Here in Australia, usually you get a transfer (quota) cap of whatever-you-pay-for Gb a month, and if you exceed that in a month, you get shaped (connection speed gets reduced significantly). Some of the big ISPs such as Telstra used to charge you per Mb if you went over, not sure if they still do that.
My guess is that he saw the cars but completely misjudged the distances involved, especially with a bike as the tail reference point. If that was the case then a system that alerted him that there was something coming up would have had some remote possibility of preventing the accident.
Something like this MAY have helped when I got collected by a 4WD (truck) with a bullbar last year while riding home from work. Here I was on a bright red sports bike, headlights on, stopped at an intersection behind a row of cars. BAM, right in to the back of me and pushed me into the back of the car in front like a pinball.
He swore he didn't see me. Granted, he was DUI, but a little alert telling him that he was approaching something at 60kph that was going to break when he hit it would have been useful. And less painful. For me, anyway.
Lots of sad and cynical posts so far, but I have to say I'm looking forward to. I loved KotOR, and I've been hanging out for this one for ages. I just hope they do it right. I played SWG for a while, if for no other reason than being an MMO in the Star Wars universe. Bioware did KotOR right, hope they can translate it to an MMO format successfully.
From what I've seen, people enjoy gmes of all sorts at any age. There is a group called The Older Gamers at http://www.theoldergamers.com/ that specifically cater to people who play games (online and otherwise) who are over the age of 25. You have 30 year olds playing MMOs, and 70 year olds playing FPS, so I don't think you can profile players and the types of games they play by their age.
For the vast majority of these people, their social networking is done via the games themselves or in the forums that discuss the games they play, or general ones. The only commonality is that they play computer games of some sort. And it's massive now, internationally, given how far it's come since it started in 2002 in a little corner of Australia.
So I'll dispute their claim that people give up games for social networking sites as they get older; they tend to be social with other gamers!
That's the equivalent of what I've heard called (and which I call) "Rubber Dummy Syndrome." You need to solve a problem. You've been wracking your brains on it for hours. In desperation, you go and get help on it, so you start to describe the problem to a colleague. About half way through describing the problem, you stop, say "never mind," and realise that you've solved it. The person you're talking to never need say a word. It's the act of DESCRIBING the problem that finally gives you the solutions.
As for the best time of the day to think? For me, either 8am or 10pm. Or in the toilet, or making a hot drink in the kitchen. Occasionally I've been trying to solve some problem, and my boss said to me "Go and make a cuppa, looks like you need to think." And damned if it didn't usually work:)
The problem I think isn't the fact that there is down time, the problem is that when you're performing internal maintenance, you can choose the best time to do it by coordinating with everyone else in the organisation. When downtime is imposed with little or no warning externally (or simply just goes down "for maintenance"), that's when the online model comes unstuck and people get frustrated.
No, a software development company (not in the US though). The first thing was to estimate how long it would take us to develop the tool/package/whatever compared to the cost of having our developers removed from the software development pool. If the cost and time was significantly more for us to develop and maintain the application compared to buying it third party, then it was a no brainer. Having your development team not working on your core business doesn't generally push ahead your product from where your source of income comes from. Of course there are exceptions.
Call me strange, but when I was involved in evaluating software for purchase, I actually looked at the feature set of the package. Tick those off against the requirements, then get hold of the thing and play with it for usability and bugs. Lastly, if there were no major issues there, and the package was sufficiently expensive, I'd look at the support agreements, and in particular the SLAs in place for support. If all of THOSE criteria get ticked, then it really doesn't matter what the version number is.
Agreed. The stock market is a direct indicator of the current balance between fear and greed. And since both of these are human emotions, they are very difficult to predict with any accuracy.
However, if you use technical charting, some statistical markers such as price point values can provide support and resistance to the price going through them. But again, it's people that push the price up or down through these. Is there enough fear to push it down through support, or enough greed to push it up through resistance? You can only take an educated guess. It's not deterministic.
Don't worry, I completely agree with you, and I use engine braking all the time by downshifting as I pull up as it prevents wear on the brakes. The car also pulls up "flat" rather than pushing all the weight forward onto the front brakes as that's where most of the weight transfers to when you apply the brakes. The only time you'll do engine damage by downshifting is if you do it too early and watch the tachometer coming back from above the redline.
All my point was that if you want to be idling (either stopped or nearly stopped), then you should be using neutral not riding the clutch.:)
Sorry, but a spigot bearing is different from a throwout bearing:) The spigot bearing is as I've described in another post, the throwout bearing is the one that pushes on the fingers of the pressure plate and allows the clutch plate to spin. A throwout bearing tends to be a little more robust than a spigot bearing as they need to take lateral as well as rotational stress. But they still wear out with excessive clutch riding:)
Definitely a mechanic;) The spigot bearing is the little bearing in the back of the crankshaft that the input shaft of the gearbox fits into to hold it at both ends. When the clutch is not engaged, the crankshaft and input shaft spin together, so the spigot bearing doesn't spin (well, it spins at the same speed as the crankshaft, if you get what I mean). These little bearings aren't really designed for serious long term spinning, so constantly riding the clutch is going to wear it out pretty quickly.
As an ex-mechanic, I wouldn't recommend coasting all the time with your clutch in, you're not doing it any favours. Stick the thing in neutral, it's far better for the longevity of your clutch, not to mention your spigot bearing.
I work at the ITEE school at my uni, and our tech section was running Horde for our email server. It was superb. Alas, orders came from above that they wished to centralise the email servers and we got stuck on Exchange. It's crap compared to what we had. The web client is rubbish, and the mail server is dog slow.
I'd go with the above suggestion if you have the choice. Second choice, I'd probably recommend Google.
Deletionpedia is newsworthy, especially now that there's a controversy afloat. (See the Streisand Effect.) The appearance of impropriety is often worse than the scandal itself, so Wikipedia ought to just leave the entry be lest it be accused of censorship.
The amusing part is that I looked up "Streisand Effect" on Wikipedia...
Heck, give me a real world example on how the average person in Europe, Australia or Asia is affected by global warming.
In Australia, we now have carbon trading. So we're all getting affected by it.;)
Seriously though, given that 90+% of Australia's population live on the coastline, if sea levels do rise, then it's gonna affect a whole lotta people. Has that happened yet? No. But it's probably only a matter of time. Enough to worry (and therefore affect) a lot of people now.
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Here in Australia, usually you get a transfer (quota) cap of whatever-you-pay-for Gb a month, and if you exceed that in a month, you get shaped (connection speed gets reduced significantly). Some of the big ISPs such as Telstra used to charge you per Mb if you went over, not sure if they still do that.
He was apparently sober enough to do a runner :/
My guess is that he saw the cars but completely misjudged the distances involved, especially with a bike as the tail reference point. If that was the case then a system that alerted him that there was something coming up would have had some remote possibility of preventing the accident.
Something like this MAY have helped when I got collected by a 4WD (truck) with a bullbar last year while riding home from work. Here I was on a bright red sports bike, headlights on, stopped at an intersection behind a row of cars. BAM, right in to the back of me and pushed me into the back of the car in front like a pinball.
He swore he didn't see me. Granted, he was DUI, but a little alert telling him that he was approaching something at 60kph that was going to break when he hit it would have been useful. And less painful. For me, anyway.
Lots of sad and cynical posts so far, but I have to say I'm looking forward to. I loved KotOR, and I've been hanging out for this one for ages. I just hope they do it right. I played SWG for a while, if for no other reason than being an MMO in the Star Wars universe. Bioware did KotOR right, hope they can translate it to an MMO format successfully.
So on behalf of the Star Wars geeks, YAY!!!
From what I've seen, people enjoy gmes of all sorts at any age. There is a group called The Older Gamers at http://www.theoldergamers.com/ that specifically cater to people who play games (online and otherwise) who are over the age of 25. You have 30 year olds playing MMOs, and 70 year olds playing FPS, so I don't think you can profile players and the types of games they play by their age.
For the vast majority of these people, their social networking is done via the games themselves or in the forums that discuss the games they play, or general ones. The only commonality is that they play computer games of some sort. And it's massive now, internationally, given how far it's come since it started in 2002 in a little corner of Australia.
So I'll dispute their claim that people give up games for social networking sites as they get older; they tend to be social with other gamers!
That's the equivalent of what I've heard called (and which I call) "Rubber Dummy Syndrome." You need to solve a problem. You've been wracking your brains on it for hours. In desperation, you go and get help on it, so you start to describe the problem to a colleague. About half way through describing the problem, you stop, say "never mind," and realise that you've solved it. The person you're talking to never need say a word. It's the act of DESCRIBING the problem that finally gives you the solutions.
As for the best time of the day to think? For me, either 8am or 10pm. Or in the toilet, or making a hot drink in the kitchen. Occasionally I've been trying to solve some problem, and my boss said to me "Go and make a cuppa, looks like you need to think." And damned if it didn't usually work :)
loud noises and mixed with strobe lights can get me every time.
Hmm, you should probably stay away from nightclubs then. :)
The problem I think isn't the fact that there is down time, the problem is that when you're performing internal maintenance, you can choose the best time to do it by coordinating with everyone else in the organisation. When downtime is imposed with little or no warning externally (or simply just goes down "for maintenance"), that's when the online model comes unstuck and people get frustrated.
No, a software development company (not in the US though). The first thing was to estimate how long it would take us to develop the tool/package/whatever compared to the cost of having our developers removed from the software development pool. If the cost and time was significantly more for us to develop and maintain the application compared to buying it third party, then it was a no brainer. Having your development team not working on your core business doesn't generally push ahead your product from where your source of income comes from. Of course there are exceptions.
Call me strange, but when I was involved in evaluating software for purchase, I actually looked at the feature set of the package. Tick those off against the requirements, then get hold of the thing and play with it for usability and bugs. Lastly, if there were no major issues there, and the package was sufficiently expensive, I'd look at the support agreements, and in particular the SLAs in place for support. If all of THOSE criteria get ticked, then it really doesn't matter what the version number is.
Agreed. The stock market is a direct indicator of the current balance between fear and greed. And since both of these are human emotions, they are very difficult to predict with any accuracy.
However, if you use technical charting, some statistical markers such as price point values can provide support and resistance to the price going through them. But again, it's people that push the price up or down through these. Is there enough fear to push it down through support, or enough greed to push it up through resistance? You can only take an educated guess. It's not deterministic.
Warning! Do not look at laser with remaining genetically mutated eye.
So apparently we don't only need to worry about road rage from the drivers, apparently the cars are angry too!
Don't worry, I completely agree with you, and I use engine braking all the time by downshifting as I pull up as it prevents wear on the brakes. The car also pulls up "flat" rather than pushing all the weight forward onto the front brakes as that's where most of the weight transfers to when you apply the brakes. The only time you'll do engine damage by downshifting is if you do it too early and watch the tachometer coming back from above the redline.
All my point was that if you want to be idling (either stopped or nearly stopped), then you should be using neutral not riding the clutch. :)
Sorry, but a spigot bearing is different from a throwout bearing :) The spigot bearing is as I've described in another post, the throwout bearing is the one that pushes on the fingers of the pressure plate and allows the clutch plate to spin. A throwout bearing tends to be a little more robust than a spigot bearing as they need to take lateral as well as rotational stress. But they still wear out with excessive clutch riding :)
Definitely a mechanic ;) The spigot bearing is the little bearing in the back of the crankshaft that the input shaft of the gearbox fits into to hold it at both ends. When the clutch is not engaged, the crankshaft and input shaft spin together, so the spigot bearing doesn't spin (well, it spins at the same speed as the crankshaft, if you get what I mean). These little bearings aren't really designed for serious long term spinning, so constantly riding the clutch is going to wear it out pretty quickly.
As an ex-mechanic, I wouldn't recommend coasting all the time with your clutch in, you're not doing it any favours. Stick the thing in neutral, it's far better for the longevity of your clutch, not to mention your spigot bearing.
Damnit, I just used all my mod points. Someone mod this +1 Insightful! :)
I work at the ITEE school at my uni, and our tech section was running Horde for our email server. It was superb. Alas, orders came from above that they wished to centralise the email servers and we got stuck on Exchange. It's crap compared to what we had. The web client is rubbish, and the mail server is dog slow.
I'd go with the above suggestion if you have the choice. Second choice, I'd probably recommend Google.
Duke Nukem Forever apparently will be in beta.
And "macbook" returns a web site on books. About Macs. Go figure. http://web.archive.org/web/20010518232134/www.macbook.com/
Not to blow his own trumpet...
Deletionpedia is newsworthy, especially now that there's a controversy afloat. (See the Streisand Effect.) The appearance of impropriety is often worse than the scandal itself, so Wikipedia ought to just leave the entry be lest it be accused of censorship.
The amusing part is that I looked up "Streisand Effect" on Wikipedia...
Heck, give me a real world example on how the average person in Europe, Australia or Asia is affected by global warming.
In Australia, we now have carbon trading. So we're all getting affected by it. ;)
Seriously though, given that 90+% of Australia's population live on the coastline, if sea levels do rise, then it's gonna affect a whole lotta people. Has that happened yet? No. But it's probably only a matter of time. Enough to worry (and therefore affect) a lot of people now.
Disregard my parent post, brain engaged 30 seconds AFTER clicking submit.