With a menu, I can click on 'File', then drag my mouse across to try and find a relevant item reasonably quickly. All menus drop down into a small area allow for easy scanning of choices, all menu items and menus are in a single, vertical, left-aligned column showing keyboard shortcuts. The ribbon bar is spread across the entire top of the windows, and the various options don't even line up. Some are across the top, some are across the bottom. Some have vertical options. Unless you put the mouse on something and hover over it, the keyboard shortcut doesn't even display. Intuitive?? If by intuitive someone means that you can click on an icon or picture that you don't understand and it will do something then yes, it is intuitive.
Many users see the alt key combos on a menu and know how to use them for things they need the most, so they don't even need the menu. My wife used to be surprised when I would do something without the mouse, like bold an Excel cell, and then she would try it herself and often comment on how much easier it was.
The ribbon bar does offer more capability for displaying options than a menu does, but it takes up more space -- it's HUGE when compared to a menu. Why they don't offer a 'small icons without text' option I don't know. It does provide a better interface for people who aren't afraid to click on something to see what it does. Which is the minority of computer users.
For the minuscule amount of time it might save later, it's all lost while spending minutes trying to find out there the 'Pivot Table' option is now (it used to be under the data menu, but they moved it to the insert ribbon). But Microsoft and Apple are all about dumbing down the computer so any moron can use it without any skills or knowledge. Just point and click. That's why Grandma can't find files after she downloads them, she has no clue about what computers do, how they work, or what file systems or directories are. It's not that she isn't capable of learning, it's that it's all hidden and she can't find out even if she wanted to. I'm always amazed at people who have used computers for years and have no concept about files and directories, the very basis for almost all programs on a computer. Instead, they use organizers that put files who-knows-where, then they get all upset when they run out of space because the 'C' drive is full and they can't figure out how to put new files on the new hard drive I just installed.
I don't mind offering the ribbon bar as an option for the new user, or for those that truly like it better. But if Firefox or Office is already installed, please keep the old settings and then ASK me if I want to change to the new ones. It would be really nice to have something that says 'You've been using ribbons for a couple of days now, want to make it permanent?' rather than hiding the option to change it 12 layers deep behind some obscure reference.
A 60 watt bulb burning for 5.5 hours a day uses about 120KWH a year. My non-peak electricity (i.e. night time when I would be using the lights) is $0.063/kwh. That math is $7.60/YEAR for electricity. Electric rates would have to be almost $0.18US, which is my peak rate during the summer months (it drops to about $0.086US for what passes for winter in Phoenix.) So a 6watt LED bulb would use 1/10th of electricity, saving around $7/year.And I doubt if more than 3 of the incandescent bulbs are used more than 4-5 hours on average a night.
I just bought a pack of ten 60 watt bulbs for $3. So each bulb is an upfront cost of $39.70 whenever a bulb burns out, and has a payback of over 5 years. I'm not going to keep a pack of 10 around the house, I'm going to go out and have to buy one whenever a bulb burns out. I have lived in my house now for 6 years, and just ran out of my first pack.I have a few CFLs in drawers because I don't like them, and about half of the lights we use the most are florescent.
Unless these LED lights can be used in dimmers, I won't buy them because it makes all of my dimmers (three of which are wireless RF in high ceiling fans) useless. Which is another reason I don't buy CFLs. I assume the LEDs will work in dimmers, although the article doesn't state that.
I just replaced my refrigerator because the old one finally died, and using a Kill-A-Watt meter found out it uses about $5/month in electricity. I didn't buy a high-efficiency fridge to save money on electricity, I bought a fridge that happens to be a high-efficiency fridge because it has two separate compressors that keep food SOOO much better. We are throwing out far less food now because things don't get freezer burn and produce doesn't go bad as quickly. And it's bigger, uses LED lights so it's brighter inside, and has some cool drawers and shelves that make it easier to get to the food.
I will spend money on things that are efficient, as long as the efficiencies are worth it to me. An ROI of 5 years on a light bulb isn't worth it because I can't 'see' the savings, it's buried in my electric bill which seems to keep going up and up. I've bought enough long-life light bulbs and other items in my life that didn't last to have little trust in such claims. Spending $2,400 on a refrigerator was worth it because I realized the gains immediately in food savings, something much easier to see.
If you think an accidental grammar mistake makes me stupid (instead of just careless because I didn't review what I wrote), then I'll assume you agree that buying an iPhone on purpose must make someone positively moronic.
I think their stupid for spending that much on a phone that they can't even put whatever application they want on it. And one where their provider allows for reaching out and deleting applications that they did put on it.
Maybe that should be Apple's new them song...
Reach out and delete some app
Reach out and just say NO!!!!
Magazines know EXACTLY who most of their subscribers are, they have the addresses. Ads target demographics, and magazines don't get that from knowing who gets their magazines (except by comparing addresses to census data), they do studies instead because they don't have the demographics for each subscriber, unless they fill out a survey. This is another method of gathering demographics. There is no face recognition pointing specifically back to you because the advertiser doesn't have your face in memory. The information gathered in my case would be 'male, white, around 50, overweight, bald, dry skin, smiles a lot, has a smiling female with him a lot prettier than he deserves, must have a large penis or is wealthy. Clothing style indicate he is not wealthy. Probably a geek. Don't show Enzyte ad, show Eucerin and ThinkGeek ads'.
I seem to recall where Amazon got into trouble for this also because they 'assumed' certain demographics when people bought things. It was bad for business and they changed it. I'm sure there will be startup problems, but it doesn't worry me any. I won't get upset if 'Hair club for men' ads show up.
Why is this screwed up?? It's done today. Magazine ads are placed because of the target audience. Neflicks and Amazon suggest ads based on prior purchases. And yes, they don't always get it right. But sometimes they do.
This is a way for people to get ads for products that they at least *might* be interested in, and help businesses keep advertising costs down by not showing ads to groups that wouldn't be interested.
Whenever people get scared of things I this, I chuckle and remember a story my grandfather told me about how people were afraid of those new fangled telephones and fought against them.
They were afraid because they thought poles might fall over on them.
Just because someone has a twitter account doesn't mean they aren't part Luddite.
Do what I did...I ran a headless Mepis file server. For the very few times I needed access it when I couldn't use SSH for some reason, I plugged a monitor and keyboard into for 10 minutes. When I bought an new LCD panel, I found that I could plug the HDMI into my desktop, and the VGA into the server and swap back and forth using the digital/analog button. So I plugged in a second keyboard and just kept it on top of the server.
Keep your video card, and the next time you can't get to the server via the network, press the power button and let it cycle down (you did configure it that way.. right??). Then put the AGP card back in, plug a keyboard and monitor in, fix it, then take it back out again.
Everything else sounds just way to complicated if you aren't willing/unable to use a serial port for the 1 time a year you will need to do this.
I must have worked for the only moronic security department that required the person who made the tech call to be the one that watched the tech. The excuse was that anyone else (i.e. junior, intern, operator, etc.) wouldn't know enough or have enough incentive to watch over them. Security departments in some companies don't have to make sense because they make the rules and tell anyone who doesn't like it to stuff it.
My own opinion is that if someone can't trust a Sun or EMC rep that they have known for awhile to only work on the machine they are being asked to work on and not muck up the rest of the data center, then why are they buying their equipment and paying them support to fix it.
Of course, this is the same security department that let anyone that walked in the door and was given sys admin privs access to the floor and all machines as soon as the paperwork cleared. Even though the reality was the a sys admin rarely needed access to the data center floor and a new tech probably would not be allowed to work on a production machine for awhile. That is what labs are for.
I guess as long as we could fire them and make them a scapegoat, it was OK to give them access even if they didn't know what they were doing.
So... I'm trusting a tech to work on something that has data and hardware worth millions of dollars because I don't have the knowledge of the hardware that he has, but I can't leave him alone because he might mess something up?? And how am I supposed to stop him from unplugging the wrong component at the wrong time when I don't know which is the right component?
I agree that I wouldn't let someone I don't know walk around in the data center. But I've worked at companies where I've had the same tech for a couple of years. One company said we had to be with them at all times. I'm not talking about letting him in the door and walking him to the rack after discussing what he is going to do, I'm talking about not being able to leave his side the entire time he is working on a machine.
It is moronic to have a highly paid staff member waste hours watching over someone when that staff member knows less about the hardware than the tech does and when the operations staff is just on the other side of the freakin' window and can see him at all times too.
I'd rather take 1/5th of the 2.2M dollars and have my own full time support staff to manage the disks that I don't have to watch over, and get immediate response times.
It's great having someone tell you they will be there in three hours to replace your power supply, that you then have to dedicate a staff person to be with when they go out on the shop floor because some moron in security requires it. If they had just left a few spare parts you could do it yourself because everything just slides into place anyway.
That 2.683M also pays for salaries, pretty building(s), advertising, research, conventions, and more advertising.
I could hire a couple of dedicated staff to have 24x7 support for far less than 2.683M, plus a duplicate system worth of spare parts.
This stuff isn't rocket science. Most companies don't need high-speed, fiber-optic disk array subsystems for a significant amount of their data, only for a small subset that needs blindingly fast speed. The rest can sit on cheap arrays. For example, all of my network accessible files that I open very rarely but keep on the network because it gets backed up. All of my 5 copies of database backups and logs that I keep because it's faster to pull it off of disk than request a tape from offsite. And it's faster to backup to disk, then to tape.
BackBlaze is a good example of someone that needs a ton of storage, but not lightening fast access. Having a reliable system is more important to them than one that has all the tricks and trappings of an EMC array that probably 10% of all EMC users actually use, but they all pay for.
Jeez.. anyone is free to put up a DNS root server and setup rules on how to issue domain names on it.
The only issue is GETTING people to use it. Naming conflicts are easy... lookup in my DNS server first, then the rest if not found. So if I setup a DNS server and someone wants to buy google.com, they can do that. But since no one uses my root server, no one wants to do it.
1) Put up a bigger fence, or get a smaller ego and realize no one gives a shit about your house.
2) Hmm...interesting expectation. Since it's completely unreasonable, I think we can all ignore it. Newspapers and TV stations can also include your house when that murder next door takes place. Don't believe me?? I live in a quiet, suburban area and a lady two doors down committed suicide by cop. My house was all over the news. Good thing I'm not selling it right now.
3) You've never looked at your house on street view?? Ok.. there is someone that is just technologically impaired. It's the first thing most people do when they find out about it. My house looks GREAT by the way!!! Much better than the view on the news with the police tape and police cars around it.
Google Street View is one of the greatest things the Internet has brought forth. Too bad a small, paranoid minority is trying to take it away from the majority everyone that finds it useful
Yes... let's get rid of something useful to a large portion of society just so a few people that might suffer from being.. oh, I don't know.... stupid??... aren't impacted.
I use street view all the time. I use it to plan motorcycle rides so I know where the exits to a gas station are in relation to turn lanes. I've used it to look at neighborhoods before I buy a house so I don't waste my time having to go there with the realtor. I've used it to see where the ATM is at a bank so I know which entrance makes the most sense. I've used it to see where the entrance to a hotel is so I could figure out that I need to make a U-turn and was ready for it. I used it before going to visit my daughter at her new house so I figure out where her house was in the maze of suburban clones. I used it to help my wife visit a museum that was on the end of a road so she could plan where to meet her friends. Some of these places are in mixed commercial/residential areas. I wish the resolution was better so I could read street numbers and business signs.
Someone jacking off in front of an open window is stupid and probably deserves to be publicly humiliated to get him to stop it. Someone going into a porn shop should either not be embarrassed about it, or stop it. Someone worried about getting caught cheating deserves it just for being dishonest.
I say remove the pension... who else gets to work for 4 years then get retirement no matter what age they are. Provide a 401K plan with 100% match up to 3% and make them pay into Social Security like the rest of us.
Yes, one can open the vents... it's still hotter than hell. And then when the rain is over it's muggier and hotter than hell.
As prior posts pointed out, if the A/C or heat is sucking down 10% of the battery life, then it's not 100 miles in hot or cold places. It's 90. At first, then it starts to drop.
When I was young and foolish, I was willing to 'put up' with things. I would replace my own oil, put on a new muffler, and lots of PIA things.
Now I pay people to do it. Because I can afford to. I have no desire to become 'uncomfortable' as long as I can afford to buy the gas for my truck.
If other people want to... go ahead. Have fun! Enjoy your ugly, tiny Smart cars. Make the sacrifice for others and feel good about it.
I'll be in my 20mpg truck with a window cracked, smoking a cigar and enjoying my day.
Exist.. yes. Give it up?? Not as long as I can afford it. I live in Phoenix, and while some ride around with their windows down from May through September, I prefer using A/C for my 30 miles commute home in the afternoon when it's above 100. And one can't ride with the windows down during a monsoon storm or dust storm.
A/C isn't just for hot areas either. It is often used along with heat in the winter time to clear windshields. In many cars, the defrost setting turns on the A/C. The inside of a car can get very humid, and the A/C helps to reduce the humidity of the air and keep water from the inside air from condensing when it hits the windows, and then freezing up.
So this car will suck for both hot, cold, and humid areas of the United States. That leaves.... San Diego.
How the hell did I get to be 50, and how did my mother reach 80 eating all of these deadly chemicals. And didn't I just read somewhere that the 'over 100' club has more people in it than ever before??
I guess all these people must be eating organic food, otherwise how would they have survived.
My wife and I went to see it after seeing the trailer. We both felt that while the revelations that occurred about what was going on somewhat obvious pretty quickly, it was well worth watching. We agreed that the lack of slasher/blow-em-up type movie was refreshing. Sam Rockwell did a pretty good job playing basically the only part (parts??) in the movie other than GERTY. The plot even had an opportunity for a 'final show-down' sequence involving lots of blood and mayhem, but it was very well directed to a different place.
One thing that bugged me was the full gravity while at the moon base. But I guess watching everyone moon-bouncing around indoors for 90 minutes would have been a little much also.
I guess it all comes down to what one considers a good life. Having a wonderful, loving partner to share it with is tops in my book. But I was quite happy before then, spending time out and about with my friends. If I had never meet my wife, I would still be enjoying the life I had. Because I learned a long time ago happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you have.
It is up to each person to figure out what their life is and how to spend it. Some seem to prefer wallowing away in self-pity in their homes and blame everyone else on why they are miserable. Some go out and get wasted every night and think they are having a great time.
To each their own. I just hate hearing people whine about how awful their life is when they are the one that has made the decisions to bring it to where it is, and when the only one that can change it is... them.
At some point, each person in a 'bad' life has to make the decision to change it and make it better. Whether that is therapy or just accepting it and learning to enjoy the quiet evenings in solitude is up to them.
Gotta have the "auto" variable because expecting all programmers to know how to type efficiently or to understand what data types are being used isn't fair to those that haven't gained those skills yet.
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Ummm...they have had context-aware menus for years. It's called 'right clicking'....
With a menu, I can click on 'File', then drag my mouse across to try and find a relevant item reasonably quickly. All menus drop down into a small area allow for easy scanning of choices, all menu items and menus are in a single, vertical, left-aligned column showing keyboard shortcuts. The ribbon bar is spread across the entire top of the windows, and the various options don't even line up. Some are across the top, some are across the bottom. Some have vertical options. Unless you put the mouse on something and hover over it, the keyboard shortcut doesn't even display. Intuitive?? If by intuitive someone means that you can click on an icon or picture that you don't understand and it will do something then yes, it is intuitive.
Many users see the alt key combos on a menu and know how to use them for things they need the most, so they don't even need the menu. My wife used to be surprised when I would do something without the mouse, like bold an Excel cell, and then she would try it herself and often comment on how much easier it was.
The ribbon bar does offer more capability for displaying options than a menu does, but it takes up more space -- it's HUGE when compared to a menu. Why they don't offer a 'small icons without text' option I don't know. It does provide a better interface for people who aren't afraid to click on something to see what it does. Which is the minority of computer users.
For the minuscule amount of time it might save later, it's all lost while spending minutes trying to find out there the 'Pivot Table' option is now (it used to be under the data menu, but they moved it to the insert ribbon). But Microsoft and Apple are all about dumbing down the computer so any moron can use it without any skills or knowledge. Just point and click. That's why Grandma can't find files after she downloads them, she has no clue about what computers do, how they work, or what file systems or directories are. It's not that she isn't capable of learning, it's that it's all hidden and she can't find out even if she wanted to. I'm always amazed at people who have used computers for years and have no concept about files and directories, the very basis for almost all programs on a computer. Instead, they use organizers that put files who-knows-where, then they get all upset when they run out of space because the 'C' drive is full and they can't figure out how to put new files on the new hard drive I just installed.
I don't mind offering the ribbon bar as an option for the new user, or for those that truly like it better. But if Firefox or Office is already installed, please keep the old settings and then ASK me if I want to change to the new ones. It would be really nice to have something that says 'You've been using ribbons for a couple of days now, want to make it permanent?' rather than hiding the option to change it 12 layers deep behind some obscure reference.
Thank you...
A 60 watt bulb burning for 5.5 hours a day uses about 120KWH a year. My non-peak electricity (i.e. night time when I would be using the lights) is $0.063/kwh. That math is $7.60/YEAR for electricity. Electric rates would have to be almost $0.18US, which is my peak rate during the summer months (it drops to about $0.086US for what passes for winter in Phoenix.) So a 6watt LED bulb would use 1/10th of electricity, saving around $7/year.And I doubt if more than 3 of the incandescent bulbs are used more than 4-5 hours on average a night.
I just bought a pack of ten 60 watt bulbs for $3. So each bulb is an upfront cost of $39.70 whenever a bulb burns out, and has a payback of over 5 years. I'm not going to keep a pack of 10 around the house, I'm going to go out and have to buy one whenever a bulb burns out. I have lived in my house now for 6 years, and just ran out of my first pack.I have a few CFLs in drawers because I don't like them, and about half of the lights we use the most are florescent.
Unless these LED lights can be used in dimmers, I won't buy them because it makes all of my dimmers (three of which are wireless RF in high ceiling fans) useless. Which is another reason I don't buy CFLs. I assume the LEDs will work in dimmers, although the article doesn't state that.
I just replaced my refrigerator because the old one finally died, and using a Kill-A-Watt meter found out it uses about $5/month in electricity. I didn't buy a high-efficiency fridge to save money on electricity, I bought a fridge that happens to be a high-efficiency fridge because it has two separate compressors that keep food SOOO much better. We are throwing out far less food now because things don't get freezer burn and produce doesn't go bad as quickly. And it's bigger, uses LED lights so it's brighter inside, and has some cool drawers and shelves that make it easier to get to the food.
I will spend money on things that are efficient, as long as the efficiencies are worth it to me. An ROI of 5 years on a light bulb isn't worth it because I can't 'see' the savings, it's buried in my electric bill which seems to keep going up and up. I've bought enough long-life light bulbs and other items in my life that didn't last to have little trust in such claims. Spending $2,400 on a refrigerator was worth it because I realized the gains immediately in food savings, something much easier to see.
If you think an accidental grammar mistake makes me stupid (instead of just careless because I didn't review what I wrote), then I'll assume you agree that buying an iPhone on purpose must make someone positively moronic.
I don't think Apple owners are snobs.
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I think their stupid for spending that much on a phone that they can't even put whatever application they want on it. And one where their provider allows for reaching out and deleting applications that they did put on it.
Maybe that should be Apple's new them song
Reach out and delete some app
Reach out and just say NO!!!!
Bullshit.
Magazines know EXACTLY who most of their subscribers are, they have the addresses. Ads target demographics, and magazines don't get that from knowing who gets their magazines (except by comparing addresses to census data), they do studies instead because they don't have the demographics for each subscriber, unless they fill out a survey. This is another method of gathering demographics. There is no face recognition pointing specifically back to you because the advertiser doesn't have your face in memory. The information gathered in my case would be 'male, white, around 50, overweight, bald, dry skin, smiles a lot, has a smiling female with him a lot prettier than he deserves, must have a large penis or is wealthy. Clothing style indicate he is not wealthy. Probably a geek. Don't show Enzyte ad, show Eucerin and ThinkGeek ads'.
I seem to recall where Amazon got into trouble for this also because they 'assumed' certain demographics when people bought things. It was bad for business and they changed it. I'm sure there will be startup problems, but it doesn't worry me any. I won't get upset if 'Hair club for men' ads show up.
Why is this screwed up?? It's done today. Magazine ads are placed because of the target audience. Neflicks and Amazon suggest ads based on prior purchases. And yes, they don't always get it right. But sometimes they do.
This is a way for people to get ads for products that they at least *might* be interested in, and help businesses keep advertising costs down by not showing ads to groups that wouldn't be interested.
Whenever people get scared of things I this, I chuckle and remember a story my grandfather told me about how people were afraid of those new fangled telephones and fought against them.
They were afraid because they thought poles might fall over on them.
Just because someone has a twitter account doesn't mean they aren't part Luddite.
Do what I did...I ran a headless Mepis file server. For the very few times I needed access it when I couldn't use SSH for some reason, I plugged a monitor and keyboard into for 10 minutes. When I bought an new LCD panel, I found that I could plug the HDMI into my desktop, and the VGA into the server and swap back and forth using the digital/analog button. So I plugged in a second keyboard and just kept it on top of the server.
.. right??). Then put the AGP card back in, plug a keyboard and monitor in, fix it, then take it back out again.
Keep your video card, and the next time you can't get to the server via the network, press the power button and let it cycle down (you did configure it that way
Everything else sounds just way to complicated if you aren't willing/unable to use a serial port for the 1 time a year you will need to do this.
I must have worked for the only moronic security department that required the person who made the tech call to be the one that watched the tech. The excuse was that anyone else (i.e. junior, intern, operator, etc.) wouldn't know enough or have enough incentive to watch over them. Security departments in some companies don't have to make sense because they make the rules and tell anyone who doesn't like it to stuff it.
My own opinion is that if someone can't trust a Sun or EMC rep that they have known for awhile to only work on the machine they are being asked to work on and not muck up the rest of the data center, then why are they buying their equipment and paying them support to fix it.
Of course, this is the same security department that let anyone that walked in the door and was given sys admin privs access to the floor and all machines as soon as the paperwork cleared. Even though the reality was the a sys admin rarely needed access to the data center floor and a new tech probably would not be allowed to work on a production machine for awhile. That is what labs are for.
I guess as long as we could fire them and make them a scapegoat, it was OK to give them access even if they didn't know what they were doing.
So ... I'm trusting a tech to work on something that has data and hardware worth millions of dollars because I don't have the knowledge of the hardware that he has, but I can't leave him alone because he might mess something up?? And how am I supposed to stop him from unplugging the wrong component at the wrong time when I don't know which is the right component?
I agree that I wouldn't let someone I don't know walk around in the data center. But I've worked at companies where I've had the same tech for a couple of years. One company said we had to be with them at all times. I'm not talking about letting him in the door and walking him to the rack after discussing what he is going to do, I'm talking about not being able to leave his side the entire time he is working on a machine.
It is moronic to have a highly paid staff member waste hours watching over someone when that staff member knows less about the hardware than the tech does and when the operations staff is just on the other side of the freakin' window and can see him at all times too.
I'd rather take 1/5th of the 2.2M dollars and have my own full time support staff to manage the disks that I don't have to watch over, and get immediate response times.
It's great having someone tell you they will be there in three hours to replace your power supply, that you then have to dedicate a staff person to be with when they go out on the shop floor because some moron in security requires it. If they had just left a few spare parts you could do it yourself because everything just slides into place anyway.
That 2.683M also pays for salaries, pretty building(s), advertising, research, conventions, and more advertising.
I could hire a couple of dedicated staff to have 24x7 support for far less than 2.683M, plus a duplicate system worth of spare parts.
This stuff isn't rocket science. Most companies don't need high-speed, fiber-optic disk array subsystems for a significant amount of their data, only for a small subset that needs blindingly fast speed. The rest can sit on cheap arrays. For example, all of my network accessible files that I open very rarely but keep on the network because it gets backed up. All of my 5 copies of database backups and logs that I keep because it's faster to pull it off of disk than request a tape from offsite. And it's faster to backup to disk, then to tape.
BackBlaze is a good example of someone that needs a ton of storage, but not lightening fast access. Having a reliable system is more important to them than one that has all the tricks and trappings of an EMC array that probably 10% of all EMC users actually use, but they all pay for.
NO ONE CONTROLS DNS!!!!
.. anyone is free to put up a DNS root server and setup rules on how to issue domain names on it.
... lookup in my DNS server first, then the rest if not found. So if I setup a DNS server and someone wants to buy google.com, they can do that. But since no one uses my root server, no one wants to do it.
Jeez
The only issue is GETTING people to use it. Naming conflicts are easy
1) Put up a bigger fence, or get a smaller ego and realize no one gives a shit about your house. .. there is someone that is just technologically impaired. It's the first thing most people do when they find out about it. My house looks GREAT by the way!!! Much better than the view on the news with the police tape and police cars around it.
2) Hmm...interesting expectation. Since it's completely unreasonable, I think we can all ignore it. Newspapers and TV stations can also include your house when that murder next door takes place. Don't believe me?? I live in a quiet, suburban area and a lady two doors down committed suicide by cop. My house was all over the news. Good thing I'm not selling it right now.
3) You've never looked at your house on street view?? Ok
Google Street View is one of the greatest things the Internet has brought forth. Too bad a small, paranoid minority is trying to take it away from the majority everyone that finds it useful
Yes ... let's get rid of something useful to a large portion of society just so a few people that might suffer from being .. oh, I don't know .... stupid?? ... aren't impacted.
I use street view all the time. I use it to plan motorcycle rides so I know where the exits to a gas station are in relation to turn lanes. I've used it to look at neighborhoods before I buy a house so I don't waste my time having to go there with the realtor. I've used it to see where the ATM is at a bank so I know which entrance makes the most sense. I've used it to see where the entrance to a hotel is so I could figure out that I need to make a U-turn and was ready for it. I used it before going to visit my daughter at her new house so I figure out where her house was in the maze of suburban clones. I used it to help my wife visit a museum that was on the end of a road so she could plan where to meet her friends. Some of these places are in mixed commercial/residential areas. I wish the resolution was better so I could read street numbers and business signs.
Someone jacking off in front of an open window is stupid and probably deserves to be publicly humiliated to get him to stop it. Someone going into a porn shop should either not be embarrassed about it, or stop it. Someone worried about getting caught cheating deserves it just for being dishonest.
I say remove the pension ... who else gets to work for 4 years then get retirement no matter what age they are. Provide a 401K plan with 100% match up to 3% and make them pay into Social Security like the rest of us.
I was thinking the posters were like delusional people thinking that they can get their point across just by acting even more delusional.
Yes, one can open the vents ... it's still hotter than hell. And then when the rain is over it's muggier and hotter than hell.
... go ahead. Have fun! Enjoy your ugly, tiny Smart cars. Make the sacrifice for others and feel good about it.
As prior posts pointed out, if the A/C or heat is sucking down 10% of the battery life, then it's not 100 miles in hot or cold places. It's 90. At first, then it starts to drop.
When I was young and foolish, I was willing to 'put up' with things. I would replace my own oil, put on a new muffler, and lots of PIA things.
Now I pay people to do it. Because I can afford to. I have no desire to become 'uncomfortable' as long as I can afford to buy the gas for my truck.
If other people want to
I'll be in my 20mpg truck with a window cracked, smoking a cigar and enjoying my day.
Exist .. yes. Give it up?? Not as long as I can afford it. I live in Phoenix, and while some ride around with their windows down from May through September, I prefer using A/C for my 30 miles commute home in the afternoon when it's above 100. And one can't ride with the windows down during a monsoon storm or dust storm.
.... San Diego.
A/C isn't just for hot areas either. It is often used along with heat in the winter time to clear windshields. In many cars, the defrost setting turns on the A/C. The inside of a car can get very humid, and the A/C helps to reduce the humidity of the air and keep water from the inside air from condensing when it hits the windows, and then freezing up.
So this car will suck for both hot, cold, and humid areas of the United States. That leaves
How the hell did I get to be 50, and how did my mother reach 80 eating all of these deadly chemicals. And didn't I just read somewhere that the 'over 100' club has more people in it than ever before??
I guess all these people must be eating organic food, otherwise how would they have survived.
My wife and I went to see it after seeing the trailer. We both felt that while the revelations that occurred about what was going on somewhat obvious pretty quickly, it was well worth watching. We agreed that the lack of slasher/blow-em-up type movie was refreshing. Sam Rockwell did a pretty good job playing basically the only part (parts??) in the movie other than GERTY. The plot even had an opportunity for a 'final show-down' sequence involving lots of blood and mayhem, but it was very well directed to a different place. One thing that bugged me was the full gravity while at the moon base. But I guess watching everyone moon-bouncing around indoors for 90 minutes would have been a little much also.
I guess it all comes down to what one considers a good life. Having a wonderful, loving partner to share it with is tops in my book. But I was quite happy before then, spending time out and about with my friends. If I had never meet my wife, I would still be enjoying the life I had. Because I learned a long time ago happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you have.
... them.
It is up to each person to figure out what their life is and how to spend it. Some seem to prefer wallowing away in self-pity in their homes and blame everyone else on why they are miserable. Some go out and get wasted every night and think they are having a great time.
To each their own. I just hate hearing people whine about how awful their life is when they are the one that has made the decisions to bring it to where it is, and when the only one that can change it is
At some point, each person in a 'bad' life has to make the decision to change it and make it better. Whether that is therapy or just accepting it and learning to enjoy the quiet evenings in solitude is up to them.
You mean when it the programmer isn't clever enough to figure out how to do it. Reread how to use classes.
Maybe you need to learn how to define classes so you don't need the auto keyword.
Gotta have the "auto" variable because expecting all programmers to know how to type efficiently or to understand what data types are being used isn't fair to those that haven't gained those skills yet.