Oh, wow, thanks for this breath of fresh air in a thread full of babbling about "I need more sunlight" and so on.
And for being just about the only one to realize the stupidity of year-round DST. (Just get up earlier! Or later, whatever.) Another example of idiocracy--people have to get up earlier but they just can't force themselves to get up at 5, so they redefine 5 to be 6.
For a geek site, I'm astounded at the number of people who are tying their lives to an arbitrary number (time).
>"the sun set way too early in the day there for my liking, 6:15pm."
The sun rising and setting is a natural phenomenon. The sun setting too early doesn't even make sense.
Honest question: Why don't you just live your life according to how much light there is, and not according to what the politicians decided what time it is?
I have a feeling the answer for a lot of people is "TV schedules". But for most geeks (Netflix, etc.) that shouldn't be a problem.
Not only that, but it's a developing world problem, too. I mean, imagine if, as a developing country you had to deal with quarts, gallons, ounces (fl and the other), etc., etc.? Much easier to teach science and do commerce when you're not hobbled by something made up by some king 500 years ago.
Speaking of which, can anybody stand up to justify 728x90 as a standard size for leaderboard banner ads? If they had just made it 720, it would have been divisible by many different numbers. 728 is a lot less flexible.
The rules of "etiquette" were made up by royals with nothing else to do than create elaborate social rules.
Normal people had no clue about them, and just ate their food, being as considerate as they would normally be.
Later, rich non-royals started to mimic the elaborate rules in an attempt to increase their social status.
Finally, after the spread of mass literacy, these arbitrary "rules" started to be taught to normal people, some of whom accepted them like sheep, and some of whom failed to conform.
Anyway, the important point is they they are entirely arbitrary and made-up.
Journalists get their quotes and their stories for free from the people that make them. I.e., police officers and chiefs, Presidents, victims, accused, soldiers, generals, cabinet secretaries, etc.
They reproduce their words in their newspapers without paying them.
How is that not freeloading? Where's the MAFIAA when you need them?
>But what I would find annoying is an employer that would designate the sole computer for their "programmer", a laptop.
There's no reason to be surprised about using a laptop for primary anymore. There was a time when desktops had powerful CPUs and laptops had the Pentium M. But now, desktops and laptops all feature the same set of processors (Pentium Dual Core, Core Duo, etc.), so there's no reason to not go mobile.
This. If you ask me, the pedantic insistence on standing is something on the order of asking someone to phrase an answer in the form of question. Or IT denying a request for an app because the request doesn't use the correct Agile terminology.
It leads people to think that the legal system is merely a game, and not a means for justice.
Personally, I think the decision was inane. And just leaving aside the question of interstate commerce.
But to quote from the decision: "The facts of this case demonstrate the inadequacy of broad and general testing devices, as well as the infirmity of using diplomas or degrees as fixed measures of capability." So, basically, HR's latest mania for college degrees is illegal, according to the Supreme Court.
The only question is why haven't the HR droids awoken to this reality?
But your regular-old, boring company that produces paper clips or something run-of-the-mill like that isn't looking to invent something like MapReduce.
They just need some monkeys that can do AD and DNS.
The one caveat is that Mark said the disabling is only for that single session of the Dash: "We will make a very bold, clear way for you to turn on and off network queries across ALL scopes for any given session in the dash."
What it should have is a permanent setting in Privacy settings.
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Oh, wow, thanks for this breath of fresh air in a thread full of babbling about "I need more sunlight" and so on.
And for being just about the only one to realize the stupidity of year-round DST. (Just get up earlier! Or later, whatever.) Another example of idiocracy--people have to get up earlier but they just can't force themselves to get up at 5, so they redefine 5 to be 6.
Yeah, but wasn't it referring to the case where the guy was in fact a convicted offender?
For a geek site, I'm astounded at the number of people who are tying their lives to an arbitrary number (time).
>"the sun set way too early in the day there for my liking, 6:15pm."
The sun rising and setting is a natural phenomenon. The sun setting too early doesn't even make sense.
Honest question: Why don't you just live your life according to how much light there is, and not according to what the politicians decided what time it is?
I have a feeling the answer for a lot of people is "TV schedules". But for most geeks (Netflix, etc.) that shouldn't be a problem.
Not only that, but it's a developing world problem, too. I mean, imagine if, as a developing country you had to deal with quarts, gallons, ounces (fl and the other), etc., etc.? Much easier to teach science and do commerce when you're not hobbled by something made up by some king 500 years ago.
Speaking of which, can anybody stand up to justify 728x90 as a standard size for leaderboard banner ads? If they had just made it 720, it would have been divisible by many different numbers. 728 is a lot less flexible.
The idea of "permanent DST" is so ridiculous, I can hardly believe someone is proposing it.
If you want more daylight in the evening, just open up (stores, schools, businesses) an hour earlier!
What's the point of pretending that it's 8:00 AM when it's really not?
The rules of "etiquette" were made up by royals with nothing else to do than create elaborate social rules.
Normal people had no clue about them, and just ate their food, being as considerate as they would normally be.
Later, rich non-royals started to mimic the elaborate rules in an attempt to increase their social status.
Finally, after the spread of mass literacy, these arbitrary "rules" started to be taught to normal people, some of whom accepted them like sheep, and some of whom failed to conform.
Anyway, the important point is they they are entirely arbitrary and made-up.
>"You should behave as if you where invited to the Queen for Tee."
The Queen invites people to play gulf?
Journalists get their quotes and their stories for free from the people that make them. I.e., police officers and chiefs, Presidents, victims, accused, soldiers, generals, cabinet secretaries, etc.
They reproduce their words in their newspapers without paying them.
How is that not freeloading? Where's the MAFIAA when you need them?
What do you mean by not arbitrary? He decided he wanted to go to war, and he did. That's arbitrary.
He could be referring to Libya and Mali, as well as expanded operations in Afpak and the Saudi peninsula.
What's the raison detre for KVM?
Granted VirtualBox's slot is open-source end-user virt.
But how about KVM vs. other server-oriented virtualization solutions? Like VMWare, Xen, and OpenVZ?
What's worked best for you (stability, memory, resources, separation, ease of use, $$), and what plays well with the latest Ubuntu Server LTS?
>But what I would find annoying is an employer that would designate the sole computer for their "programmer", a laptop.
There's no reason to be surprised about using a laptop for primary anymore. There was a time when desktops had powerful CPUs and laptops had the Pentium M. But now, desktops and laptops all feature the same set of processors (Pentium Dual Core, Core Duo, etc.), so there's no reason to not go mobile.
This. If you ask me, the pedantic insistence on standing is something on the order of asking someone to phrase an answer in the form of question. Or IT denying a request for an app because the request doesn't use the correct Agile terminology.
It leads people to think that the legal system is merely a game, and not a means for justice.
Is that like GNU/Linux? Debian saying "we should have our name in there, too"?
>Conversely, if if you're paying somebody $50/task to do something,
That's where you went wrong. We're talking about employees, not vendors/contractors. So they're being paid by the hour (or month), not by the task.
What's wrong with fluorescent lights?
Oh, man, thanks for that link.
Personally, I think the decision was inane. And just leaving aside the question of interstate commerce.
But to quote from the decision: "The facts of this case demonstrate the inadequacy of broad and general testing devices, as well as the infirmity of using diplomas or degrees as fixed measures of capability." So, basically, HR's latest mania for college degrees is illegal, according to the Supreme Court.
The only question is why haven't the HR droids awoken to this reality?
If you're only going to pay the "going rate" (whatever you deem it to be), why even ask the question?
>When a person with an AAS in computer science isn't capable of replacing their own USB keyboard, advanced education has failed.
And here we've been led to believe that computer science has much to do with computers as astronomy does with telescopes.
Why, AC comments can't be modded up?
Don't talk about BitCoin!
Yeah, that's Google.
But your regular-old, boring company that produces paper clips or something run-of-the-mill like that isn't looking to invent something like MapReduce.
They just need some monkeys that can do AD and DNS.
The one caveat is that Mark said the disabling is only for that single session of the Dash: "We will make a very bold, clear way for you to turn on and off network queries across ALL scopes for any given session in the dash."
What it should have is a permanent setting in Privacy settings.