Read this. Please do. It is a gem of an article. Click here.
ARE YOU FREAKIN’ KIDDING ME?! This is the most insane piece of garbage article I have ever read in my life. Comparing Daylight Savings Time to the Y2K Bug?
Oh, memories of Y2K…where airplanes would fall out of the sky and robots would take over the world. But that’s nothing compared to programming your VCR to tape Grey’s Anatomy and (gasp) IT DOESN’T TAPE! ARGH!!! WHY HAS THE WORLD FORSAKEN ME?!
Here’s my favourite quote of the article:
“If you have bought a device that is not real-time connected to a centralized system, then you have to change it manually for sure,” said Mehadi Sayed, manager for information technology training at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
Thank you Mr. Sayed. Tell me, did you gain that amazing insight from a higher education? Good thing he told me. I’ve been wondering why the heck my wristwatch was always an hour behind. Now I realize that it’s not connected to a centralized system! THAT’S NEWS TO ME! What are we living in…the dark ages?! If anything, wristwatch makers should include this in the manual. How was I supposed to know I can manually change it?
On a related note, may I just point out that Germany is way ahead of the times and they have radio-controlled clocks. That’s right, there is a frequency which broadcasts the time and if the time suddenly changes, radio-controlled clocks across the country change accordingly. If anything, this was THE life-defining experience I had in Europe. It wasn’t the Eiffel Tower that got me hooked, it was the technology Germany had. Carrie and Philipp are laughing uncontrolably right now as they love the fact that I was so amazed with this technology.
Let’s read the title of the article for a minute: “Gadget lovers face worst crisis since Y2K”
Well, that’s not true at all. The worst crisis since Y2K is the fact that as soon as you buy a piece of technology, it is obsolete. What we need to have are more items that are programmable through EEPROM (hello Algonquin College education!). Most upgrades to a model of technology are simple ones that can be patched electronically. Take my DVD player for example. The good old RV-32 from Panasonic couldn’t read a lot of burnt discs. Well, I just went out and bought the RV-33, there would be no problem, would there? Of course not! But I did a little research and found a disc I could burn that would update the firmware (read: the software on the inside) which would allow for the discs to be read. Lo and behold, I did the deed and it worked ever since. That’s how technology needs to work people. Granted, this won’t happen on some technology, but I bet it would on most.
Anyhow, when I first clicked on this article I was thinking “Whoa, what the heck is going to happen? Y2K was huge.” Then I realized that I’m going to have to change my clock.
To news reporters everywhere, a word of advice. Stop this crap. I feel like this is something I would have read off The Onion.
‘Nuff Said.