I'm a DST lover too, but I live in the middle of CST and have for most of my life. My body just tends to wake up earlier (as in when it's still dark) during the spring and fall, possibly due to temperature and humidity. And I absolutely hate the fall change because it means I need to wake up an hour later when I'm already waking up earlier.
And for the people who can't understand the need for DST, you've probably lived in the same place all your life and don't know what it's like to move to the edges of a time zone. I lived in Louisiana for a year (eastern CST), so the sun came up half an hour earlier, but it seemed like a whole hour earlier.
Also, the higher the latitude (to a limit, because north of the Arctic Circle is just broken), the more you can benefit from it. During WWII (or was it WWI?), the UK was even on double summer time.
It's not for saving energy, it's for saving daylight, so that we can have more consecutive daylight hours after work. Anyone who seriously believes it is going to save energy is an idiot.
Remember.... Steve Jobs didn't have to tell us to "get used to it" when he unveiled the Mac. The public loved it.
Back in those days, Apple actually did (gasp) usability testing to determine what really worked better, instead of going with the flashy marketroid spec sheet filler crap that we're getting foisted on us these days. That's why the Mac OS still has a menu bar at the top of the screen, and not right-click pop-up menus like Xerox PARC was doing at the time.
Now it's just a wild west free-for-all among UI designers. They don't care if it's a "shit sandwich", they just care that it's a shiny shit sandwich that looks good until you have to eat it. And they pull the old stuff off the market after they do that. (Like the time when I drank an old Coca-Cola six months after New Coke, and could tell the difference right away.)
Except 2000 really wasn't that bad. If anything, it was 2000 that fixed NT4. XP was a Vista-ish attempt to mess with the UI that didn't fail because it wasn't as radical as Vista was or Win8 is shaping up to be. And nothing fixed WinMeHarder aside from MS just plain dropping the old DOS-based product line completely.
"We know what it's better for you and you don't need options. There's no such thing as different people with different needs and tastes."
The thing is, it's not just Microsoft doing this. Firefox is playing the "Whatever Chrome does we must force upon our users", and Apple has been making some of its apps less useful (like trying too hard to make an address book app behave like a physical address book by imposing the physical limitations of real objects upon virtual ones.)
It's a fad that has been brewing in the past year or two of "fuck the user, we know what's best, they don't, they'll just have to change, and right now", combined with faster release schedules causing well-used paradigms to be deprecated in mere months instead of years.
I would still be using Win2k to this day if they hadn't dropped CRT support after VS2005.
FTFY. (And me too.) That's the real reason nothing supports Win2K anymore. And I hear they're dropping WinXP CRT support in VS11. Of course you can still use the older compilers... if you can get them! (Don't you love closed-source toolchains!)
Wut? That's exactly what I was saying. Reading Is Fundamental. See how it says "like DVDs"? That means I'm not describing DVDs, I'm describing what I linked to.
I mean, they're shiny and plastic like DVDs, but instead of a digital encoding, they use a series of pits which represent a fully over-modulated multi-band RF signal. The distance between the pit edges is the analog signal.
Yeah, those first-gen PPC were awful, and the lack of native PPC in most of the operating system (until 7.5.3? later?) made them run slower than the IIci with 68040 card that I had at the time. But a lot of the sluggishness was due to emulating 68K code, rather than just crap hardware. And not that they didn't invent their own stupid crap, like that Apple Display Connector with the 6" dongle cable (to use their older 15-pin connector) where wires would break internally. As if the 6100 series wasn't crap enough, that made them worse.
But the G3/G4 era machines were pretty damn nice, especially the 1GHz "Windtunnel" units that could run system versions from 9.x to 10.4.x.
Without even looking at the article, I can tell you that the reason is bandwidth. This was the era of the 2400 baud modem. (It was also the era of 64K RAM, but that is less important.) BBSes and text-only online services like Compuserve were king. Just like most good technologies, it was ten years ahead of its time when first available.
Sure, AT&T had 56K data lines, but they weren't designed for mass market use (probably requiring technician installs and hand-picked wire pairs), and they also didn't want to cut into the lucrative premiums that they charged actual paying businesses.
I kind of boggled at that too for a moment. Then I remembered the Amiga. I guess in comparison, yeah, but it was nothing like when they went with PCI or Intel CPUs. Then there were the times when they had to pick something "off the shelf" when they needed something beyond the crap that PC clones of the day were using, like when they went with SCSI and NuBus.
Bicycles don't help much when you have a 20 mile commute. Which is what you can expect when you're not working some generic service industry job. They also don't help when the buses have a rack for two bicycles in front, and only come by every 35-60 minutes, and the bus stop at the other end is many blocks away from your work.
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Looks more like two triangles to me... like it's trying to form a Triforce.
Did you shit triangular bricks?
No, it's actually a promotion for the new Sabre Pyramid Tablet!
Change name to "The Halfling". Problem solved.
It still doesn't matter if his existing Euro phone (which he is implying he wants to use) doesn't support the 4G frequency bands.
I'm a DST lover too, but I live in the middle of CST and have for most of my life. My body just tends to wake up earlier (as in when it's still dark) during the spring and fall, possibly due to temperature and humidity. And I absolutely hate the fall change because it means I need to wake up an hour later when I'm already waking up earlier.
And for the people who can't understand the need for DST, you've probably lived in the same place all your life and don't know what it's like to move to the edges of a time zone. I lived in Louisiana for a year (eastern CST), so the sun came up half an hour earlier, but it seemed like a whole hour earlier.
Also, the higher the latitude (to a limit, because north of the Arctic Circle is just broken), the more you can benefit from it. During WWII (or was it WWI?), the UK was even on double summer time.
It's not for saving energy, it's for saving daylight, so that we can have more consecutive daylight hours after work. Anyone who seriously believes it is going to save energy is an idiot.
Ah, the old zoom and enhance...
I'm more worried about what this means for Brawndo.
Remember.... Steve Jobs didn't have to tell us to "get used to it" when he unveiled the Mac. The public loved it.
Back in those days, Apple actually did (gasp) usability testing to determine what really worked better, instead of going with the flashy marketroid spec sheet filler crap that we're getting foisted on us these days. That's why the Mac OS still has a menu bar at the top of the screen, and not right-click pop-up menus like Xerox PARC was doing at the time.
Now it's just a wild west free-for-all among UI designers. They don't care if it's a "shit sandwich", they just care that it's a shiny shit sandwich that looks good until you have to eat it. And they pull the old stuff off the market after they do that. (Like the time when I drank an old Coca-Cola six months after New Coke, and could tell the difference right away.)
XP fixed 2000/Me
Except 2000 really wasn't that bad. If anything, it was 2000 that fixed NT4. XP was a Vista-ish attempt to mess with the UI that didn't fail because it wasn't as radical as Vista was or Win8 is shaping up to be. And nothing fixed WinMeHarder aside from MS just plain dropping the old DOS-based product line completely.
"We know what it's better for you and you don't need options. There's no such thing as different people with different needs and tastes."
The thing is, it's not just Microsoft doing this. Firefox is playing the "Whatever Chrome does we must force upon our users", and Apple has been making some of its apps less useful (like trying too hard to make an address book app behave like a physical address book by imposing the physical limitations of real objects upon virtual ones.)
It's a fad that has been brewing in the past year or two of "fuck the user, we know what's best, they don't, they'll just have to change, and right now", combined with faster release schedules causing well-used paradigms to be deprecated in mere months instead of years.
It's a lot easier to wipe a phone or pad with your shirt than a laptop screen or a desktop monitor.
I would still be using Win2k to this day if they hadn't dropped CRT support after VS2005.
FTFY. (And me too.) That's the real reason nothing supports Win2K anymore. And I hear they're dropping WinXP CRT support in VS11. Of course you can still use the older compilers... if you can get them! (Don't you love closed-source toolchains!)
(Note: CRT = C RunTime libraries)
I doubt that's going to help if they claim you were uploading files. (Such as torrent chunks, for instance.)
Wut? That's exactly what I was saying. Reading Is Fundamental. See how it says "like DVDs"? That means I'm not describing DVDs, I'm describing what I linked to.
Sort of.
I mean, they're shiny and plastic like DVDs, but instead of a digital encoding, they use a series of pits which represent a fully over-modulated multi-band RF signal. The distance between the pit edges is the analog signal.
If they want to impress me, then find a way to let me order groceries from home to be delivered at my home at no additional charge.
Yeah, that'd be a great idea!
...or Jon Katz
"Off the shelf" by no means implies "not crap".
Yeah, those first-gen PPC were awful, and the lack of native PPC in most of the operating system (until 7.5.3? later?) made them run slower than the IIci with 68040 card that I had at the time. But a lot of the sluggishness was due to emulating 68K code, rather than just crap hardware. And not that they didn't invent their own stupid crap, like that Apple Display Connector with the 6" dongle cable (to use their older 15-pin connector) where wires would break internally. As if the 6100 series wasn't crap enough, that made them worse.
But the G3/G4 era machines were pretty damn nice, especially the 1GHz "Windtunnel" units that could run system versions from 9.x to 10.4.x.
Without even looking at the article, I can tell you that the reason is bandwidth. This was the era of the 2400 baud modem. (It was also the era of 64K RAM, but that is less important.) BBSes and text-only online services like Compuserve were king. Just like most good technologies, it was ten years ahead of its time when first available.
Sure, AT&T had 56K data lines, but they weren't designed for mass market use (probably requiring technician installs and hand-picked wire pairs), and they also didn't want to cut into the lucrative premiums that they charged actual paying businesses.
I kind of boggled at that too for a moment. Then I remembered the Amiga. I guess in comparison, yeah, but it was nothing like when they went with PCI or Intel CPUs. Then there were the times when they had to pick something "off the shelf" when they needed something beyond the crap that PC clones of the day were using, like when they went with SCSI and NuBus.
Don't they sell gasoline by the liter in the UK?
Bicycles don't help much when you have a 20 mile commute. Which is what you can expect when you're not working some generic service industry job. They also don't help when the buses have a rack for two bicycles in front, and only come by every 35-60 minutes, and the bus stop at the other end is many blocks away from your work.
I hope you all recognise that the prices of gas are being moved up by inflation
From an earlier post: Gasoline Price History (with a line adjusted for inflation)
Adjusted for inflation, gasoline is more expensive now than during the wonderful years of Jimmy "Malaise" Carter.