Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 07:06:36PM +0200, demerphq wrote: > And just for an interesting variant I seem to remember that The Strand > in London Uk, is numbered the same way that chip pinouts are. So you > have the maximum and minimum address on a street facing each other. If > one fails to observe

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-12 Thread demerphq
2009/10/11 Darrell Fuhriman : That's pretty much exactly it... although, at least in the US, it's not the actual house numbers that are known, just the range. There is no central repository of addresses, as such.  The database would look something like street_name left_side_start right_side_start

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-12 Thread mirod
Tony Finch wrote: In French villages, addresses are just the name of the recipient and the village (and any wider-area information). No street or house names or numbers. My address is Località Capraia, Frazione Fondagno, Pescaglia, 55064 LU : the Località is the name of the cluster of houses,

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-12 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Abigail wrote: > > The strangest numbering system I've seen was in Austria. And I've seen it > in several small towns. A few years ago, we went to a guest house, with > the address "Lofer 24" in Lofer. Turns out, the town doesn't use street > names. Just house numbers. But the

Re: Order

2009-10-12 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Denny wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:35 +0100, James Laver wrote: On 12 Oct 2009, at 13:32, Joshua Juran wrote: You obviously don't own a Sidekick. I'll give you reasons to hate your sidekick. See the nice big warning on http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/? cate

Re: Order

2009-10-12 Thread Denny
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:35 +0100, James Laver wrote: > On 12 Oct 2009, at 13:32, Joshua Juran wrote: > > > You obviously don't own a Sidekick. > > I'll give you reasons to hate your sidekick. > > See the nice big warning on > http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/?category.id=Sidekick I think that

Re: Order

2009-10-12 Thread James Laver
On 12 Oct 2009, at 13:32, Joshua Juran wrote: You obviously don't own a Sidekick. Josh P.S. Sorry for the delay, but I had deleted your email assuming it was spam (based on the the Subject). I'll give you reasons to hate your sidekick. See the nice big warning on http://forums.t-mobil

Re: Order

2009-10-12 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 11, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Matthew King wrote: Open Office I'm especially looking at you now, you disease-ridden piece of fail. Even Microsoft, the kings of software hate, haven't managed as much fail as you. You obviously don't own a Sidekick. Josh P.S. Sorry for the delay, but I ha

Re: Order

2009-10-12 Thread Matthew King
Matthew King writes: > To: Peter Corlett > Cc: We Hate Software Insert obligatory hates-software software hate even though the above was really my fault. I nearly did it again... Matthew -- I must take issue with the term "a mere child", for it has been my invariable experience that the co

Re: Order

2009-10-12 Thread Matthew King
Peter Corlett writes: > On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:56, Matthew King wrote: >> Anything and everything which provides an unsorted and/or unsortable >> list of anything. > > That's a bit of an overly-broad complaint. > > By way of counterexample, readdir(3) does not sort, for what should be > very obvio

Re: Order

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Corlett
On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:56, Matthew King wrote: Anything and everything which provides an unsorted and/or unsortable list of anything. That's a bit of an overly-broad complaint. By way of counterexample, readdir(3) does not sort, for what should be very obvious reasons. OTOH, it's rather more

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-12 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Oct 11, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Chris Devers wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Ann Barcomb wrote: And then there was this address I recently sent something to which went something like this: 10 metros este de la esquina Norteste del parque comunal de vargas araya, ca

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-12 Thread Abigail
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:52:05AM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: > > Most of Japan isn't much different than anywhere in the US or Europe > (IIRC). Except Tokyo. Most streets in Tokyo don't have names. Addresses > are just nested geographies. So an address like "1-2-3 Nishi-Shinjuku, > Shinju