Your broad brush paints different strokes than others' broad brushes. For example, many people consider Reagan to be the greatest President, yet you deem him "horrible".
I got my UK license when I lived there, a German license when I lived there and licenses from four US STates. Maybe because I already had a US license the process wasn't that difficult. The hardest part was a "reaction" test where you watch a screen and push a little button when you think you see a hazard.
The rules of the road test was no harder than the US ones I've taken (in 4 different States).
IN short, the Germany system is far more difficult than the UK and the US system.
Of course granny is breaking the law by driving in the left lane, but no law enforcement agencies in the US will enforce that...it's far easier to eat a donut and hold a radar gun out the window of your cruiser then actually driving around looking for bad drivers.
No, the Autobahn is as well-constructed as US highways. Better constructed is even more accurate. There are limitations on grade and the curves are all even radius. Camber is carefully engineered. No such considerations are made on US highways, generally. More like "how much money can we save by not patching up these pot holes"...
The reaction time between 30 mph and 20 mph will have a far greater impact than the car's ability to stop at those respective speeds. My car is a sport hatchback. It stops on a dime from 30 or 20, probably a foot or two difference...however, the rate of travel gives me less reaction time to hit the brake in time to not hit the pedestrian.
Speed is not the cause of bad driving...bad driving is the cause of bad driving, regardless of the speed.
As a matter of fact, the main cause of accidents is failure to yield (at low speeds), not driving too fast for the conditions like oft cited (myself being too lazy to cite...huge interest of mine, and my office mate is a civil engineer who points me to the right data all the time).
Now if they would just invent roads that eliminate bad drivers (those who lack the physical dexterity required to control a vehicle, those who lack the judgment required to share the road with others, and those who lack the intellect to understand the rules of the road)...
Or even better, use cops to enforce the 99% of non-speed related laws that are broken far more often than exceeding the artificially low, revenue generating speed limits.
Or military training...I'm comfortably employed for the next several years on a military contract that will be using Flash exclusively for all training materials.
Many companies, mine included, have so many entry level positions, it doesn't matter which programming languages you know. If you know one, you can learn another faster than a guy without the CS degree.
The sad fact is GPA and the school you went to really matter a lot when getting past HR.
I think this is a common misconception on slashdot. Perhaps it's a regional thought process, but here in Austin, if you have the degree, it doesn't matter where you got it from (as long as it's accredited) and nobody will ever know your GPA (unless you tell them).
There is such a SHORTAGE of entry-level candidates with a B.S. in anything computer related, we hire pretty much anyone willing to apply and show up to work on Monday...and I live in a progressive tech-savvy city with two universities within commuting distance to my office.
Nope sorry, you are wrong. There's a reason they only make 3,000 of my car every year. The infrequent sighting of my car alone makes it more interesting--the completely over-the-top performance notwithstanding--because you don't see it very often (duh?).
My light fixtures are not the generic $.15 white plastic ones that nearly every house in America has. Gee, I guess that makes me a hipster because I wanted to get rid of uninteresting plastic from my otherwise expensive house. I guess people who buy curtains, rugs, plants and crown molding must be super hipsters?
My computers are, well, computers. They don't HAVE to be boring, but some are and some aren't. Besides, it doesn't cost any MORE money to make something interesting. My e-machines is black and boring. My white iMac is not beige and has interesting features. My MacBooks are MacBooks, which are far more interesting than the average black Dell Latitude. I guess you are right, though, in that my MacBooks are no more interesting than my neighbor's MacBooks.
Still don't get it. I guess you are saying that music is no less needed than the other daily things in our life? I get that, but it doesn't have to require a huge hard drive on a lap top to do so.
I don't think anyone is doubting this claim. I personally am confused at why they just don't go to bed earlier (like I did when I was young) so that they can have enough sleep and be to school on time.
I know we've dumbed MTV down to 15 second song snippets and 22 hours of reality tv, but are we seriously getting this lazy?
Exactly. Biologically speaking, we all need a certain number of hours of sleep (teens need more). But, you can get the same amount of sleep regardless of what time you have to be at school...it's called going to bed earlier.
And by "biological facts" you mean that a teen will stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning, regardless of what time they have to be at school, so letting them come in later they get more sleep...as opposed to, I dunno, just going to bed at 9 or 10 like responsible people do and still getting 8-10 hours of sleep and STILL being to school on time, even if it starts at 8 am.
However, for the average home user, "average" sized HDD are already far bigger than most people will ever need. The point of diminishing returns is upon us.
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Enough said? Let's discuss the legality of the adjective "unreasonable", for starters.
Your broad brush paints different strokes than others' broad brushes. For example, many people consider Reagan to be the greatest President, yet you deem him "horrible".
I got my UK license when I lived there, a German license when I lived there and licenses from four US STates. Maybe because I already had a US license the process wasn't that difficult. The hardest part was a "reaction" test where you watch a screen and push a little button when you think you see a hazard.
The rules of the road test was no harder than the US ones I've taken (in 4 different States).
IN short, the Germany system is far more difficult than the UK and the US system.
Of course granny is breaking the law by driving in the left lane, but no law enforcement agencies in the US will enforce that...it's far easier to eat a donut and hold a radar gun out the window of your cruiser then actually driving around looking for bad drivers.
Sections of the autobahn were constructed to double as airstrips too.
No, the Autobahn is as well-constructed as US highways. Better constructed is even more accurate. There are limitations on grade and the curves are all even radius. Camber is carefully engineered. No such considerations are made on US highways, generally. More like "how much money can we save by not patching up these pot holes"...
The reaction time between 30 mph and 20 mph will have a far greater impact than the car's ability to stop at those respective speeds. My car is a sport hatchback. It stops on a dime from 30 or 20, probably a foot or two difference...however, the rate of travel gives me less reaction time to hit the brake in time to not hit the pedestrian.
Speed is not the cause of bad driving...bad driving is the cause of bad driving, regardless of the speed.
As a matter of fact, the main cause of accidents is failure to yield (at low speeds), not driving too fast for the conditions like oft cited (myself being too lazy to cite...huge interest of mine, and my office mate is a civil engineer who points me to the right data all the time).
Now if they would just invent roads that eliminate bad drivers (those who lack the physical dexterity required to control a vehicle, those who lack the judgment required to share the road with others, and those who lack the intellect to understand the rules of the road)...
Or even better, use cops to enforce the 99% of non-speed related laws that are broken far more often than exceeding the artificially low, revenue generating speed limits.
I think Flash has been around far too long for your joke to make any sense.
I'm not paying a dime, or even using it for free until I can find a simple OSX install of the thing.
Or military training...I'm comfortably employed for the next several years on a military contract that will be using Flash exclusively for all training materials.
Many companies, mine included, have so many entry level positions, it doesn't matter which programming languages you know. If you know one, you can learn another faster than a guy without the CS degree.
The sad fact is GPA and the school you went to really matter a lot when getting past HR.
I think this is a common misconception on slashdot. Perhaps it's a regional thought process, but here in Austin, if you have the degree, it doesn't matter where you got it from (as long as it's accredited) and nobody will ever know your GPA (unless you tell them).
There is such a SHORTAGE of entry-level candidates with a B.S. in anything computer related, we hire pretty much anyone willing to apply and show up to work on Monday...and I live in a progressive tech-savvy city with two universities within commuting distance to my office.
Nope sorry, you are wrong. There's a reason they only make 3,000 of my car every year. The infrequent sighting of my car alone makes it more interesting--the completely over-the-top performance notwithstanding--because you don't see it very often (duh?).
My light fixtures are not the generic $.15 white plastic ones that nearly every house in America has. Gee, I guess that makes me a hipster because I wanted to get rid of uninteresting plastic from my otherwise expensive house. I guess people who buy curtains, rugs, plants and crown molding must be super hipsters?
My computers are, well, computers. They don't HAVE to be boring, but some are and some aren't. Besides, it doesn't cost any MORE money to make something interesting. My e-machines is black and boring. My white iMac is not beige and has interesting features. My MacBooks are MacBooks, which are far more interesting than the average black Dell Latitude. I guess you are right, though, in that my MacBooks are no more interesting than my neighbor's MacBooks.
No. The mean is the average with some sort of distribution applied.
Yes, because I want to go to a college that uses ink instead of toner...
Still don't get it. I guess you are saying that music is no less needed than the other daily things in our life? I get that, but it doesn't have to require a huge hard drive on a lap top to do so.
So it is afternoon from 1 second past 12 until the end of time?
I don't think anyone is doubting this claim. I personally am confused at why they just don't go to bed earlier (like I did when I was young) so that they can have enough sleep and be to school on time.
I know we've dumbed MTV down to 15 second song snippets and 22 hours of reality tv, but are we seriously getting this lazy?
Exactly. Biologically speaking, we all need a certain number of hours of sleep (teens need more). But, you can get the same amount of sleep regardless of what time you have to be at school...it's called going to bed earlier.
And by "biological facts" you mean that a teen will stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning, regardless of what time they have to be at school, so letting them come in later they get more sleep...as opposed to, I dunno, just going to bed at 9 or 10 like responsible people do and still getting 8-10 hours of sleep and STILL being to school on time, even if it starts at 8 am.
Or teens could, you know, go to sleep one hour earlier?
Somebody whoosh me because I have no idea why this was modded +5 insightful.
However, for the average home user, "average" sized HDD are already far bigger than most people will ever need. The point of diminishing returns is upon us.
I was going to correct him as well, but figured he was far too confrontational. Thanks.