...is a sub-compact 4x4 that gets 30MPG on the highway with a 4-star crash safety rating, for under $10,000. They freaking had that with the 1991-1996 Sportage, and I put 300,000 miles on one before it finally died! Now, trying to replace it, I find I'd rather walk than spend the kind of cash auto makers expect for a new car that is eight times the size it needs to be, gets worse mileage than a '95 Sportage, and has a bunch of distracting bullshit nobody needs behind the wheel.
Really, the whole thing about adding more airbags, traction control, etc. is retarded. We don't need Sync, an in-dash TV and a minibar in the center console. We need focused drivers. Just give us air conditioning, a heater, a stereo and a transfer case. Focused drivers are safe drivers, and a safe driver is the only safety feature you need.
Your response wrongfully assumes Debian tries to be hard to use, and that Ubuntu sends things upstream in a timely fashion. Both are facts not in evidence.
Not really, when Ubuntu's goals and the Debian Desktop Project's goals are synonymous, and the former doesn't box the user into a relatively limited desktop environment with training wheels in the long term.
I have to wonder why Ubuntu developers waste time on Ubuntu when it would be more constructive, less controversial and serve their target audience better to work on furthering the Debian Desktop Project instead. I am aware that many Ubuntu developers are also Debian developers, which makes this all the more pressing of a question.
OpenStreetMap uses this data to give the elevation contour lines on the cycle map rendering. Eventually, it'll be used to guide cyclists on a flatter, faster (but possibly slightly longer) route to avoid the steep stuff.
Open Simulator (which is what OSGrid runs) and Second Life both support LSL, and you can see tangible results from your code almost immediately after writing it. This will probably be a little bit more attention-holding than your typical hacking environment.
Until air travellers grow a pair and just collectively shove past TSA refusing to be illegally searched, the security theater will continue to inconvenience the public without so much as slowing down terrorism.
Look, if you want to drink the free beer, go right ahead, but don't go acting like it's the morally responsible thing to do. And certainly don't encourage it.
Choice of venue plays a key issue. For example, the morons at the recent "Computing in a Changing World" conference, decided to host an event in Portland Amtrak Station, in the middle of the holiday rush. The conference staff and attendees were rather rude and indignant that anyone would go to a train station to wait for a train, to top it off. Way to go, IEEE, for picking a venue that doesn't compute!
Either way, I kind of wished my train was late that day, Portland Police and Amtrak Police came to disperse the crowd of drunk and disorderly nerds just as I had to go board.
How can someone be so wrong and still get published? Here's the same 10 items, and why only the phone will be obsolete:
Phone booths are making a comeback, sans the phone, as a place go in airports, train stations and crowded downtown streets to hold a conversation in peace and without bothering others. If you take Amtrak, expect staff to direct you to one if they spot you on the phone.
Wristwatches: Analog ones can be used as a survival compass, and generally last longer per battery than most shitty cellphone batter life. Convenient size, and you don't have to dig for a wristwatch.
Bedside alarm clocks: Ha! Are you kidding? Cell phones have a shitty enough battery life that even if you do charge it regularly, good luck using it as an alarm clock longer than a short business trip because you decided to stay someplace that doesn't offer wake up calls.
MP3 Players will never get replaced because MP3 players typically have a proper headphone jack, most phones dont, and none of the phones cultureless chavs use (the primary market for MP3 playing phones) have a headphone plug. Next retard who plays the latest talentless pop hit behind me on the train is getting ther phone smashed.
Landline home phone is doomed, but that's because the phone itself is doomed. "Let's take the interruptiveness of barging into the room and combine it with the obnoxiousness and sound quality of XBox Live! That won't cause problems, especially when people try to use it while driving!" Fuuuck, people created instant messaging and email for a reason: Use it! Alexander Bell should have had his head smashed in with a hammer in front of his friends, family and children for coming up with an idea so prolifically retarded.
Compact digital cameras aren't doomed: When was the last time you saw a cell phone that took decent pictures? Or had a lens cap? Scratch-o-rama on the phone lens!
Netbooks can't be obsoleted by the phone...when was the last time you saw a phone with a full size keyboard? Never, you say? Good luck typing that term paper on the train using your phone.
Handheld game consoles can't go obsolete because someone who never should have had kids needs something that doesn't have a monthly fee to hand their kids to make 'em shut the hell up. If you honestly think that Americans are suddenly going to start thinking about having kids before just doing it without working out how much of an expensive, pointless, and completely unrewarding pain in the ass that is, you're sorely mistaken.
Paper can't be obsoleted until they can come up with a $9 device that's waterproof, works in the rain, has infinite battery life and the potential to live forever.
Thinking won't be obsolete as long as people don't take losers like Andrew Lim, who clearly doesn't know what he's talking about, seriously.
The good thing in all of the Obama peace prize bit is that Obama himself was a reluctant recipient, feeling he hasn't yet done what is needed to warrant a prize.
Police don't prosecute crimes, they take people in on suspicion of breaking the law. Jurisdictions almost always have prosecutors for prosecution, police would function as a witness for the prosecution for that.
1. The law was apparently enforced correctly. 46.5 mph is greater than 45 mph.
2 & 3. Red herring: Ticket wasn't bogus, see point 1.
4. All that happened because the ticketed subject was Driving While Californian (ie, "the whole road is mine and I can revise traffic laws as I go along!").
How many city streets in the US are traffic-free enough and constructed in such a way to allow for travel at speeds greater than 45 anyway? There's a reason why they call 45 and up "expressway" and "freeway" speeds.
I guess the other part is I don't get the punchline's literal premise, which is that fullscreen Youtube videos don't play smoothly on Linux (I have other complaints about Flash, largely in that it's usually used as a replacement for XHTML or hiring someone who knows what they're doing). Is Debian doing something different that every other distro is getting wrong or something? I'm using the Adobe flash plugin and fullscreen flash video plays smoothly for me.
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Really, the whole thing about adding more airbags, traction control, etc. is retarded. We don't need Sync, an in-dash TV and a minibar in the center console. We need focused drivers. Just give us air conditioning, a heater, a stereo and a transfer case. Focused drivers are safe drivers, and a safe driver is the only safety feature you need.
I shouldn't have to justify why reinventing the wheel is a bad thing...
Your response wrongfully assumes Debian tries to be hard to use, and that Ubuntu sends things upstream in a timely fashion. Both are facts not in evidence.
Not really, when Ubuntu's goals and the Debian Desktop Project's goals are synonymous, and the former doesn't box the user into a relatively limited desktop environment with training wheels in the long term.
I have to wonder why Ubuntu developers waste time on Ubuntu when it would be more constructive, less controversial and serve their target audience better to work on furthering the Debian Desktop Project instead. I am aware that many Ubuntu developers are also Debian developers, which makes this all the more pressing of a question.
Check out "YourNavigation.org" in the meantime until folks get the GPS part worked out.
OpenStreetMap uses this data to give the elevation contour lines on the cycle map rendering. Eventually, it'll be used to guide cyclists on a flatter, faster (but possibly slightly longer) route to avoid the steep stuff.
Or you can just install heating elements that come on during freezing conditions. That's how we solved that problem in Cascadia.
Open Simulator (which is what OSGrid runs) and Second Life both support LSL, and you can see tangible results from your code almost immediately after writing it. This will probably be a little bit more attention-holding than your typical hacking environment.
We're already there, then. NASA TV doesn't violate your fourth amendment rights. Unless they figured out a way to watch back that I'm not aware of.
Until air travellers grow a pair and just collectively shove past TSA refusing to be illegally searched, the security theater will continue to inconvenience the public without so much as slowing down terrorism.
No, free speech is. You got it backwards.
Look, if you want to drink the free beer, go right ahead, but don't go acting like it's the morally responsible thing to do. And certainly don't encourage it.
No cost != free.
Choice of venue plays a key issue. For example, the morons at the recent "Computing in a Changing World" conference, decided to host an event in Portland Amtrak Station, in the middle of the holiday rush. The conference staff and attendees were rather rude and indignant that anyone would go to a train station to wait for a train, to top it off. Way to go, IEEE, for picking a venue that doesn't compute! Either way, I kind of wished my train was late that day, Portland Police and Amtrak Police came to disperse the crowd of drunk and disorderly nerds just as I had to go board.
The good thing in all of the Obama peace prize bit is that Obama himself was a reluctant recipient, feeling he hasn't yet done what is needed to warrant a prize.
The Oregon situation isn't this eggregious. Oregon does not charge for access to the state laws, in fact, the state has had them online for years, persuant to the Oregon Sunshine Act of 1973
Of course.
Police don't prosecute crimes, they take people in on suspicion of breaking the law. Jurisdictions almost always have prosecutors for prosecution, police would function as a witness for the prosecution for that.
1. The law was apparently enforced correctly. 46.5 mph is greater than 45 mph.
2 & 3. Red herring: Ticket wasn't bogus, see point 1.
4. All that happened because the ticketed subject was Driving While Californian (ie, "the whole road is mine and I can revise traffic laws as I go along!").
How many city streets in the US are traffic-free enough and constructed in such a way to allow for travel at speeds greater than 45 anyway? There's a reason why they call 45 and up "expressway" and "freeway" speeds.
Firewalls aren't antivirus. Thanks for playing.
I guess the other part is I don't get the punchline's literal premise, which is that fullscreen Youtube videos don't play smoothly on Linux (I have other complaints about Flash, largely in that it's usually used as a replacement for XHTML or hiring someone who knows what they're doing). Is Debian doing something different that every other distro is getting wrong or something? I'm using the Adobe flash plugin and fullscreen flash video plays smoothly for me.
"This site uses a Flash plugin, instead of accepted and open internet standards. Flash has no public source code, and thus no critical peer review. Software with no peer review is intrinsically a security threat to your system. Automatically send nastygram to webmaster?" [Yes] [Search Google for a competing site]