Timezones are NOT needed for anything. Your proposal would make them even worse. Most of the EU shares the same time zone already now and I would be happy seeing them gone for good everywhere. What you propose would bring more of them and cause clock changes even within one country/city, maybe even city block... No, getridoftimezones.org!
UTC is the way to go! About the only two drawbacks are that some people will have to get used to a)date/day of week change somewhere during daytime, and b) celebrating New Year in full sunlight, which makes fireworks less impressive;-)
Both the timezones and the DST are obsolete, confusing, error prone, useless and completely unnecessary pieces of crap that bring more harm than good.
Somebody has even registered "getridoftimezones.org" already:-)
P. S. Where errors and confusion can be too costly to bear (aviation, military,...) people got rid of those things long ago.
Some people are too stupid to handle "real" computers and some are too stupid to learn how malware is classified and what a malware index is. Hint: OSX/CoinThief.A is NOT a name of the program in question.
.. which is time zones in the first place. They stem from the times when circumnavigating the globe took months if not years, and even back then it was not really useful.
Time zones in general bring more harm than good and they only exist in order to feed our habits of having specific digits on the clock when we do various things. Whenever there is a need for something unambiguous and not susceptible to errors people learned long ago that the only way is to use single time description for the whole planet. Aviation, military and many other services use the only reasonable, unambiguous time description: "Zulu time" aka UTC.
When you really think deeply and throw away the "that's impossible" prejudices about time zones - there is really nothing that we would lose by throwing away them completely and saving lots of confusion, unnecessary dealing with them, unnecessary handling of errors with them, etc.. There is only one thing that would be very difficult to adjust ourselves to: New Year would have to start in full sun in some places...
Those things happen. Slightly less often on OS X because they added some constraints on resizing triggers. But all the annoying beauty of this brain-dead idea is there: distracting pointer/cursor changes, unintentional resizes when something completely different was meant. Lost workflow focus, lost time re-sizing the window back to what it was supposed to remain..
And what's worst is that this s**t can't be turned off properly. True, one can edit the plist with either editor or "defaults" command but turning it off this way introduces rendering errors in many windows. Especially there, where the resize gadget is supposed to be placed.
OS X has been going downhill (the autosave/versioning sucks for how I use software) and now with 10.9 mail.app regressions and iWorks losing features. I'm not upgrading to iOS 7. I'm not sure if I'll upgrade to 10.9 I need to buy a new computer in a couple months so I may switch to OpenIndiana. Maybe Linux for steam box, we'll see.
The last uphill version was 10.5. This current 10.9 is in big part back-pedalling the visuals of 10.7/8 without removing the functional crap they introduced. I decided not to go beyond 10.6 the moment I saw "Edge Resize" in 10.7:-(( So... no, thanks - even being free (as beer) doesn't make it more appealing..
Is this because of him that the latest MacOS versions got "blessed" with the annoying, workflow interrupting feature called "EdgeResize" in all windows?;-)
Strength of the password is inversely proportional to the time needed to type it in and effort required to remember it. Generation "G" (today's youngsters) have much lower tolerance for complexity and deferred gratification. Not much of a surprise here IMHO.
As requested: it is not exactly as you understood, although also no the way, summary tells. He says that there MAY be cases, which can be categorised as non freely available, but IF those get identified, there will be a clear and highly precise catalogue of those cases...
Well, it doesn't change things much (backdoor is there) but the wording is more palatable (as expected from an experienced liar^H^H^H^Hpolitician)
... with cool name. I like it. Although it seems to be the only thing he's got there. Sure he didn't notice that every Macbook can boot _natively_ into any GNU/Linux, Windows, whatever runs on x86 hardware. Sure he didn't notice that on Linux there are.deb based package managers,.rpm based ones or build from sources options. Surely he didn't notice that there are binaries distributed in Fink, which is exactly apt/dpkg/.deb based. Surely he didn't notice that _web_ development as opposed to e. g. native application development is _usually_ abstracted so far from the guts of the OS that it doesn't really matter what kernel/filesystem/scheduler it is being developed on. Etc., and so on.. but who cares when it is much easier to put up a set of misleading half-truths than do the research and educate oneself?
As is this modded as "Informative":-( No - it works as described by "KingSkippus" and it happens all too often. The reason I stopped using BCC was exactly a situation like the one described above.
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Timezones are NOT needed for anything. Your proposal would make them even worse. Most of the EU shares the same time zone already now and I would be happy seeing them gone for good everywhere. What you propose would bring more of them and cause clock changes even within one country/city, maybe even city block... No, getridoftimezones.org!
Yes, Yes, Yes!!! ;-)
And someone has already registered "getridoftimezones.org"
I would like 12:00 noon every day to coincide with a local solar maximum.
Why? And what for? Relativity aside - time is one. Everywhere on the planet. UTC is the way to go.
Exactly! except that we should talk about UTC, rather than GMT.
UTC is the way to go! About the only two drawbacks are that some people will have to get used to a)date/day of week change somewhere during daytime, and b) celebrating New Year in full sunlight, which makes fireworks less impressive ;-)
Both the timezones and the DST are obsolete, confusing, error prone, useless and completely unnecessary pieces of crap that bring more harm than good. Somebody has even registered "getridoftimezones.org" already :-)
P. S. Where errors and confusion can be too costly to bear (aviation, military, ...) people got rid of those things long ago.
Some people are too stupid to handle "real" computers and some are too stupid to learn how malware is classified and what a malware index is. Hint: OSX/CoinThief.A is NOT a name of the program in question.
.. which is time zones in the first place. They stem from the times when circumnavigating the globe took months if not years, and even back then it was not really useful. Time zones in general bring more harm than good and they only exist in order to feed our habits of having specific digits on the clock when we do various things. Whenever there is a need for something unambiguous and not susceptible to errors people learned long ago that the only way is to use single time description for the whole planet. Aviation, military and many other services use the only reasonable, unambiguous time description: "Zulu time" aka UTC. When you really think deeply and throw away the "that's impossible" prejudices about time zones - there is really nothing that we would lose by throwing away them completely and saving lots of confusion, unnecessary dealing with them, unnecessary handling of errors with them, etc.. There is only one thing that would be very difficult to adjust ourselves to: New Year would have to start in full sun in some places...
Those things happen. Slightly less often on OS X because they added some constraints on resizing triggers. But all the annoying beauty of this brain-dead idea is there: distracting pointer/cursor changes, unintentional resizes when something completely different was meant. Lost workflow focus, lost time re-sizing the window back to what it was supposed to remain.. And what's worst is that this s**t can't be turned off properly. True, one can edit the plist with either editor or "defaults" command but turning it off this way introduces rendering errors in many windows. Especially there, where the resize gadget is supposed to be placed.
OS X has been going downhill (the autosave/versioning sucks for how I use software) and now with 10.9 mail.app regressions and iWorks losing features. I'm not upgrading to iOS 7. I'm not sure if I'll upgrade to 10.9 I need to buy a new computer in a couple months so I may switch to OpenIndiana. Maybe Linux for steam box, we'll see.
The last uphill version was 10.5. This current 10.9 is in big part back-pedalling the visuals of 10.7/8 without removing the functional crap they introduced. I decided not to go beyond 10.6 the moment I saw "Edge Resize" in 10.7 :-(( So... no, thanks - even being free (as beer) doesn't make it more appealing..
[...] I mention that because Apple now seems to be my Microsoft. iOS 7 is ugly as fuck.
My fucks are always beautiful. Or at least pretty (when I am more desperate).
I rarely condone use of f-words but this is the case when I couldn't say it any better...
"Human males and females have a strong tendency to live together in monogamous pairs"
As much as they have a strong tendency towards not being able to afford harems.
Is this because of him that the latest MacOS versions got "blessed" with the annoying, workflow interrupting feature called "EdgeResize" in all windows? ;-)
"Is this the beginning of the end for Android?"
No, and by far no... What a stupid question...
Strength of the password is inversely proportional to the time needed to type it in and effort required to remember it. Generation "G" (today's youngsters) have much lower tolerance for complexity and deferred gratification. Not much of a surprise here IMHO.
Isn't there in designing and producing a car enough creationism?
It's just as with every other business: one needs to reach the customers, potentially solving some technical challenges on the way there.
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I'd even learn to fly and echolocate mosquitos in order to eat them if they were mango flavoured!
As requested: it is not exactly as you understood, although also no the way, summary tells. He says that there MAY be cases, which can be categorised as non freely available, but IF those get identified, there will be a clear and highly precise catalogue of those cases... Well, it doesn't change things much (backdoor is there) but the wording is more palatable (as expected from an experienced liar^H^H^H^Hpolitician)
... with cool name. I like it. Although it seems to be the only thing he's got there. Sure he didn't notice that every Macbook can boot _natively_ into any GNU/Linux, Windows, whatever runs on x86 hardware. Sure he didn't notice that on Linux there are .deb based package managers, .rpm based ones or build from sources options. Surely he didn't notice that there are binaries distributed in Fink, which is exactly apt/dpkg/.deb based. Surely he didn't notice that _web_ development as opposed to e. g. native application development is _usually_ abstracted so far from the guts of the OS that it doesn't really matter what kernel/filesystem/scheduler it is being developed on. Etc., and so on.. but who cares when it is much easier to put up a set of misleading half-truths than do the research and educate oneself?
As is this modded as "Informative" :-( No - it works as described by "KingSkippus" and it happens all too often. The reason I stopped using BCC was exactly a situation like the one described above.
The pure fact that this is modded 5:funny shows how dumb people can be... ;-)
"One concern is security and whether or not a tablet could be wirelessly hacked."
Yeah - whether or... what?