I have a 2013 Ford with this system installed. There have been a few times where it helped and a couple times where it nearly scared me to death.
First it has helped a few times... Once when I was in slow moving bumper to bumper traffic and was looking at the signs for my exit. The car in front braked suddenly from about 25kms/hr. The blinking lights and beeping got my attention before the car had to apply the brakes. The other time a car in front of me braked hard and the system in this case applied the brakes a second before I could.
However there have been a couple experiences where it hasn't been as useful. The system obviously can't read minds so in some common cases it reacts when it shouldn't. When passing on rural roads and you start to accelerate before pulling out the car freaks out and starts the collision warning. This is the same as trying to get to speed to change lanes on the highway when it is moderately busy. You see the break in the traffic on the left and start to speed up to match traffic... The system sees a speed differential and closing with the car ahead and starts the warning.
Of course the issues may be due to the terrible turbo lag in the Ford Ecoboost and the fact I needed to really plan ahead to get over into that left lane.
Since I pay your exorbitant gangster rates for 150Mb/s service don't I already pay for a fast lane? I don't care where those bits come from, just serve them to me at the speed I pay for.
And before you complain about congestion... Isn't that why you have me saddled with bandwidth caps?
Maybe ISPs should start looking at tiering service hours. I pay with 100% bandwidth for utilization during the day, 75% for utilization between 7p-11p. If I schedule a download for middle of the night I get charged 25% for each bit transiting at that time.
You are absolutely right... We need to do a better job of utilizing the services offered or we will lose them.
People think, "oh the company is putting self checkout so that I have the option to check myself out, that is nice". No they are doing it because it is cheaper than having a cashier. I notice that people already are 'conditioned' that they are to bag their own.
I remember in the good old days... hehehe... In the good old days, not only would there be someone there to bag your groceries, they even had services where they would send it down a chute to a couple guys standing around in the cold winter and you would drive your car into the garage type thing and they would put the bags in your trunk.
This is inconceivable nowadays. Imagine the corporate profits that would be lost by actually hiring people to do jobs!
This is what irritates me so much about discussions like this. the ISP of the content requester is the one paying the ISP to transit this information. The ISP is doing nothing for free. Peering agreements were to help the ISP so they wouldn't scream so much. But in the end they need to remember that they aren't screwing Netflix. They are screwing their paying internet clients.
Funny about charging like a utility. They always love the idea for high users, but dislike the idea of refunding money for people that are way underutilized.
If they charged like a utility - A small "being our customer fee" and true usage based billing, then either:
A - They would have to charge enough per GB to maintin their current profit margin that people would scream at how expensive it is...
or B - They would have to take a big hit in their profit because of all the internet users that aren't these super-heavy users and would have much smaller bills.
In the end it points to the fact that they have under-provisioned for people to really use the service they were sold.
Oh Samsung, why do we need another OS for people to develop for. What do we have now, 5 or 6 major OSes on mobile devices? Which are the 2 that have a deep ecosystem of applications? That doesn't come overnight and will kill your market share.
I actually wrote a letter to Samsung. I am a long time Samsung supporter and advocate (bought 3 top of the line phones, a Galaxy Gear, Gear 2 and multiple top of the line tablets. Also got family and friends to switch to Samsung/Android devices. But if they don't stay with Android, I will be dropping Samsung like a hot potato.
I HAAATTTEEE Tizen on my Gear 2.
Also, their S Voice application is crap, their email and text apps are substandard and the first thing I do on any phone i get is switch out the homescreen launcher because touchwiz is poop. I would have to say that while Smasung makes AMAZING hardware. They should leave software to other people.
Exactly. The MS reps at my company are constantly pushing us to move Exchange, Lync and Office to the MS cloud. This price increase just makes that look more cost effective.
This is most likely why this code was instituted. Bathroom is something where management should not be interfering - when nature calls you need to answer. But smoke breaks, food breaks, etc should not be a reason to stop doing your job.
Maybe management did this so that people wouldn't be penalized for so many personal breaks if they were using the bathroom instead of going for a smoke.
I was at the dealership maybe half a year ago and the service manager came over to the lounge and told a lady that the warranty she was trying to use was not a valid warranty. She told him that GM had called her and said that her warranty was expiring so she paid them to extend it. The Service Manager explained to her that it wasn't GM that did that as her warranty had expired years earlier.
Immediately these calls jumped into my mind (having had them harassing on my cellphone even though my car is well out of warranty). It was a sad situation, this lady who didn't speak English very well having obviously fallen victim to this scam, or a scam just like it.
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To support this position, I submit the following...
I read the document posted on Wikileaks about the government investigating Wikileaks. One item in the document was a map of Falujah with some colours and information on it.
There was a description of the document classification at the bottom which clarified that as per the original document it was eligible to be declassified in 2031. But it had a special designation of X1, which meant it was not eligible for declassification.
So, you tell me (with your 2031 self), what possible reason there could have been for not declassifying something that happened in a country halfway around the world 27 years ago. Even if it said "Jones will go long, make a left at Al Bakah street, then secure Building X" (about as operational as it gets) what value would it have in 27 years?
Therefore, I believe that in this case, they are OVER-classifying the document, and if it is done with something this benign, what are they doing to other documents that might shed some light on the less than savory practices that the government may be engaged in?
What is the legality of buying the regular version of the game, but installing a cracked version? I know the EULA says stuff about not reverse engineering, but you aren't doing that. What would a court say if a company tried to call you on that?
Maybe we could start calling the crackers a "Game Optimization Service". hehehehe.
What happens when they run out of leads on a case and they decide to just "talk" to everyone who was in the area at the time of the burglary/shooting/rape. That is a net I would sure like to avoid being caught up in, even if completely innocent of any crimes.
Honestly I would love to see a series set in this universe. Plenty of things to discuss and a lot of opportunity for character development and all in an environment that would allow for kick-ass special effects. This book and its successors are nothing short of brilliant.
I am with you... Make a trilogy out of the first three books and I think it would do well.
Downside is that there are some similarities to Avatar, which may have some people's hackles up.
I bought the region 2 DVDs direct from Amazon UK and use my HTPC to view them. It has two optical drives so one is set to region 1 and the other to region 2. Worked like a charm.
They recently had an episode (or maybe it was another special) where they road tested a Corvette, a Caddy CTS and a Challenger. At the end of the show it says that they think they are good cars.
The CTS-V also got a pretty good review on the show when Clarkson reviewed it.
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I have a 2013 Ford with this system installed. There have been a few times where it helped and a couple times where it nearly scared me to death. First it has helped a few times... Once when I was in slow moving bumper to bumper traffic and was looking at the signs for my exit. The car in front braked suddenly from about 25kms/hr. The blinking lights and beeping got my attention before the car had to apply the brakes. The other time a car in front of me braked hard and the system in this case applied the brakes a second before I could. However there have been a couple experiences where it hasn't been as useful. The system obviously can't read minds so in some common cases it reacts when it shouldn't. When passing on rural roads and you start to accelerate before pulling out the car freaks out and starts the collision warning. This is the same as trying to get to speed to change lanes on the highway when it is moderately busy. You see the break in the traffic on the left and start to speed up to match traffic... The system sees a speed differential and closing with the car ahead and starts the warning. Of course the issues may be due to the terrible turbo lag in the Ford Ecoboost and the fact I needed to really plan ahead to get over into that left lane.
I thought broadcasters get paid by the commercials? Was Aereo stripping those out of the broadcasts?
I want my own stealth killing cheetah since I can't have the real thing. Less chance of them turning on their owners and eating them...
Until the robot uprising happens that is. I bow down to you my Cheetah overlords!
Since I pay your exorbitant gangster rates for 150Mb/s service don't I already pay for a fast lane? I don't care where those bits come from, just serve them to me at the speed I pay for.
And before you complain about congestion... Isn't that why you have me saddled with bandwidth caps?
Maybe ISPs should start looking at tiering service hours. I pay with 100% bandwidth for utilization during the day, 75% for utilization between 7p-11p. If I schedule a download for middle of the night I get charged 25% for each bit transiting at that time.
You are absolutely right... We need to do a better job of utilizing the services offered or we will lose them.
People think, "oh the company is putting self checkout so that I have the option to check myself out, that is nice". No they are doing it because it is cheaper than having a cashier. I notice that people already are 'conditioned' that they are to bag their own.
I remember in the good old days... hehehe... In the good old days, not only would there be someone there to bag your groceries, they even had services where they would send it down a chute to a couple guys standing around in the cold winter and you would drive your car into the garage type thing and they would put the bags in your trunk.
This is inconceivable nowadays. Imagine the corporate profits that would be lost by actually hiring people to do jobs!
This is what irritates me so much about discussions like this. the ISP of the content requester is the one paying the ISP to transit this information. The ISP is doing nothing for free. Peering agreements were to help the ISP so they wouldn't scream so much. But in the end they need to remember that they aren't screwing Netflix. They are screwing their paying internet clients.
Funny about charging like a utility. They always love the idea for high users, but dislike the idea of refunding money for people that are way underutilized. If they charged like a utility - A small "being our customer fee" and true usage based billing, then either: A - They would have to charge enough per GB to maintin their current profit margin that people would scream at how expensive it is... or B - They would have to take a big hit in their profit because of all the internet users that aren't these super-heavy users and would have much smaller bills. In the end it points to the fact that they have under-provisioned for people to really use the service they were sold.
Oh Samsung, why do we need another OS for people to develop for. What do we have now, 5 or 6 major OSes on mobile devices? Which are the 2 that have a deep ecosystem of applications? That doesn't come overnight and will kill your market share.
I actually wrote a letter to Samsung. I am a long time Samsung supporter and advocate (bought 3 top of the line phones, a Galaxy Gear, Gear 2 and multiple top of the line tablets. Also got family and friends to switch to Samsung/Android devices. But if they don't stay with Android, I will be dropping Samsung like a hot potato.
I HAAATTTEEE Tizen on my Gear 2.
Also, their S Voice application is crap, their email and text apps are substandard and the first thing I do on any phone i get is switch out the homescreen launcher because touchwiz is poop. I would have to say that while Smasung makes AMAZING hardware. They should leave software to other people.
Exactly. The MS reps at my company are constantly pushing us to move Exchange, Lync and Office to the MS cloud. This price increase just makes that look more cost effective.
This is most likely why this code was instituted. Bathroom is something where management should not be interfering - when nature calls you need to answer. But smoke breaks, food breaks, etc should not be a reason to stop doing your job. Maybe management did this so that people wouldn't be penalized for so many personal breaks if they were using the bathroom instead of going for a smoke.
Bronson Pinchot in Beverly Hills Cop?
I was at the dealership maybe half a year ago and the service manager came over to the lounge and told a lady that the warranty she was trying to use was not a valid warranty. She told him that GM had called her and said that her warranty was expiring so she paid them to extend it. The Service Manager explained to her that it wasn't GM that did that as her warranty had expired years earlier. Immediately these calls jumped into my mind (having had them harassing on my cellphone even though my car is well out of warranty). It was a sad situation, this lady who didn't speak English very well having obviously fallen victim to this scam, or a scam just like it.
** For some reason, Slashdot isn't recognizing my hard returns, sorry about that ** To support this position, I submit the following... I read the document posted on Wikileaks about the government investigating Wikileaks. One item in the document was a map of Falujah with some colours and information on it. There was a description of the document classification at the bottom which clarified that as per the original document it was eligible to be declassified in 2031. But it had a special designation of X1, which meant it was not eligible for declassification. So, you tell me (with your 2031 self), what possible reason there could have been for not declassifying something that happened in a country halfway around the world 27 years ago. Even if it said "Jones will go long, make a left at Al Bakah street, then secure Building X" (about as operational as it gets) what value would it have in 27 years? Therefore, I believe that in this case, they are OVER-classifying the document, and if it is done with something this benign, what are they doing to other documents that might shed some light on the less than savory practices that the government may be engaged in?
What is the legality of buying the regular version of the game, but installing a cracked version? I know the EULA says stuff about not reverse engineering, but you aren't doing that. What would a court say if a company tried to call you on that? Maybe we could start calling the crackers a "Game Optimization Service". hehehehe.
What happens when they run out of leads on a case and they decide to just "talk" to everyone who was in the area at the time of the burglary/shooting/rape. That is a net I would sure like to avoid being caught up in, even if completely innocent of any crimes.
Honestly I would love to see a series set in this universe. Plenty of things to discuss and a lot of opportunity for character development and all in an environment that would allow for kick-ass special effects. This book and its successors are nothing short of brilliant.
I am with you... Make a trilogy out of the first three books and I think it would do well. Downside is that there are some similarities to Avatar, which may have some people's hackles up.
I bought the region 2 DVDs direct from Amazon UK and use my HTPC to view them. It has two optical drives so one is set to region 1 and the other to region 2. Worked like a charm.
They recently had an episode (or maybe it was another special) where they road tested a Corvette, a Caddy CTS and a Challenger. At the end of the show it says that they think they are good cars. The CTS-V also got a pretty good review on the show when Clarkson reviewed it.