> "Recently I was travelling down a main street in a car with a friend, that had major construction and was limited to one lane each way. A rather narrow lane. We get stuck behind a guy on a bicycle doing no more than 10 mph. We had no room to pass him. The result of this was my friend and I, and at least 10 other cars being held up by this inconsiderant idiot."
Hello, I am a lead cycling instructor for the Leauge of American Bicyclists.
In this example, with the information you've given me, I think the cyclists was driving perfectly. I'm sorry you have to slow down in the construction zone, that must have been a real incovenience to you. I'm *sure* the cyclist wishes he didn't have to block the lane - we hate doing it, but please understand that the stakes are To The Death. Given the narrowness of the road, the main safety hazard is impatient motorists passing without safety margin on the left. Unfortunately, its not possible for a cyclist to tell by ESP which type of vehicle operator you are until you've hit him, or not. Thus the sane and safe lane position is blocking the lane, thus not tempting other vehicle operators to engage in unsafe passing behavior.
The preliminary evidence leads me to believe that this cyclist was not an idiot, as was actually probably well-educated in vehicluar bicycling.
I think you're blaming the wrong party. It sounds like you're angry at the cyclist. In fact you should be angry at the construction which narrowed the street to one lane, so that all vehicles must slow to the pace of the slowest vehicle. You'd be inconvenienced also if a car slowed to make a left turn, blocking the lane, but you wouldn't call that operator an idiot, nor post about that on slashdot, now, would you? Think about that for a minute before reading on...
All transportation inconveniences other transportation. Its a fact of life. Bicycles inconvenince car operators in different ways than cars inconvenience car operators, but both forms cause inconvenience. For examples, the above mentioned left turning car ahead of you would inconvenience you. Also, when was the last time a row of bikes parked on the street blocked a lane of traffic? Probably never. But parked cars block lanes of traffic all the time. Also, on wide roads, bikes and cars can interpentrate and pass eachother. Cars can't pass cars in the same lane like that, instead they line up behind eachother, causing cascading gridlock problems.
So have some empathy, relax, and enjoy sharing the road.
Also, please don't honk unless a collision is imminent. It doesn't help anything. If you can't get past, ask why that is. Ask why you think you have more right to the road than the non-polluting, non parking-space-consuming bike rider? Ask how long you're _actually_ being delayed, and if the bike rider is waiting for a chance to let you through. Consider all these factors before becoming annoyed.
Sorry, the facts say you're wrong. The sidewalk has been shown to be more unsafe than the road in every traffic safety survey in the history of the world. That's because cars don't expect objects on the sidewalk to move faster than pedestrian speed. Splat.
Check the book Effective Cycling by John Forrester, for details.
The study is fatally flawed, in my opinion. Basically, the guy didn't know where in the lane to ride so that he controlls driver's passing behavior. If passing margin is an issue, take the lane.
-DM Lead Cycling Instructor, League of American Bicyclists
Whoever marked this troll doubtless hasn't used an O2. I did, for two years. They were too slow the day they hit the market, way behind the PIIs they competed with, at 1/5th the cost. Their main selling point was that they ran Irix, which was a the time ahead of Windows NT by a mile.
I find nothing quick about it. Also, in my opinion its not fun either. Arkham Horror and Betrayal at House on the Hill, while both deeply flawed games, are both as fast, and more fun than, Zombies. Arkham Horror might even have an expansion out that actually makes it _good_, but I haven't played it yet.
Bad turning is a completely independant variable to speed.
I walk and bike everywhere, don't own a car. That you think speed isn't the #1 killer tells me you're out of touch with the reality on the street. Reaction time of both parties is proportional to 1/speed. Impact energy goes with the square of speed. Speed kills your reaction time and makes the impact way more deadly.
Then there are vehicles that have a right to the road, but can't saturate the speed-limit. E.g. bicycles and scooters. These people have a right to mobility too. Lowering speed limits helps them a lot.
Yeah, but there are non-commercial web-sites. This may be just the thing for my hobbyist websites, where I don't have the time or the operating system to support MS's obsolete crap, yet don't want the casual visitor to get the wrong impression, e.g. that I'm a total moron and haven't even THOUGHT about another browser type visiting my page.
I have a simple rule: I don't hack to support IE. I write the most elegant possible code assuming a universe where IE doesn't exist.
Definately DON'T give Namco any credit for converting a 2d game to a 3d game. There are never any issues with that! "Mario 64 was just a cheap Mario Bros rip off. Miyamoto was coasting."
Powerstone 2 was the best party game I ever owned. To give you an idea, imagine a fully 3d arena with a fixed camera in one corner. Players manuver like in a 3d platformer (Mario 64). They have health meters and try to beat eachother down. There are weapons and whatnot to pick up, ranging from "The Big Gay Hammer" and "Halibut" to ray guns and motorcycles. The game accepted up to four players simultaneously. It was a blast. I wonder, has this new genre been dropped after the PowerStone series? I'd think it would be picked up for millions of sequels, but the economics of the game industry doesn't reward new genres. Franky, I was so happy with my existing DC games I totally dropped the ball on PS2 and Xbox1, so I don't know what's out there anymore.
Call me crazy, but I just stopped supporting IE about 2 years ago. I test in Konq and Firefox. If 90% of the population is too dumb to follow the "worst viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer" link at the bottom of each page, then they deserve to look at broken crap. Not my problem.
Okay, I admit to not having done my homework, all I remember is High School Chem, but how does adding nuetrons to something, say, carbon, make it into anything other than another isotope of carbon? Are there evil, deadly isotopes of carbon I'm not knowing about?
I try to do proportional design, but what if I want a two-column layout, say 50%/50%, with maybe some graphic with width say 200px. Then the % system breaks down on displays narrower than 400px, and the right column is completely obscured if the display is under 200px...
Flashblock sucks. It blocks all flash except for the flash it doesn't block. It causes firefox to crash on certain pages (e.g. links from Huffington post), If you use firefox's built in extension updater, flashblock runs amok and corrupts your preferences. Flashblocks uninstaller doesn't actually work, you have to fire up emacs to cleanly uninstall or upgrade it.
Yeah, but they've done such a good job of making it "easy" to watch, that its actually not possible for me to wade through all the html plugin crap and find the actual files to download. I admit this is something of a Linux problem, or possibly "problem exists between chair and keyboard".
In my own personal estimation, DC was the first system to reach the threshold of "enough" power, to where graphics didn't matter. Recall it came out a year before the PS2. So it sits in between the late arriving N64, which it thourougly trounces, and the PS2, which probably thouroughly trounces it (not sure, really).
For me the key game was PowerStone 2. What a great party game! Its only a bit of a stretch to call it the spiritual successor to Super Bomberman 2, but what great gameplay, colors, graphics, characters, etc.
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Sega is a failed console manufacturer. I suppose that would matter if they'd released the system only to have no games for it, like, say, the 32x. But with Dreamcast apperantly they only had money to either (A) Make Great Games or (B) Market it properly. They chose (A), and that's why you don't see DC owners complaining it is a "failed system".
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Indeed, the people that accuse Dreamcast of being a "failed" system invariably are those that never had a dreamcast! The system rocked, and had eminently fun & groundbreaking games. If, like me, this is what you want from your console, then the Dreamcast was a smashing success (actually its my favorite console of all time). If, on the other hand what you desire from your console is "the same mediocrity that all your friends have", then the PS2 is your man.
but if I had 1 or 2GB or RAM and wanted to rely on OO
We've got 3/8ths of a gig in the laptop upstairs. Though it is slower, we've switched it to OO over Abiword, abiword just being too wonky and cantankerous for general use anymore (recent problems include hanging when doing Print Preview and being out of Wifi range of the hub, and random rectangles inserted into PDF renderings of the document).
And on the downstairs workstation with a gig, OO is positively snappy! I recommend it to everyone. ^^
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> "Recently I was travelling down a main street in a car with a friend, that had major construction and was limited to one lane each way. A rather narrow lane. We get stuck behind a guy on a bicycle doing no more than 10 mph. We had no room to pass him. The result of this was my friend and I, and at least 10 other cars being held up by this inconsiderant idiot."
Hello, I am a lead cycling instructor for the Leauge of American Bicyclists.
In this example, with the information you've given me, I think the cyclists was driving perfectly. I'm sorry you have to slow down in the construction zone, that must have been a real incovenience to you. I'm *sure* the cyclist wishes he didn't have to block the lane - we hate doing it, but please understand that the stakes are To The Death. Given the narrowness of the road, the main safety hazard is impatient motorists passing without safety margin on the left. Unfortunately, its not possible for a cyclist to tell by ESP which type of vehicle operator you are until you've hit him, or not. Thus the sane and safe lane position is blocking the lane, thus not tempting other vehicle operators to engage in unsafe passing behavior.
The preliminary evidence leads me to believe that this cyclist was not an idiot, as was actually probably well-educated in vehicluar bicycling.
I think you're blaming the wrong party. It sounds like you're angry at the cyclist. In fact you should be angry at the construction which narrowed the street to one lane, so that all vehicles must slow to the pace of the slowest vehicle. You'd be inconvenienced also if a car slowed to make a left turn, blocking the lane, but you wouldn't call that operator an idiot, nor post about that on slashdot, now, would you? Think about that for a minute before reading on...
All transportation inconveniences other transportation. Its a fact of life. Bicycles inconvenince car operators in different ways than cars inconvenience car operators, but both forms cause inconvenience. For examples, the above mentioned left turning car ahead of you would inconvenience you. Also, when was the last time a row of bikes parked on the street blocked a lane of traffic? Probably never. But parked cars block lanes of traffic all the time. Also, on wide roads, bikes and cars can interpentrate and pass eachother. Cars can't pass cars in the same lane like that, instead they line up behind eachother, causing cascading gridlock problems.
So have some empathy, relax, and enjoy sharing the road.
Also, please don't honk unless a collision is imminent. It doesn't help anything. If you can't get past, ask why that is. Ask why you think you have more right to the road than the non-polluting, non parking-space-consuming bike rider? Ask how long you're _actually_ being delayed, and if the bike rider is waiting for a chance to let you through. Consider all these factors before becoming annoyed.
> "Until you can do the same speed limit as the cars that have to "share" the road with you, I don't agree that you have any right to be on it..."
By this logic, cars should not be allowed to decellerate for turns, because they're not keeping up with traffic.
By this logic, busses should not be allowed on roads, because they're not keeping up with traffic when they stop to disgorge passengers.
By this logic, cars should not be allowed to || park on roads, because they're not keeping up with traffic.
What are your thoughts on Amish buggies?
You need new logic. The speed limit is an upper bound. In order for the street to function, it must allow lower speeds.
Check the book Effective Cycling by John Forrester, for details.
The study is fatally flawed, in my opinion. Basically, the guy didn't know where in the lane to ride so that he controlls driver's passing behavior. If passing margin is an issue, take the lane.
-DM
Lead Cycling Instructor, League of American Bicyclists
Whoever marked this troll doubtless hasn't used an O2. I did, for two years. They were too slow the day they hit the market, way behind the PIIs they competed with, at 1/5th the cost. Their main selling point was that they ran Irix, which was a the time ahead of Windows NT by a mile.
> Hopefully my O2 will survive for many years to come.
Yeah, maybe by then it will finish that integer add operation you submitted to it yesterday.
I find nothing quick about it. Also, in my opinion its not fun either. Arkham Horror and Betrayal at House on the Hill, while both deeply flawed games, are both as fast, and more fun than, Zombies. Arkham Horror might even have an expansion out that actually makes it _good_, but I haven't played it yet.
Bad turning is a completely independant variable to speed.
I walk and bike everywhere, don't own a car. That you think speed isn't the #1 killer tells me you're out of touch with the reality on the street. Reaction time of both parties is proportional to 1/speed. Impact energy goes with the square of speed. Speed kills your reaction time and makes the impact way more deadly.
Then there are vehicles that have a right to the road, but can't saturate the speed-limit. E.g. bicycles and scooters. These people have a right to mobility too. Lowering speed limits helps them a lot.
Yeah, but there are non-commercial web-sites. This may be just the thing for my hobbyist websites, where I don't have the time or the operating system to support MS's obsolete crap, yet don't want the casual visitor to get the wrong impression, e.g. that I'm a total moron and haven't even THOUGHT about another browser type visiting my page.
I have a simple rule: I don't hack to support IE. I write the most elegant possible code assuming a universe where IE doesn't exist.
Definately DON'T give Namco any credit for converting a 2d game to a 3d game. There are never any issues with that! "Mario 64 was just a cheap Mario Bros rip off. Miyamoto was coasting."
Powerstone 2 was the best party game I ever owned. To give you an idea, imagine a fully 3d arena with a fixed camera in one corner. Players manuver like in a 3d platformer (Mario 64). They have health meters and try to beat eachother down. There are weapons and whatnot to pick up, ranging from "The Big Gay Hammer" and "Halibut" to ray guns and motorcycles. The game accepted up to four players simultaneously. It was a blast. I wonder, has this new genre been dropped after the PowerStone series? I'd think it would be picked up for millions of sequels, but the economics of the game industry doesn't reward new genres. Franky, I was so happy with my existing DC games I totally dropped the ball on PS2 and Xbox1, so I don't know what's out there anymore.
Call me crazy, but I just stopped supporting IE about 2 years ago. I test in Konq and Firefox. If 90% of the population is too dumb to follow the "worst viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer" link at the bottom of each page, then they deserve to look at broken crap. Not my problem.
Doing my part to right the wrongs as I see them.
Last time I checked the range on the big 16s was 31 nautical miles. That's a lot smaller than the 100 cited for DDX
This will never work. Windows doesn't work with only one mouse button, and the cost of retooling the mouse factories would just be too much.
Okay, I admit to not having done my homework, all I remember is High School Chem, but how does adding nuetrons to something, say, carbon, make it into anything other than another isotope of carbon? Are there evil, deadly isotopes of carbon I'm not knowing about?
I try to do proportional design, but what if I want a two-column layout, say 50%/50%, with maybe some graphic with width say 200px. Then the % system breaks down on displays narrower than 400px, and the right column is completely obscured if the display is under 200px...
Flashblock sucks.
It blocks all flash except for the flash it doesn't block.
It causes firefox to crash on certain pages (e.g. links from Huffington post),
If you use firefox's built in extension updater, flashblock runs amok and corrupts your preferences.
Flashblocks uninstaller doesn't actually work, you have to fire up emacs to cleanly uninstall or upgrade it.
Run away, far away.
Yeah, but they've done such a good job of making it "easy" to watch, that its actually not possible for me to wade through all the html plugin crap and find the actual files to download. I admit this is something of a Linux problem, or possibly "problem exists between chair and keyboard".
Pick up PowerStone 2. It rocks.
In my own personal estimation, DC was the first system to reach the threshold of "enough" power, to where graphics didn't matter. Recall it came out a year before the PS2. So it sits in between the late arriving N64, which it thourougly trounces, and the PS2, which probably thouroughly trounces it (not sure, really).
For me the key game was PowerStone 2. What a great party game! Its only a bit of a stretch to call it the spiritual successor to Super Bomberman 2, but what great gameplay, colors, graphics, characters, etc.
Sega is a failed console manufacturer. I suppose that would matter if they'd released the system only to have no games for it, like, say, the 32x. But with Dreamcast apperantly they only had money to either (A) Make Great Games or (B) Market it properly. They chose (A), and that's why you don't see DC owners complaining it is a "failed system".
Indeed, the people that accuse Dreamcast of being a "failed" system invariably are those that never had a dreamcast! The system rocked, and had eminently fun & groundbreaking games. If, like me, this is what you want from your console, then the Dreamcast was a smashing success (actually its my favorite console of all time). If, on the other hand what you desire from your console is "the same mediocrity that all your friends have", then the PS2 is your man.
So is it better to spend $X00 on M$-office, or $X00 on RAM to make OO perform better? Hm....
but if I had 1 or 2GB or RAM and wanted to rely on OO
We've got 3/8ths of a gig in the laptop upstairs. Though it is slower, we've switched it to OO over Abiword, abiword just being too wonky and cantankerous for general use anymore (recent problems include hanging when doing Print Preview and being out of Wifi range of the hub, and random rectangles inserted into PDF renderings of the document).
And on the downstairs workstation with a gig, OO is positively snappy! I recommend it to everyone. ^^