problem, maybe not. It should definitely be considered though.
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Is e-mail address portability. So that if your mail provider gets shut down for allowing spamming, you can transfer to another with minimal disruption
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It is the fact that it is Microsoft that is an obstruction to interoperability that is the issue with file sharing. *Of course* the fact that we are forced to work within microsoft's territory puts us at a disadvantage.
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The thing to remember is that SMTP came into wide use in a time when enarly everyone on the internet was identifiable. Nearly everyone was either edu, mil or com and had a shell account on a Unix box and all the people running the boxes were pretty much seeing eye to eye. Transgress and you could lose your account.
Now, *anyone* can hook a host into the internet and look where we are.
I would propose a new transport layer consisting of a "club" of voluntary participating ISPs. (Or why even have it be ISPs? Have commercial e-mail account providers too). All ISPs agree to validate their users and if any ISP consistently allows spammers onto the network, they are out of the club.
Ideally, this would also include e-mail portability so that if your ISP gets booted from the club, you can just transfer your address to a different ISP (or one of the pre-mentioned commercial providers)
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Just to save its users the bother.
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And not having 10' high barbed wire fences around your property is invitation to trespass.
Just because someone shoul dknow better than to leave things open does not lessen the crime at all. The intent of the transgresso is important however. If the trespass or computer intrusion was accidental, then that's different but if the transgressor's intention was to hack the computer, it doesn't matter if they broke a 128 bit key or tapped the spacebar twice.
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