Yes, finding a job when you don't have an address, money, food or means will be a snap!
The US street are littered with kids whose parent did that instead of actual get professional help.
.
Actually, they aren't. At least, not here in downtown Seattle. Maybe the middle-class-kids-living-on-the-streets scenario is only relevant in your particular area?
What, you don't think your 13 year old is smart enough to find the porn he or she wants? You're not protecting anyone from anything. Your prudery is probably more harmful than the porn you're so afraid of.
Hang on. So, are you actually making the argument that it is preferable for a 13 year old child to be exposed to goatse than it is for the same child to be exposed to parenting that would seek to keep them from being exposed to goatse?
In general, I would agree with this comment UNTIL Doom released. The first time I saw Doom, I was completely blown away. It was a game changer. Totally amazing at the time. I would say that Doom was the first game that proved the PC was an awesome gaming platform.
The problem is not that MSFT employees don't have good ideas; the problem is that management kills them...
Microsoft doesn't only kill the ideas. They also kill the employees too. (Spiritually). I notice that Microsoft isn't giving any employees any time allocation to do their epic shit. It's something that you can do in your "off time". Since the standard work week for a salaried employee at Microsoft is "Any 80 hours a week you want", I don't see too many people spending too much time in this "garage". Maybe a few recent grads that don't have any reason to go home after work.. but I wouldn't be there, that's for sure.
That said, if you're doing 64 GB in a couple of hours, a little more practice with shot discipline will help you both in storage and in workflow time. That's too many pictures.
Then the DELETE key is your friend. Especially if you're doing that many shots. They can't ALL win the Pulitzer Price.
Throw away most of what you shoot. I do. Most of my photos are awful!
Go through the few photos you save out of a roll, and then throw away all but the one strongest image.
Next time, go through the few you've saved from a few rolls, and throw more away.
This isn't painting. In photography it is a requirement to throw away most of what you do.
You'll see that if you only save or show your strongest images that your body of work will seem to improve. Guess what: as you show only the better images, your body of work as seen by others has improved!
Do you think I shoot a roll of film and get a roll loaded with the images you see in my galleries? Of course not. Most of what I shoot is crap. I'm just good enough to throw most of it away and only show the good stuff.
Ansel Adams said that if you can produce one strong image in a year that you are doing very well. Don't expect to turn out miracles every roll, or even every month. Ansel didn't, I don't, and I don't think anyone does.
Microwave ovens are non-ionizing radiation.. but it is a LOT of non-ionizing radiation and it is delivered inside of a resonant chamber. Microwave ovens also operate at roughly 2.4ghz. The higher the frequency, the more dangerous it is to people.. or so my FCC antenna exposure guidelines would have me believe. The bottom line is that cell phones have very low power output. Between 500mw and 1w, I believe. At that power and at cellular phone frequencies, there are no current studies to indicate that there is any harm being caused. Also, although there is not any positive data to indicate that cell phones cause problems, there is a lot of "negative" data that shows that RF doesn't seem to have much in the way of harmful effects. People have been working in radio stations in this country for almost 100 years and those stations often operate in the kilowatt and even megawatt range. There's been no studies that show that working in a radio station is certain death, I doubt there will be any studies to indicate that a cellphone is a _bad thing_.
I agree with this absolutely. I have a mother-in-law that literally lives across the country from me. I don't get over there all that often to work on the thing and it used to be a malware nightmare no matter how much prophylactic I would install. It's also an older computer, something I built for her almost 10 years ago (a Duron 800mhz, I believe!). Well, last summer, I took a stack of my old computer garbage to upgrade the platform as far as it would go and a XUbuntu disk. At first, my mother-in-law didn't much care for it, but before a couple months were out, she was a huge fan. The fact is that linux requires LESS support than Windows. It just works, works the way I set it up. It isn't tangled with malware or part of a botnet. It hasn't torn itself apart with its own self-loathing (like windows is wont to do). I even installed a fairly staggering selection of games from the humble bundle so that grandkids would still have games to play. I had converted her to firefox & thunderbird years ago, so those applications were still familiar to her, and to be honest, those are almost the only applications that she uses (and I'll bet those are almost the only applications your grandma uses too!). The fact is that the LESS computer saavy the user, the easier it is for them to switch to Linux.
A friend of mine heard the following statement while in law school from a professor: "Lawyers exist basically to slow things down and get paid a lot of money." From my experience as a pro se litigant, I would have to agree. I honestly would never be able to afford to pay a lawyer for the work that I do myself. It's like working on your own car: if you can afford to have someone else do it for you, that's great.. but I've never been that guy.:)
Interesting ideas, to be sure. It sounds like there already exists a framework for 10w FM broadcast (LPFM), but that the FCC stopped offering any licenses in 2003. I do agree that a 10w FM station on a channelized VHF band segment would probably not have too many problems with interference. Especially with the new narrow-band receivers & transmitters. You're right, though. I doubt that the FCC will ever enact such a thing. I'm still waiting for the FCC to move GMRS to an unlicensed service under part 15. There is a petition that has been pending, but I'm not holding my breath.
Oh! You were talking about BROADCASTING. It's too bad you didn't mention anything about broadcasting in your original post. I hold an extra class ticket too. It looked to me like you were mindlessly ranting about how the government doesn't give spectrum to the public, which it in fact does (in spades). The whole silly idea of letting every unlicensed idiot broadcast is nonsense. How in the world would you keep them from interfering with each other? How would you regulate these unlicensed broadcast stations _at all_? I've seen how much the FCC polices GMRS.
Yes, you're right. You can't setup a radio or TV broadcast station out of your house without considerable difficulty. If, however, you'd like to setup a point-point internet over radio service, you're welcome to do that over the ham bands. Folks do it all the time. You can't use them for commercial use, you can't transmit music (although you _can_ transmit video). In actual fact, you can setup a _very_ QRP FM broadcast station according to the FCC regs, but I doubt you could be heard more than a block away at the requisite power levels. In the future, try to be more clear about what you are talking about before getting worked up because you've been misunderstood.
The unused spectrum now assigned to television broadcast has been made available for public use by the FCC.
No. It hasn't. It's been made available for commercial use, following the long standing tradition at the FCC of giving the public nothing or next to nothing, and corporations everything.
For an example of how goofy these laws can be (and how heavily influenced by the hands-free-headset lobby), take a moment to peruse my state's cellphone-while-driving law: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.667
Things to take note of:
1) It is ok for me to talk on my cellphone (with it held to my ear), provided it is in speakerphone mode.
2) It is ok for me to talk on my cellphone IN FRONT OF MY FACE as long as it is in speakerphone mode.
3) It is ok for me to operate my amateur radio while driving, because dialing in a faint SSB signal from Japan on 10m while driving down the road, swapping callsigns and signal reports and having a FB QSO is apparently safer than holding a cellphone to my head while driving.
Anyways, if anyone wants to call me while I'm driving, I'll be on 146.52
I agree, scanned black & white negatives just aren't the same as printing them optically. Most people prefer a much lower contrast negative for scanning and ICE doesn't work with real B&W film. I'm able to print in my laundry room. I bought a Beseler 23C enlarger with lenses for about $100 a while back and aside from space for the enlarger, all you really need space for is the 8x10 trays. For printing, the room doesn't have to be "perfectly dark" like with inspection film developing. I find that all I need to do is wait until it is dark outside and pull the curtains shut. I still think it is magic when I see the picture start to form in the dektol.:)
There's a lot of good information and good perspective in this post, although I do believe that it is heavily skewed towards wedding photography and to a lesser extent photo journalism. (Which makes sense, consider the poster's admitted background of being a photo lab technician).
Time was, if you saw a wedding photographer with a 35mm camera, you knew they were amateur. The real wedding photographers all shot 645 or 6x6 on 220. This was still the case in 2000. The photo journalists were the first to make a serious switch to digital. This makes sense, since they were the first to switch to 35mm to begin with. In their line of work, being able to haul less gear and take more pictures is all win and they don't mind poor quality.
Fast forward to 2011. DSLR's can now seriously compete with 35mm for quality. Medium format equipment is basically worthless, since the people that used it (wedding photographers) have all switched to digital. Small format (35mm) color photography has effectively been replaced by digital.
This leaves 3 remaining classes of photographer that still seriously shoot film:
1) Landscape photographers. Landscape photographers still use large format view cameras. The difference in effective resolution between a 15mp digital camera and an 8x10 negative is so large that there isn't even an argument. When people sit down to argue "which is better", film or digital, they are always talking about 35mm. Digital can't even come close to competing with the quality of medium format yet, so I think that these folks will be taking their photographs on film for a long time to come.
2) Black & White photographers. Black and white film developing and printing is easy to do at home with minimal equipment. Real black & white printed optically looks gorgeous. We still can't easily reproduce that with digital.. (Full disclosure, my connection to Kodak is that I still buy Tri-X, Dektol, XTOL & Kodak indicator stop bath on a regular basis). Ken Rockwell has a good article on this subject: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/modern-bw.htm
3) "Lomographers". These photographers revel in lo-fi. It's kind of the opposite of the "measurebator" 'photogs'. Although I don't agree with the astonishing prices for some of these garbage cameras ($100 for a diana?!?) I applaud the emphasis on technique rather than chasing the fastest & sharpest lenses.
i would like to buy a 5 watt mobile UHF radio and a 5 watt UHF base station and both can use external antennas of my choice so i can RX/TX a few miles out on them.
GMRS licensees are already authorized to transmit up to 50w and to have detachable antennas and there are repeaters as well. Ta-da! Your wish has been granted!
"Is that some kind of fancy lightbulb, mister? Can I interest you in a cellphone?"
Actually, the last time I was in radio shack, they had a line of small PIC based kits on the shelves. I think that radioshack might be trying to get in on this whole kit building idea too. I'd love it if they did. I order all of my parts from mouser or digikey, but it sure would be nice to have a place to go to buy a few odds and ends when I needed without having them shipped.
Exactly. This comes back to the problem that I _JUST_ ran into with this article. I read that there are some neat accurate emulators I hadn't even heard about (Nintendulator & bsnes).. Cool! Let's see, what are the hardware requirements?
Nestopia 800mhz
Nintendulator 1.5ghz
bsnes 2-3ghz
These values mean absolutely NOTHING performance wise. I have Athlon XP 2500's that clock in at 2ghz. I also have Athlon 64 3700 that clocks in at 2.2ghz. Does that mean that the two processors are roughly equivalent? NO! It doesn't. It just means that the two processors have a similar frequency oscillator attached to them. It doesn't mean ANYTHING about the actual performance requirements to run these games. I still don't know if the kids' computers will push Nintendulator for example, since they are all 2ghz Athlon XP machines. I also don't know if my OWN computer (Athlon64x2 6000+) will push bsnes with its two cores clocked at 2.5ghz each. Oscillator frequency means nothing unless you also include what particular processor (running at that oscillator frequency) the software requires. Even then, I've still got to go through the interesting headgames, trying to decide if my XXX is vaguely equivalent to YYY.
WWV is weak on the West Coast. My watch sync attempts to sync to WWV every night but it is only successful about one day in three. This was initially frustrating because the device is supposed to adjust for DST but would fail to make the switch because it could not receive the signal on that day. Now the changeover day is different from what is programmed in so it doesn't work anyway.
Whoever designed that watch did a crummy job. There is a bit in the WWVB packet that tells the clock the current DST status: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB
I've designed a WWVB nixie clock before, there are definitely some serious design constraints. For starters, the signal is 60khz which is "Longwave". You need a lot of antenna to pull in a longwave signal with any real success. I used a very long loopstick antenna, and even then the antenna is directional, so the direction the clock is oriented _matters_. Additionally, lots of things generate noise (QRM) in these frequencies, so watch out for CRT televisions and computers and (in the case of nixie clocks: high voltage switching supplies and multiplexed nixie tubes ionizing and de-ionizing neon hundreds of times a second). I built this thing because I am a HAM and also into nixie tubes.. but the truth is that WWVB is obsolete. Nowadays, the best way to get accurate time is via GPS. You can buy a GPS module to pull the time from for about $25-$35 to build into your clock.
But I am sad about this line frequency change.. In the United States, one of the most accurate clock signals is the 60hz power. It's accurate to within about a minute a year at present. That is a LOT more accurate than a standard crystal. TCXO's (calibrated crystals that have temperature sensors in them that dynamically recalibrate for temperature) get to about a few seconds a year when they are brand new and then degrade from there with age. So, the long and the short of it is that if this change happens, and if it is a pretty noticeable hit to my clocks' accuracy, I'll be bodging in little TCXO controlled 60hz sinewave generators into all of my clocks..:(
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Yes, finding a job when you don't have an address, money, food or means will be a snap!
The US street are littered with kids whose parent did that instead of actual get professional help.
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Actually, they aren't. At least, not here in downtown Seattle. Maybe the middle-class-kids-living-on-the-streets scenario is only relevant in your particular area?
I think it is funny that while you were arguing that he didn't make that argument at all, the parent was arguing the opposite in a parallel thread.
What, you don't think your 13 year old is smart enough to find the porn he or she wants? You're not protecting anyone from anything. Your prudery is probably more harmful than the porn you're so afraid of.
Hang on. So, are you actually making the argument that it is preferable for a 13 year old child to be exposed to goatse than it is for the same child to be exposed to parenting that would seek to keep them from being exposed to goatse?
Better idea would be to stop doing the homework with your kids.
There, fixed that for you. You can always tell the people who don't have kids but assume that they're experts in parenting.
The other expression that you don't want to hear (A friend once heard this one from his plumber) is: "Oh, god. What have I gotten myself into?!?".
In general, I would agree with this comment UNTIL Doom released. The first time I saw Doom, I was completely blown away. It was a game changer. Totally amazing at the time. I would say that Doom was the first game that proved the PC was an awesome gaming platform.
The problem is not that MSFT employees don't have good ideas; the problem is that management kills them...
Microsoft doesn't only kill the ideas. They also kill the employees too. (Spiritually). I notice that Microsoft isn't giving any employees any time allocation to do their epic shit. It's something that you can do in your "off time". Since the standard work week for a salaried employee at Microsoft is "Any 80 hours a week you want", I don't see too many people spending too much time in this "garage". Maybe a few recent grads that don't have any reason to go home after work.. but I wouldn't be there, that's for sure.
A buggy as hell windows only clone of Synergy is all they can come up with? Hardly epic shit.
There, I fixed that for you. "Mouse Without Borders" is a cute idea but unless you like the occasional full system lockup, stick with synergy.
That said, if you're doing 64 GB in a couple of hours, a little more practice with shot discipline will help you both in storage and in workflow time. That's too many pictures.
Then the DELETE key is your friend. Especially if you're doing that many shots. They can't ALL win the Pulitzer Price.
This.
To quote Ken Rockwell: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/howto.htm
Only show your very strongest images.
Throw away most of what you shoot. I do. Most of my photos are awful!
Go through the few photos you save out of a roll, and then throw away all but the one strongest image.
Next time, go through the few you've saved from a few rolls, and throw more away.
This isn't painting. In photography it is a requirement to throw away most of what you do.
You'll see that if you only save or show your strongest images that your body of work will seem to improve. Guess what: as you show only the better images, your body of work as seen by others has improved!
Do you think I shoot a roll of film and get a roll loaded with the images you see in my galleries? Of course not. Most of what I shoot is crap. I'm just good enough to throw most of it away and only show the good stuff.
Ansel Adams said that if you can produce one strong image in a year that you are doing very well. Don't expect to turn out miracles every roll, or even every month. Ansel didn't, I don't, and I don't think anyone does.
Mod parent +1 ex-fucking-xactly.
Microwave ovens are non-ionizing radiation.. but it is a LOT of non-ionizing radiation and it is delivered inside of a resonant chamber. Microwave ovens also operate at roughly 2.4ghz. The higher the frequency, the more dangerous it is to people.. or so my FCC antenna exposure guidelines would have me believe. The bottom line is that cell phones have very low power output. Between 500mw and 1w, I believe. At that power and at cellular phone frequencies, there are no current studies to indicate that there is any harm being caused. Also, although there is not any positive data to indicate that cell phones cause problems, there is a lot of "negative" data that shows that RF doesn't seem to have much in the way of harmful effects. People have been working in radio stations in this country for almost 100 years and those stations often operate in the kilowatt and even megawatt range. There's been no studies that show that working in a radio station is certain death, I doubt there will be any studies to indicate that a cellphone is a _bad thing_.
I agree with this absolutely. I have a mother-in-law that literally lives across the country from me. I don't get over there all that often to work on the thing and it used to be a malware nightmare no matter how much prophylactic I would install. It's also an older computer, something I built for her almost 10 years ago (a Duron 800mhz, I believe!). Well, last summer, I took a stack of my old computer garbage to upgrade the platform as far as it would go and a XUbuntu disk. At first, my mother-in-law didn't much care for it, but before a couple months were out, she was a huge fan. The fact is that linux requires LESS support than Windows. It just works, works the way I set it up. It isn't tangled with malware or part of a botnet. It hasn't torn itself apart with its own self-loathing (like windows is wont to do). I even installed a fairly staggering selection of games from the humble bundle so that grandkids would still have games to play. I had converted her to firefox & thunderbird years ago, so those applications were still familiar to her, and to be honest, those are almost the only applications that she uses (and I'll bet those are almost the only applications your grandma uses too!). The fact is that the LESS computer saavy the user, the easier it is for them to switch to Linux.
A friend of mine heard the following statement while in law school from a professor: "Lawyers exist basically to slow things down and get paid a lot of money." From my experience as a pro se litigant, I would have to agree. I honestly would never be able to afford to pay a lawyer for the work that I do myself. It's like working on your own car: if you can afford to have someone else do it for you, that's great.. but I've never been that guy. :)
People have been doing BGA in toaster ovens for a while now. I'm not saying I'd try it with stuff this size, but it is doable. http://www.die4laser.com/toaster/index.html
Mod parent up. People that don't understand radio shouldn't comment about radio.
Interesting ideas, to be sure. It sounds like there already exists a framework for 10w FM broadcast (LPFM), but that the FCC stopped offering any licenses in 2003. I do agree that a 10w FM station on a channelized VHF band segment would probably not have too many problems with interference. Especially with the new narrow-band receivers & transmitters. You're right, though. I doubt that the FCC will ever enact such a thing. I'm still waiting for the FCC to move GMRS to an unlicensed service under part 15. There is a petition that has been pending, but I'm not holding my breath.
The issue here is BROADCASTING. Get it now?
Oh! You were talking about BROADCASTING. It's too bad you didn't mention anything about broadcasting in your original post. I hold an extra class ticket too. It looked to me like you were mindlessly ranting about how the government doesn't give spectrum to the public, which it in fact does (in spades). The whole silly idea of letting every unlicensed idiot broadcast is nonsense. How in the world would you keep them from interfering with each other? How would you regulate these unlicensed broadcast stations _at all_? I've seen how much the FCC polices GMRS.
Yes, you're right. You can't setup a radio or TV broadcast station out of your house without considerable difficulty. If, however, you'd like to setup a point-point internet over radio service, you're welcome to do that over the ham bands. Folks do it all the time. You can't use them for commercial use, you can't transmit music (although you _can_ transmit video). In actual fact, you can setup a _very_ QRP FM broadcast station according to the FCC regs, but I doubt you could be heard more than a block away at the requisite power levels. In the future, try to be more clear about what you are talking about before getting worked up because you've been misunderstood.
No. It hasn't. It's been made available for commercial use, following the long standing tradition at the FCC of giving the public nothing or next to nothing, and corporations everything.
Are you kidding me? You're honestly complaining about the lack of spectrum that is available for public use?
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Hambands_color.pdf
For an example of how goofy these laws can be (and how heavily influenced by the hands-free-headset lobby), take a moment to peruse my state's cellphone-while-driving law: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.667
Things to take note of:
1) It is ok for me to talk on my cellphone (with it held to my ear), provided it is in speakerphone mode.
2) It is ok for me to talk on my cellphone IN FRONT OF MY FACE as long as it is in speakerphone mode.
3) It is ok for me to operate my amateur radio while driving, because dialing in a faint SSB signal from Japan on 10m while driving down the road, swapping callsigns and signal reports and having a FB QSO is apparently safer than holding a cellphone to my head while driving.
Anyways, if anyone wants to call me while I'm driving, I'll be on 146.52
I agree, scanned black & white negatives just aren't the same as printing them optically. Most people prefer a much lower contrast negative for scanning and ICE doesn't work with real B&W film. I'm able to print in my laundry room. I bought a Beseler 23C enlarger with lenses for about $100 a while back and aside from space for the enlarger, all you really need space for is the 8x10 trays. For printing, the room doesn't have to be "perfectly dark" like with inspection film developing. I find that all I need to do is wait until it is dark outside and pull the curtains shut. I still think it is magic when I see the picture start to form in the dektol. :)
There's a lot of good information and good perspective in this post, although I do believe that it is heavily skewed towards wedding photography and to a lesser extent photo journalism. (Which makes sense, consider the poster's admitted background of being a photo lab technician).
Time was, if you saw a wedding photographer with a 35mm camera, you knew they were amateur. The real wedding photographers all shot 645 or 6x6 on 220. This was still the case in 2000. The photo journalists were the first to make a serious switch to digital. This makes sense, since they were the first to switch to 35mm to begin with. In their line of work, being able to haul less gear and take more pictures is all win and they don't mind poor quality.
Fast forward to 2011. DSLR's can now seriously compete with 35mm for quality. Medium format equipment is basically worthless, since the people that used it (wedding photographers) have all switched to digital. Small format (35mm) color photography has effectively been replaced by digital.
This leaves 3 remaining classes of photographer that still seriously shoot film:
1) Landscape photographers. Landscape photographers still use large format view cameras. The difference in effective resolution between a 15mp digital camera and an 8x10 negative is so large that there isn't even an argument. When people sit down to argue "which is better", film or digital, they are always talking about 35mm. Digital can't even come close to competing with the quality of medium format yet, so I think that these folks will be taking their photographs on film for a long time to come.
2) Black & White photographers. Black and white film developing and printing is easy to do at home with minimal equipment. Real black & white printed optically looks gorgeous. We still can't easily reproduce that with digital.. (Full disclosure, my connection to Kodak is that I still buy Tri-X, Dektol, XTOL & Kodak indicator stop bath on a regular basis). Ken Rockwell has a good article on this subject: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/modern-bw.htm
3) "Lomographers". These photographers revel in lo-fi. It's kind of the opposite of the "measurebator" 'photogs'. Although I don't agree with the astonishing prices for some of these garbage cameras ($100 for a diana?!?) I applaud the emphasis on technique rather than chasing the fastest & sharpest lenses.
i would like to buy a 5 watt mobile UHF radio and a 5 watt UHF base station and both can use external antennas of my choice so i can RX/TX a few miles out on them.
GMRS licensees are already authorized to transmit up to 50w and to have detachable antennas and there are repeaters as well. Ta-da! Your wish has been granted!
Seriously.
"Is that some kind of fancy lightbulb, mister? Can I interest you in a cellphone?"
Actually, the last time I was in radio shack, they had a line of small PIC based kits on the shelves. I think that radioshack might be trying to get in on this whole kit building idea too. I'd love it if they did. I order all of my parts from mouser or digikey, but it sure would be nice to have a place to go to buy a few odds and ends when I needed without having them shipped.
Exactly. This comes back to the problem that I _JUST_ ran into with this article. I read that there are some neat accurate emulators I hadn't even heard about (Nintendulator & bsnes).. Cool! Let's see, what are the hardware requirements?
Nestopia 800mhz
Nintendulator 1.5ghz
bsnes 2-3ghz
These values mean absolutely NOTHING performance wise. I have Athlon XP 2500's that clock in at 2ghz. I also have Athlon 64 3700 that clocks in at 2.2ghz. Does that mean that the two processors are roughly equivalent? NO! It doesn't. It just means that the two processors have a similar frequency oscillator attached to them. It doesn't mean ANYTHING about the actual performance requirements to run these games. I still don't know if the kids' computers will push Nintendulator for example, since they are all 2ghz Athlon XP machines. I also don't know if my OWN computer (Athlon64x2 6000+) will push bsnes with its two cores clocked at 2.5ghz each. Oscillator frequency means nothing unless you also include what particular processor (running at that oscillator frequency) the software requires. Even then, I've still got to go through the interesting headgames, trying to decide if my XXX is vaguely equivalent to YYY.
WWV is weak on the West Coast. My watch sync attempts to sync to WWV every night but it is only successful about one day in three. This was initially frustrating because the device is supposed to adjust for DST but would fail to make the switch because it could not receive the signal on that day. Now the changeover day is different from what is programmed in so it doesn't work anyway.
Whoever designed that watch did a crummy job. There is a bit in the WWVB packet that tells the clock the current DST status: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB
I've designed a WWVB nixie clock before, there are definitely some serious design constraints. For starters, the signal is 60khz which is "Longwave". You need a lot of antenna to pull in a longwave signal with any real success. I used a very long loopstick antenna, and even then the antenna is directional, so the direction the clock is oriented _matters_. Additionally, lots of things generate noise (QRM) in these frequencies, so watch out for CRT televisions and computers and (in the case of nixie clocks: high voltage switching supplies and multiplexed nixie tubes ionizing and de-ionizing neon hundreds of times a second). I built this thing because I am a HAM and also into nixie tubes.. but the truth is that WWVB is obsolete. Nowadays, the best way to get accurate time is via GPS. You can buy a GPS module to pull the time from for about $25-$35 to build into your clock.
But I am sad about this line frequency change.. In the United States, one of the most accurate clock signals is the 60hz power. It's accurate to within about a minute a year at present. That is a LOT more accurate than a standard crystal. TCXO's (calibrated crystals that have temperature sensors in them that dynamically recalibrate for temperature) get to about a few seconds a year when they are brand new and then degrade from there with age. So, the long and the short of it is that if this change happens, and if it is a pretty noticeable hit to my clocks' accuracy, I'll be bodging in little TCXO controlled 60hz sinewave generators into all of my clocks.. :(