Texting while driving is something which shouldn't be legal. It's not a matter of morality, it's dangerous enough that it should be banned. Same goes for talking on the cellphone without a handset. Eating lunch and really anything else that's distracting and requires one to take a hand off the wheel.
So we're banning smoking in cars, manual transmissions, and the handicapped now?
There is solution provided by the market because there is no need.
if there is suddenly a need, you'll probably see a dozen apps on the market the day the calls are legal.
daily updated phone lists not unlike adblock or peerblocker lists, downloaded to phones, blocking calls from those numbers. Hell, I'd pay a dollar or two for that.
I am pretty sure that "libel" and "defamation" are separate from mere "opinion".
examples (not necessarily indicative of my own personal thoughts on the subject)
Opinion: I think Obama is a mediocre president who is failing in the campaign promises he made as well as failing to live up to the ideals he espouses.
Libel: Obama is an antichrist muslim terrorist. He lied, cheated, and stole in order to get elected. He did so purposely to steal money and use his power to help himself and his friends get ahead at the expense of the common guy. He's an asshole, a racist, and a hatemonger.
Now, discussing a position with as much power and as much of a public persona as the presidency of course, there is more leeway before slander laws come into effect. I'm pretty sure that the bar is set lower for discussing regular people, especially if the potential slanderer is doing so in a medium that may carry some legitimacy.
What does it say when I trust a bunch of random coders on the internet to give me a better performing, more secure, and overall more pleasing experience with my smartphone than the company that created it.
So, if I'm following you correctly, because you think the movies were bad, that means that no jokes requiring knowledge of them should ever be made, on the assumption that because you dislike them, nobody else liked them either, and thus nobody is familiar with them?
The Prequels, for whatever opinions you may hold of their quality, SOLD TICKETS. They are among the highest grossing films of all time. Hell, Episode 1 and Episode 3 (the one which the joke in question references) both outgrossed the originals.
People saw these movies.
Your analogy falls flat on it's face right there. Battlefield earth grossed $29m worldwide. Episode 3 Grossed $848m worldwide.
Meaningless marketing spin are the only public statements that: A. don't cause controversy and anger among the investors/stockholders B. you aren't forced to go back on 12 months down the line when you find out you were too optimistic and/or out of touch.
re-reading, I apologize. I confused you and GGP as the same poster, and thought you were getting errors on a system you were keeping overclocked. My mistake.
Exactly. Too bad I already posted in the thread and can't mod you up anymore.
Nobody pays much attention to single-core performance anymore, and I have no idea why. There are tons of programs that people use on a regular basis that are single-core limited.
Intel has made only modest gains in performance-per-clock-cycle since the core 2 duo. AMD I'm pretty sure is actually going backwards if I am correctly remembering some of the bulldozer vs thurban reviews.
Looking at forthcoming offerings, AMD especially seems to be assuming that we're all constantly using our CPUs to run handbrake 24/7 or batch encode a couple hundred wavs to mp3 at a time, and thus would love 12 cores.
If you -know- that it's not stable, why didn't you clock it back down to spec, or at least down to where you can be sure it is truly 100% stable? Aren't you losing more time by doing multiple redundancy checks on your resultant data sets than you're gaining by the few extra clock cycles?
you are doing random spot checks on your data, right?
As anybody who has lived with an -almost- stable overclock for long periods of time knows, if it's not 100% stable, you're getting little computational data errors here and there that are going to add up long term to "omfg my data is borked and has been for 6 months and I didn't even realize".
I've spent too much time at encyclopedia dramatica recently, because I'm reading your statement way differently than I assume you mean it, based on my understanding of the meaning of the letters CP.
go down to the local drug store, pick up a piece of posterboard, and put it on a stick (protest-style). print out/draw/whatever a giant-sized version of nelson muntz from the simpsons pointing a finger at the onlooker with a giant "ha-ha" balloon next to him. stand outside their offices for an hour or two as their shit is getting thrown in the street.
for extra epic ironic insult win, get a friend to get another giant posterboard placard, and stand next to you. His placard should have an arrow pointing at yours and simply read "Copyrighted images used on these placards are protected by fair use laws of the United States."
I've seen toll roads do this as well. They give you a stamped ticket when you get on, and check it when you get off to determine how far you were on the road in order to determine your appropriate toll, and your average speed as well to determine if you need a ticket. Solution? Stop at one of the restaurants that are at service depots on the toll road for lunch, speeding all you want to get there and all you want on the way out. your average speed will still likely be less than the speed limit unless your lunch is 30 seconds or you're trying to top out a ferrari.
pro: Who hasn't been passed by a jerk going 15 (at least) over the limit and wished there were someone around to catch them. con: Does anyone have 'perfect speed' all the time? Especially coming down hills or just going with the flow of traffic?
I've never seen my cruise control be more than about 2-3mph over whatever I've set it at, even on downward slopes.
This would actually be the optimal solution, because as soon as this becomes ubiquitous, some 18 year old with some time on his hands is going to crack the system to route all speeding messages to localhost, and send out nothing but dummy "everything's cool, no speeding detected" packets to the police database at whatever interval is required to verify that the system is still online, actual speed of the car be damned.
Warming isn't bad for the earth, the earth doesn't care. The earth was completely molten at least twice, and it got through those hot flashes just fine (albeit, to be fair, those were several billion years ago).
Warming is bad for humans, at least humans who live close to sea level or who depend on doing their farming where they've always done their farming and don't feel like moving.
yes, when humans have actually gone there, they can give firsthand accounts. robots can't. until we have sci-fi levels of virtual reality (which should never really happen with the transmission delay), sending a robot in place of a human is -not- the same. I'm not saying stop robot research, obviously that's beneficial. I'm saying that send robots first, to scout out for humanity.
Multiple billions of dollars spread across the economy of humanity is a drop in the bucket.
there's no reason to visit Italy, Australia, Hawaii, or wherever it is that may be interesting to visit, when you have pictures of the place on the internet? That's the same thing right?
Now human experience counts for nothing?
Yes yes, I know, robots are better than internet pictures, still though, a virtual experience isn't the same, any more than madden 2012 is the same as playing NFL football.
We -certainly- have the energy, money, and will to do human space exploration, we're just currently wasting all 3 on other endeavors.
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Texting while driving is something which shouldn't be legal. It's not a matter of morality, it's dangerous enough that it should be banned. Same goes for talking on the cellphone without a handset. Eating lunch and really anything else that's distracting and requires one to take a hand off the wheel.
So we're banning smoking in cars, manual transmissions, and the handicapped now?
There is solution provided by the market because there is no need.
if there is suddenly a need, you'll probably see a dozen apps on the market the day the calls are legal.
daily updated phone lists not unlike adblock or peerblocker lists, downloaded to phones, blocking calls from those numbers. Hell, I'd pay a dollar or two for that.
-Standard IANAL disclaimer-
I am pretty sure that "libel" and "defamation" are separate from mere "opinion".
examples (not necessarily indicative of my own personal thoughts on the subject)
Opinion: I think Obama is a mediocre president who is failing in the campaign promises he made as well as failing to live up to the ideals he espouses.
Libel: Obama is an antichrist muslim terrorist. He lied, cheated, and stole in order to get elected. He did so purposely to steal money and use his power to help himself and his friends get ahead at the expense of the common guy. He's an asshole, a racist, and a hatemonger.
Now, discussing a position with as much power and as much of a public persona as the presidency of course, there is more leeway before slander laws come into effect. I'm pretty sure that the bar is set lower for discussing regular people, especially if the potential slanderer is doing so in a medium that may carry some legitimacy.
What does it say when I trust a bunch of random coders on the internet to give me a better performing, more secure, and overall more pleasing experience with my smartphone than the company that created it.
So, if I'm following you correctly, because you think the movies were bad, that means that no jokes requiring knowledge of them should ever be made, on the assumption that because you dislike them, nobody else liked them either, and thus nobody is familiar with them?
The Prequels, for whatever opinions you may hold of their quality, SOLD TICKETS. They are among the highest grossing films of all time. Hell, Episode 1 and Episode 3 (the one which the joke in question references) both outgrossed the originals.
People saw these movies.
Your analogy falls flat on it's face right there. Battlefield earth grossed $29m worldwide. Episode 3 Grossed $848m worldwide.
that's what board meetings are for, not conversations with the press.
Meaningless marketing spin are the only public statements that:
A. don't cause controversy and anger among the investors/stockholders
B. you aren't forced to go back on 12 months down the line when you find out you were too optimistic and/or out of touch.
These lying quacks are trying to use the legal system to silence legitimate scientific inquiry into their scam.
Apparently the Scientology PR strategy has been licensed out for use in the medical field!
re-reading, I apologize. I confused you and GGP as the same poster, and thought you were getting errors on a system you were keeping overclocked. My mistake.
Exactly. Too bad I already posted in the thread and can't mod you up anymore.
Nobody pays much attention to single-core performance anymore, and I have no idea why. There are tons of programs that people use on a regular basis that are single-core limited.
Intel has made only modest gains in performance-per-clock-cycle since the core 2 duo. AMD I'm pretty sure is actually going backwards if I am correctly remembering some of the bulldozer vs thurban reviews.
Looking at forthcoming offerings, AMD especially seems to be assuming that we're all constantly using our CPUs to run handbrake 24/7 or batch encode a couple hundred wavs to mp3 at a time, and thus would love 12 cores.
... ok. I'll bite.
If you -know- that it's not stable, why didn't you clock it back down to spec, or at least down to where you can be sure it is truly 100% stable? Aren't you losing more time by doing multiple redundancy checks on your resultant data sets than you're gaining by the few extra clock cycles?
you are doing random spot checks on your data, right?
As anybody who has lived with an -almost- stable overclock for long periods of time knows, if it's not 100% stable, you're getting little computational data errors here and there that are going to add up long term to "omfg my data is borked and has been for 6 months and I didn't even realize".
I'm all for this. When I put "lindsay lohan boob" into google, I want to filter out all the G, PG, and PG13 results.
I'd still be ok with the results that say "what the hell do you want to see that for?"
I've spent too much time at encyclopedia dramatica recently, because I'm reading your statement way differently than I assume you mean it, based on my understanding of the meaning of the letters CP.
Yes yes... Some amazing American innovation done at the ... Imperial college of... London?
They mean London, Arkansas, right?
It will be fine. The next generation of henti will just include the tentacles on the girls to begin with
go down to the local drug store, pick up a piece of posterboard, and put it on a stick (protest-style).
print out/draw/whatever a giant-sized version of nelson muntz from the simpsons pointing a finger at the onlooker with a giant "ha-ha" balloon next to him. stand outside their offices for an hour or two as their shit is getting thrown in the street.
for extra epic ironic insult win, get a friend to get another giant posterboard placard, and stand next to you. His placard should have an arrow pointing at yours and simply read "Copyrighted images used on these placards are protected by fair use laws of the United States."
well if you're going to be driving all day, you're going to stop to eat at some point anyway, what better time is there?
I've seen toll roads do this as well. They give you a stamped ticket when you get on, and check it when you get off to determine how far you were on the road in order to determine your appropriate toll, and your average speed as well to determine if you need a ticket. Solution? Stop at one of the restaurants that are at service depots on the toll road for lunch, speeding all you want to get there and all you want on the way out. your average speed will still likely be less than the speed limit unless your lunch is 30 seconds or you're trying to top out a ferrari.
pro: Who hasn't been passed by a jerk going 15 (at least) over the limit and wished there were someone around to catch them.
con: Does anyone have 'perfect speed' all the time? Especially coming down hills or just going with the flow of traffic?
I've never seen my cruise control be more than about 2-3mph over whatever I've set it at, even on downward slopes.
This would actually be the optimal solution, because as soon as this becomes ubiquitous, some 18 year old with some time on his hands is going to crack the system to route all speeding messages to localhost, and send out nothing but dummy "everything's cool, no speeding detected" packets to the police database at whatever interval is required to verify that the system is still online, actual speed of the car be damned.
Warming isn't bad for the earth, the earth doesn't care. The earth was completely molten at least twice, and it got through those hot flashes just fine (albeit, to be fair, those were several billion years ago).
Warming is bad for humans, at least humans who live close to sea level or who depend on doing their farming where they've always done their farming and don't feel like moving.
I take it back. apparently that's what page 1 says. There is a page 2 and it says something else entirely.
The article basically says "if your schedule threads to use less modules, dynamic turbo will clock those modules up, giving you a performance boost.
so... anybody who is already clocking their entire cpu at top stable clock speed isn't going to get a boost out of thread scheduler modifications.
yes, when humans have actually gone there, they can give firsthand accounts. robots can't. until we have sci-fi levels of virtual reality (which should never really happen with the transmission delay), sending a robot in place of a human is -not- the same. I'm not saying stop robot research, obviously that's beneficial. I'm saying that send robots first, to scout out for humanity.
Multiple billions of dollars spread across the economy of humanity is a drop in the bucket.
there's no reason to visit Italy, Australia, Hawaii, or wherever it is that may be interesting to visit, when you have pictures of the place on the internet? That's the same thing right?
Now human experience counts for nothing?
Yes yes, I know, robots are better than internet pictures, still though, a virtual experience isn't the same, any more than madden 2012 is the same as playing NFL football.
We -certainly- have the energy, money, and will to do human space exploration, we're just currently wasting all 3 on other endeavors.