Yeah, this is a crappy situation... The law is completely different in the UK for people who work with computers than for everyone else. IR35 only applies to IT contractors.
I know a couple of plumbers working on large contracts. These people are in exactly the same position as I am - they run their own business, manage their own books, handle sales and getting the next job, etc. The only difference is that if they work on a contract for 2 years, that's just normal. If I choose to, I get nailed on taxes and what I can claim as a company benefit.
The M3 looks great, but what about the software required to communicate with it ? Is OS X / Linux supported or is it all still Windows like my old GBA stuff was ?
You can walk through your airport with dignity again just as soon as all the sheeple realise who actually owns a democracy. As soon as the people decide this is too much, it will be over.
How sure are you of that? Just asking, because you should see my phone bill this month from being on the phone to Microsoft begging for permission to use software that I've paid for!
Last night I spent about 3 hours trying to get Microsoft to acknowledge and authorise my valid retail copy of Windows. I moved it from a VMware guest on Linux to a Parallels guest on OSX.
I had some drone with a shite command of the english language tell me that I was running too many copies. I explained that I had disabled the old one and was installing in a new place - she told me I had re-installed too many times.
In the end I just downloaded a VLK disk and found a VLK key that works. Pirating this shit is easier than owning it legitimately.
I live in London. Back in SA I used to drive everywhere, but I was a healthy 70KG. Since moving to the UK, I gained 12KG over the space of 7 years.
Recently I realised that this was insane, read the hacker's diet and starting shedding this weight. I'm now down to 73kg and dropping.
What's really relevant to this article though, is the fact that my car is a massive aid in losing this weight. Using public transport, I spend 2 - 2.5 hours per day travelling. Using my car, this goes down to 45 minutes - 1 hour. That's a savings of 1 - 1.5 hours per day, or 5 - 7.5 hours per week.
Because of this, I actually have time to get to the gym, go climbing on the weekends because the housework is done during the week, etc.
What about a file I encyrpted yesterday with some horribly long passphrase that seemed like a good idea at the time, then forgot? Work on a helpdesk for a few days and you'll find that it is quite reasonable to expect users to forget a password in under 48 hours.
Rendering is just the number crunching that goes on AFTER all the real creative work is done. You can do number crunching on anything you like, and the only things that matter are reliability, support for your applications and speed.
When you're in the actual design phase, most people would use something significantly slower if it meant a better interface or a better way of letting them do stuff. There aren't a lot of multimedia apps for Linux that are friendlier to their users than the competing apps on other platforms, and so people stay on other platforms.
We keep reading how users are important to a project - how bug reports and feature requests can help improve things. This is part of the Open Source mantra.
And yet many projects abuse people who provide just these things. Anything a developer doesn't understand or feels threatened by results in abuse at the user. It doesn't take long before users stop contributing these ideas at all, which is then the death knell for a project's long term usefullness.
It's like watching the Gnome and KDE guys go off at people suggesting UI changes... Just because it looks pretty doesn't mean it works well. Eye candy is nothing without a consistent user journey, and yet this is where I see most of the focus going:(
Cool - thanks... I've been away from that life for a long time now, but I still like to keep current on what's changing, even if it is just in the TLA arena:)
Be very grateful that there was no leopard - it's just not ready yet. The features are there, but there are a lot of bugs still to shake out. It's coming along nicely, but I'd still rather wait until release before installing it on a production system:D
I think you're thinking about a professionally trained sniper operating under military command. What is being discussed here is something different. Have a look into the Bosnia and Sarejevo (sp?) campaigns and you'll find a lot of exactly this kind of sniping going on.
Guys would setup in a good position and stay there for days at a time. Building to building and Building to road fire was common. The problem was partly the UN mandate in the area didn't always allow them to go after these people, and partly that the sniper positions were difficult to assault without causing collateral damage.
In most of the cases that I have read, snipers were taken out either when a building was bombed, or by snipers from the opposite team. Staying in one place allowed the good guys to get a fix and setup their own sniper in a position to challenge the enemy sniper.
You should have slowed down enough entering the roundabout to correctly judge what the other driver was about to do. If you were already traveling at the speed limit through the roundabout that's your mistake right there. If you were traveling at an appropriate speed you would be able to either stop in time or speed up enough without breaking the limit.
I wasn't doing the speed limit, I was at about 20 on a roundabout with a limit of 40. If I stop or slow down to below the expected speed for that roundabout, I am now a stationary object for anything else coming around a blind corner. That's a pretty stupid place to put yourself.
No. You'd put yourself in a corner. Clearly you think that travelling through a roundabout at the speed limit is acceptable. They're fucking suppose to replace traffic lights. For your own sake SLOW DOWN AT ROUND ABOUTS.
What does that have to do with a 2 lane road situation? This is a separate example from the roundabout.
So you're advocating that every time someone approaches too closely from behind you should accelerate? GIVE ME A BREAK. Look I'm sorry that you were hurt but accelerating would only have served any purpose if there wsa a way to get out of this man's way and even then by the time you realised it would have probably been too late. (Sounds like exactly what happened).
What I am advocating is that you find a hole to disappear into, clearing the way for the person if they do not appear to be aware of you. Sometimes this will require additional speed.
You do realise the irony of this by the way don't you. If the other guy was speed limited and so were you, you'd never have had to worry about him hitting you if you were both at the limit (and if there was any inaccuracy at leading to a difference in speed at least it would be a slow relative speed collision). Thanks for pointing out a situation where speed limited cars would actually have caused you not to get hurt. What was your point again?
My point is that this would only render me safe if EVERYONE followed the law and left the governor device enabled. And if you believe that, then please explain to me why so many people get shot and killed in countries where you can't own a gun.
Yeah. Ever had 2 semi trailers bearing down on you at 100km/hr or more, while you're sticking to a roadwork speed limit of 40km/hr? I have. I know for a fact that if I hadn't gotten out of the way I didn't have time to accelerate. There was a shoulder...
Lucky you - there was a shoulder. In many events, there have not been shoulders. Instead of dismissing my example and arguing another irrelvant example of your own where the variables are different, explain what I should have done in the event of no shoulder and traffic on the other side.
Sometimes there's NOTHING you can do to avoid an accident.
So we should create more opportunity for this? We should reduce our available options just because, hey, sometimes shit happens? No thanks.
You've got the wrong idea about defensive driving and those courses may have done more harm than good. Defensive driving is not just about reacting to other people's fuck ups. It's about anticipating them and avoiding them. One thing you can definitely do is slow down at roundabouts. That would be a good start. It wouldn't have helped you with situation 3 but then I don't believe anything would have.
Have I at any point implied that speed is the only option? No. Have I explicitly shown that I do not spend all of my time above the speed limit, and adjust it downwards when conditions warrant? Yes.
Believe me, I know about watching other people and anticipating their mistakes - that is what I do all the time. But sometimes, someone does something unanticipated. Being able to react to that is also important.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I don't slow down at roundabouts from, but you can lose that misconception now. So far you've failed to propose resolutions for 2 out
What if I have the exact same lock as you, and I find a problem while dicking around with my lock? Surely I'm allowed to play with picks on my own lock?
Now, am I allowed to tell you that your lock has a problem, because I saw it on the exact same lock ?
Why aren't there more male nurses entering the workforce? And why is it when they try to, they find that they are demeaned by the male coworkers (doctors, etc.), their female coworkers (forced to have a matron shadow him even though he is fully qualified) and discriminated against by the patients (the right to demand a female nurse)?
Maybe it's just one of those things and we have to accept it? Most women I know have other things to do with their free time than contribute to Open Source projects. It's made worse by the fact that in a lot of marriages or long term parternships, the woman does more than 50% of the work around the house. Where does this leave her time to write free code, even if she wanted to ?
1) You're not a very good driver if the only way you can avoid an accident is to accelerate like a mad man. "I have to be able to speed to be safe" is just rubbish.
Since you are obviously miles better than me, please explain my options for evading the following situations without use of additional speed taking me over the limit:
1. I'm on a roundabout (traffic circle to some) planning to exit. I am in the outermost lane intending to take the next exit. I have the right of way and am signalling correctly for my intentions (signal still showing right). Another vehicle enters the roundabout without slowing or merging with the first lane of the roundabout (aiming straight for lane 2). There are cars to my right.
2. I'm in the outer lane of a two lane road at the speed limit, passing a truck that is about 8mph below the speed limit. I have cars behind me with less than a 2 second gap between us and the road is wet. With no warning, the truck that I am passing begins drifting aggresively into my lane. I can either a) stop, causing people behind me to hit me or b) accelerate past the truck. Got an option c for me?
3. I am in the slow lane of a 3 lane motorway at 5mph below the speed limit. The roads are wet. I have cars to my right and there is no hard shoulder (space to my left) for 2 miles. For reasons best known to him, some maniac behind me is doing about 10mph above the speed limit (so 15mph more than me). On this occasion I didn't choose to accelerate because I didn't believe he would actually keep going. I did tap my brakes once when he was about 400m behind me just to show some lights in case he hadn't noticed me (this manoeure did not reduce my speed by more than 1mph). He didn't slow or stop and I still have a neck that causes me pain to this day. Acceleration in this case would have let me move to a point where I had more options. What would you have done in this situation?
For the record, none of these situations are hypothetical, and these don't even include situations where speed has let me evade violence involving automatic rifles (and no, I don't mean semi-automatic).
I'm really keen on hearing your enlightenment on all of these situations. Sadly, I've only had a couple of advanced and defensive driving courses, and they all advised the use of power in certain situations, so I'd like to learn from a pro, not these bad drivers who have been mis-educating me.
What right do you have to endanger me with your suggestion of limiting my car's maximum speed. So far, the ability to turn on the power and significantly exceed the speed limit has saved my life a number of times.
At least 3 of those times were driving related incidents - the ability to chuck on a load of power and haul myself out of an impending accident is the reason I am still here. Sure, that was coupled with good observation and defensive driving skills, but had I not been able to compensate for other people's stupidity I would have been dead.
Another incident involved an attempted carjacking. I had the choice of stopping the car and shooting into a populated area or using my car to make a hole I could get through and get away. Shooting was not an option due to the number of people around and the fact that I didn't have a clear count or idea of who was involved in the carjacking and who was just standing around in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Your 'technological solution to a social problem' would have resulted in my death on 4 occasions. Thanks.
What about cases where there is a camera at the bottom of a steep hill and you happen to roll up to 43mph ?
What about situations where the speed limit on a road varies between 30mph and 40mph 5 times within a 2 mile stretch? Just to keep it fun, lets vary where the changes occur, the stretch of road involved, and from what to what for a 18 month period.
What about cases where there is a sign indicating a speed limit of 40mph that is 50cm in diameter, and 25m along from that, there is a 15cm sign indicating a limit of 30mph is now in effect? There are also 9 other signs in that 25m stretch indicating exits from roundabout, directions to Excel parking, location of pub, directions to park and ride, etc.
Do you think that people that are caught by these issues are really criminal or dangerous? Or do you think that maybe the people designing, building and destroying the roads might bear some of the blame here?
Every single one of these situations is or was present within 5 miles of my home within the last 3 years.
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The idea is that you get the offer in writing BEFORE you quit your current job - that's kinda the whole point ?
Yeah, this is a crappy situation... The law is completely different in the UK for people who work with computers than for everyone else. IR35 only applies to IT contractors.
I know a couple of plumbers working on large contracts. These people are in exactly the same position as I am - they run their own business, manage their own books, handle sales and getting the next job, etc. The only difference is that if they work on a contract for 2 years, that's just normal. If I choose to, I get nailed on taxes and what I can claim as a company benefit.
The M3 looks great, but what about the software required to communicate with it ? Is OS X / Linux supported or is it all still Windows like my old GBA stuff was ?
You can walk through your airport with dignity again just as soon as all the sheeple realise who actually owns a democracy. As soon as the people decide this is too much, it will be over.
:(
This means that it will never be over
How sure are you of that? Just asking, because you should see my phone bill this month from being on the phone to Microsoft begging for permission to use software that I've paid for!
Last night I spent about 3 hours trying to get Microsoft to acknowledge and authorise my valid retail copy of Windows. I moved it from a VMware guest on Linux to a Parallels guest on OSX.
I had some drone with a shite command of the english language tell me that I was running too many copies. I explained that I had disabled the old one and was installing in a new place - she told me I had re-installed too many times.
In the end I just downloaded a VLK disk and found a VLK key that works. Pirating this shit is easier than owning it legitimately.
Ok, couple of questions here...
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1. Does it have to be disappeared to gitmo? Or can it just be disappeared to anywhere?
2. What is your paycheck worth?
I've got some vacation days due, so I'm just doing a cost-benefit analysis here
And when you say most, you mean, what, 52% ? I'd be pretty scared of that slim a margin going into the next presidential elections!
Amen brother!
I live in London. Back in SA I used to drive everywhere, but I was a healthy 70KG. Since moving to the UK, I gained 12KG over the space of 7 years.
Recently I realised that this was insane, read the hacker's diet and starting shedding this weight. I'm now down to 73kg and dropping.
What's really relevant to this article though, is the fact that my car is a massive aid in losing this weight. Using public transport, I spend 2 - 2.5 hours per day travelling. Using my car, this goes down to 45 minutes - 1 hour. That's a savings of 1 - 1.5 hours per day, or 5 - 7.5 hours per week.
Because of this, I actually have time to get to the gym, go climbing on the weekends because the housework is done during the week, etc.
What about a file I encyrpted yesterday with some horribly long passphrase that seemed like a good idea at the time, then forgot? Work on a helpdesk for a few days and you'll find that it is quite reasonable to expect users to forget a password in under 48 hours.
Rendering is just the number crunching that goes on AFTER all the real creative work is done. You can do number crunching on anything you like, and the only things that matter are reliability, support for your applications and speed.
When you're in the actual design phase, most people would use something significantly slower if it meant a better interface or a better way of letting them do stuff. There aren't a lot of multimedia apps for Linux that are friendlier to their users than the competing apps on other platforms, and so people stay on other platforms.
We keep reading how users are important to a project - how bug reports and feature requests can help improve things. This is part of the Open Source mantra.
:(
And yet many projects abuse people who provide just these things. Anything a developer doesn't understand or feels threatened by results in abuse at the user. It doesn't take long before users stop contributing these ideas at all, which is then the death knell for a project's long term usefullness.
It's like watching the Gnome and KDE guys go off at people suggesting UI changes... Just because it looks pretty doesn't mean it works well. Eye candy is nothing without a consistent user journey, and yet this is where I see most of the focus going
Cool - thanks... I've been away from that life for a long time now, but I still like to keep current on what's changing, even if it is just in the TLA arena :)
Then your dumb...
Absolutely priceless!
Be very grateful that there was no leopard - it's just not ready yet. The features are there, but there are a lot of bugs still to shake out. It's coming along nicely, but I'd still rather wait until release before installing it on a production system :D
hmmm... Did they change LBE to LCE at some point? Load Carrying equipment I assume ?
I think you're thinking about a professionally trained sniper operating under military command. What is being discussed here is something different. Have a look into the Bosnia and Sarejevo (sp?) campaigns and you'll find a lot of exactly this kind of sniping going on.
Guys would setup in a good position and stay there for days at a time. Building to building and Building to road fire was common. The problem was partly the UN mandate in the area didn't always allow them to go after these people, and partly that the sniper positions were difficult to assault without causing collateral damage.
In most of the cases that I have read, snipers were taken out either when a building was bombed, or by snipers from the opposite team. Staying in one place allowed the good guys to get a fix and setup their own sniper in a position to challenge the enemy sniper.
You should have slowed down enough entering the roundabout to correctly judge what the other driver was about to do. If you were already traveling at the speed limit through the roundabout that's your mistake right there. If you were traveling at an appropriate speed you would be able to either stop in time or speed up enough without breaking the limit.
I wasn't doing the speed limit, I was at about 20 on a roundabout with a limit of 40. If I stop or slow down to below the expected speed for that roundabout, I am now a stationary object for anything else coming around a blind corner. That's a pretty stupid place to put yourself.
No. You'd put yourself in a corner. Clearly you think that travelling through a roundabout at the speed limit is acceptable. They're fucking suppose to replace traffic lights. For your own sake SLOW DOWN AT ROUND ABOUTS.
What does that have to do with a 2 lane road situation? This is a separate example from the roundabout.
So you're advocating that every time someone approaches too closely from behind you should accelerate? GIVE ME A BREAK. Look I'm sorry that you were hurt but accelerating would only have served any purpose if there wsa a way to get out of this man's way and even then by the time you realised it would have probably been too late. (Sounds like exactly what happened).
What I am advocating is that you find a hole to disappear into, clearing the way for the person if they do not appear to be aware of you. Sometimes this will require additional speed.
You do realise the irony of this by the way don't you. If the other guy was speed limited and so were you, you'd never have had to worry about him hitting you if you were both at the limit (and if there was any inaccuracy at leading to a difference in speed at least it would be a slow relative speed collision). Thanks for pointing out a situation where speed limited cars would actually have caused you not to get hurt. What was your point again?
My point is that this would only render me safe if EVERYONE followed the law and left the governor device enabled. And if you believe that, then please explain to me why so many people get shot and killed in countries where you can't own a gun.
Yeah. Ever had 2 semi trailers bearing down on you at 100km/hr or more, while you're sticking to a roadwork speed limit of 40km/hr? I have. I know for a fact that if I hadn't gotten out of the way I didn't have time to accelerate. There was a shoulder...
Lucky you - there was a shoulder. In many events, there have not been shoulders. Instead of dismissing my example and arguing another irrelvant example of your own where the variables are different, explain what I should have done in the event of no shoulder and traffic on the other side.
Sometimes there's NOTHING you can do to avoid an accident.
So we should create more opportunity for this? We should reduce our available options just because, hey, sometimes shit happens? No thanks.
You've got the wrong idea about defensive driving and those courses may have done more harm than good. Defensive driving is not just about reacting to other people's fuck ups. It's about anticipating them and avoiding them. One thing you can definitely do is slow down at roundabouts. That would be a good start. It wouldn't have helped you with situation 3 but then I don't believe anything would have.
Have I at any point implied that speed is the only option? No. Have I explicitly shown that I do not spend all of my time above the speed limit, and adjust it downwards when conditions warrant? Yes.
Believe me, I know about watching other people and anticipating their mistakes - that is what I do all the time. But sometimes, someone does something unanticipated. Being able to react to that is also important.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I don't slow down at roundabouts from, but you can lose that misconception now. So far you've failed to propose resolutions for 2 out
What if I have the exact same lock as you, and I find a problem while dicking around with my lock? Surely I'm allowed to play with picks on my own lock?
Now, am I allowed to tell you that your lock has a problem, because I saw it on the exact same lock ?
Why aren't there more male nurses entering the workforce? And why is it when they try to, they find that they are demeaned by the male coworkers (doctors, etc.), their female coworkers (forced to have a matron shadow him even though he is fully qualified) and discriminated against by the patients (the right to demand a female nurse)?
Maybe it's just one of those things and we have to accept it? Most women I know have other things to do with their free time than contribute to Open Source projects. It's made worse by the fact that in a lot of marriages or long term parternships, the woman does more than 50% of the work around the house. Where does this leave her time to write free code, even if she wanted to ?
1) You're not a very good driver if the only way you can avoid an accident is to accelerate like a mad man. "I have to be able to speed to be safe" is just rubbish.
Since you are obviously miles better than me, please explain my options for evading the following situations without use of additional speed taking me over the limit:
1. I'm on a roundabout (traffic circle to some) planning to exit. I am in the outermost lane intending to take the next exit. I have the right of way and am signalling correctly for my intentions (signal still showing right). Another vehicle enters the roundabout without slowing or merging with the first lane of the roundabout (aiming straight for lane 2). There are cars to my right.
2. I'm in the outer lane of a two lane road at the speed limit, passing a truck that is about 8mph below the speed limit. I have cars behind me with less than a 2 second gap between us and the road is wet. With no warning, the truck that I am passing begins drifting aggresively into my lane. I can either a) stop, causing people behind me to hit me or b) accelerate past the truck. Got an option c for me?
3. I am in the slow lane of a 3 lane motorway at 5mph below the speed limit. The roads are wet. I have cars to my right and there is no hard shoulder (space to my left) for 2 miles. For reasons best known to him, some maniac behind me is doing about 10mph above the speed limit (so 15mph more than me). On this occasion I didn't choose to accelerate because I didn't believe he would actually keep going. I did tap my brakes once when he was about 400m behind me just to show some lights in case he hadn't noticed me (this manoeure did not reduce my speed by more than 1mph). He didn't slow or stop and I still have a neck that causes me pain to this day. Acceleration in this case would have let me move to a point where I had more options. What would you have done in this situation?
For the record, none of these situations are hypothetical, and these don't even include situations where speed has let me evade violence involving automatic rifles (and no, I don't mean semi-automatic).
I'm really keen on hearing your enlightenment on all of these situations. Sadly, I've only had a couple of advanced and defensive driving courses, and they all advised the use of power in certain situations, so I'd like to learn from a pro, not these bad drivers who have been mis-educating me.
Thanks,
We have been able to do fairly invasive things even while not actually destabilizing the kernel...
Oh gods, my sides hurt sooo much.
What right do you have to endanger me with your suggestion of limiting my car's maximum speed. So far, the ability to turn on the power and significantly exceed the speed limit has saved my life a number of times.
At least 3 of those times were driving related incidents - the ability to chuck on a load of power and haul myself out of an impending accident is the reason I am still here. Sure, that was coupled with good observation and defensive driving skills, but had I not been able to compensate for other people's stupidity I would have been dead.
Another incident involved an attempted carjacking. I had the choice of stopping the car and shooting into a populated area or using my car to make a hole I could get through and get away. Shooting was not an option due to the number of people around and the fact that I didn't have a clear count or idea of who was involved in the carjacking and who was just standing around in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Your 'technological solution to a social problem' would have resulted in my death on 4 occasions. Thanks.
What about cases where there is a camera at the bottom of a steep hill and you happen to roll up to 43mph ?
What about situations where the speed limit on a road varies between 30mph and 40mph 5 times within a 2 mile stretch? Just to keep it fun, lets vary where the changes occur, the stretch of road involved, and from what to what for a 18 month period.
What about cases where there is a sign indicating a speed limit of 40mph that is 50cm in diameter, and 25m along from that, there is a 15cm sign indicating a limit of 30mph is now in effect? There are also 9 other signs in that 25m stretch indicating exits from roundabout, directions to Excel parking, location of pub, directions to park and ride, etc.
Do you think that people that are caught by these issues are really criminal or dangerous? Or do you think that maybe the people designing, building and destroying the roads might bear some of the blame here?
Every single one of these situations is or was present within 5 miles of my home within the last 3 years.