no, a typewriter does not give you greater control over your typing (much less actually) whereas manual transmissions can provide a great degree of control and comfort just not available in automatics.
i don't get why you used the word apropos here. since the gp told me about the price in us and europe i though it relevant to quote prices in some other part of the world.
if your car's brakes are behaving the way you describe, something is very wrong with them. They should be able to bring your car to a complete stop in under a minute if you press the accelerator and brake pedals all the way.
Please get them repaired.
I tried the same thing in a honda civic (not mine, lol) at about 50km/h and the deceleration was so great that my head banged into the steering.
i agree with you mostly but your info on power steerings is just wrong.
Nowadays most steerings are electronically/electrically controlled and when your car is going above 60km/h the power assist is TURNED OFF.
Its not hard at all to steer above these speeds. So turning off the engine is not a problem for this reason (although you may have to stand on the brakes).
maybe that's because only americans are foolish/arrogant enough to believe that by driving a hybrid they are doing a great service to humanity.
Whereas the rest of the world has been using high fuel efficiency/smaller cars for decades.
i really don't think anything can be 'really sluggish and non-elegant compared to AIR'. Cause AIR is the fucking definition of sluggishness and inelegance.
i installed adobe rreader on my new system and it tried to push AIR alongwith it. Just that made AIR reepulsive enough for me to not install it.
why can't you just use cpp? It will work on all linuxes withoutt much modification. And who gives a fuck about windows.
And especially since AIR is horrendously inefficient.
OMFG!!!
You don't use windows! Who would have thought that some guy on/. with gnu in his userid would not be running windows!
Well guess what, i had to boot up a virtual machine running vista to test the file. And don't be sorry cause it is not malware, too. The online checks that tell you to proceed with caution do so based on heuristics shit.
A decent person and friend of all humanity (actually I don't know him, but he is Canadian, so there) was recently trolled, posting about a deadly accident. I thought it sucked when we found out and turned to slashdot to see his touching comment, among all that bloody bullshit on the "information superhighway". At the same time a select few saw the troll up close. These are things people see who read at -1 (not to mention the unspeakable horrors the troll's poor mother must have seen). These texts remind us all of our fragile sanity. I read my slashdot much more restrictive since that.
If people talked to each other in reality more often, I think reality would become less assholish as people realize how assholish enough real life already is. Speaking about real life: Isn't it weird how car-centric the infrastructure of America is?
No, it is not weird at all. In fact it is quite understandable that a country with such a large area and low population density has its cities well spread out and so cars have become really important.
That's fine and dandy, but you stil can't go around claiming someone stole your idea when you made no effort to protect it.
If you're not going to bother applying for a patent, you forfeit your right to decide who can and cannot implement your idea.
Prior art stops the second party from suing you over the patent, and may even invalidate it, but it doesn't grant you the rights of the patent holder, since, shock, gasp, you have to have applied for and be granted the patent to have those rights.
I'm pulling for Apple, personally - if you don't want anyone else to patent your idea, you should patent it before they do, even if you don't want to restrict anyone from implementing your method - get the patent and license it out freely.
Also, make damn well sure that what's being patented is in fact your method - hooking on analog controls via a chasis connected by serial connection doesn't quite qualify, and if you think it does, you forfeit ever complaining about vague patents in the future.
No they won't. This is blatant theft, and it doesn't take much to show that this product existed for a long time before the patent was granted. There's nothing Apple can do to change that fact.
The get away with it when people don't bother fighting back, but the company in this case is definitely planning on fighting back.
Microsoft, Adobe etc are all guilty of this, they create applications, they add some useful and lots of not so useful stuff, they turn on all features by default and then system administrator run around like mad to fix security holes, disable features, explain to users that that "oh so good feature" is bad, patch, update instead of doing work that would make some dollars.
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no, a typewriter does not give you greater control over your typing (much less actually) whereas manual transmissions can provide a great degree of control and comfort just not available in automatics.
i don't think the whole auto/manual gearbox thing is relevant to the prius. in which the motor is directly connected (not sure though).
i don't get why you used the word apropos here. since the gp told me about the price in us and europe i though it relevant to quote prices in some other part of the world.
ok. I'm sorry, too.
in my country (india), we are a little... lax about things like seat belts, and talking on your phone, and jumping a traffic light, etc. :)
the steering gets locked only when you REMOVE the key.
i live in india. We have petrol prices at about a dollar per liter. Although that may be cheap by your standards, its quite significant here.
if your car's brakes are behaving the way you describe, something is very wrong with them. They should be able to bring your car to a complete stop in under a minute if you press the accelerator and brake pedals all the way. Please get them repaired. I tried the same thing in a honda civic (not mine, lol) at about 50km/h and the deceleration was so great that my head banged into the steering.
i agree with you mostly but your info on power steerings is just wrong. Nowadays most steerings are electronically/electrically controlled and when your car is going above 60km/h the power assist is TURNED OFF. Its not hard at all to steer above these speeds. So turning off the engine is not a problem for this reason (although you may have to stand on the brakes).
maybe that's because only americans are foolish/arrogant enough to believe that by driving a hybrid they are doing a great service to humanity. Whereas the rest of the world has been using high fuel efficiency/smaller cars for decades.
so why did you post the link as ac then?
i really don't think anything can be 'really sluggish and non-elegant compared to AIR'. Cause AIR is the fucking definition of sluggishness and inelegance.
i installed adobe rreader on my new system and it tried to push AIR alongwith it. Just that made AIR reepulsive enough for me to not install it. why can't you just use cpp? It will work on all linuxes withoutt much modification. And who gives a fuck about windows. And especially since AIR is horrendously inefficient.
OMFG!!! You don't use windows! Who would have thought that some guy on /. with gnu in his userid would not be running windows!
Well guess what, i had to boot up a virtual machine running vista to test the file. And don't be sorry cause it is not malware, too. The online checks that tell you to proceed with caution do so based on heuristics shit.
A decent person and friend of all humanity (actually I don't know him, but he is Canadian, so there) was recently trolled, posting about a deadly accident. I thought it sucked when we found out and turned to slashdot to see his touching comment, among all that bloody bullshit on the "information superhighway". At the same time a select few saw the troll up close. These are things people see who read at -1 (not to mention the unspeakable horrors the troll's poor mother must have seen). These texts remind us all of our fragile sanity. I read my slashdot much more restrictive since that.
If people talked to each other in reality more often, I think reality would become less assholish as people realize how assholish enough real life already is. Speaking about real life: Isn't it weird how car-centric the infrastructure of America is?
No, it is not weird at all. In fact it is quite understandable that a country with such a large area and low population density has its cities well spread out and so cars have become really important.
and why does this waiting stuff happen on slashdot anyway? Do you know? And which browser do they test this shit on? Cause it sure aint firefox.
you don't NEED mse for linux. there is no malware for linux. One area where linux is lacking.
i downloaded the thing and scanned it. ms security essentials says no malware.
yes but this website has a much bigger free ebook library than gutenburg or baen. you can even find games, films, and all sorts of software!
printing in ubuntu is quite painless actually. the real problem is scanning.
don't forget apple's theft of all kinds of wireless tech from nokia.
That's fine and dandy, but you stil can't go around claiming someone stole your idea when you made no effort to protect it.
If you're not going to bother applying for a patent, you forfeit your right to decide who can and cannot implement your idea.
Prior art stops the second party from suing you over the patent, and may even invalidate it, but it doesn't grant you the rights of the patent holder, since, shock, gasp, you have to have applied for and be granted the patent to have those rights.
I'm pulling for Apple, personally - if you don't want anyone else to patent your idea, you should patent it before they do, even if you don't want to restrict anyone from implementing your method - get the patent and license it out freely.
Also, make damn well sure that what's being patented is in fact your method - hooking on analog controls via a chasis connected by serial connection doesn't quite qualify, and if you think it does, you forfeit ever complaining about vague patents in the future.
Yours truly, Steve Jobs.
FTFY
No they won't. This is blatant theft, and it doesn't take much to show that this product existed for a long time before the patent was granted. There's nothing Apple can do to change that fact.
The get away with it when people don't bother fighting back, but the company in this case is definitely planning on fighting back.
watch them.
firefox including an addon's functionality is different from apple stealing someone else's idea and device and abusing their monopoly to succeed.
Microsoft, Adobe etc are all guilty of this, they create applications, they add some useful and lots of not so useful stuff, they turn on all features by default and then system administrator run around like mad to fix security holes, disable features, explain to users that that "oh so good feature" is bad, patch, update instead of doing work that would make some dollars.
you forgot itunes