Driving like an ass makes accidents. In the US, 56% of all accidents are caused by aggresive driving. Aggresive driving involves speeding, passing in the right hand lane, red light running, and other stupid road rage tricks. Also, wrecks that happen this way have a larger proportion of fatalities. This outwheighs drunk driving, weather conditions and mechanical failures.
Minimum speeds are posted and Legal, drive accordingly! Blame can not be fixed on someone who is rear ended by some impatient ass. If you could run into someone who is driving the minimum speed limit, then you are driving too fast for conditions and should slow down. The disparity only increases when people speed.
It would be nice if some of those minimum speed limits were raised, but it's not practical. Large and oversized loads have to be moved by road sooner or later, and it's very dagerous to move them too fast.
It's great that the US finally threw off Jimmy Carter speed limits, but there has been a downside. More people are speeding because they feel as though all their previous speeding was justified. "See? I was right," They think, and they also get up to all of the above road rage tricks.
People who speed have very bad driving records, and are the same group of inconsiderate jerks who run red lights, etc. This was verified by a large urban study where redlight runners were photographed by computer cams and their records checked. This new, previously undetectable, record of offense correlated strongly with accidents, speeding, DUI, etc. Criminal record correlation was not strong enough for proof. Interestingly enough, red light running was the largest single cause of traffic fatalities in the US. Yep, they beat the drunks. As sharp as these morons think they are, they screw up frequently.
All of that ranting asside, there are better ways to monitor speeding than having BB know where everyone is, but these have been posted very well already.
This kind of thing only discourages people and it's counter productive. Though they are typically based on Windoze, they can make people fear all computers, and that gets in the way of lots of real work.
People on the job, who have never had the luxury of a computer are very difficult to teach and should be treated with respect. No WIMP opperating system is truely intuitive, and everyone has to learn at some point. Microsoft is even worse, and there that person is with their promotion and wages at stake. They don't want to talk to some condesending snot.
We live in an increasingly technical world, and it is employer's duty to train employees to do their work. Where I work, we get people who can barely read, but they are increasingly required to operate computer driven equipment. My employer offers literacy and math training to make up for what public schools failed to provide, or what was lost in years of brute labor. Sure, computers are getting easier than some older analog equipment, but people can be made to fear computers. The kind of cartoons being refered too create some real negative perceptions on both sides and foster an atmosphere of distrust. When the phobia sets in, that person is less productive and we all loose.
People were cool to me when I needed to learn, and I'll bet you did not get too much flack either. Fifty years from now, "You're too dumb to own a computer" will sound as stupid as, "You're too dumb to use electricity." Be nice to people.
Taking a mouse for a foot pedal is a common and understadable mistake for older people. They were brought up with foot pedals for everything, headlights, pianos, dictaphones, etc. Still, here is how to have some fun with them: Teach them how to use it.
First recognize the problem. Generally, the person will be stamping on the thing, and a few things are happening but not much. Make sure that the person actuall has hands by getting them to type something while stamping. Now, to play.
Tech: Oh yes, that is a tricky foot pedal. Do you have a bare floor or carpet.
If carpet recomend a firm surface like a phone book. In either case, get the mouse pad under the mouse.
Tech: You will have to be very delicate with this foot pedal. Are you wearing shoes?
Get them to take the shoes off. Get them to turn the mouse around so that they can operate buttons with their toes! Get them to actually do something with their foot. Now for the fun part.
Tech: Not very easy to use is it? Imagine that did not have the use of your legs. Not to worry, this OS is handicap accesible and you can use that foot pedal with your hands!
No offense is inteded for people, such as my step brother, who have real disabilities.
Go read any of Brian Wilson Key's books on subliminal advertising. These are images which are placed inconspicuoslly inside carrier images. They typically touch basic and very charged issues such as sex or death, and for that reason are noted but repressed. These images linger in our minds like a snake seen out of the corner or your eye and can cause significant mental stress. Yes, they work. Sexual urges can be channeled into purchases. Self desturctive feelings can be enhanced and used to sell liquor. Print and TV are full of these things. They are as inescapable as they are dispicable. TV, of course is the worst form as so many images can be presented. Broadband streaming video will be just as bad.
Ever wonder why Americans eat twice as much as they need? Over fed like cattle, over sexed and perverted, the evidence is all around you. Woe to the rest of the world when they catch up.
Great idea, too bad ISP's will learn this trick. I can imagine streaming video on your active screen! With Windoze, it should not be hard to detect your second screen and where your mouse moves. Still, you should get some mileage out of that one. Good luck!
This may be off topic, and it's a little late for your project but...
You might want to try out the Basic Stamp by Parallax. look here . It has more inputs and outputs, is programable in basic and comes with great documentation to help you figure out how to drive 59 cent Radio Shack Motors, or standard input devices and serrial communications.
Why don't these Belgian, EU people wise up and better promote their movies in the US. I'm sick of going to the theaters and video stores and seeing nothing but empty headed echos and pulp from Holywood. Don't give me that subtitling/dubbing bullshit, I know you people can express yourselves in English!
OK, let me see if I can explain what I think the author was getting at for you.
First, this looks like satire through exaduration. The author is exposing Amazon's lame excuse for it's audatious actions for what they are by using the same excuse for a far more heinous action. Amazon's use of the patent system amounts to judicail coersion and extortion. It's not as bad as murder or enslavement, but the fact that it makes money for shareholders does not make Amazon correct.
Second, Amazon's usurpation of common practices does violate everyone's fair use of that practice. While this may not be as ugly as race bassed civil rights violations, it is not much better. Race based snubs bother sugroups. Actions like this affect everyone. People who allow themselves to be violated will be enslaved by someone.
Does streaming make sense? What kind of bandwith would this really require? Real Audio is rude enough with it's packets already, I shudder to think how nasty Real TV will be. Should this kind of traffic be allowed?
This junk should be seperated. A couple of years ago people got upset by the first streaming video's, like Iguana TV. Is anyone else still outraged? The average US house has a TV blaring in the conner that no one really watches. People just have it to keep themselvs company. I don't want that kind of junk slowing down legitimate content and hope it can be kept off.
Why do people so love MSIE? Microsoft has a terrible record of using their operating system to blow up everyone's software including their own.
Windows itself is unstable, and it has given me more trouble than any browser. On first install of W96b, MSIE crashes really troubled my home machines. They would blow up on start up of the OS, but eventually and mysteriously they stabilized. I've been using Netscape 4.1 and 4.5 on my WinDoze machines at home and work without a problem. Last year they started to get a little flakey, but an update from W95 to W98 solved everything! Come to think of it, this is why I migrated from Win3.11...Bitchen today and broken tomorow.
Microsoft will be Microsoft. They are greedy, and will try to force costly yearly upgrades of all their software.
The article points to 21 different browsers is great. The recomended Netscape 4.5 has worked just fine on my Linux Machines. The article claims things are getting better for other browsers. Knowing this, why on Earth would anyone want to put themselves at Microsoft's mercy?
Picky, picky, you sophist! I mean left leaning in the common American sense, which in the end is always authoritarian. There is no labor/capital axis, and the picture it draws is misleading.
Theft of freely earned property, "redistribution of wealth" in leftist language, always involves force. Societies are either free and law abiding or not. Decent laws disallow practices that directly harm others, and all other practices and uses of properties are allowed. The left seeks not only to limit legitimate uses of property, but also to steal it. National Socialism is Leftist, don't get confused. They simply have a racial slant.
Back on topic. Beware of people who prommise to protect you. Mosaic will be a useful tool for the left one day. The ultimate property is control of citizens.
Mosaic is the first step towards a real police state. Punishment follows crime in a normal society. In a police state, punishment follows the ultimate crime, disobediance. The schools are the best place to enforce obediance and this is where police states put their greatest effort.
It seems obvious that Mosaic will not prevent violence in schools. These indescrimant killings are copy cat crimes sanctioned by various historical traditions (family fueds, Bolshivic propaganda, fire bombing, etc.) but largely enabled and encouraged by the mass media. Still they are so rare as to be imposible to collect statistics useful enough to even narow down the pool of potential suspects. Even if the pool was narowed down, random events, by definition, can not be predicted. As pointed out above, the more violent and oppresive are ignored by Mosaic so that the victims can be further persecuted.
The New York Times has an article running with erie similarities to this conversational thread. It shows where such Left leaning thoughts can lead, and tells why. Check out:
Ten years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the inner workings of the East German police state are mostly visible. Eight times the size of Hitler's SS per capita, the Stasi's primary tool was profiling. Knowledge is the conerstone of coersion. Police states are most distrustful of those who can have ability and these are the people Mosaic is designed to watch. No one is too small to be ignored.
The proposed rules don't even sound good in theory. The NYT is running an article on this too (here). Among other things, the Administration is not even waiting for the return of the NSF study they ordered. The threshold for action is very low, one accident, and predicted costs are up to $18 billion dolars.
A good friend of mine designs workstations for large companies and can see that this is not going to do anyone much good. They've been spending a ton of money on this already, throwing out pefectly good funiture for new more "ergonomic" stuff. Mostly, it's been going to overwheight whiners who would be better off if they simply exercised and tried to keep healthy. A thousand dollar chair won't solve their problems. Data entry people and others who could really benifit won't.
On the blue colar front, the low threshold will waste more than it fixes. As a former RPS PM loader, I can assure everyone that manual labor will wear you out regardless of back protectors, converyor belts, bells, whistles, or a federally mandated desk jockey! No amount of coaching can prevent accidents, and people who lift 50lb boxes all day will eventually suffer back problems.
Previous selelments with exploding pick up trucks etc. indicate the following remedy:
All Windoze owners get a $0.25 coupon on their purchase of W2k, valid only for 30 days after the official October 6th, 1999 release date. Same for office users.
We've got to recognize that electronic documents are a vital part of our national infrastructure
Right on!
Performance standards are a great idea. The technology is mature enough to handle this. Want money for the effort? Let MS and everyone else bid for the right to make the first document performance standard. What, the Post Office won't pay for a dancing paperclip link? Too bad, it gets hacked out. Then, game over, all software sold to the state must respect that standard. No more stupid Office games.
I work for a state agency, and I'm sick of seeing people waste time reformating their documents that blow up every freaking software, "update" or even just moving from one printer to another. The costs are real, it's time to end them.
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Driving like an ass makes accidents. In the US, 56% of all accidents are caused by aggresive driving. Aggresive driving involves speeding, passing in the right hand lane, red light running, and other stupid road rage tricks. Also, wrecks that happen this way have a larger proportion of fatalities. This outwheighs drunk driving, weather conditions and mechanical failures.
Minimum speeds are posted and Legal, drive accordingly! Blame can not be fixed on someone who is rear ended by some impatient ass. If you could run into someone who is driving the minimum speed limit, then you are driving too fast for conditions and should slow down. The disparity only increases when people speed.
It would be nice if some of those minimum speed limits were raised, but it's not practical. Large and oversized loads have to be moved by road sooner or later, and it's very dagerous to move them too fast.
It's great that the US finally threw off Jimmy Carter speed limits, but there has been a downside. More people are speeding because they feel as though all their previous speeding was justified. "See? I was right," They think, and they also get up to all of the above road rage tricks.
People who speed have very bad driving records, and are the same group of inconsiderate jerks who run red lights, etc. This was verified by a large urban study where redlight runners were photographed by computer cams and their records checked. This new, previously undetectable, record of offense correlated strongly with accidents, speeding, DUI, etc. Criminal record correlation was not strong enough for proof. Interestingly enough, red light running was the largest single cause of traffic fatalities in the US. Yep, they beat the drunks. As sharp as these morons think they are, they screw up frequently.
All of that ranting asside, there are better ways to monitor speeding than having BB know where everyone is, but these have been posted very well already.
People on the job, who have never had the luxury of a computer are very difficult to teach and should be treated with respect. No WIMP opperating system is truely intuitive, and everyone has to learn at some point. Microsoft is even worse, and there that person is with their promotion and wages at stake. They don't want to talk to some condesending snot.
We live in an increasingly technical world, and it is employer's duty to train employees to do their work. Where I work, we get people who can barely read, but they are increasingly required to operate computer driven equipment. My employer offers literacy and math training to make up for what public schools failed to provide, or what was lost in years of brute labor. Sure, computers are getting easier than some older analog equipment, but people can be made to fear computers. The kind of cartoons being refered too create some real negative perceptions on both sides and foster an atmosphere of distrust. When the phobia sets in, that person is less productive and we all loose.
People were cool to me when I needed to learn, and I'll bet you did not get too much flack either. Fifty years from now, "You're too dumb to own a computer" will sound as stupid as, "You're too dumb to use electricity." Be nice to people.
First recognize the problem. Generally, the person will be stamping on the thing, and a few things are happening but not much. Make sure that the person actuall has hands by getting them to type something while stamping. Now, to play.
Tech: Oh yes, that is a tricky foot pedal. Do you have a bare floor or carpet.
If carpet recomend a firm surface like a phone book. In either case, get the mouse pad under the mouse.
Tech: You will have to be very delicate with this foot pedal. Are you wearing shoes?
Get them to take the shoes off. Get them to turn the mouse around so that they can operate buttons with their toes! Get them to actually do something with their foot. Now for the fun part.
Tech: Not very easy to use is it? Imagine that did not have the use of your legs. Not to worry, this OS is handicap accesible and you can use that foot pedal with your hands!
No offense is inteded for people, such as my step brother, who have real disabilities.
Ever wonder why Americans eat twice as much as they need? Over fed like cattle, over sexed and perverted, the evidence is all around you. Woe to the rest of the world when they catch up.
We are red.
We are a blank slate.
We are like a silly clown to speak Latin mixed with English.
My favorite is sylibus, a fourth declension noun, plural sylibus. So many pompus people get that one wrong.
Great idea, too bad ISP's will learn this trick. I can imagine streaming video on your active screen! With Windoze, it should not be hard to detect your second screen and where your mouse moves. Still, you should get some mileage out of that one. Good luck!
You might want to try out the Basic Stamp by Parallax. look here . It has more inputs and outputs, is programable in basic and comes with great documentation to help you figure out how to drive 59 cent Radio Shack Motors, or standard input devices and serrial communications.
Why don't these Belgian, EU people wise up and better promote their movies in the US. I'm sick of going to the theaters and video stores and seeing nothing but empty headed echos and pulp from Holywood. Don't give me that subtitling/dubbing bullshit, I know you people can express yourselves in English!
1) I will not write or say anything that is detrimental to Isac Asimov.
2) I must obey my interpretation of Isac Asimov, gleaned from all eleven of his books I read.
3) I will not allow anything detrimental to Isac Asimov to be said.
For beter laughs than a robot like me could generate, visit I Rowboat
1) I will not write or say anything that is detrimental to Isac Asimov.
2) I must obey my interpretation of Isac Asimov, gleaned from all eleven of his books I read.
3) I will not allow anything detrimental to Isac Asimov to be said.
For beter laughs than a robot like me could generate, visit I Rowboat
I might even imagine a police investigation of mail fraud for a humble strip mall shop.
Julia Strutters recomends boiling oil.
First, this looks like satire through exaduration. The author is exposing Amazon's lame excuse for it's audatious actions for what they are by using the same excuse for a far more heinous action. Amazon's use of the patent system amounts to judicail coersion and extortion. It's not as bad as murder or enslavement, but the fact that it makes money for shareholders does not make Amazon correct.
Second, Amazon's usurpation of common practices does violate everyone's fair use of that practice. While this may not be as ugly as race bassed civil rights violations, it is not much better. Race based snubs bother sugroups. Actions like this affect everyone. People who allow themselves to be violated will be enslaved by someone.
This junk should be seperated. A couple of years ago people got upset by the first streaming video's, like Iguana TV. Is anyone else still outraged? The average US house has a TV blaring in the conner that no one really watches. People just have it to keep themselvs company. I don't want that kind of junk slowing down legitimate content and hope it can be kept off.
LAST POST! LAST POST! I'M SO EXCITED.
Back to PORN.
The US Post Office is a good example of how a non profit govenment agency can cost more than it should and do less than it can.
Don't you just hate junk mail?
Windows itself is unstable, and it has given me more trouble than any browser. On first install of W96b, MSIE crashes really troubled my home machines. They would blow up on start up of the OS, but eventually and mysteriously they stabilized. I've been using Netscape 4.1 and 4.5 on my WinDoze machines at home and work without a problem. Last year they started to get a little flakey, but an update from W95 to W98 solved everything! Come to think of it, this is why I migrated from Win3.11...Bitchen today and broken tomorow.
Microsoft will be Microsoft. They are greedy, and will try to force costly yearly upgrades of all their software.
The article points to 21 different browsers is great. The recomended Netscape 4.5 has worked just fine on my Linux Machines. The article claims things are getting better for other browsers. Knowing this, why on Earth would anyone want to put themselves at Microsoft's mercy?
Theft of freely earned property, "redistribution of wealth" in leftist language, always involves force. Societies are either free and law abiding or not. Decent laws disallow practices that directly harm others, and all other practices and uses of properties are allowed. The left seeks not only to limit legitimate uses of property, but also to steal it. National Socialism is Leftist, don't get confused. They simply have a racial slant.
Back on topic. Beware of people who prommise to protect you. Mosaic will be a useful tool for the left one day. The ultimate property is control of citizens.
Just in case it contains a germ of the truth, help awaits you at:
realdolls
The whole point of the Center is to decide what to do. Sounds good to me.
It seems obvious that Mosaic will not prevent violence in schools. These indescrimant killings are copy cat crimes sanctioned by various historical traditions (family fueds, Bolshivic propaganda, fire bombing, etc.) but largely enabled and encouraged by the mass media. Still they are so rare as to be imposible to collect statistics useful enough to even narow down the pool of potential suspects. Even if the pool was narowed down, random events, by definition, can not be predicted. As pointed out above, the more violent and oppresive are ignored by Mosaic so that the victims can be further persecuted.
The New York Times has an article running with erie similarities to this conversational thread. It shows where such Left leaning thoughts can lead, and tells why. Check out:
The Stasi
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/1129 99germany-stasi.html
Ten years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the inner workings of the East German police state are mostly visible. Eight times the size of Hitler's SS per capita, the Stasi's primary tool was profiling. Knowledge is the conerstone of coersion. Police states are most distrustful of those who can have ability and these are the people Mosaic is designed to watch. No one is too small to be ignored.
A good friend of mine designs workstations for large companies and can see that this is not going to do anyone much good. They've been spending a ton of money on this already, throwing out pefectly good funiture for new more "ergonomic" stuff. Mostly, it's been going to overwheight whiners who would be better off if they simply exercised and tried to keep healthy. A thousand dollar chair won't solve their problems. Data entry people and others who could really benifit won't.
On the blue colar front, the low threshold will waste more than it fixes. As a former RPS PM loader, I can assure everyone that manual labor will wear you out regardless of back protectors, converyor belts, bells, whistles, or a federally mandated desk jockey! No amount of coaching can prevent accidents, and people who lift 50lb boxes all day will eventually suffer back problems.
Previous selelments with exploding pick up trucks etc. indicate the following remedy:
All Windoze owners get a $0.25 coupon on their purchase of W2k, valid only for 30 days after the official October 6th, 1999 release date. Same for office users.
FART!
Right on!
Performance standards are a great idea. The technology is mature enough to handle this. Want money for the effort? Let MS and everyone else bid for the right to make the first document performance standard. What, the Post Office won't pay for a dancing paperclip link? Too bad, it gets hacked out. Then, game over, all software sold to the state must respect that standard. No more stupid Office games.
I work for a state agency, and I'm sick of seeing people waste time reformating their documents that blow up every freaking software, "update" or even just moving from one printer to another. The costs are real, it's time to end them.
This would amount to a "taking" by the government, which is not possible without compensating Microsoft for the value of the source code
Value, heh-heh! I'll swap old Bill $500,000 for his life's work. Not good enough, OK, I'll swap a Red Hat source disk for that pile of crap.