What's wrong with solar time? There's nothing dumb about it. We currently have multiple constellations of satellites that provide highly accurate time signals that allow us to triangulate our exact locations on earth. Why do we have time zones when we could have exact solar time at every location? You could produce schedules that take these into effect for long-distance travel. In a major metro like Los Angeles, the clocks would be off under 2 minutes from one end of the extended suburbs to the other.
All time should be kept in UTC and/or Solar Time. I'd tend toward UTC for all business, scheduling, and technical purposes, but for older people and social purposes, I'd be happy to use Solar Time. Showing the two side by side on my phone should be trivial.
The problem is that human political machinations affect things that are critical for infrastructure. It would be like me moving the endzone/net in your football game of choice every handful of years then expecting you to somehow rate historic players by the same standards as modern players.
Time zones don't help you know if people are up, either. You still have to adjust to their local time zone and know the other's waking hours. It's easier if the time (a consistent moment) is the same universally, then if you know their waking hours, you know if you are within them. It also easier for finding overlaps.
The only thing that is an even bigger and easier to kick political football is DST, which makes even the wrangling involving time zones seem sensible.
Originally, everyone just woke up when the sun bothered them too much and went to sleep when it was dark. It worked well enough that we're all here...
Then the obsession with time started and we all became slaves to numbers on a clock. Later, we somehow became obsessed with these numbers looking roughly the same in multiple locations.
Why can't we just go back to solar time? We have the technology.
Why? You can either have the solar time at your exact location (we have the technology) or simply maintain a universal time and set your daily operations around that. Only an obsession with what number is on a clock at a rough given time of day supports time zones.
I can only imagine that the autonomous cars will be a hit, but the driving there is truly frighteningly-atrocious. I was very glad to have ex-military drivers with special training and armor-plated SUVs, not for fear of some attack (honestly, they like us more than you might imagine), but because going out on those roads is taking your life into your hands.
I haven't been in The Kingdom (KSA) in about 7 years, but back then women couldn't go anywhere without an adult male relative (father, brother, or husband) to protect them unless there were no men there. They had massive malls that were staffed and accessible only to women, where they could freely walk and talk with other women wearing western-style clothing if they so wished.
Since only men can legally drive on public roads, how does this work?! Wouldn't they still need to bring an adult male guardian along?
Time zones are the dumbest thing ever devised and should be abolished. Anyone that has ever had to deal with them extensively would agree. They are a deeply brain-damaged concept. Something critical like time should not be subject to the machinations of politics.
One day I entered accounting office. You could feel the heat through the door handle. The moment I opened the door, I was drenched in sweat and my eyebrows were vaporized in spite of shielding my face. The paperwork I was carrying burst into flames, which I threw to the ground and stomped on. It was like a blast furnace, I legitimately believe that you could have smelted metal in there.
Entering the depths of hell, my eyes slowly adjusted to the heat. Through the waves and mirages of a cooler place, like Death Valley in July, I noticed beings in there. Living beings. Potentially the beings I seeked. They were wearing parkas and shivering as they were huddled around a space heater because the wall unit had just died about an hour ago.
One of these creatures, possessing the XX of fire immunity addressed me, "Close the door!", they yelled. Then continued, "Our heater broke and we're freezing in here. We are waiting for the HVAC guy to get here."
I would mod this up if I had points. The last paragraph is something everyone should take to heart. The situation in this country is insane at this point.
I miss those days in the PNW. This 90+ heat is awful. I sleep best at ~40-50F, but A/C is rare here because at one time it was that temperature or less practically every night.
The industrial controls industry is the most backward corner of the tech world, inhabited by an old guard that mostly doesn't even understand networking, let alone security. The newer recruits generally come from an EE background, so they also generally have no knowledge of how to secure critical infrastructure. Most started in the era where inter-device/machine communication was via serial and all these systems were simple air-gapped (not for security, but because there was no way or reason to connect them).
The reason this situation has changed is that more and more businesses want to be able to see what is happening in real time, so the engineers just connect them to other relatively-insecure networks, which ultimately leads to breaches. The suits don't care as long as they can see what they want to see.
It would be very expensive and difficult to correct this problem, between the extra manpower, retraining, and delays this would cause.
As far as I can discern, capital equipment budgeting is based entirely on historic patterns as calculated by accountants. The executives would prefer if it wasn't an expense. The long-term projects that exceed a quarter tend to be personal pet projects that make easy scapegoats or provide easy targets for their successor to pad their quarterly results.
It's a vicious cycle as they shuffle around the landscape leaving a path of destruction and paper profits everywhere they go.
It's the circles you move in. For someone in the tech sector or an engineer, G+ is so much better in so many ways. All my best and brightest friends use it.
FB is for marginally-literate people and grandparents to "like" Viagra.
Humans are merely a collection of cells with the capability to alter our operation based on our environment and chemical/electrical signalling. Replicating this functionality in well-defined domains is relatively trivial. I don't see how this is intelligence.
The problem would be the handful of weeks it takes for them to die, the resources they would consume in that time, and the risk of violence as they begin to starve.
My community, provided we were limited to round-the-clock local/rural residents, could almost certainly become self-sufficient within a few weeks and survive indefinitely without outside assistance. We have plenty of farmland, farm animals, edible plants, wild animals, and fishing available.
We have a lot of risk up here north of the border, too, but water doesn't worry me at all. I live in a rural region with wells on most properties, plus I could just walk over to the sound to get sea water that could be easily distilled.
Food, on the other hand, would be very challenging unless it happened when the commuters were away at their jobs.
It would keep me from using my car in some cases...
Presently, at $4 r/t, it isn't worth going 1-2 miles, but might be worth going 40-50. It's more expensive than driving costs for my work commute by over 4:1 in spite of my gas guzzler. If I didn't own a car at all (and therefore eliminate all of the associated expenses), it would be cheaper, but the amount of time I'd lose to it would be worth more to me than the cost of operating my private car.
In spite of this, I do use the existing system for certain tasks, like going into downtown (sometimes) and getting to/from ferries (when I don't need to spend the extra to bring my car). The main thing I use it for is getting to/from the airport to reduce ferry and avoid airport parking costs. When I lived next to a trolley stop, I regularly used it to get to/from the airport and train station as it actually saved me time and money to take it over parking (and the requisite waiting for shuttles).
If you want to increase ridership, you need to make a compelling case for using it. I happily ride the tube and trains in the UK because they go places I want to go, they're convenient, run frequently, and they tend to be very centrally located. In the US, transit is an afterthought with poor planning, siting, and scheduling. This almost seems by design to make it unappealing to all-but those with no other choice.
Couldn't we also just use private addresses within our private networks and a NAT gateway to the internet? You know, like basically every household in the world with more than one computer does today? Hell, the internal addresses could be IPv4 or IPv6 and nobody would know or care.
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What's wrong with solar time? There's nothing dumb about it. We currently have multiple constellations of satellites that provide highly accurate time signals that allow us to triangulate our exact locations on earth. Why do we have time zones when we could have exact solar time at every location? You could produce schedules that take these into effect for long-distance travel. In a major metro like Los Angeles, the clocks would be off under 2 minutes from one end of the extended suburbs to the other.
All time should be kept in UTC and/or Solar Time. I'd tend toward UTC for all business, scheduling, and technical purposes, but for older people and social purposes, I'd be happy to use Solar Time. Showing the two side by side on my phone should be trivial.
The problem is that human political machinations affect things that are critical for infrastructure. It would be like me moving the endzone/net in your football game of choice every handful of years then expecting you to somehow rate historic players by the same standards as modern players.
Time zones don't help you know if people are up, either. You still have to adjust to their local time zone and know the other's waking hours. It's easier if the time (a consistent moment) is the same universally, then if you know their waking hours, you know if you are within them. It also easier for finding overlaps.
The only thing that is an even bigger and easier to kick political football is DST, which makes even the wrangling involving time zones seem sensible.
Originally, everyone just woke up when the sun bothered them too much and went to sleep when it was dark. It worked well enough that we're all here...
Then the obsession with time started and we all became slaves to numbers on a clock. Later, we somehow became obsessed with these numbers looking roughly the same in multiple locations.
Why can't we just go back to solar time? We have the technology.
Exactly my point. Only a deeply archaic mentality about time based on problems we have long-since solved support time zones.
Why? You can either have the solar time at your exact location (we have the technology) or simply maintain a universal time and set your daily operations around that. Only an obsession with what number is on a clock at a rough given time of day supports time zones.
You're absolutely right. There is nothing worse than daylight savings.
I can't imagine it being any worse than it already is. Drivers there are unbelievably scary.
I can only imagine that the autonomous cars will be a hit, but the driving there is truly frighteningly-atrocious. I was very glad to have ex-military drivers with special training and armor-plated SUVs, not for fear of some attack (honestly, they like us more than you might imagine), but because going out on those roads is taking your life into your hands.
I haven't been in The Kingdom (KSA) in about 7 years, but back then women couldn't go anywhere without an adult male relative (father, brother, or husband) to protect them unless there were no men there. They had massive malls that were staffed and accessible only to women, where they could freely walk and talk with other women wearing western-style clothing if they so wished.
Since only men can legally drive on public roads, how does this work?! Wouldn't they still need to bring an adult male guardian along?
Time zones are the dumbest thing ever devised and should be abolished. Anyone that has ever had to deal with them extensively would agree. They are a deeply brain-damaged concept. Something critical like time should not be subject to the machinations of politics.
Avoid that room like the plague in the winter.
One day I entered accounting office. You could feel the heat through the door handle. The moment I opened the door, I was drenched in sweat and my eyebrows were vaporized in spite of shielding my face. The paperwork I was carrying burst into flames, which I threw to the ground and stomped on. It was like a blast furnace, I legitimately believe that you could have smelted metal in there.
Entering the depths of hell, my eyes slowly adjusted to the heat. Through the waves and mirages of a cooler place, like Death Valley in July, I noticed beings in there. Living beings. Potentially the beings I seeked. They were wearing parkas and shivering as they were huddled around a space heater because the wall unit had just died about an hour ago.
One of these creatures, possessing the XX of fire immunity addressed me, "Close the door!", they yelled. Then continued, "Our heater broke and we're freezing in here. We are waiting for the HVAC guy to get here."
(Story only slightly embellished for effect.)
I would mod this up if I had points. The last paragraph is something everyone should take to heart. The situation in this country is insane at this point.
I miss those days in the PNW. This 90+ heat is awful. I sleep best at ~40-50F, but A/C is rare here because at one time it was that temperature or less practically every night.
That all the changes that reduced crime (starting decades ago) are making some things better in the western world.
This has been true for at least 20 years.
The industrial controls industry is the most backward corner of the tech world, inhabited by an old guard that mostly doesn't even understand networking, let alone security. The newer recruits generally come from an EE background, so they also generally have no knowledge of how to secure critical infrastructure. Most started in the era where inter-device/machine communication was via serial and all these systems were simple air-gapped (not for security, but because there was no way or reason to connect them).
The reason this situation has changed is that more and more businesses want to be able to see what is happening in real time, so the engineers just connect them to other relatively-insecure networks, which ultimately leads to breaches. The suits don't care as long as they can see what they want to see.
It would be very expensive and difficult to correct this problem, between the extra manpower, retraining, and delays this would cause.
As far as I can discern, capital equipment budgeting is based entirely on historic patterns as calculated by accountants. The executives would prefer if it wasn't an expense. The long-term projects that exceed a quarter tend to be personal pet projects that make easy scapegoats or provide easy targets for their successor to pad their quarterly results.
It's a vicious cycle as they shuffle around the landscape leaving a path of destruction and paper profits everywhere they go.
It's the circles you move in. For someone in the tech sector or an engineer, G+ is so much better in so many ways. All my best and brightest friends use it.
FB is for marginally-literate people and grandparents to "like" Viagra.
... or executives who can't even see further than the next annual earnings report.
I didn't realize any looked further than the next quarterly earnings report. They're driven exclusively by this ultra-short-term cycle.
Humans are merely a collection of cells with the capability to alter our operation based on our environment and chemical/electrical signalling. Replicating this functionality in well-defined domains is relatively trivial. I don't see how this is intelligence.
The problem would be the handful of weeks it takes for them to die, the resources they would consume in that time, and the risk of violence as they begin to starve.
My community, provided we were limited to round-the-clock local/rural residents, could almost certainly become self-sufficient within a few weeks and survive indefinitely without outside assistance. We have plenty of farmland, farm animals, edible plants, wild animals, and fishing available.
We have a lot of risk up here north of the border, too, but water doesn't worry me at all. I live in a rural region with wells on most properties, plus I could just walk over to the sound to get sea water that could be easily distilled.
Food, on the other hand, would be very challenging unless it happened when the commuters were away at their jobs.
It would keep me from using my car in some cases...
Presently, at $4 r/t, it isn't worth going 1-2 miles, but might be worth going 40-50. It's more expensive than driving costs for my work commute by over 4:1 in spite of my gas guzzler. If I didn't own a car at all (and therefore eliminate all of the associated expenses), it would be cheaper, but the amount of time I'd lose to it would be worth more to me than the cost of operating my private car.
In spite of this, I do use the existing system for certain tasks, like going into downtown (sometimes) and getting to/from ferries (when I don't need to spend the extra to bring my car). The main thing I use it for is getting to/from the airport to reduce ferry and avoid airport parking costs. When I lived next to a trolley stop, I regularly used it to get to/from the airport and train station as it actually saved me time and money to take it over parking (and the requisite waiting for shuttles).
If you want to increase ridership, you need to make a compelling case for using it. I happily ride the tube and trains in the UK because they go places I want to go, they're convenient, run frequently, and they tend to be very centrally located. In the US, transit is an afterthought with poor planning, siting, and scheduling. This almost seems by design to make it unappealing to all-but those with no other choice.
Technically, 1/1000th of the unit.
Couldn't we also just use private addresses within our private networks and a NAT gateway to the internet? You know, like basically every household in the world with more than one computer does today? Hell, the internal addresses could be IPv4 or IPv6 and nobody would know or care.