.....In summary:1. The modern world is based on marketing frivolous trash to consumers. Deal with it.
2. Change always costs money.
Well argued. I am not for disorientation of 'job market'. Such fears had grown tremendously when computers were FIRST being considered. Today the situation is otherwise. When 'old is taken OFF market - man's skill open up NEW locks'. Change does cost money: BUT necessary change get reasonable time to bring in necessary change and hence COSTS.
Nothing stops human mind to *explore newer areas for comforts*; while the old can continue alongside. Savings made can be diverted for better utilisation and 'spared manpower utilised to generate newer oppertunities. I recall having posted the advantages is my reply to Karl - long ago, the change could mean. However, these - perhaps NOT ALL, are repeated at:
http://www.the-light.com/cal/bbv_IndiaContributes.doc
at the end. It is the *thought process that need to start*; and mental calculation 100:60 (or 5/3) costs nothing.
Imagins target resolution while monitoring targets in space; 100x100 : 60x60
.....Get with it, Brij, calendars are a fashion accessory!I am all in for FASHION industry. Calendar reform has been a subject since League of Nations (1922) and we are yet 'no where'. Are we heading towards meeting the expected goals. Is there anything wrong: 'If Nautical Mile is put on shelf. If *metre* is brought IN, 'WHY NOT Nautical Kilometre?'. Today shipping has lost itself in favour of aviation & Space exploration.
Yes, humanity has to grow above PETTY conflicting themes. My arguments are for growth! Flowing water sprouts newer plant life BUT standing water in pool 'stagnates'. Metrication has come to stay.
Regards,
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
*****The New Calendar Rhyme*****
Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
Till leap year gives the whole week READY:
Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!
And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule! ***** ***** ***** *****
From: lance latham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: East Carolina University Calendar discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: transitions
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:04:47 -0700
RE:
I agree with the situation BUT imagine the cost of *savings in paper alone* when a perannial calendar comes into existance or for that matter future watches need 100 graduations replacing the present 60 (at NO extra cost), to get 'decimalised HOURS of time of the day'.
Lance replies: In the first example, I believe Brij is somewhat missing the point by adhering to an inappropriate marketing model. The fact is, 'theme' calendars are a successful market, worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year. People LIKE to have a new calendar each year. They enjoy selecting a new set of images, and expressing their personal interests (baseball, muscle cars, cats, rural outhouses, roses, whatever).
"Savings" in this context means essentially eliminating this market. Personally, I find that at the end of the year, a wall calendar is thoroughly marked up with appointments, reminders, to-dos, birthdays, etc., and needs to be replaced anyway. Ditto for personal minders, appointment books, etc.
I suspect that we are really dealing with completely different mind-sets here. The modern world is all about marketing. Economies grow when people buy new products; they shrink when people continue to use old products, lowering demand. In effect, Brij is proposing a 1930-style Depression era marketing strategy for calendars, based upon a buy-once, use-forever approach to the consumer. Modern consumers aren't going to do that, any more than they are going to start washing cloth diapers again.
In the case of calendars, and calendar-based products like appoinment books, people are still going to need to buy the paper product, so there is no 'savings'. About the only thing that a perpetual calendar contributes to that process is to take the fun out of it, by making the product repetitive and dull. Get with it, Brij, calendars are a fashion accessory!
Now, how I would be benefitted by having 100 'gradations' on my watch rather than 60 escapes me entirely. And how every clock and watch maker would be forced to retool to accomodate this change, while incurring 'NO extra cost' is a mystery as well.
In summary:
1. The modern world is based on marketing frivolous trash to consumers. Deal with it.
2. Change always costs money.
-Lance
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