Then how about you go to bed an hour earlier, then get up an hour earlier, then go to work an hour earlier, then go home an hour earlier. Same daylight savings without the hassle of screwing with the way all our technology deals with time.
People who suggest this course of action fail to realize that most of the working people in the USA don't have that option! They work for a company or employer that has set hours that you must work if you want to keep a job. Although there may be some companies that have flexible hours, most do not. Most people are bound to their employer's schedule. If you work for a company that has an 8-4 schedule (like I do) it is getting dark by the time I arrive home in the winter. Even though I live and a temperate area with mild temperatures for much of the winter I have no time for outdoor activity at all after work for much of the year. This change will add many more outdoor hours to me every year so I am looking forward to it.
Me Too, I Love DST Gives me more time in the evening I can't wait. In fact I wish we were on Double Daylight Saving Time Year round. I'm never up before 8:00 anyway.
I've NEVER seen a motherboard with DST in the BIOS, The OS handles it. It will take Microsoft about 10 minutes to code a patch that will update the DST dates in Windows (Heck you can even disable DST with a single check box in all recent versions of windows,) and as others have pointed out *nix folks will take care of it easy also. This is a none issue as fare as PC's are concerned. The only ones screaming about this causing all sorts of problems are people that don't like DST anyway.
PERMITS? We don't need no STINKING PERMITS SCREW THE CODES AND ANAL-RETENTIVE CODES INSPECTORS! It's my house and my property I will do WHATEVER I want with it! In fact I Do! I have added on about 40% to the size of my house since I moved in about 16 years ago. I have done much indoor and outdoor wiring as well as plumbing. Installed a pool and Solar heater, as well as miscellaneous outbuildings. ALL without one single permit or inspection. Granted I live in Tennessee where freedom is still more than ancient history to us. The local government tends to take a "If you are not bothering anyone we won't bother you." attitude in most circumstances except on drugs. In addition to the fact that the area I live in there is NO zoning of any kind. A couple of years ago an investor started to put in a dirt racing track near the county line and a few adjoining farmers and residents started raising holy hell about the noise and traffic it would cause. They went to the local county board and said "Can't you do anything to stop him?" Their answer was " Yes we can adopt a county-wide zoning plan, but then every time you want to build something it would have to go through the zoning board." That Idea was dropped like a hot potato and the race track went in. County-wide zoning will not happen anytime soon in this area.
More than likely the network driver you downloaded included every driver for every operating system known to man along with tons of useless documentation. I have often been forced to download HUGE files just to get the 36k driver file I need. More than likely if you had extracted the download file you would have found a directory containing the necessary files that would have easily fit on a floppy. A perfect example is the Win98 driver install for the Lexar USB stick I have it is 2.5 meg in size, but I found that I only need 3 files less than 50k total for it to work.
Maybe we need to find another way of moving through space rather than using Newton's Third Law of Motion. Maybe, just maybe there is another way to do it that hasn't been discovered yet. Perhaps some type of electro-kinetic propulsion, or maybe even something no one has even thought of. Anyone who scoffs at the fact that there may be unimagined scientific breakthroughs yet to be made are as closed minded as Congress was In 1836 when it wanted to close the Patent Office because everything that could be invented, had been invented and there was nothing else left to invent.
Why? There are quite a few of us who enjoyed Enterprise and never missed an episode right up until the end. There is never a story posted here about Star Trek that doesn't bring out the "Kill Trek" crowd. If you don't like it anymore then just don't watch it. Every one talks about freedom of choice except where it comes to Trek. At least if there is Trek, you have the freedom to CHOOSE whether or not to watch it, as do I.
I agree, my wife can't watch the show because it makes her nauseous. on the space shots it's ok but on the shipboard shots they need to use stable shots. If the ship was swaying that much all the time you would have people throwing up all over the place constantly.
I have a business license and do computer repair from my home here in middle Tennessee. I charge a base rate of $65.00 for individuals and $75.00 for businesses for basic malware cleanup. For other work I charge 45.00 for the first hour and 15.00 for each additional hour. Being a licensed business it makes it much easier to charge friends and family for service. I do give a discounts to close friends and family though, usually about 50%. You might check and see what the laws are for operating a business from your home in your area, and if permitted to do so purchase a business license. Then you could advertise, if even only by word of mouth, that you are a computer service shop, this would make things much easier.
Old news here in the rual middle Tennessee area. Our local Telco Ben Lomand Rual Telephone CoOp has already been doing this here for a while too. It runs over standard copper twisted pair, and picture quality is MUCH better than cable. hereis the website for their tv over phone line.
Yes you can, and I find it quite fun. But there is even more fun in watching the faces of your passengers while they dodge the various pieces of debris that is laying on the cabin floor of most rental planes (chewing gum wrappers, old pencils and pens, loose change and the occasional condom package from someone's mile high club attempt). These formally forgotten items once relived of the burden of gravity that is keeping them out of sight and out of mind under feet suddenly fill the cabin of the plane like the cloud of debris around a tornado. Your passengers now overloaded with experiences totally outside of anything they have ever experienced before become totally convinced in those few seconds that the aircraft is going to pieces around them, and most become total quivering blobs of jelly while calling out loudly to their deity to save them.
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Another means to lift and support mass other than aerodynamics MUST be developed. Whether you use jet engines, piston engines, rotary engines, wings, enclosed fans or helicopter blades. You are still lifting mass by moving large quantities of air around. There is just too much that has to be just right to fly in this way, just one thing goes wrong and BOOM you just made a nice crater in the ground. There has been some research in this area but many people and companies distance themselves from it the moment you use the term Anti-Gravity so call it whatever you want, Mass Reduction, Electro-kinetic lift or even Magnetic field lift. (In Star Wars they called it Repulser- Lift). The Point is there has to be another way to get in the air, its just waiting for someone to discover it.
I won't address the necessity of it but there are products that do it, for example this unit among others. My experience with units like this are that you also seem to get a faster download speed than with any of the current internal software modems being sold these days.(No, I don't work for Best Data.)
I agree 100%. Please don't flame me but in my line of work I install windows and patch several times a week and have never had an infection during any part of the process. Why? Because my network is configured behind a NAT firewall. While I agree that the internet is in a sorry state of affairs when a unprotected computer can be compromised this fast. The solution is so simple and cheap that it should be second nature to anyone who services computers. There are NAT gateways that sell everyday on Ebay for under $35.00. If you service computers there should be one sitting on your network.
I must say that you have pointed out something I would have never thought of. I stand corrected on the ending statement of my original post. There may be at some time a practical use for human powered flight after all. However this also reinforces my first statement." Never underestimate the power of human ingenuity."
Never underestimate the power of human ingenuity. For many years the thought of sustainable human powered flight of any kind was considered an impossibility but in 1979 we saw the Gossamer Albatross cross the English Channel. I believe that sooner or later someone will manage to meet the requirements to win this American Helicopter Society prize. However without a doubt even then human powered flight will be just an interesting curiosity and not of any practical use.
I suspect there are many more companies than the number that are listed in the article that are experiencing this type of extortion. For example the DNS service (primary and backup) we use, (Worldwidedns.net) went down yesterday morning from a DDOS. And are still not back up to speed yet, (check out the note at the top of their home page). Our company is spread out over several states and we use a web based database for all transactions. We were effectively shut down all day. I edited the hosts file of the machines in my local office to reflect the IP address of our servers so at least we could conduct some business. I did add another DNS service to our domains as a backup, but the fact that we operate across several domains the delay for the WHOIS updates to propagate down the system means that we still are not fully operational yet.
There is no legal punishment that would satisfy my anger toward the lowlifes that perpetrate this type of crime.
Sorry to disappoint you , But I do have I clue. I was raised and the country and still live in the country right next to one of those small smelly farms. And I stand by my comments.
More uptight pricks moving to the country and complaining about the farm next door stinking! Well GUESS WHAT! FARMS STINK!!!! They always have they always will. Farming is a business with profit margins so narrow that thousands of acres of farmland in America are sold out to developers every year. Now, due to the complaints of a few uptight vocal pricks that have no understanding of what it took to get that piece of USDA approved ground chuck on their plate, the state of Iowa (one of the breadbasket states) is looking for another way to make farmers spend more of their already slim profits on some expensive equipment and procedures to lessen the displeasure on the noses of the uptight preppy neighbors who have no idea what the importance to their very survival that stinky farm next door is! IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE SMELL MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE! The farm was here first! And, no I am not a farmer I am a database developer but I understand that without farms we will all starve to death! And yes that means you vegetarians too. Where do you think that "All Natural" fertilizer they used to grow your salad came from? My God, I never cease to be amazed at the number of ways bureaucrats in this country find to continually kick the common "working man" in America in the balls!
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Then how about you go to bed an hour earlier, then get up an hour earlier, then go to work an hour earlier, then go home an hour earlier. Same daylight savings without the hassle of screwing with the way all our technology deals with time.
People who suggest this course of action fail to realize that most of the working people in the USA don't have that option! They work for a company or employer that has set hours that you must work if you want to keep a job. Although there may be some companies that have flexible hours, most do not. Most people are bound to their employer's schedule. If you work for a company that has an 8-4 schedule (like I do) it is getting dark by the time I arrive home in the winter. Even though I live and a temperate area with mild temperatures for much of the winter I have no time for outdoor activity at all after work for much of the year. This change will add many more outdoor hours to me every year so I am looking forward to it.
Me Too, I Love DST Gives me more time in the evening
I can't wait. In fact I wish we were on Double Daylight Saving Time Year round.
I'm never up before 8:00 anyway.
I've NEVER seen a motherboard with DST in the BIOS, The OS handles it. It will take Microsoft about 10 minutes to code a patch that will update the DST dates in Windows (Heck you can even disable DST with a single check box in all recent versions of windows,) and as others have pointed out *nix folks will take care of it easy also.
This is a none issue as fare as PC's are concerned.
The only ones screaming about this causing all sorts of problems are people that don't like DST anyway.
My policy makes no mention of codes or inspections.
Then again it's not a large national company but a small local Farmers insurance CoOp.
PERMITS? We don't need no STINKING PERMITS
SCREW THE CODES AND ANAL-RETENTIVE CODES INSPECTORS!
It's my house and my property I will do WHATEVER I want with it!
In fact I Do! I have added on about 40% to the size of my house since I moved in about 16 years ago. I have done much indoor and outdoor wiring as well as plumbing. Installed a pool and Solar heater, as well as miscellaneous outbuildings. ALL without one single permit or inspection. Granted I live in Tennessee where freedom is still more than ancient history to us. The local government tends to take a "If you are not bothering anyone we won't bother you." attitude in most circumstances except on drugs. In addition to the fact that the area I live in there is NO zoning of any kind. A couple of years ago an investor started to put in a dirt racing track near the county line and a few adjoining farmers and residents started raising holy hell about the noise and traffic it would cause. They went to the local county board and said "Can't you do anything to stop him?" Their answer was " Yes we can adopt a county-wide zoning plan, but then every time you want to build something it would have to go through the zoning board." That Idea was dropped like a hot potato and the race track went in. County-wide zoning will not happen anytime soon in this area.
Just being Devils Advocate.
Doing the same thing under Windows.
Click "Setup",
Click OK a couple of times,
Run prog.
More than likely the network driver you downloaded included every driver for every operating system known to man along with tons of useless documentation. I have often been forced to download HUGE files just to get the 36k driver file I need.
More than likely if you had extracted the download file you would have found a directory containing the necessary files that would have easily fit on a floppy.
A perfect example is the Win98 driver install for the Lexar USB stick I have it is 2.5 meg in size, but I found that I only need 3 files less than 50k total for it to work.
Maybe we need to find another way of moving through space rather than using Newton's Third Law of Motion. Maybe, just maybe there is another way to do it that hasn't been discovered yet. Perhaps some type of electro-kinetic propulsion, or maybe even something no one has even thought of. Anyone who scoffs at the fact that there may be unimagined scientific breakthroughs yet to be made are as closed minded as Congress was In 1836 when it wanted to close the Patent Office because everything that could be invented, had been invented and there was nothing else left to invent.
Why?
There are quite a few of us who enjoyed Enterprise and never missed an episode right up until the end.
There is never a story posted here about Star Trek that doesn't bring out the "Kill Trek" crowd. If you don't like it anymore then just don't watch it.
Every one talks about freedom of choice except where it comes to Trek.
At least if there is Trek, you have the freedom to CHOOSE whether or not to watch it, as do I.
Yeah most people at my company need help every week getting into their own system, much less keeping me out.
I agree, my wife can't watch the show because it makes her nauseous. on the space shots it's ok but on the shipboard shots they need to use stable shots. If the ship was swaying that much all the time you would have people throwing up all over the place constantly.
I have a business license and do computer repair from my home here in middle Tennessee. I charge a base rate of $65.00 for individuals and $75.00 for businesses for basic malware cleanup. For other work I charge 45.00 for the first hour and 15.00 for each additional hour. Being a licensed business it makes it much easier to charge friends and family for service. I do give a discounts to close friends and family though, usually about 50%.
You might check and see what the laws are for operating a business from your home in your area, and if permitted to do so purchase a business license. Then you could advertise, if even only by word of mouth, that you are a computer service shop, this would make things much easier.
Old news here in the rual middle Tennessee area.
Our local Telco Ben Lomand Rual Telephone CoOp has already been doing this here for a while too.
It runs over standard copper twisted pair, and picture quality is MUCH better than cable.
hereis the website for their tv over phone line.
Yes you can, and I find it quite fun. But there is even more fun in watching the faces of your passengers while they dodge the various pieces of debris that is laying on the cabin floor of most rental planes (chewing gum wrappers, old pencils and pens, loose change and the occasional condom package from someone's mile high club attempt). These formally forgotten items once relived of the burden of gravity that is keeping them out of sight and out of mind under feet suddenly fill the cabin of the plane like the cloud of debris around a tornado. Your passengers now overloaded with experiences totally outside of anything they have ever experienced before become totally convinced in those few seconds that the aircraft is going to pieces around them, and most become total quivering blobs of jelly while calling out loudly to their deity to save them.
Another means to lift and support mass other than aerodynamics MUST be developed.
Whether you use jet engines, piston engines, rotary engines, wings, enclosed fans or helicopter blades. You are still lifting mass by moving large quantities of air around. There is just too much that has to be just right to fly in this way, just one thing goes wrong and BOOM you just made a nice crater in the ground.
There has been some research in this area but many people and companies distance themselves from it the moment you use the term Anti-Gravity so call it whatever you want, Mass Reduction, Electro-kinetic lift or even Magnetic field lift. (In Star Wars they called it Repulser- Lift). The Point is there has to be another way to get in the air, its just waiting for someone to discover it.
No, it sounds more like a virus warning to me.
I won't address the necessity of it but there are products that do it, for example this unit among others. My experience with units like this are that you also seem to get a faster download speed than with any of the current internal software modems being sold these days.(No, I don't work for Best Data.)
I agree 100%. Please don't flame me but in my line of work I install windows and patch several times a week and have never had an infection during any part of the process. Why? Because my network is configured behind a NAT firewall. While I agree that the internet is in a sorry state of affairs when a unprotected computer can be compromised this fast. The solution is so simple and cheap that it should be second nature to anyone who services computers. There are NAT gateways that sell everyday on Ebay for under $35.00. If you service computers there should be one sitting on your network.
I must say that you have pointed out something I would have never thought of. I stand corrected on the ending statement of my original post. There may be at some time a practical use for human powered flight after all. However this also reinforces my first statement." Never underestimate the power of human ingenuity."
Never underestimate the power of human ingenuity. For many years the thought of sustainable human powered flight of any kind was considered an impossibility but in 1979 we saw the Gossamer Albatross cross the English Channel. I believe that sooner or later someone will manage to meet the requirements to win this American Helicopter Society prize. However without a doubt even then human powered flight will be just an interesting curiosity and not of any practical use.
I suspect there are many more companies than the number that are listed in the article that are experiencing this type of extortion. For example the DNS service (primary and backup) we use, (Worldwidedns.net) went down yesterday morning from a DDOS. And are still not back up to speed yet, (check out the note at the top of their home page). Our company is spread out over several states and we use a web based database for all transactions. We were effectively shut down all day. I edited the hosts file of the machines in my local office to reflect the IP address of our servers so at least we could conduct some business. I did add another DNS service to our domains as a backup, but the fact that we operate across several domains the delay for the WHOIS updates to propagate down the system means that we still are not fully operational yet. There is no legal punishment that would satisfy my anger toward the lowlifes that perpetrate this type of crime.
Nada, nothing, zilch in rual Tennessee last night but I will keep looking tonight.
Sorry to disappoint you , But I do have I clue. I was raised and the country and still live in the country right next to one of those small smelly farms. And I stand by my comments.
More uptight pricks moving to the country and complaining about the farm next door stinking! Well GUESS WHAT! FARMS STINK!!!! They always have they always will.
Farming is a business with profit margins so narrow that thousands of acres of farmland in America are sold out to developers every year. Now, due to the complaints of a few uptight vocal pricks that have no understanding of what it took to get that piece of USDA approved ground chuck on their plate, the state of Iowa (one of the breadbasket states) is looking for another way to make farmers spend more of their already slim profits on some expensive equipment and procedures to lessen the displeasure on the noses of the uptight preppy neighbors who have no idea what the importance to their very survival that stinky farm next door is! IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE SMELL MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE! The farm was here first!
And, no I am not a farmer I am a database developer but I understand that without farms we will all starve to death! And yes that means you vegetarians too. Where do you think that "All Natural" fertilizer they used to grow your salad came from?
My God, I never cease to be amazed at the number of ways bureaucrats in this country find to continually kick the common "working man" in America in the balls!
One 19" in the center and a 17" on either side.