Wow... I guess something went wrong way before the Chinese appeared on the scene... That's the problem with selling something: It means giving it up. You can't sell a cake and eat it.
Or as they say: Us universities offer the best grades your money can buy.
That's a more recent example, but unlike the previous examples, it is an actual movie with a story (taken fromn Shakespeare) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(yes, there is a slow TV wikipedia article that cites some earlier stuff, but unlike watching a sleeping guy or this https://www.independent.co.uk/... there is stuff that people actually want to watch)
addresses that are not easily located through conventional descriptors like street names or house numbers. That's half of the world's urban population, according to a World Bank estimate.
No, they don't work for half of the world's urban population because they don't have addresses.
Absolutely agree. That's why I was shocked to see the effect it had on my girlfriend. As you said, I know better than than to build my expectations on social media and "reality" tv.
And the problem wasn't the better picture of the Eiffel Tower. The problem is with continuing that game. If you don't like it - for whatever reason - why no say so?
Right now, software engineers program artificial intelligence to recognize people by feeding them millions of pictures of faces," she writes. "But whose faces? Computer scientists run into the same questions about gender, race, and culture that the Wikipedia editors encountered."
At least that problem will solve itself as soon as the training set grows to 8 billion pictures.
But it is under attack by Facebook, Twitter et al.
Not by the companies itself. By your very friends, neighbours, church... well "society" itself.
It's subtle. But everyone posting "happy moments" builds expectations in others. Why doesn't my dinner look as perfect as hers? Why didn't my boyfriend propose to me with such an expensive ring? Why did we not go to Paris for honeymoon? Why don't I have such adorable kids? That builds up huge pressure! You feel like a failure because you compare your (pretty good) life to the "best of highlights" sampler from others social media, but of course can't admit that! (or that your cake on your post looks perfect because you baked and threw away 10 others before you got the hang of decorating it right)
But does that keep you from joining that game? NO!
Real life example. Girlfriend heard of Paris as "city of love". Overdose of "the Bachelor" and others honeymoon pictures I guess. Yes, it has nice places, but turns out that first of all, Paris is a regular big city with all the big city problems, too. (noise, trash, homeless people in subway stations) Sorry but it's a real place and not Disneyland. She hated it. But what ended up on facebook? The picture of us below the Eiffel tower in sunshine as "memory of a perfect trip". Yes! Go ahead, help other being disappointed, too!
(Ironically, it wasn't my first trip there and that time, I felt I i started to know my way around there and got some ideas of what really cool thing one could do there.)
If you milk your cows 5:00 UTC and 17:00 UTC, you do that regardless of ordinary or DST at exact those times.
I AM posting from Europe.
And I completely agree that that would be an easy way to avoid DST related problems on farms. But still, "cows confused by changing milking times" is one of the major points in every article that tries to get rid of DST.
If you say they don't, the "why" is a pretty obvious conclusion: The actual problem is solved since ever (by sticking to UTC milking times - or probably rather a propriatary farm time that corrosponds not with UTC but with non-DST local time) and the argument as a con-DST point is pure BS.
With Harry Potter I had the feeling that the story created that magical universe and it is a shame to waste it's potential. I want to see what stories other authors can find in there! I want to see how "Scrubs" would happen at St. Mungos. Or the Adventures of two Aurors in "Miami Vice" style.
HHGTTG was about people. and other authors indeed shouldn't play with them. We follow them through a series of settings, but without ever returning to the, see a development or creating a background story for the... well... background, that could be connected to to explore further. I guess that's agood word to explain the difference. You only can *add* new planets, or guide articles, but not "explore".
(I actually tried to read it, but when you start out with, "throw away the entirety of the previous books," you might as well just write a different story.)
I'm afraid to burst your bubble, but THAT happened at the 3rd book. Could anyone imagine a better end than when at the end of the 2nd book, all literally comes together and the story forms a perfect circle?
Yes, Douglas Adams put lots of his typical humor in the next three volumes - but it will always feel like an add-on that's just loosely attached. And then... what is canon? I'd go for the books, but they already were re-writes that would not match a hypothetical "radio series canon".
My only consolidation is that Douglas Adams himself said, he didn't care about continuity because he had so much fun re-inventing the whole story again and again for each medium and rather cared what worked in that form (from TV to computer game) than what matches the previous installments.
Before they had time zones, it was pretty much established in most of the western world that 12:00am was when the sun was the highest.
Am I missing something? 12:00 am is midnight.
It would be pretty weird to have 12:00 am immediately followed by 12:01 pm.
Now that you mention it, it's no less weird than having 11:59am followed by 12:00 pm. But if 12:00 is noon, it is technically neither ante or post noon (meridian)
Convention. Symmetry makes some easier calculations Not more, not less. But the whole concept of measurable time is human made, so probably any convention would work somehow.
I like DST in the summer, but it's a convention. And as with all conventions: Feel free to ignore it and do your own stuff. They are not mandatory, but it just makes life much easier when interacting people use the same ones. Go ahead and split your day between sunset and sunrise into 42 flumps! If you schedule your breakfast at 2 flump, it will always be in sync with the break of daylight. Farmers and cows would probably love that! (I heard it confuses both when they do a hard adjust of milking times twice a year) Have your farm running on flump time! Work 30 flumps every day and your working hours will adopt to available daylight and amount of work neccessary on your farm.
But you can us flumps as office worker, too. You only need to accept that your regular 9-5 jobs starts at a different flump time every day and that in winter you have to work way more flumps at the office than in winter. (which corrosponds to the fact that you spent a smaller fraction of daylight at the office during summer when days are longer but you're on 8 hr days)
There is no thing as "natural time" (except maybe the steady rise of entropy in the universe)
There is sunrise and sunset, everything else is convention, even calling the time when the sun is highest "noon". If you want to split the day into more handle-able slices AND being closer to the natural rhythm, you would need to take the time between sunrise and sunset and split that up in any arbitrary number of units. Yes, a working day in summer will be longer than in winter, but days will naturally be longer in summer, too.
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I have a name for it: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
Or is that already taken?
You can BUY US-schools?
Wow... I guess something went wrong way before the Chinese appeared on the scene... That's the problem with selling something: It means giving it up. You can't sell a cake and eat it.
Or as they say: Us universities offer the best grades your money can buy.
They may have come up with the name "Slow TV", but not with the Idea of slow tv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's a more recent example, but unlike the previous examples, it is an actual movie with a story (taken fromn Shakespeare) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(yes, there is a slow TV wikipedia article that cites some earlier stuff, but unlike watching a sleeping guy or this https://www.independent.co.uk/... there is stuff that people actually want to watch)
During the last decades, Sri Lanka didn't need facebook to have bloody riots.
It's about ads, not content. That's the difference.
No one wants books to be burnt or otherwise destroyed, as you never know if you may need it and want to get your hands on it.
Ads on the other hands... like garbage, that should be burnt. And if I have it thrown at me against my will, it better should be sanitized.
Actually, I would rather have a beer with Google's Director of Unsustainable Ads. He's probably more amusing and more fun at parties.
May I suggest Google's former Director of Search Quality? who else could give the Job Title of "porn cookie guy"....
They need that for conventional addresses, too.
addresses that are not easily located through conventional descriptors like street names or house numbers. That's half of the world's urban population, according to a World Bank estimate.
No, they don't work for half of the world's urban population because they don't have addresses.
That was even in the summary!
we could use a few ships in working condition...
That depends on your jurisdiction. There is a well known concept of "punitive damage"
Absolutely agree. That's why I was shocked to see the effect it had on my girlfriend. As you said, I know better than than to build my expectations on social media and "reality" tv.
And the problem wasn't the better picture of the Eiffel Tower. The problem is with continuing that game. If you don't like it - for whatever reason - why no say so?
Right now, software engineers program artificial intelligence to recognize people by feeding them millions of pictures of faces," she writes. "But whose faces? Computer scientists run into the same questions about gender, race, and culture that the Wikipedia editors encountered."
At least that problem will solve itself as soon as the training set grows to 8 billion pictures.
Shouldn't the picture show where we've got to rather than the primitive roots we came from?
Which would be where exactly? Currently, it would be an IMDB-link to "Idiocracy".
So I just need to post things with a hashtag that is automatically retweeted by many others to become viral? Hooray! #meetoo will be famous!
But it is under attack by Facebook, Twitter et al.
Not by the companies itself. By your very friends, neighbours, church... well "society" itself.
It's subtle. But everyone posting "happy moments" builds expectations in others. Why doesn't my dinner look as perfect as hers? Why didn't my boyfriend propose to me with such an expensive ring? Why did we not go to Paris for honeymoon? Why don't I have such adorable kids? That builds up huge pressure! You feel like a failure because you compare your (pretty good) life to the "best of highlights" sampler from others social media, but of course can't admit that! (or that your cake on your post looks perfect because you baked and threw away 10 others before you got the hang of decorating it right)
But does that keep you from joining that game? NO!
Real life example. Girlfriend heard of Paris as "city of love". Overdose of "the Bachelor" and others honeymoon pictures I guess. Yes, it has nice places, but turns out that first of all, Paris is a regular big city with all the big city problems, too. (noise, trash, homeless people in subway stations) Sorry but it's a real place and not Disneyland. She hated it. But what ended up on facebook? The picture of us below the Eiffel tower in sunshine as "memory of a perfect trip". Yes! Go ahead, help other being disappointed, too!
(Ironically, it wasn't my first trip there and that time, I felt I i started to know my way around there and got some ideas of what really cool thing one could do there.)
In Europe they usually are not.
Why would they? That was the original question.
If you milk your cows 5:00 UTC and 17:00 UTC, you do that regardless of ordinary or DST at exact those times.
I AM posting from Europe.
And I completely agree that that would be an easy way to avoid DST related problems on farms. But still, "cows confused by changing milking times" is one of the major points in every article that tries to get rid of DST.
If you say they don't, the "why" is a pretty obvious conclusion: The actual problem is solved since ever (by sticking to UTC milking times - or probably rather a propriatary farm time that corrosponds not with UTC but with non-DST local time) and the argument as a con-DST point is pure BS.
Wait wait wait.... now... ARE they adjusting the milking times according to DST or aren't they?
I never got that. But why are they complaining thai DST messes up their milking schedule then?
That is my alarm sound every morning!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I object.
With Harry Potter I had the feeling that the story created that magical universe and it is a shame to waste it's potential. I want to see what stories other authors can find in there! I want to see how "Scrubs" would happen at St. Mungos. Or the Adventures of two Aurors in "Miami Vice" style.
HHGTTG was about people. and other authors indeed shouldn't play with them. We follow them through a series of settings, but without ever returning to the, see a development or creating a background story for the ... well... background, that could be connected to to explore further. I guess that's agood word to explain the difference. You only can *add* new planets, or guide articles, but not "explore".
(I actually tried to read it, but when you start out with, "throw away the entirety of the previous books," you might as well just write a different story.)
I'm afraid to burst your bubble, but THAT happened at the 3rd book. Could anyone imagine a better end than when at the end of the 2nd book, all literally comes together and the story forms a perfect circle?
Yes, Douglas Adams put lots of his typical humor in the next three volumes - but it will always feel like an add-on that's just loosely attached. And then... what is canon? I'd go for the books, but they already were re-writes that would not match a hypothetical "radio series canon".
My only consolidation is that Douglas Adams himself said, he didn't care about continuity because he had so much fun re-inventing the whole story again and again for each medium and rather cared what worked in that form (from TV to computer game) than what matches the previous installments.
Radio or TV Series?
Am I missing something? 12:00 am is midnight.
It would be pretty weird to have 12:00 am immediately followed by 12:01 pm.
Now that you mention it, it's no less weird than having 11:59am followed by 12:00 pm. But if 12:00 is noon, it is technically neither ante or post noon (meridian)
Why?
Convention. Symmetry makes some easier calculations Not more, not less. But the whole concept of measurable time is human made, so probably any convention would work somehow.
I like DST in the summer, but it's a convention. And as with all conventions: Feel free to ignore it and do your own stuff. They are not mandatory, but it just makes life much easier when interacting people use the same ones. Go ahead and split your day between sunset and sunrise into 42 flumps! If you schedule your breakfast at 2 flump, it will always be in sync with the break of daylight. Farmers and cows would probably love that! (I heard it confuses both when they do a hard adjust of milking times twice a year) Have your farm running on flump time! Work 30 flumps every day and your working hours will adopt to available daylight and amount of work neccessary on your farm.
But you can us flumps as office worker, too. You only need to accept that your regular 9-5 jobs starts at a different flump time every day and that in winter you have to work way more flumps at the office than in winter. (which corrosponds to the fact that you spent a smaller fraction of daylight at the office during summer when days are longer but you're on 8 hr days)
There is no thing as "natural time" (except maybe the steady rise of entropy in the universe)
There is sunrise and sunset, everything else is convention, even calling the time when the sun is highest "noon". If you want to split the day into more handle-able slices AND being closer to the natural rhythm, you would need to take the time between sunrise and sunset and split that up in any arbitrary number of units. Yes, a working day in summer will be longer than in winter, but days will naturally be longer in summer, too.