De facto standards?
By your own standards, the official operating system of the US of A is Microsoft Windows.
What a stupid concept; to follow the hurd.;)
It would be more practical, globally, for there
to be _one_ time zone, with acknowledgment for
shifting "noon" and "midnight" times locally.
Example:
Noon being at 12 PM (that's right after 11:59 AM, for those semantically-challenged and too stupid to recognize it) in London, and six
hours later, Noon being at 6 PM in Chicago.
Yes, that would mean that Noon would be at
12 AM or therebouts in Guam, but the sun would
be high in the sky there.
This would eliminate confusion over setting of
clocks, allow localities to manipulate opening and closing times for businesses relative to
daylight (let's face it, in the retail business
where I work, 20% of our call volume involves
inquiries as to our current operating hours,
which are static 3/4 of the year), and remove
the clock-setting confusion (people in hourly
jobs have to check the schedules to see at what
time they have to work during the next week,
anyhow.. just move it by an hour during the
summer months if you're that hard-up).
And with the invention of geosynchronous
satellites, there's no need to set your clock
by the local time at which the sun passes
overhead (nobody's done that in _years_).
It's overdue. Do it, and it'd be less
confusing than the establishment of the 24-
hour day clock was in the first place.
Which reminds me...
I think someone should submit an entry for
the contest in html documents. Each document
should be formatted using numeric ampersand
code html tags for each character, requiring translation using an html browser before the files can be compiled.
If one is going to obscure something, go the extra mile.
Starbucks isn't coffee; Starbucks is a brand of coffee (I won't argue whether one can legitimately call it coffee, though some of us will).
Actually, there's more that's wrong with what was said than just that.
How about stating it thusly:
Starbuck is the name of a character in Moby Dick, used also in Battlestar Galactica. In the original BG series, the character was male, and in the revision, the character is female.
Starbucks* is a trademark name for a company which produces coffee-based beverages for sale at premium prices in bookstores, kiosks, grocery
stores and stand-alone coffeeshops across America
and around the World, with emphasis on overt
reimagining and trademarking of coffee-serving-
related terminology (venti frappucino, anyone?).
* Indicates trademark of someone else. Used
for reference and not as any sort of challenge
to said trademark. Go figure.
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De facto standards? By your own standards, the official operating system of the US of A is Microsoft Windows. What a stupid concept; to follow the hurd. ;)
We don't teach them that anyone can use a computer.
;)
We teach them that anyone can use a Mac.
The Intel PC is a computer, and few people can "use" those.
The Macinotsh is a human interface appliance... It's what you already know
user@box:~>ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 init
...
3286 ? 00:00:04 sshd
3300 ttyp02 00:00:05 wine
4800 pts/7 00:00:05 ps
user@box:~>kill -9 3300
user@box:~>ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 init
...
3286 ? 00:00:04 sshd
4806 pts/7 00:00:05 ps
user@box:~>
See?
... is much like saying stupidity is a valid point of view.
It would be more practical, globally, for there to be _one_ time zone, with acknowledgment for shifting "noon" and "midnight" times locally. Example: Noon being at 12 PM (that's right after 11:59 AM, for those semantically-challenged and too stupid to recognize it) in London, and six hours later, Noon being at 6 PM in Chicago. Yes, that would mean that Noon would be at 12 AM or therebouts in Guam, but the sun would be high in the sky there. This would eliminate confusion over setting of clocks, allow localities to manipulate opening and closing times for businesses relative to daylight (let's face it, in the retail business where I work, 20% of our call volume involves inquiries as to our current operating hours, which are static 3/4 of the year), and remove the clock-setting confusion (people in hourly jobs have to check the schedules to see at what time they have to work during the next week, anyhow.. just move it by an hour during the summer months if you're that hard-up). And with the invention of geosynchronous satellites, there's no need to set your clock by the local time at which the sun passes overhead (nobody's done that in _years_). It's overdue. Do it, and it'd be less confusing than the establishment of the 24- hour day clock was in the first place.
Which reminds me...
I think someone should submit an entry for
the contest in html documents. Each document
should be formatted using numeric ampersand
code html tags for each character, requiring
translation using an html browser before the
files can be compiled.
If one is going to obscure something, go the extra mile.
Starbucks isn't coffee; Starbucks is a brand of coffee (I won't argue whether one can legitimately call it coffee, though some of us will).
Actually, there's more that's wrong with what was said than just that.
How about stating it thusly:
Starbuck is the name of a character in Moby Dick, used also in Battlestar Galactica. In the original BG series, the character was male, and in the revision, the character is female.
Starbucks* is a trademark name for a company which produces coffee-based beverages for sale at premium prices in bookstores, kiosks, grocery stores and stand-alone coffeeshops across America and around the World, with emphasis on overt reimagining and trademarking of coffee-serving- related terminology (venti frappucino, anyone?).
* Indicates trademark of someone else. Used for reference and not as any sort of challenge to said trademark. Go figure.