Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Well jjgeek I think Atm is one of those terms that changes in the states. Over here they're just called cash points or cash machines, actually before you said I never knew what Atm stood for though I've heard it before on Tv. I suspect this is because the term "bank teller" isn't really widely used over here, here a person working at the bank would be called a clarke, a casheer or an assistant.Whatever the dam things are called though, talking ones would be awsome, though I can't complain too much since at least I now have a decent bank to deal with.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151715#p151715 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Well jjgeek I think Atm is one of those terms that changes in the states. Over here they're just called cash points or cash machines, actually before you said I never knew what Atm stood for though I've heard it before on Tv.Whatever the dam things are called though, talking ones would be awsome, though I can't complain too much since at least I now have a decent bank to deal with.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151715#p151715 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired ah yes they do have talking ones here. and actually they are called ATM's. automated teller machines. but they aren't all over. you will mostly find one that talks, especially if it has benn put there in the passed few years, but you will occasionally find one that is not a talking one. for example, the ATM here at my college wasn't talking and they were actually in the process of ordering a new one anyway that could talk even before i aproached the administration with the request for a talking one. but now it is a talking one, and everything is fine.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151692#p151692 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired [[wow]], didn't know they had talking cashpoints in the states, that would be a good thing indeed, particularly since these days I always carry a set of headphones around with me for my Iphone.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151644#p151644 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Kind of happy the nearby banks and atms at stores seem to get all their machines from the same company or something as all of them seem to have a headphone jack on them that completely changes the machine from touch screen to button menus using the keyboard and it telling you what did what. I can easily go in, put my card in, and withdraw what I needed with no problems. Not sure why they have all this setup as I remember these things not existing when I was sighted, nor was there a blind individual at my town until later (and then after that was me and a few others). FOr wallets, I tend to fold the bills to the point the creases are feelable on the bill even when straightened out via inserting them in a wallet. I also implement sudtle bends on some corners that would mark some bills as one type to save on space when I was too lazy to fold the bills the standard way.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151629#p151629 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired well Sebby, the transfer charge was actually from Hsbc, who objected to me changing to another bank. This was a joke because the reason I was actually changing was simply because Hsbc had closed my local branch and I wasn't going to stick with a bank which would mean a 40 minute walk whenever I wanted money, not when there was a loyds on the same road 2 minutes walk away actually next door to where Hsbc was. Thus I absolutely agree on more branches with actual living human persons in them as opposed to inaccessible cashpoints, one reason hsbc got on my nerves, though I will say i now have a great working relationship with the staff in my local loyds, which has worked out amazingly well. This is particularly astounding when I compare it to the peons who used to man Hsbc, (once in Hsbc they reffused to let me take money out of my account because I didn't have any checks in my check bookk and I couldn't use a cash point).I pretty much do the same in terms of cas h, though I sign rather than use a pin since I just don't want the risk of buggering the thing up, and while my signature is utterly unreadable, it's at least unforgeable to and I won't invalidate my debbit card by accident as would be the risk with use of a pin number, (especially given how many different button configurations payment machines have). I do also use it occasionally in shops or restaurants for the same reason, especially when it's a larger transaction, and yes, that does mean trusting the person involved, though in fairness I do always have a record and reciet if things went wonky. Regarding my credit card, I actually don't use it to buy things on credit at all, I have one for one, and only one reason, to pay for items online. I want to keep my bank details off the internet as much as possible, (I've heard too many stories of even paypal being hacked). Therefore I always use a credit card for online payments, and always keep the limit on that card as low as humanly possible, therefore even if someone did hack my computer or paypal account and charged several thousand pounds, I'd be able to cancel the payments without losing anything, (and besides, with my lower limit they don't get a thousand).Plus of course, there are occasions (like the apple ap store or amazon), where paypal isn't usable.With my credit card also being Loyds, and with Loyds being just around the corner paying it off is very easy, indeed the only problem I tend to have with my credit card is that because I pay off any payment I make within a week, they keep wanting to raise my borrowing limit which I try to keep down for net security.One other advantage of cash is that there is nothing like cash for being handy in an immergency. I always keep about 100 quid in my flat hidden in small box which I keep for absolute necessities, like when I fancy a chinese on a Sunday night and don� 39;t have the cash handy, (that's an imergency!), or more seriously, when I needed to get four taxies to and from the vets when Reever was seriously ill.I also know what you mean about security. I remember when i was snowed in in december of 2010, and literally couldn't get out for around two and a half weekks owing to how impossible using a long cane in two and a half feet of snow is and how all my landmarks were invisible, (of course with Reever none of this is an issue anymore). I tried to phone loyds to find out my account balance and pay off my credit card. I gave my account number, various expiration dates (which i have notes of), and answered the security question. They then asked "how much money is in your account?" mmm, that was what I! wanted to know! .Really, security is completely insane! At some point I'll need to te ll you the saga of my dad and student lones, that was truly an exercise in futility.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151518#p151518 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired I actually heard something about this a few days ago on the radio in my mom's car. I think it's great that we here in the United States are finally starting? to see accessible paper currency. However, I think I'd have to respectfully disagree with the starting point being the $100 bill. I doubt very many people have them anyway. I know I don't. I actually got to hold a $100 coin in my hand several years ago and it was pretty cool. But even if I did receive a $100 bill, my independent travel skills aren't good enough for me to go somewhere and spend it. I will spare you all and not discuss my travel skills here, but perhaps in another topic in this room.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151492#p151492 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Yes, cashpoints are definitely a risk that I prefer not to take either. However at least for Natwest cards, I can just enter the PIN and get the staff to set up the transaction while I'm in the branch over the counter, which is almost as efficient. And, fortunately, my debit card is a Visa so I can use it as effectively as a credit card, directly. This is great since apart from the risk of a bad transaction (which I always avoid by going through Paypal when possible) I don't have to worry about carrying around a credit card or repaying its balance. This makes me a responsible member of society, apparently, but means I can't get into horrible debt like everyone else buying stuff I don't need. It was really very stupid of me to destroy my other one when it had such great reputation, and in the process lower my credit score. Oh, well. [[wow]], I'm utterly astonished Lloyds would charge you for a simple EFT, which I'm sure they realise you could do yourself if you wanted to, without any charge. As I said though, if we simply eliminate the need for physical, dirty cash, it's cool. For now though we really aren't very equal as long as there are more cashpoints than there are bank branches or tellers. And, importantly, we can't check the value of any transaction be it signed or PIN-authorised. So, yes, talking cashpoints and pockets of cash, but really awesome would be micropayment transactions conducted between two points, like the handset of the buyer to the handset of the seller. This is what Barclays Pingit somewhat tries to emulate, though I never got an account due to their stupid security checks. Paypal also offers a mobile payment facility, though of course charges fees for the privilege. For the underground solu tion, it's bitcoin, which while it probably won't go anywhere by itself, will most likely inspire someone else to get it right within the framework of the financial and tax regulations. Then, effectively, we can initiate and approve transactions ourselves, which neatly solves all the problems.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151486#p151486 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Well Sebby, the problem is that the layout and on screen display of various cash points changes a bit much for me to risk making a mistake and utterly voiding my card, paying the wrong amount, or when withdrawing too much, especially since I can't read the screen, particularly in various different parts of the country, which is why I'm better off signing, and Loyds do still offer the option on a debbit card.Of course if siri or a similar speech system ever does! get implemented to make terminals fully accessible I'll be the first person to use them. Regarding cash, well it's not a problem for me since there is a bank literally two minutes around the corner, this is also how I pay off my credit card when I've used it online to buy something. I doubt myself that cash will ever disappear unless regulation of finances becomes much more centralised and less based on competing financial institutions than it already is.Heck, when I chan ged from Hsbc to Loyds, they were going to charge me fifty pounds just to transfer the contents of my account, (and 30 pounds to pay off my hsb credit card, which was hilarious since it only had four pounds on it, I believe I'd just bought some credit in Puppet Nightmares). I got the four pounds paid off eventually by special order and a lot of yelling, but the only way to physically avoid the bank charge was to take all the money out of my current account and physically put it back! into loyds once the loyds account was setup which was crazy!URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151462#p151462 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Interesting, Dark, have you not been given a Chip & PIN card yet? All the terminals I've used are fairly consistent, for paying over the counter anyway. I'd love to do that more often instead of using cash since then I can own the shop if they mess me about. I too use a debit card--not credit for me, no siree. I'm just waiting for my bank to implement pickup at the local PO to smooth me over, but I don't mind using a branch as there's one close enough to me to be workable.But regardless, obviously moving to an all-electronic system (because, let's be honest now, it already is) would involve removing all further need of precious pieces of paper and worthless pieces of rounded metal and therefore also any cashpoint or any other currency exchange for that matter. If it weren't for the ridiculous heavyweights moderating all card transactions and charging fees, it would surely already be the norm for most everything.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151453#p151453 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired I disagree on moving to cards entirely Sebby, particularly since that would likely mean removing signatures from card machines. Indeed it's rather ironic that I as a blind person have a debbit card that requires a signature since it's easier for me to sign than work around the layout of a varied set of bank machines, and when i asked the rnib, their solution, learn the buttons on the machine near your bank and then get your carer to do the others just didn't work, since which carer was that?Of course all this might change if talking cash points become mainstream, but as it stands I prefer to use cash for the majority of things under ￡50. If Dna scanning or thumb print recognition comes in however, again, this is likely to change too, though knowing my dam luck they'll probably introduce retinal scans, which would be hilarious! :d.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151425#p151425 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired dark the quarter's rough edges do go around the whole edge. you might just have had one that was messed up in some way. and yes. that is the problem dark you don't know unless you can read it, which i normally can't or have something like an identifier. and the coins are still the same. just more inflated. lol. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151408#p151408 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Nothing like identical paper notes to remind you of the fallacy of reserve currency, is there? The British notes actually did have tactile markings at one time, but in practice it was never any good because the bump would always get squashed. So we probably need to rethink that one. The Bank of England says that braille is off the cards.I don't think coins are the problem in many countries, but I suppose that's because it's so obviously useful for them to have particular shapes and tactile distinctions. For now I use one of those vibrating portable note measures in advance to measure the notes, then just remember what I own. I rarely have notes above ￡20.Naturally, I think we should stop buggering about with cash. It's inefficient. Let's move to bitcoin or, failing that, make credit card transactions easier at scale and lower cost.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151375#p151375 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired I must admit while the folding money thing makes a lot of sense, to me that would be more than unnecessary irritation never having had to have done it. When I was in the states for a week, I had a bumbag with three compartments. I just separated the 10's, 5's and 1's into three lots, though of course I didn't have that much on me anyway since I was only visiting for a week which made that practical. The only problem I had (and likely a problem for anyone in the states full time), was getting change, since if I say bought a coke for 2 dollars and was given 8 back, well which was the five and which the three ones? Most irritating!The only American coin I remember distinctly was the quarter, and that chiefly because it was like a ten pence peace, (and since they're worth roughly 15 pence it converted quite well), accept that a British Ten pence had a rough edge all the way around where I believe the Quarter just had odd roughened bits, an d the Quarter looked a little more shiny and silver than a ten P.This might also explain why I didn't personaly like the physical use of American coins in Change Reaction, since while I can convert mentally to abstracted dollar value when buying things online, the physical nature of coins and their falling sounds and gravety isn't easy with a coinage I'm entirely unfamiliar with, (heck since I visited the states nearly 15 years ago, I imagine the coins have changed now).URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151358#p151358 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired yeah. i would fold my money. and actually i fold them the same way, but the wallet i'm using doesn't have the space for it. it has a few slots for cards, and two plastic windows where i keep my campus scan ID card to get into buildings and pay for meals on the out side. and one on the inside where i put my state ID. it also has a key ring to keep my room key and my mailbox key on it. now if i could find a wallet with those two things and the space for bills i'd be sold.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151350#p151350 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired you can just fold your money? For me it's half for five, twice for ten, and lengthwise for twenties.Also, looktel money reader is $5 and super, super amazingly amazing.Coins are harder: it's not immediately obvious what's what. It's much, much more obvious which ones are tens or ones than it is which ones are quarters or nickles, at least if you bother folding it.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151344#p151344 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired in america all our bills are exactly the same size with no distinguishing differences except for visually. and they are suddle at that. the only bill i can be able to see at a glance is the 1. only because the back is very different from all the others. we have a 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and maybe a 500, or 1000, but not sure about the last two.as far as coins, they are much better. the penny is one cent. its copper small and smooth on the edges. the dime is even smaller than the penny and is ten cents. its silver with rough edges. the nickle is 5 cents and its the second biggest coin. its silver with smooth edges. the quarter is the biggest and it is silver with rough edges.i really envy you all who's countries bills are easily distinguishable with out assistance from some device.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151334#p151334 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Well it sounds like the Danish government did with the øre coins what the British government should do with pennies, though funnily enough in Norway I don't believe there was anything smaller than a 1 Kroner. In britain none of the coins have interupted milling on the edges or holes through them. A ten pence and the one and two pound coins have a roughened edge, but that is it. In colour terms, a penny and two pence coins are copper, most of the rest are like a very pale washed out silver sort of the colour of alyminium,and the pound and two pound coins are a brass colour. The only problem with this is that the silvery ones can get very badly tarnished and worn out. I have on a couple of occasions mistaken a 20 pence coin for a penny when the 20 has got very old and tarnished so it's gone the same colour and the edges of the sceptagon have got worn smooth. This is also why I'd like to see small change go.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151312#p151312 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Well it sounds like the Danish government did with the øre coins what the British government should do with pennies, though funnily enough in Norway I don't believe there was anything smaller than a 1 Kroner. In britain none of the coins have interupted milling on the edges or holes through them. A ten pence and the one and two pound coins have a roughened edge, but that is it. In colour terms, a penny and two pence coins are copper, most of the rest are silver coloured, and the pound and two pound coins are a brass colour. The only problem with this is that the silver ones can get very badly tarnished and worn out. I have on a couple of occasions mistaken a 20 pence coin for a penny when the 20 has got very old and tarnished so it's gone the same colour and the edges of the sceptagon have got worn smooth. This is also why I'd like to see small change go.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151312#p151312 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired In Denmark we have 1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 kroner-coins, along with a 50-øre. We've had a 25-øre as well, but they were removed in 2011. Earlier we've also had 5-øre and stuff, but that's many years ago.1 krone is a little more than a centimeter in diameter, silver colored, with a milled rim and a hole in the center. The 5-krone is about one and a half the size of the 1-krone but besides from that it looks the same. The 50-øre is copper colored and has a smooth rim and no hole. It's a little bigger than the 1-krone. The 10-krone is golden, and like the 50-øre doesn't have a milled rim or hole. I actually confuse the 50-øre and 10-krone quite often. The 2-krone is silver as well, and has a hole in the center, like 1 and 5. It has, like the 20-krone, interrupted milling on the rim. The size is somewhere between the 50-øre and 5-krone.20 is golden and a little smaller than the 5-krone. No hole, and interrupted milling like the 2-krone.The 25-øre was copper too, with a smooth rim and no hole. It was really small. Hehe. So. The coins with the smallest value were copper colored, these were 25 and 50-øre (now only 50-øre due to inflation and stuff), the 1, 2, and 5-krone are silver colored and have a hole in the center. The ones with the highest value, 10 and 20, are golden.This system makes it really easy for visually impaired to know them from each other.Our notes are 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1000, each one is one centimeter longer than the previous, but all are the same in width, starting with the 50-krone note being 125*72 milimeters, and ending with the 1000-krone note being 165*72 milimeters. They have different colors as well, but I'm not exactly sure about those.So yeah... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151285#p151285 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Ah, that's a point Alex, andd if they are! still using Kroner in Norway good for them, especially as the Euro has recently collapsed, (much as a lot of the anti europe stuff over here gets mixed up with Ukip, aka the Uk independence party (sometimes called the Uk nazi party), I do think it's good we didn't join the Euro either given what's happened to the currency.Anyway, back to coins, how do the Danish Kroner work? In Norway, the reason I liked the Kroner as coins is that they only had a one Krona, 2 Krona, 5 Krona and 10 Krona coins (Okay there were four), and since at the time ten Kroner were worth roughly one pound, it was very easy to convert.The coins were also of a slightly larger size, and had tactile markers as well as clearly defined shapes. Then again, In the Uk the money grubbing government tried to save cash in the early 1990's by down sizing all the British coins, (one reason why small change, especially five pences are so dam irritating!). To give people some idea, a penny peace is almost exactly the size of one letter key on my desktop keyboard (accept being slightly rounder), while a five pence would fit neetly into the center of a letter key and leave the corners free. The twenty pence is a little larger, but is septagonal, while the two pence and ten pence are about twice the size. This is why I'd personally like to see all coins lower than a ten pence removed from circulation, since they're worth nearly nothing and just serve to get lost and weigh down your wallet.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151171#p151171 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Dark, Norway are still using Kroner... They can't even use Euro since they're not part of the European Union. I'm not exactly sure if they have three kinds of coins, since the ones we use here in Denmark, which are also called Kroner... Like in Sweden and a few other places, only have two. 100 ører is 1 krone, and that's it. Just like cents and euros.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151154#p151154 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Ouch Kile I forgot that in the states even one dollar is a note, that would make life difficult and I myself certainly would dislike having to trust a casheer that much (even if we assume basic honesty mistakes can happen). I personally just tend to restrict myself to 5's and 10's, when I'm getting money out of the bank, though I've occasionally had 20's from my parents. Still since 5's are blue and fairly small, 10's are orange and a little bigger and 20's are very large and purple that's not a problem, well not unless the notes have been heavily scuffed so that the coloured patch doesn't show. I once did have a stack of 50 pound notes under my bed in a box when I had to change banks and there was a ridiculous charge for transferring the money in my account. That was interesting, since the 50's were actually pink and also very big, though whether bigger than 20's I don't know, (and it quite s urprised the pizza delivery chap when i paid for a pizza with one). I don't think I've ever even seen a hundred pound note, let alone anything larger, (I believe there is a 500 but I'm not sure).I also hear they just comissioned a five pound coin which would make the note situation easier, though whether this will stay in circulation, or whether it's just a special commemoration thing in celibration of yet another bloody royal I don't know.I do however wish they'd get rid of some of the lower dinomination coins, I don't even believe penny sweets cost a penny anymore! and five pence peaces are the spawn of satan, being very tiny! Unfortunately I doubt they will since we've got too used to all those silly cons of saying twenty nine ninety nine instead of thirty pounds, (how anyone could believe this actually sounds less I don't know), but still I do wish British money was more like the Norwejian, which also had only 3 different coins as well as tactile notes.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151108#p151108 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired yeah. while this is good. who really has a $100 bill. i no i don't as i'm a pore college student... lolwhile things like look tell money reader works good at home its not really practical if your getting change back from a cashier. even those money identifiers like the iBill aren't really practical. so it would be nice to have the ability to feel bills. and not have to trust the cashier that he or she is giving you the right bills. even if he or she is counting the change out in my hand, i'd still like to make sure they aren't givving me all ones if i bought something for $4.99 with a 20. while this hasn't happened to me yet, me and my friends joke about it sometimes. and i'm just waiting for the day to come when i get home and i have a pocket full of ones. now, i do try to use my debit card when i do go o ut, but there still is situations where i want to use cash for what ever reason.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151071#p151071 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Well money in the states was! pretty horrible. Heck, even my usual method at looking at the colours didn't work since the dam things were all the same colour! This is great, though of course first you need 100 dollars! :d. I hope like Sebby they add such features on other American money, indeed we could probably do with a bit more tactile distinction on British money, since though the colours and lengths are different, there isn't anything to feel. Interestingly enough, when I went to Norway when I was 12, they actually did! have tactile markings on the money. A shame they changed to the euro really .URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151066#p151066 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: [Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
Re: new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired Welcome to the civilised world. Seriously, I hope more of your bills get this.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151061#p151061 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
[Audiogames-reflector] new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired
new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired On October 8, 2013, the U.S. Federal Reserve began distributing a new-look 100 dollar bill with features for the visually impaired, and for more security as part of its design. Here's some of what's on the new note:A gold "100" stamped on the back of the bill to help the visually impaired.A raised texture on Franklin's portrait and throughout the note.A blue, 3-D security ribbon running down the bill near its center.Text from the Declaration of Independence printed in script next to Benjamin Franklin's portrait.A copper-colored ink well in which the ink changes to green when the bill is shifted.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=151056#p151056 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
