Shifting a manual transmission is not a distraction from driving, it is part of driving. Also, you can always abandon a shift at any point and disengage the clutch if you need to put your shifting hand on the wheel to steer. If that is not an automatic reaction, you need to more driving time.
In NY, pigs are allowed to use regular cell phones while driving. The excuse (devised by people who have obviously never seen them drive) is that they have special driving training that makes them better drivers.
We have also seen huge advances in automobile engineering for safety. Accidents are less likely to result in fatalities. We should be looking at collisions per mile driven, and especially at accidents involving pedestrians and cyclists as they do not benefit from most engineering advances and are put at further risk by increasing speed limits and increasing vehicle mass.
The system encourages people to give excuses. If you say "I didn't see him" after running over and killing a pedestrian or cyclist, you will get off scot-free. If you say "I was paying no attention to my surroundings and driving like a self-absorbed jerk with no consideration for my fellow man" you can expect a ticket for a few hundred dollars.
Wrong. First of all, people are not very good at identifying how distracted they are. Secondly, your brain has to devote much more attention to processing language from a very low quality source (the phone) than to a very high quality source (the person next to you), leaving the driver paying less attention to driving.
Not particularly obscure. It is December 12th. Everybody has probably seen that stupid movie half a dozen times already this month on account if it being the only damn thing on TV now.
Damaging the system is not the big concern. Managing memory is not the hard part.
Corrupting the data is the big concern. Doing the correct things with the data is the hard part. So what if I could have done memory management in C, or used a sort tailored to the task instead of java.util.Collections.sort(List) to make the program run 10% faster to save the customer 10% on hardware and energy costs? By using Java for those things, I can focus on meeting the customer requirements correctly and quickly, which will greatly outweigh that 10%.
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Because if you go out to an abandon parking lot at attempt to learn how, a cop will come shoo you away.
Shifting a manual transmission is not a distraction from driving, it is part of driving. Also, you can always abandon a shift at any point and disengage the clutch if you need to put your shifting hand on the wheel to steer. If that is not an automatic reaction, you need to more driving time.
They are fed up with the carriers, not the phones.
It does not matter how good your phone is; the quality of the audio sent over the phone network is not that good.
http://www.las.illinois.edu/news/2010/phones/
http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home05/jun05/yantis.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12710835
Add the obvious exception for shifting and it is a pretty damn good message.
In NY, pigs are allowed to use regular cell phones while driving. The excuse (devised by people who have obviously never seen them drive) is that they have special driving training that makes them better drivers.
We have also seen huge advances in automobile engineering for safety. Accidents are less likely to result in fatalities. We should be looking at collisions per mile driven, and especially at accidents involving pedestrians and cyclists as they do not benefit from most engineering advances and are put at further risk by increasing speed limits and increasing vehicle mass.
The bans do not work because they are not enforced and people ignore them. That is not a reason to throw out the ban.
The system encourages people to give excuses. If you say "I didn't see him" after running over and killing a pedestrian or cyclist, you will get off scot-free. If you say "I was paying no attention to my surroundings and driving like a self-absorbed jerk with no consideration for my fellow man" you can expect a ticket for a few hundred dollars.
Wrong. First of all, people are not very good at identifying how distracted they are. Secondly, your brain has to devote much more attention to processing language from a very low quality source (the phone) than to a very high quality source (the person next to you), leaving the driver paying less attention to driving.
Talking on the phone and talking to a passenger do not have the same impact on driver attention.
Not particularly obscure. It is December 12th. Everybody has probably seen that stupid movie half a dozen times already this month on account if it being the only damn thing on TV now.
Prototypes, typing, functional elements, and abusive pseudo-OO are not the problems with JavaScript. The problems with JavaScript are as follows:
1) No threading.
2) It sounds too much like "Java", which leads to much confusion of newbies.
The worst thing about WebOS is that it is built on things that suck that people are standardizing on elsewhere anyway. Javascript
Damaging the system is not the big concern. Managing memory is not the hard part.
Corrupting the data is the big concern. Doing the correct things with the data is the hard part. So what if I could have done memory management in C, or used a sort tailored to the task instead of java.util.Collections.sort(List) to make the program run 10% faster to save the customer 10% on hardware and energy costs? By using Java for those things, I can focus on meeting the customer requirements correctly and quickly, which will greatly outweigh that 10%.
That rules out most professional journalists.
My "MP3 player" (Sansa Clip) plays flac just fine. The battery lasts longer when playing flac than mp3 too, presumably due to easier decoding.
The 9% of Americans who are unemployed, for starters.
No problem. They will just raise the collection rates and give discounts to people who sort their own stuff.
My friends see me in person.
You forgot the link: Hermitbook
Where do you live?
That is quite possibly the worst car analogy I have ever read.
There are two ways you can get your representative to represent you:
Neither of these are viable options. So you need to get him voted out of office. Thus, the problem is the voters.