I disagree that there would be no disadvantages, of course there would. When you schedule a meeting now, you can easily tell what a reasonable time is to have the meeting because you have the notion of when daylight is. You can add/subtract hours to your time, to get their time, and retain that notion. If their daylight time period is suddenly expressed as a different figure, it's much harder to think of when their daylight hours are.
Also, it would become much more difficult to get used to the local time references if *YOU* travelled anywhere. Suddenly, you'd be going to bed at 1PM, and getting up at 12PM. All student jokes aside.;-)
So, actually, your argument is for replacing rather antiquated timezone abbreviations with GMT (or maybe more universal UTC) offsets. Not changing most people's reference to hours in the day.
Actually, in all seriousness, it is *quite* a co-incidence that the Earth rotates almost exactly 364.75 times an orbit, isn't it? That we only have to add the odd leap second means that it's very close to a convenient fraction. I know it's not *that* convenient, but it is interesting.
Of course, if the Earth always rotated exactly 100 times per orbit, I'd probably be religious. The reality can be sensibly attributed to co-incidence.
XBox? I don't need no stinking console, these types of games are much more fun played close up to the screen, using a keyboard and a mouse. At least, they are now I'm totally used to doing it that way. Give me a PC anyday.
On another topic, my experience with Morrowind was rather depressing. I started out playing it hoping for an improvement on TES2. At first, I thought I'd got it - it certainly improved on the graphics side. But I'd say the gameplay is *worse*. The fighting system is clunky and far too easy, the storyline is too linear and the NPCs are pathetic, half of them just standing in the same place 24/78 for the whole of the game. Not good. Let's hope they overhaul and vastly improve the AI in Oblivion. I have to say my trust in Bethesda was shaken with Morrowind; I'll probably purchase Oblivion, but it better damn well be good.
1. a. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
b. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
c. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study. 2. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science. 3. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing. 4. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience. 5. Chiefly Kansan Theories about how stuff works and was created.
Frankly, I wouldn't bother. I'm a UK male, and I don't know where the hell all these geeky women are, but they sure aren't anywhere I go. All the guys on Slashdot swooning over their nice geeky partners - whre the HELL did you meet them? Please tell the rest of us. I'm kinda assuming that these women mentioned are all middle-aged and married with children.
And anyway, ten thousand?! Ten measly fscking thousand? Take a look at this, even Canada uses 1.7 MILLION barrels a day. For some reason the US isn't on there, but I bet it uses significantly more. 10,000 a day is chickenfeed. Is that worth the hassle and lost productivity in the economy that DST causes?
Adapting our synthetic time system to nature's clock is only logical.
Of course, and we do; to an extent. But, like many arguments, this is one of degree. Ideally, we'd adapt our time cosntantly so that the daylight hours were perfectly centred around midday, as defined by the highpoint of the sun in the sky. We don't do that, because it would be WAY too much work. So why don't we adapt our time, maybe, 8 times a year? Again, too much work. So, the argument is along the lines of: why do you (or did Ben Franklin) think that adjusting time once a year was the place to draw the line? I say a better place would be to pick a time for midday that sticks closest to (natural) midday around the year, and stick to that. Way less hassle.
Uhm, no, that's a completely and utterly different 'problem'.
And the fact that you've just referred to opening times using the timezone system is a good example of why it's good - everyone can understand what kind of times 6.30am, and 8.30am are.
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I hear last week Omar ate pork. At least he almost did, before Maryam saw him with it. That was 2 part episode!!
It would be sheer idiocy to give goverments unaccountable to their people ANY control when we can avoid it. Unless you think it'd be okay for China's dictators to vote.tw addresses dropped from DNS, etc.
How can you say this with a straight face?
The Bush administration is unaccountable to over 50% of the US population, who did not vote for them. Yeah, there are other governmental institutions than the Whitehouse (not that they're any more representative of their respective areas), but the Whitehouse seems to be the focus of power. Isn't it the Bush administration that just put a block on the.xxx TLD, and fully support the FBI's new focus on deviant porn? They seem to like sticking their grubby fingers into the net too.
China want to censor anti-government feeling, Whitehouse wants to censor what it doesn't like. It'd censor anti-government feeling if it could get away with it, too.
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I've got an idea, and it's just crazy enough to work. Why not try and combine the two, creating a text editor that's a GUI, inserts text when keys are pressed by default, yet IS completely controllable from the keyboard? Start with Notepad, then add tons of functionality whilst keeping the fundamental idea (a n00b can edit a simple text file) the same? I think it's alrady been done with some of the more advanced Windows text editors.
Sure, you can only use ctrl-xyz combinations for app control because regular characters insert/replace text by default, but I think that's a helluva lot more intuative than Vim.
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Which is more than can be said for Prince Charles...
America's MUCH larger economy will allow it to absorb shocks better.
That's all very well, but perhaps you were talking about the economy. Look at New Orleans. It was a catastrophe.
You forgot being hung, drawn and quartered.
What about a tool to tally porncast viewers??
Yes, yes, my bad. :-) It's almost exactly 365.25 days a year instead. Still a co-incidence.
Well maybe you've got a point but :-)
a) the current system easily works well enough and
b) my second point still stands.
I disagree that there would be no disadvantages, of course there would. When you schedule a meeting now, you can easily tell what a reasonable time is to have the meeting because you have the notion of when daylight is. You can add/subtract hours to your time, to get their time, and retain that notion. If their daylight time period is suddenly expressed as a different figure, it's much harder to think of when their daylight hours are.
;-)
Also, it would become much more difficult to get used to the local time references if *YOU* travelled anywhere. Suddenly, you'd be going to bed at 1PM, and getting up at 12PM. All student jokes aside.
So, actually, your argument is for replacing rather antiquated timezone abbreviations with GMT (or maybe more universal UTC) offsets. Not changing most people's reference to hours in the day.
Actually, in all seriousness, it is *quite* a co-incidence that the Earth rotates almost exactly 364.75 times an orbit, isn't it? That we only have to add the odd leap second means that it's very close to a convenient fraction. I know it's not *that* convenient, but it is interesting.
Of course, if the Earth always rotated exactly 100 times per orbit, I'd probably be religious. The reality can be sensibly attributed to co-incidence.
It's also worth pointing out that the last time it was, Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus
*sigh*... and our parliament doesn't even need riots as an excuse, just some rabid police chiefs...
You're right, that is quite novel. It might replace the people' current way of making nouns possessive.
Millions, not yet billions.
XBox? I don't need no stinking console, these types of games are much more fun played close up to the screen, using a keyboard and a mouse. At least, they are now I'm totally used to doing it that way. Give me a PC anyday.
On another topic, my experience with Morrowind was rather depressing. I started out playing it hoping for an improvement on TES2. At first, I thought I'd got it - it certainly improved on the graphics side. But I'd say the gameplay is *worse*. The fighting system is clunky and far too easy, the storyline is too linear and the NPCs are pathetic, half of them just standing in the same place 24/78 for the whole of the game. Not good. Let's hope they overhaul and vastly improve the AI in Oblivion. I have to say my trust in Bethesda was shaken with Morrowind; I'll probably purchase Oblivion, but it better damn well be good.
sci.ence
n.
1. a. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
b. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
c. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
2. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
3. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
4. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
5. Chiefly Kansan Theories about how stuff works and was created.
Frankly, I wouldn't bother. I'm a UK male, and I don't know where the hell all these geeky women are, but they sure aren't anywhere I go. All the guys on Slashdot swooning over their nice geeky partners - whre the HELL did you meet them? Please tell the rest of us. I'm kinda assuming that these women mentioned are all middle-aged and married with children.
Anyone have a mirror available? Mirrodot is rather useless as iy only caches the first page. Boy, this site got Slashdotted quickly.
You also miss completely that our energy usage is only going to increase.
Why?
Also covered on FoxNews.
Has the payche(ck|que) from Rupert Murdoch arrived yet?
And anyway, ten thousand?! Ten measly fscking thousand? Take a look at this, even Canada uses 1.7 MILLION barrels a day. For some reason the US isn't on there, but I bet it uses significantly more. 10,000 a day is chickenfeed. Is that worth the hassle and lost productivity in the economy that DST causes?
Adapting our synthetic time system to nature's clock is only logical.
Of course, and we do; to an extent. But, like many arguments, this is one of degree. Ideally, we'd adapt our time cosntantly so that the daylight hours were perfectly centred around midday, as defined by the highpoint of the sun in the sky. We don't do that, because it would be WAY too much work. So why don't we adapt our time, maybe, 8 times a year? Again, too much work. So, the argument is along the lines of: why do you (or did Ben Franklin) think that adjusting time once a year was the place to draw the line? I say a better place would be to pick a time for midday that sticks closest to (natural) midday around the year, and stick to that. Way less hassle.
Uhm, no, that's a completely and utterly different 'problem'.
And the fact that you've just referred to opening times using the timezone system is a good example of why it's good - everyone can understand what kind of times 6.30am, and 8.30am are.
I hear last week Omar ate pork. At least he almost did, before Maryam saw him with it. That was 2 part episode!!
It would be sheer idiocy to give goverments unaccountable to their people ANY control when we can avoid it. Unless you think it'd be okay for China's dictators to vote .tw addresses dropped from DNS, etc.
.xxx TLD, and fully support the FBI's new focus on deviant porn? They seem to like sticking their grubby fingers into the net too.
How can you say this with a straight face?
The Bush administration is unaccountable to over 50% of the US population, who did not vote for them. Yeah, there are other governmental institutions than the Whitehouse (not that they're any more representative of their respective areas), but the Whitehouse seems to be the focus of power. Isn't it the Bush administration that just put a block on the
China want to censor anti-government feeling, Whitehouse wants to censor what it doesn't like. It'd censor anti-government feeling if it could get away with it, too.
Fuck the parties; it makes me sad for the public.
I've got an idea, and it's just crazy enough to work. Why not try and combine the two, creating a text editor that's a GUI, inserts text when keys are pressed by default, yet IS completely controllable from the keyboard? Start with Notepad, then add tons of functionality whilst keeping the fundamental idea (a n00b can edit a simple text file) the same? I think it's alrady been done with some of the more advanced Windows text editors.
Sure, you can only use ctrl-xyz combinations for app control because regular characters insert/replace text by default, but I think that's a helluva lot more intuative than Vim.