>I don't know if that's necessarily the case when someone speeds past
>you on the right, and slams their vehicle into the space in front of
>you when all of the traffic ahead is slowing down, forcing you to stab
>your brakes hard.
But that's not "the car in front of you." that you're hitting--it's a car from another lane, and the collision would be his fault.
>What if he wasn't driving too fast...it was raining and some idiot
> stopped in the road to turn without signaling
If he couldn't stop in time when the car in front of him decellerated, he was following too close. Driving the same speed as the car in front of you while following too close is driving too fast.
I believe that all 50 states require you to maintain a safe following distance, which is enough to stop your car in time no matter what the car in front of you did. Barring a sudden shoot backwards, I have yet to see any explanation of how you can hit the car in front of you while keeping this distance--it's a matter of definition . . .
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you need legal advice, go pay for it.
If you want a lawyer fool enough to take a contingency fee on a small amount against a dotcom . . .
I once had someone come in expecting me to *defend* a wrongful death case on a contingency (How would that work? I pay a third of the judgment if he loses?:)
And the one hurt on a motorcycle, expecting me to arrange for "my compensation."--the fool had run into the car in front of him (Unless the vehicle in front of you disabled its backup lights and suddenly went into reverse, the fact that you collided with it is conclusive evidence that you were following too close . ..)
RS sold a floppy for it (which I actually still have) that could run on AA batteries as well. It used a 3.5" disk, but got some incredibly low amount of storage. 200k? 50k? It's been too long. Once I had a program to make my xt act as a drive for it (it talked to the drive through the rs-232 port), there was no reason to fix the silly thing.
oh, and for the *really* bizarre, someone in the area (San Diego) actully set up a bbs running on his 102 . . . hmm, that may have been where I got the program for the xt . . .
> Even though Windows isn't open source, people know exactly what every
> little part does.
uhm, no. At least not in the past. Part of their problems with DOJ have been about *not* disclosing such information to competitors to give word/excel a leg up, delayed disclosure, and flat out mis-disclosure.
Word and excel can rely on undocumented materials. Anywon else faces the probability that a change will break their code.
>. The only hold microsoft has over
> anyone else is their research budget!
THat and the windows monopoly that let them strike the licensicing deals to include Office on most computers. This is the single largest factor in the displacement of Word Perfect and Lotus by Word and Excel . . .
In fact, I doubt that it's even true--he doesn't want linux gone any more than he wants Apple gone. Gates wants 90% of the market, and the rest split between other venders--one or two "big" ones like Apple and Linux, and a few little ones. This makes dealing with antitrust issues *much* easier. [About 5 years ago, with apple apparently on the ropes [right before the second coming of Jobs, iirc], the Wall Street Journal stumbled across a small valley firm writing mac-only internet software run on microsoft money.)
The reason that people hate Gates is that they've been hurt by his software. As in, "I've been Gatesed," a reference to the loss of data, work, or effeot because a machine behaves in a fundametnally unreasonable way, or becuase the command just used is different thatn the command that was bound to the same keys on the prior version, resulting in a loss of data. Or when the machine refuses to allow acces to a file without a bizarre workaround. Or when focus to a window is lost even though you were still typing because of a "helpful" feature. Not to mention the times when this week's version of word/excel has problems with a vile saved by last week's.
No, it isn't his money, wealth, or succes that cause most people to hate him. It's the painful to use products.
I never hated windows until I had to spend a day with it to et the files I needed to download Linux . . .
And no, I don't hate Gates. I'm not even anti-microsoft. I do, tough, understand someone who regularly uses the products becoming so . . . and I have the advantage that I haven't spent a lot of time with any since word 5.1 and excel 4--not from loack of opportunity, but because the later versions took out features I used constantly. I switched to *nix over LyX, not ideology (and I would have had to switch in a year or two anyway due to high performance computing needs that windows just can't handle).
ehh, but close--the fax and the power of the calculating machines for the weather forecaster . . . if you spot the existence of what he *did* suggest, some type of request/ansswer network doesn't need much more than to occur to someone as a thought . . .
Never mind the content; the *writing* was wretched, stilted, and unworthy of a passing grade in high school freshman english.
[This is where the criticism of the short, choppy writing style goes. Sorry, I tried, but I just can't write that poorly.]
Unfortunately, I've seen even worse recently. It was an article about a football palyer who recovered from massive burns and now shows up in burn units to be there when badly burned kids wake up. The writing in this article was bad; the footbal article was actually painful to read (the writer seemed to fancy herself swinging for an award, and fancied herself melodramatic.)
Anyway, the POS referred to the writing, in which case I'd agreeed.
hawk, who only received one term paper this term with worse writing than the article
More serisously, the first half dozen or so episodes (with the exception of the Squire of Gothos, err, Q, and the smarmy introduction), were well done. After that, the series centered on the characters and the technologies, anc ceased being interesting.
Captain Kirk ran around the galaxy without adult supervision, and the messes he escaped from were of his own creation as often as not. He, McCoy, and SPock were not so much individuals, but different aspects of humanity. NOt only were the programs several minutes longer, but they didn' waste several of the remaining minutes on "character development," holo-adventures, or poker games. They just told the story.
> As an aside, what in the world do you use that resolution for?
debugging, of course. Have you *ever* had enough screen space?
This thinkpad has a 15" lcd running at 1600x1200, which is about the nicest I've ever seen. If the sony has 19" viewable, the pixels should be nominally larger than on this screen. Then I can edit and run on this screen, with watch windows all over the other . . .
hmm. I looked at ATI's site, and the only card I found using this is the Xpert98 (which I have in machine at home). The highest resolution listed is 1600x1200, and only at 8bpp (and if applications wouldn't hog the pallate, 8bpp would be more than enough. Heck, 4bpp is sufficient for my needs . ..)
Does anyone understand what the onboard video is? I assume it's only midrange. I don't need high performance, but I doo need to be able to drive a 21" sony at 2048x1536. Just what does this have?
PUtting aside that I may be the only one in the eastern United States with a subscription to Sunset ("the Magazine of Western Living,") when we changed our address, we suddenly got two copies. Upon closer inspection, one was for my brother. We probably have seuqentilaly numbered subscriptions from my parents buying them for us at the same time. He fixed that, but apparently not before they sold the address list--he just got offered a credit card at my house--and he's never stepped foot in this state . . .
On a hairdrier, peak and standard are the same--it's *job* is to run that much. On most appliances, power consumption depends upon what it's doing, and is below peak most of the time.
Then there was the old Macintosh Portable with its 1.5A power supply. That wasn't enough to spin up the hard drive, so you *had* to have a battery in it during boot. (And I never would have debugged that blown fuse if there hadn't been a similar and common problem on the powerbooks . ..)
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>you on the right, and slams their vehicle into the space in front of
>you when all of the traffic ahead is slowing down, forcing you to stab
>your brakes hard.
But that's not "the car in front of you." that you're hitting--it's a car from another lane, and the collision would be his fault.
hawk
hawk, esq.
> stopped in the road to turn without signaling
If he couldn't stop in time when the car in front of him decellerated, he was following too close. Driving the same speed as the car in front of you while following too close is driving too fast.
hawk
I believe that all 50 states require you to maintain a safe following distance, which is enough to stop your car in time no matter what the car in front of you did. Barring a sudden shoot backwards, I have yet to see any explanation of how you can hit the car in front of you while keeping this distance--it's a matter of definition . . .
hawk, esq.
hawk
If you want a lawyer fool enough to take a contingency fee on a small amount against a dotcom . . .
I once had someone come in expecting me to *defend* a wrongful death case on a contingency (How would that work? I pay a third of the judgment if he loses?
And the one hurt on a motorcycle, expecting me to arrange for "my compensation."--the fool had run into the car in front of him (Unless the vehicle in front of you disabled its backup lights and suddenly went into reverse, the fact that you collided with it is conclusive evidence that you were following too close . .
hawk, esq
oh, and for the *really* bizarre, someone in the area (San Diego) actully set up a bbs running on his 102 . . . hmm, that may have been where I got the program for the xt . . .
hawk
> little part does.
uhm, no. At least not in the past. Part of their problems with DOJ have been about *not* disclosing such information to competitors to give word/excel a leg up, delayed disclosure, and flat out mis-disclosure.
Word and excel can rely on undocumented materials. Anywon else faces the probability that a change will break their code.
>. The only hold microsoft has over
> anyone else is their research budget!
THat and the windows monopoly that let them strike the licensicing deals to include Office on most computers. This is the single largest factor in the displacement of Word Perfect and Lotus by Word and Excel . . .
> unstable and require a complete reboot
See, a perfect example of the verb "to Gates", as explained above
hawk
The reason that people hate Gates is that they've been hurt by his software. As in, "I've been Gatesed," a reference to the loss of data, work, or effeot because a machine behaves in a fundametnally unreasonable way, or becuase the command just used is different thatn the command that was bound to the same keys on the prior version, resulting in a loss of data. Or when the machine refuses to allow acces to a file without a bizarre workaround. Or when focus to a window is lost even though you were still typing because of a "helpful" feature. Not to mention the times when this week's version of word/excel has problems with a vile saved by last week's.
No, it isn't his money, wealth, or succes that cause most people to hate him. It's the painful to use products.
I never hated windows until I had to spend a day with it to et the files I needed to download Linux . . .
And no, I don't hate Gates. I'm not even anti-microsoft. I do, tough, understand someone who regularly uses the products becoming so . . . and I have the advantage that I haven't spent a lot of time with any since word 5.1 and excel 4--not from loack of opportunity, but because the later versions took out features I used constantly. I switched to *nix over LyX, not ideology (and I would have had to switch in a year or two anyway due to high performance computing needs that windows just can't handle).
hawk
hawk
hawk
hawk
[This is where the criticism of the short, choppy writing style goes. Sorry, I tried, but I just can't write that poorly.]
Unfortunately, I've seen even worse recently. It was an article about a football palyer who recovered from massive burns and now shows up in burn units to be there when badly burned kids wake up. The writing in this article was bad; the footbal article was actually painful to read (the writer seemed to fancy herself swinging for an award, and fancied herself melodramatic.)
Anyway, the POS referred to the writing, in which case I'd agreeed.
hawk, who only received one term paper this term with worse writing than the article
hawk
Don't tell that to the pentagon--we use on tanks today . . .
More serisously, the first half dozen or so episodes (with the exception of the Squire of Gothos, err, Q, and the smarmy introduction), were well done. After that, the series centered on the characters and the technologies, anc ceased being interesting.
Captain Kirk ran around the galaxy without adult supervision, and the messes he escaped from were of his own creation as often as not. He, McCoy, and SPock were not so much individuals, but different aspects of humanity. NOt only were the programs several minutes longer, but they didn' waste several of the remaining minutes on "character development," holo-adventures, or poker games. They just told the story.
hawk
p.s. The damned robot sucked too.
debugging, of course. Have you *ever* had enough screen space?
This thinkpad has a 15" lcd running at 1600x1200, which is about the nicest I've ever seen. If the sony has 19" viewable, the pixels should be nominally larger than on this screen. Then I can edit and run on this screen, with watch windows all over the other . . .
hawk
awe, c'mon. WHen you deduct all the episodes that "never happned", it was only 3 years . . .
hawk
hawk
hawk
Does anyone understand what the onboard video is? I assume it's only midrange. I don't need high performance, but I doo need to be able to drive a 21" sony at 2048x1536. Just what does this have?
hawk
hawk
I produced one, and followed them back. There were 5 or six of us there, watching dan add new memory to his laptop (an extra 2M, i think!)
It suddenly hit me: 20 years earlier, we'd have been watching the installation of a new carbeurator the same way . . .
hawk
Then there was the old Macintosh Portable with its 1.5A power supply. That wasn't enough to spin up the hard drive, so you *had* to have a battery in it during boot. (And I never would have debugged that blown fuse if there hadn't been a similar and common problem on the powerbooks . .
hawk