Counting down to the first post on the lines of "... blah blah scientists always claim stuff will be ready 'soon'. Wake me up when I can buy it on Amazon at a decent price... whine grumble it's dark here in the basement..." B^>
Maybe Windows is not all I (or these other people) use or do all day so why should we happen to remember obscure commands for the least nice and most flaky ones?
Can you tell me the equivalent for (say) C/PM, M/PM, the BBC Micro and a bunch of very common home computers, several mainframe OSes including some uni homebrews, several dozen flavours of UNIX with varying terminal settings since the 80s, Mac OS up to 9 and the current macOS, etc, etc? Plus embedded systems of various types from the 80s onwards? And (say) the common debugging tools in each? And some X.25 PAD escapes, and ssh, screen? Why not, it's obvious!
Just because you know one thing that's important to you, does not make it important or obvious to people with other priorities in life... Nor does it make it right to attempt to shame someone for not knowing,
Why the snark? Do you get off on making other people feel small?
If people don't understand what's going on it can be worrying or worse. I suspect from your ID (if not your handle) that I may have been programming in assembler and using multiple OSes since before you were born, and don't happen to know that hot-key sequence.
Yes the time zones are bigger than an hour difference. Only basement dwelling idiots haven't observed that fact.
Which wasn't my point AT ALL. The seasonal change in day length is far more than any 1 hour shift, and not all use cases are the same as your use cases.
Day length changes from ~8h to ~16h in the UK between winter and summer. No single fixed shift (especially of an hour) is or ever will suit all use cases. We should be adapting our work and travel (etc) patterns with the seasons to reflect that. The council cemetery opposite me manages a simple schedule of opening to only let people in when it's light, for example.
I found out about the survey (I am in the UK) and voted to end DST... when the server stayed up long enough to accept my vote. (It was crashing under the weight of people trying to use it, not being DDoSed, it seems.)
A previous business partner on mine used to deadpan "What's the only kind of car that does not need careful driving and maintenance?" to which the answer was of course "A rental car."
If there's a problem, I try to fix it the 'standard' way, though the normal customer service channels, etc.
If it's clear that that will not fix the problem, eg because of bad actors or poor processes, I then usually start again, but at the top of the organisation, eg with a calm note to the MD/CEO's PA saying: "Do they realise that this is going on, and how customers are being treated?" The results can be spectacular (and gratifying).
I have a little anecdote about a telex I had to send to the CEO of a small company called Microsoft along those lines, and how in the end it helped get seed funding for my first start-up! (And no, the product 'feature' that I was trying to get fixed, wasn't fixable, but I was able to spend time on other things once I knew so definitively...)
It doesn't always work, and a smart guy who works for me was questioning on Friday if it is worth the effort. Overall, yes, I think so, because (a) it often gets my problem fixed properly and (b) I think it makes the world a slightly better place for everyone else too.
Quite sure that it's nothing to do with larger houses (more floorspace to heat and cool and light per person) and larger less efficient personal vehicles with longer distances to travel due to less clustered population?
I haven't paid office rent in 20-odd years for my own businesses, and when not working for myself my clients have been multinationals where you're simply not going to get everyone to commute to one place*, so distance working has to be dealt with anyway.
A fact overlooked by the dev support dept of the NYC HQ of one of my clients which 'saved' money by not buying electronic copies of some critical documentation, and just kept one paper copy in NJ that we could all 'pop over' to read. Not that great for the devs in NYC, but you can imagine the commentary from London and Tokyo devs...
But (and this is important when applying for some funding, that's how I know) it is *not* a state in its own right, whether or not it walks and quacks a bit like that duck...
So, I disagree about dense urban living being bad, though I'm not in the very centre where I am. It is great being able to quickly walk to most places I want to get to (no finding a place to park, and being able to have a drink, for example), including huge well-maintained (royal!) parks, with excellent public transport beyond that.
I also find cars an uncomfortable nuisance. Though I can drive, and have driven quite a lot outside the UK too (including the US), I am very glad that I've never had to buy, insure, or maintain one, nor pay for the real-estate to park one on.
I do enjoy living in the country too, but suburbs and exurbs (and I've tried the Pekin, IL version), no thanks.
Doesn't matter how many times you try to stir the sh*t, the EU is doing pretty well on carbon emissions by and large, as are many of the individual member states.
Short-term blips and diversions are not at all the same as wilfully ignoring fact and endangering the entire human race for some short term political and monetary gain...
Poor trolling. Perfect monotonic graphs would be lovely but this is the real world. Take a look at some of the individual member states' progress for example.
Surely that's paid trolling (or a blind-drunk post, or a prank) since it is difficult to believe anyone that manages to breathe can actually believe that level of stupid.
Rgds
Damon
PS. I guess we should be grateful that/. does not allow penis-pic attachments to posts...
I've lived in some of the allegedly no-go areas in the UK, no problem at all. Had most of the phone lines in one street as I ran an early (dial-up) ISP for example...
I've not enjoyed some parts of big US cities nor (say) the look of the shanties in South Africa.
The standard of living here in London is as good as NYC or Tokyo or anywhere else I've spent significant time.
It's almost impossible to tell in advance between Arthur C Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology" and "rigged demo", so if you want to know about the possibilities several years out of the catalogue then you absolutely have to be hearing about a little "fake news" and do your own filtering.
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Rgds
Damon
Maybe Windows is not all I (or these other people) use or do all day so why should we happen to remember obscure commands for the least nice and most flaky ones?
Can you tell me the equivalent for (say) C/PM, M/PM, the BBC Micro and a bunch of very common home computers, several mainframe OSes including some uni homebrews, several dozen flavours of UNIX with varying terminal settings since the 80s, Mac OS up to 9 and the current macOS, etc, etc? Plus embedded systems of various types from the 80s onwards? And (say) the common debugging tools in each? And some X.25 PAD escapes, and ssh, screen? Why not, it's obvious!
Just because you know one thing that's important to you, does not make it important or obvious to people with other priorities in life... Nor does it make it right to attempt to shame someone for not knowing,
Why the snark? Do you get off on making other people feel small?
If people don't understand what's going on it can be worrying or worse. I suspect from your ID (if not your handle) that I may have been programming in assembler and using multiple OSes since before you were born, and don't happen to know that hot-key sequence.
Yes the time zones are bigger than an hour difference. Only basement dwelling idiots haven't observed that fact.
Which wasn't my point AT ALL. The seasonal change in day length is far more than any 1 hour shift, and not all use cases are the same as your use cases.
And why so damn rude also? There is no need.
People keep saying this as if it were meaningful. Here in London UK daylight length changes between ~8h and ~16h between mid-winter and mid-summer.
What does fiddling with an hour do other than make work and complexity?
Our internal clocks remain driven by light, including sunlight.
Rgds
Damon
Mmm, yes, blackout blinds are definitely our friends, and free of religion and (most) ceremony!
Rgds
Damon
Day length changes from ~8h to ~16h in the UK between winter and summer. No single fixed shift (especially of an hour) is or ever will suit all use cases. We should be adapting our work and travel (etc) patterns with the seasons to reflect that. The council cemetery opposite me manages a simple schedule of opening to only let people in when it's light, for example.
Rgds
Damon
I found out about the survey (I am in the UK) and voted to end DST... when the server stayed up long enough to accept my vote. (It was crashing under the weight of people trying to use it, not being DDoSed, it seems.)
Rgds
Damon
Wooooosh!
A previous business partner on mine used to deadpan "What's the only kind of car that does not need careful driving and maintenance?" to which the answer was of course "A rental car."
(He was observing, not endorsing.)
Rgds
Damon
I agree with you.
If there's a problem, I try to fix it the 'standard' way, though the normal customer service channels, etc.
If it's clear that that will not fix the problem, eg because of bad actors or poor processes, I then usually start again, but at the top of the organisation, eg with a calm note to the MD/CEO's PA saying: "Do they realise that this is going on, and how customers are being treated?" The results can be spectacular (and gratifying).
I have a little anecdote about a telex I had to send to the CEO of a small company called Microsoft along those lines, and how in the end it helped get seed funding for my first start-up! (And no, the product 'feature' that I was trying to get fixed, wasn't fixable, but I was able to spend time on other things once I knew so definitively...)
It doesn't always work, and a smart guy who works for me was questioning on Friday if it is worth the effort. Overall, yes, I think so, because (a) it often gets my problem fixed properly and (b) I think it makes the world a slightly better place for everyone else too.
Be clear, be calm, be reasonable, be documented.
Rgds
Damon
I've had to wait more than once while that happened, some years ago, IIRC.
Rgds
Damon
Transformers don't contain heavy metals
What? Transformers are made almost entirely out of heavy metals.
Not by any relevant definition of "heavy" eg toxic. There's a lot of iron and copper in these things I assume, but they aren't that horrible.
Or did you have some other definition in mind? There's lots to choose from with that term! %-P
Rgds
Damon
Quite sure that it's nothing to do with larger houses (more floorspace to heat and cool and light per person) and larger less efficient personal vehicles with longer distances to travel due to less clustered population?
Rgds
Damon
I haven't paid office rent in 20-odd years for my own businesses, and when not working for myself my clients have been multinationals where you're simply not going to get everyone to commute to one place*, so distance working has to be dealt with anyway.
A fact overlooked by the dev support dept of the NYC HQ of one of my clients which 'saved' money by not buying electronic copies of some critical documentation, and just kept one paper copy in NJ that we could all 'pop over' to read. Not that great for the devs in NYC, but you can imagine the commentary from London and Tokyo devs...
Rgds
Damon
Your response is far too kind to a fairly transparent bit of trolling...
I'd rather you had that nice bottle of red, peacemaking and calm should have its rewards...
Rgds
Damon
But (and this is important when applying for some funding, that's how I know) it is *not* a state in its own right, whether or not it walks and quacks a bit like that duck...
Rgds
Damon
So, I disagree about dense urban living being bad, though I'm not in the very centre where I am. It is great being able to quickly walk to most places I want to get to (no finding a place to park, and being able to have a drink, for example), including huge well-maintained (royal!) parks, with excellent public transport beyond that.
I also find cars an uncomfortable nuisance. Though I can drive, and have driven quite a lot outside the UK too (including the US), I am very glad that I've never had to buy, insure, or maintain one, nor pay for the real-estate to park one on.
I do enjoy living in the country too, but suburbs and exurbs (and I've tried the Pekin, IL version), no thanks.
Rgds
Damon
Doesn't matter how many times you try to stir the sh*t, the EU is doing pretty well on carbon emissions by and large, as are many of the individual member states.
Short-term blips and diversions are not at all the same as wilfully ignoring fact and endangering the entire human race for some short term political and monetary gain...
Even more stupid trolling! All the way down!
Poor trolling. Perfect monotonic graphs would be lovely but this is the real world. Take a look at some of the individual member states' progress for example.
The EU is *not* a state, not legally nor actually.
Rgds
Damon
Surely that's paid trolling (or a blind-drunk post, or a prank) since it is difficult to believe anyone that manages to breathe can actually believe that level of stupid.
Rgds
Damon
PS. I guess we should be grateful that /. does not allow penis-pic attachments to posts...
Poor trolling.
I've lived in some of the allegedly no-go areas in the UK, no problem at all. Had most of the phone lines in one street as I ran an early (dial-up) ISP for example...
I've not enjoyed some parts of big US cities nor (say) the look of the shanties in South Africa.
The standard of living here in London is as good as NYC or Tokyo or anywhere else I've spent significant time.
It's almost impossible to tell in advance between Arthur C Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology" and "rigged demo", so if you want to know about the possibilities several years out of the catalogue then you absolutely have to be hearing about a little "fake news" and do your own filtering.
Whining about having to think helps no one.
Rgds
Damon