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Ulf Dittmer wrote:Who do you imagine is "they"?
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Hussein Baghdadi wrote:Imagine a world with only one color, one cars type, one music note, one football team and one language.
Differences enrich the world we live in.
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Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:
Hussein Baghdadi wrote:Imagine a world with only one color, one cars type, one music note, one football team and one language.
Differences enrich the world we live in.
Well that would be really bad.. customization is not the problem, but you totally change something that really bad. like changing socket size or car drive side or unit doesn't make any sense to me...
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Tim Holloway wrote: When a person made a funny joke in Persia and it became a byword, it was not likely to propagate to Kenya.
Tim Holloway wrote:...It may make life more complex, but at the same time, a crushing uniformity blinds one to other alternatives. And when the very world itself is mutable, failure to consider alternatives can be fatal.
Steve
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:Its really hard to live in a world, which is very different country by country. Not only there's color, race, language or cast different. But when you move to different countries you'll found that kilo change to lbs. kilometer to miles, left hand drive to right hand, even you don't find similar plugs and sockets.. Why they did this to us??? don't we have enough different to live with ???
Henry Wong wrote:heck, even England is on the metric system.
Hussein Baghdadi wrote:Imagine a world with only ... one football team
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Matthew Brown wrote:
Hussein Baghdadi wrote:Imagine a world with only ... one football team
I can definitely see an obvious problem with that one.
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Matthew Brown wrote:
And most importantly, we still drink in pints!
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:What I want to say is- pick the best and easy from it and generalize it. Better to avoid confusion. Also on currency why they give more priority to some and neglected other. If you have dollar or pound you'll shop anywhere, while I can't shop with other currency, I need to convert it into dollar or pound. IMHO currency must be common everywhere/ oil price do not have huge difference from country to country.. food, culture people can be different .. no issue about it
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Henry Wong wrote: and stuff like the cost of gas, which is dependent both the difference in currency and the difference between the liter and the gallon, is kinda impossible to compare without using a pen and paper.
Hussein Baghdadi wrote:
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:What I want to say is- pick the best and easy from it and generalize it. Better to avoid confusion. Also on currency why they give more priority to some and neglected other. If you have dollar or pound you'll shop anywhere, while I can't shop with other currency, I need to convert it into dollar or pound. IMHO currency must be common everywhere/ oil price do not have huge difference from country to country.. food, culture people can be different .. no issue about it
Bitcoin to the rescue?
Henry Wong wrote:
Hussein Baghdadi wrote:
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:What I want to say is- pick the best and easy from it and generalize it. Better to avoid confusion. Also on currency why they give more priority to some and neglected other. If you have dollar or pound you'll shop anywhere, while I can't shop with other currency, I need to convert it into dollar or pound. IMHO currency must be common everywhere/ oil price do not have huge difference from country to country.. food, culture people can be different .. no issue about it
Bitcoin to the rescue?
Keep in mind that the issue isn't the conversion. The issue is the cost to do the conversion. If I want to feel like there is only one currency today, I can just use credit cards (they work everywhere). These days, all bank credit cards seems to charge a 3% fee to do the conversion -- it feels like collusion to me.
Henry
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Maneesh Godbole wrote:
Tim Holloway wrote: When a person made a funny joke in Persia and it became a byword, it was not likely to propagate to Kenya.
Not if one believes Multiple discovery Great minds think alike and what not.
Matthew Brown wrote:
Henry Wong wrote:heck, even England is on the metric system.
We're a bit inconsistent about it, though. Road distances and speed limits use miles rather than kilometres. I'd buy things, and weigh stuff for cooking, using kilograms but I'd still give my weight in pounds and my height in feet. Weather forecasts use Celsius but plenty of people think in Fahrenheit.
And most importantly, we still drink in pints!
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:What I want to say is- pick the best and easy from it and generalize it. Better to avoid confusion. Also on currency why they give more priority to some and neglected other. If you have dollar or pound you'll shop anywhere, while I can't shop with other currency, I need to convert it into dollar or pound. IMHO currency must be common everywhere/ oil price do not have huge difference from country to country.. food, culture people can be different .. no issue about it
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:What I want to say is- pick the best and easy from it and generalize it. Better to avoid confusion.
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:Also on currency why they give more priority to some and neglected other.
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:If you have dollar or pound you'll shop anywhere, while I can't shop with other currency, I need to convert it into dollar or pound. IMHO currency must be common everywhere/ oil price do not have huge difference from country to country..
Steve
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:IMHO currency must be common everywhere/
Ulf Dittmer wrote:
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:IMHO currency must be common everywhere/
<sarcasm>Yes, we're just seeing how well that works here in Europe.</sarcasm>
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote:Wpick the best and easy from it and generalize it.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
fred rosenberger wrote:Heck, we still have slotted screws, even though Phillips heads are clearly better from a user point, but I'm sure manufacturers will tell you slotted are easier/better.
Matthew Brown wrote:
fred rosenberger wrote:Heck, we still have slotted screws, even though Phillips heads are clearly better from a user point, but I'm sure manufacturers will tell you slotted are easier/better.
Off topic...is that really true? I have problems with Phillips heads a lot more often than slotted ones (usually in terms of the edges wearing off the screw making it impossible to unscrew). And you're much more likely to be able to improvise a slotted screwdriver if you don't have one to hand.
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Matthew Brown wrote:Off topic...is that really true? I have problems with Phillips heads a lot more often than slotted ones
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Tim Holloway wrote:The downside of hex-slot fasteners is that it's very easy to over-torque them. Most hex keys, if you'll notice, are "L"-shaped, which gives them extra leverage.
Steve
Kaustubh G Sharma wrote: kilo change to lbs. kilometer to miles
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:
Tim Holloway wrote:The downside of hex-slot fasteners is that it's very easy to over-torque them. Most hex keys, if you'll notice, are "L"-shaped, which gives them extra leverage.
Right, the L shape provides extra leverage. So, it is easy to screw them in, but can cause overtightening. However can't they make hex shaped attachments for screwdrivers. I haven't seen a set of hex shaped bits. Maybe, I haven't looked at the right place. I think my ratcheting screwdriver set has one hex shaped bit but it doesn't fit any of the hex slot screws. It has couple of star shaped bits, but I have never seen a star shaped screw.
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:Wouldn't the screw fall off on the way out?
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