SHUT DOWN DAY! Can you live without computer for 24 Hrs?

[Kiran.dks]

Shutdown Day!
Can you shutdown your system for 24 Hours?



It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?

Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!

Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?

Vote: Shutdown Day

[cooldip10]

sure why not?? its as simple as that...

[rakeshishere]

Lets First SHUTDOWN that website and then our comps

[Aberforth]

That would be very easy. All I have to do is make my site backups, ask the other moderators to kick in, miss classes and go out for the day with a friend or my girl. Have done it a lot of times upto three days and one day is no problem. I'm in this survey

[gxsaurav]

it will be off anyway. Who needs a computer now?

[alsiladka]

Have done it before many times!! Life does not end for sure!!

[aryayush]

Impossible for me to do this voluntarily.

Even if someone or something forces me to leave it, I still keep it switched on so that my torrents can keep downloading. Only time I switch it off is when I go outstation.

[subratabera]

Originally Posted by rakeshishere

Lets First SHUTDOWN that website and then our comps

LOL

[Tech Geek]

Will try my best

[hard_rock]

Yes...Will Obviously do that... But what is the purpose..Why I should I shut down ON THAT DAY only.. I can live without computer for more than 24hrs I know that.. if neccessity comes I'll do that. But I find no reason to shutdown my PC on that DAY!!

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

Yaah I can , few days back my system was down for 10 days

240 hours shutdown , whats a big deal

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by Kiran_tech_mania

Can you shutdown your system for 24 Hours?

Yes,i can

[max_demon]

i was out in my village with NO POWER for five days. can you imagine without computer , without Cell phone , without TV and Not even some tech guy .
i was like a stone for those five days

[Tech Geek]

Originally Posted by max_demon

i was out in my village with NO POWER for five days. can you imagine without computer , without Cell phone , without TV and Not even some tech guy .
i was like a stone for those five days

I have experienced it.
you will get mad totally. leaving the PC suddenly is immposible for me atleast.

[lalam]

This is no big deal for me.....Yep i can....

[Arsenal_Gunners]

I ll just check the scores and change the channel
Earlier like most of the guys I watched every damn match but slowly I found out the passiveness of cricket.The only moment of action is a ball being struck..Most of the time is idle,then there are ads after every over..so I switched to football which is active for 45 mins-break-45 mins no ads in between.

[rajasekharan]

no problem for me , i have even been away from home for 3 to 4 months with out comp . i read books . enjoy music . its no big deal . another time was for two weeks when my comp got dead . as long as there is enough books to read and music to listen i dont care .

[Sourabh]

I find this funny. Why should anyone not use internet on that particular day? Just to see if we can? Sorry, but I will not take part in it. I can go one day without computer and internet easily, may be even more if need be. But I surely won't switch off my laptop for an entire day as a part of an experiment. I just cannot let my fully functional PC which is connected to internet just sit idle for no reason whatsoever. A lot of people work on the internet, earn money for their living, check mails and other things which may be important and needed to be done on a daily basis.

If quite a lot of people are so serious to quit their PC on 24th of next month, I think that is the first day I can surf digg nicely.

[s18000rpm]

i hope many ppl from INDIA especially B'lore take part in it, then i can download some torrents @ max speed & not compromising browsing @ same time

[shashank4u]

it will be only possible for me
if all the main internet servers become dead

[aryayush]

Originally Posted by Sourabh

If quite a lot of people are so serious to quit their PC on 24th of next month, I think that is the first day I can surf digg nicely.

digg without people, man? What fun would that be?

[Kiran.dks]

Originally Posted by Sourabh

I find this funny. Why should anyone not use internet on that particular day? Just to see if we can? Sorry, but I will not take part in it. I can go one day without computer and internet easily, may be even more if need be. But I surely won't switch off my laptop for an entire day as a part of an experiment. I just cannot let my fully functional PC which is connected to internet just sit idle for no reason whatsoever. A lot of people work on the internet, earn money for their living, check mails and other things which may be important and needed to be done on a daily basis.

If quite a lot of people are so serious to quit their PC on 24th of next month, I think that is the first day I can surf digg nicely.

There is a perfect reason for choosing a day. It could have been any fixed day. And one more thing is it is on Saturday! One can take off on any day provided he/she plan something else for that day. But, I can't promise that I can do it on 24th exactly. That's where the point comes in. Can you do it on 24th? Yes or No. If yes, one must make sure that you do it justifying it. But, it's kinda dilemma situation for me at least. Hence voted "NO".

[casanova]

I can certainly live without comps. But I cant say I wont be using comp tomorrow or on 24 March. It all depends on my mood.

[kumarmohit]

I cant, I have to update my photoblog

[XtremeFuturistic]

VISTA will help u do this.

Most probably, more than 1 day.

It makes sense for citizens of USA. They get electricity 24 Hrs a day (week or month don't count cuz they can be broken down into days). We Indians shutdown our computers atleast once a day (24 Hrs) due to power cut.

I haven't shutdown my PC for more than a month. Its just hibernate and restore

[alok4best]

is it that much tough.I dnt think so.every day my PC shuts down or better say switches off due to power cuts..and during vacation when I m outstation I do it myself for weeks,however I hibernate it rather than full shutdown.

[Kiran.dks]

Originally Posted by XtremeFuturistic

VISTA will help u do this.
Most probably, more than 1 day.

That surely happens if you get a pirated version.

[crystal_pup]

I can ...When i was young i did live...Now i m a SOFTWARE ENGINEER..n especially during weekends i hardly sit infront of my PC or Lappy...


Cheers,
Kunal

[Tech.Masti]

^^

i also can do it.... but why on that date... its depends on my mood...