The whole idea of DST and changing time zones is that it's way easier to change the hands on the clock - and arbitrary but binding convention - than actually changing ten thousands of time tables, work schedules, bus and metro routes, etc.
Exactly, and that's why I strongly prefer DST for the whole year. Without DST it would be dark an hour sooner in the summer. I don't want that. Where I live (Portugal) people stay up long and get up late. Our time zone is wrong.
The problem I have with getting rid of it is that I very, very strongly prefer the summer time - but the "original" time is winter time. I want DST for the whole of the year.
That's nonsense, it's quite obvious to anyone who knows something about PC and Microsoft history that they went in the DirectX direction because they wanted to maintain the application barrier. Microsoft being a software company, the application barrier has always been their main competitive advantage and they have done and are doing everything - incomplete standards, undocumented features, anti-reverse engineering techniques, embrace & extinguish, many many law suits, etc. - to maintain that application barrier. Apple also has taken great efforts to uphold the application barrier, but as they are still mostly a hardware company for different reasons (mostly customer tie-in).
It has nothing to do with drivers. Most games use DirectX which is proprietary to Microsoft. Porting to open platforms is almost like rewriting the game. The reason why some games are cross-platform is because they use a game engine that supports multiple backends, like e.g. Valve's source engine.
It's not just about the rendering, by the way, but also controller input, app store integration, network stack, etc.
Here starts the rant: Razer is crap that installs capware like practically all of those "gaming" hardware companies. I don't understand why gaming hardware companies continue to believe that gamers want ugly design, additional background processes, and additional utterly useless system tray clutter. They don't. Oh, and if you need a mouse designed to be unusable in almost every respect, be sure to get a "Madcatz" gaming mouse. All these companies offer are blindingly bright LEDs, overall bad hardware, and bad drivers.
While we're at Doomsday scenarios, a flu-like viral infection with high mortality rate is still the biggest threat to current civilization. Bonus points if it transmits like a light cold first and then lays slumbering for a few weeks before it destroys its host.
Your posts are incoherent. Other people, associations, and companies can also do whatever they want, as long as they harm no persons, and that certainly includes fighting against internet addiction or other forms of addiction.
That's how I like companies - extremely good quality at a fair price, no bullshit spending half of their revenue on marketing, locally manufactured, and they ship internationally.
Unfortunately, these companies are getting rarer and rarer. Quality has a hard time surviving among the sharks.
Where I live (far away from the US in Europe), absolutely everybody I've ever talked to about Trump thinks that he's an idiot. I haven't come across a single exceptions. If there are Trump supporters where I live, they must be hiding very well. People agree so much about this that I occasionally found myself in the odd position of defending Trump a little bit during his campaign, but I've stopped doing that after he got elected and regret it now.
not writing "bad code" isn't an option when even OpenSSL get major holes.
... and that's the reason why you shouldn't replace a bunch of editable and working scripts with some new, large and overly complex program written in C!
What I find kind of annoying is that Ada fixed all these flaws decades ago with Ada 95, now it is at Ada 2012 and still gets no love, just because it's a bit more verbose than C if you use it correctly. (Though not necessarily more verbose than C++.) Sure it has some flaws, e.g. concerning aliases and their scoping rules, but these are mostly inconveniences and some of them have been fixed in Ada 2012. But it doesn't stop there, the same story can be said about dynamic languages. Take fancy new dynamic language X and you can be fairly certain that CommonLisp solved all the problems of the new language already in the 80s.
Maybe developers are in the end less rational than they think? It seems to me that a language must have serious flaws, lots of incoherent shortcuts and tricks, or at least a cryptic syntax to become really successful.
Looks like a false dichotomy to me. Why can't they make chipsets/motherboards that allow me to change UEFI settings (incl. installing my own keys for secure boot or switching it off) and switch off/on Intel ME by flipping physical switches, while at the same time offering chipsets/motherboards with less secure, but corporate-friendly automated mechanisms?
My guess is that they don't want to allow the first option because someone asked them not to allow it. In fact, I have no other explanation. Adding two jumpers and adjusting the firmware in an appropriate way doesn't seem like a major price point or technical obstacle that Intel just can't afford or solve.
The OP has a point, it's gotten worse over the years. There used to be a lot more sane, scientifically literate and overall reasonable US conservatives on Slashdot. Despite being a European genuine liberal - not what is called "liberal" in the US, I'm way more liberal and conservative-democratic than that -, I used to very much enjoy the input of people who had different, more conservative and more US-centered viewpoints. Now we mostly get trash, it's as if the majority of reasonable and educated people had been deafened, because a radical minority is shouting so loud.
Maybe some guys have just become defiant/spiteful/sulky because of hidden regret, though, and don't really mean it. That's my favorite theory.
That may be one and the same person but it's also possible that someone does that to troll the original poster (PopeRatzo?), and/or to collect karma for nefarious purposes.
The American public is strongly influenced by lobbyists without being aware of it.
On a conference we've hosted in July, I've seen research on the disinformation infrastructure of the US oil companies. The researchers used web scraping and data mining software (basically the same as what intelligence agencies would do, just on a smaller scale) to trace the funding and organization of the networks of the petrochemical industry in the US. The graph of their network is huge. There are more than a hundred different lobby organizations, including fake research institutes, strongly biased "think tanks", and various P&R institutions cleverly disguised as interest groups that are all directly sponsored by millions if not billions of dollars from the petrochemical industry. It's a complicated network, but all of these organization have as their main purpose to further the interests of their sponsors. But some of them are very sneaky about it, you wouldn't realize their real agenda by looking at their web page.
The US chemical and petrochemical industry and corresponding political groups spends a lot of money on this in the US. It's no wonder that the perception of ecological topics is so different in the US from the rest of the world. I believe that they spend way less in Europe and other regions but have to admit that I haven't been able to check that - the research I've seen was only about the US.
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Time zone change: uniform change for all of society
versus
Individually changing all bus schedules, plane schedules, work schedules, child care schedules, school schedules, TV and radio programs, and so forth.
You don't see any difference?
The whole idea of DST and changing time zones is that it's way easier to change the hands on the clock - and arbitrary but binding convention - than actually changing ten thousands of time tables, work schedules, bus and metro routes, etc.
You're an idiot if you think that standard work times could be changed as easily as an arbitrary time zone convention.
Exactly, and that's why I strongly prefer DST for the whole year. Without DST it would be dark an hour sooner in the summer. I don't want that. Where I live (Portugal) people stay up long and get up late. Our time zone is wrong.
The problem I have with getting rid of it is that I very, very strongly prefer the summer time - but the "original" time is winter time. I want DST for the whole of the year.
That's nonsense, it's quite obvious to anyone who knows something about PC and Microsoft history that they went in the DirectX direction because they wanted to maintain the application barrier. Microsoft being a software company, the application barrier has always been their main competitive advantage and they have done and are doing everything - incomplete standards, undocumented features, anti-reverse engineering techniques, embrace & extinguish, many many law suits, etc. - to maintain that application barrier. Apple also has taken great efforts to uphold the application barrier, but as they are still mostly a hardware company for different reasons (mostly customer tie-in).
And the strategy works.
It has nothing to do with drivers. Most games use DirectX which is proprietary to Microsoft. Porting to open platforms is almost like rewriting the game. The reason why some games are cross-platform is because they use a game engine that supports multiple backends, like e.g. Valve's source engine.
It's not just about the rendering, by the way, but also controller input, app store integration, network stack, etc.
Here starts the rant: Razer is crap that installs capware like practically all of those "gaming" hardware companies. I don't understand why gaming hardware companies continue to believe that gamers want ugly design, additional background processes, and additional utterly useless system tray clutter. They don't. Oh, and if you need a mouse designed to be unusable in almost every respect, be sure to get a "Madcatz" gaming mouse. All these companies offer are blindingly bright LEDs, overall bad hardware, and bad drivers.
Baden-Wurttemberg doesn't even have an ocean nearby!
While we're at Doomsday scenarios, a flu-like viral infection with high mortality rate is still the biggest threat to current civilization. Bonus points if it transmits like a light cold first and then lays slumbering for a few weeks before it destroys its host.
It's way easier to lie without statistics than it is with statistics, though. As I'm sure you know.
Your posts are incoherent. Other people, associations, and companies can also do whatever they want, as long as they harm no persons, and that certainly includes fighting against internet addiction or other forms of addiction.
That's how I like companies - extremely good quality at a fair price, no bullshit spending half of their revenue on marketing, locally manufactured, and they ship internationally.
Unfortunately, these companies are getting rarer and rarer. Quality has a hard time surviving among the sharks.
Where I live (far away from the US in Europe), absolutely everybody I've ever talked to about Trump thinks that he's an idiot. I haven't come across a single exceptions. If there are Trump supporters where I live, they must be hiding very well. People agree so much about this that I occasionally found myself in the odd position of defending Trump a little bit during his campaign, but I've stopped doing that after he got elected and regret it now.
not writing "bad code" isn't an option when even OpenSSL get major holes.
... and that's the reason why you shouldn't replace a bunch of editable and working scripts with some new, large and overly complex program written in C!
SystemD is like R6RS scheme...
Prostitution. At least for the time being.
What I find kind of annoying is that Ada fixed all these flaws decades ago with Ada 95, now it is at Ada 2012 and still gets no love, just because it's a bit more verbose than C if you use it correctly. (Though not necessarily more verbose than C++.) Sure it has some flaws, e.g. concerning aliases and their scoping rules, but these are mostly inconveniences and some of them have been fixed in Ada 2012. But it doesn't stop there, the same story can be said about dynamic languages. Take fancy new dynamic language X and you can be fairly certain that CommonLisp solved all the problems of the new language already in the 80s.
Maybe developers are in the end less rational than they think? It seems to me that a language must have serious flaws, lots of incoherent shortcuts and tricks, or at least a cryptic syntax to become really successful.
Looks like a false dichotomy to me. Why can't they make chipsets/motherboards that allow me to change UEFI settings (incl. installing my own keys for secure boot or switching it off) and switch off/on Intel ME by flipping physical switches, while at the same time offering chipsets/motherboards with less secure, but corporate-friendly automated mechanisms?
My guess is that they don't want to allow the first option because someone asked them not to allow it. In fact, I have no other explanation. Adding two jumpers and adjusting the firmware in an appropriate way doesn't seem like a major price point or technical obstacle that Intel just can't afford or solve.
Pok3r is also okay, though not as good as a Happy Hacking Pro keyboard, and it's programmable.
Most mechanical keyboards(except Unicomp) have the control key in the wrong place, so being able to reprogram them can be useful.
Probably more editors than Encyclopedia Britannica.
The OP has a point, it's gotten worse over the years. There used to be a lot more sane, scientifically literate and overall reasonable US conservatives on Slashdot. Despite being a European genuine liberal - not what is called "liberal" in the US, I'm way more liberal and conservative-democratic than that -, I used to very much enjoy the input of people who had different, more conservative and more US-centered viewpoints. Now we mostly get trash, it's as if the majority of reasonable and educated people had been deafened, because a radical minority is shouting so loud.
Maybe some guys have just become defiant/spiteful/sulky because of hidden regret, though, and don't really mean it. That's my favorite theory.
To save earth, because you have to start with a joint declaration of intent before you can implement concrete enforcable rules.
That may be one and the same person but it's also possible that someone does that to troll the original poster (PopeRatzo?), and/or to collect karma for nefarious purposes.
The American public is strongly influenced by lobbyists without being aware of it.
On a conference we've hosted in July, I've seen research on the disinformation infrastructure of the US oil companies. The researchers used web scraping and data mining software (basically the same as what intelligence agencies would do, just on a smaller scale) to trace the funding and organization of the networks of the petrochemical industry in the US. The graph of their network is huge. There are more than a hundred different lobby organizations, including fake research institutes, strongly biased "think tanks", and various P&R institutions cleverly disguised as interest groups that are all directly sponsored by millions if not billions of dollars from the petrochemical industry. It's a complicated network, but all of these organization have as their main purpose to further the interests of their sponsors. But some of them are very sneaky about it, you wouldn't realize their real agenda by looking at their web page.
The US chemical and petrochemical industry and corresponding political groups spends a lot of money on this in the US. It's no wonder that the perception of ecological topics is so different in the US from the rest of the world. I believe that they spend way less in Europe and other regions but have to admit that I haven't been able to check that - the research I've seen was only about the US.