> Another is to have you neighbour park off the kerb a bit and you do the same on the other side of the road, instant bottle neck.
And a quick call to 311 would see you and your neighbor receive parking tickets within the hour, at least where I live, for pulling that.
> Traffic Cones also have a remarkable effect on restricting flow, and everyone just accepts that they are there for a legitimate reason.
Similar deal, the city has bylaw enforcement that doesn't look fondly upon cowboy traffic enforcement and if they manage to find out who you are they will make things unpleasant for you.
> The world is shaped by unreasonable people. You have a choice if you want to do the shaping, or be shaped by others.
I can imagine. I like to drive my car a little sporty, and when I got my new one I was very uncomfortable with the feeling of how it reacted differently at speed to turns for a few days. Slightly bigger car and different weight distribution, it just felt... off. I would think that would be worse with a different bike.
> I think a lot of people mess up because they use their left foot for the brake and the right for the accelerator.
Seriously? Who does that? Jesus Christ, that's a recipe for disaster when the meatbag panics and stiffens their legs. This is yet another in a long series of reasons that I think everyone should be forced to learn on a stick shift, and maybe even drive one daily until it's muscle memory that the left foot is for the clutch or nothing at all.
> Those cars you mention are hitting pedestrians in my residential neighborhood with increasing frequency
So what you're saying is you have shitty drivers in your city who shouldn't be on the roads at all. Sounds like a bigger problem that needs addressing than just making sure they don't run over *your* neighbors.
Another one I saw several years ago would have the acceleration function tied to the pedal being attached to the control arm on a pivot and by pressing the top of the pedal, the car would accelerate. If you panicked, your foot would slam the whole pedal to the floor and the brakes would activate on full. Interesting ideas but I'm sure there would be loads of resistance to adoption.
> The car was 5 days old, it takes more time than that to become intimately familiar with the car.
This is a key piece. I was astonished when I bought a new car how different everything felt for a few weeks. I'd had the old car for 12 years and everything was second nature in it but it takes a while to get used to a new vehicle's layout and handling.
> Firing the bottom 20% of your work force every year is no different than YOU, as a consumer, not purchasing another good or service again because it didn't give you what you paid for. It is assigning value via your wallet.
But that's not how that worked under stack ranking. What they did was apply it to groups and teams. Suppose you are running a division and you want to put together - for lack of a better term - an all star team to tackle a bunch of problems. So you get the top 15 people from different teams to work on big problems and you solve a bunch of issues. Great! Now it's a year later and it's review time. According to stack ranking, 20% of those people, who would have been on the top of the stack in their old teams, are now on the chopping block because you have to get rid of 20% because rules. Congrats. You've now sent 3 of your best staff off to the wilderness and infected the other 12 (and probably a lot of others who hear about what happened) with dissatisfaction. Now the other 12 want to be put back on their old teams and most of them are also sending out their resumes.
This kind of shit also happened at Microsoft a lot when they embraced stack ranking. Without the firings though, they just shafted the bottom third of their all star teams on compensation which pissed them off and they left.
Stack ranking is a disaster and any company that still thinks it's a great thing is driving away talent.
I'd say it's a false supposition. This isn't the first treatment that's been tried for strokes that involves penetration of the BBB. If the action of the barrier being opened was the source of the effect it would have been noticed long ago.
> The set I bought can act as a Chromecast receiver (and it does so marvelously, I might add).
I recently bought a TV as well, and mine can also do so quite well. Two unfortunate things though. 1. All of my devices go through a receiver for audio and when I light up the TV with a cast, it doesn't pipe audio through the receiver, instead using the comparatively crappy TV speakers. Sure I could run a SPDIF cable to the receiver for that but then that brings us to point 2. The TV's networking has to be online for all its smart feature updates and firmware upgrades if the Chromecast functionality is to operate.
I ended up disabling networking on the TV because I don't want telemetry going back to Samsung, and plugged in the Chromecast I already had to the receiver again. The unfortunate thing seems to be if you want a good TV these days, it's going to be a smart TV. And even a large number of the crappy ones are smart too.
If you are capable of doing what you need to do on a Linux machine, there's no reason you can't. For a lot of people though, some of the software they use only runs on Windows or the Linux based alternative is actually kind of terrible, so we're stuck.
I think as long as it's reasonable to assume the device is still in modest use, it should be updated. For a phone, 4-5 years would be a good benchmark. For example, Ice Cream Sandwich is almost 5 years old and not many devices use it any longer, so security updates by manufacturers should be expected to drop off at that 5 year mark. Any device using Gingerbread or Honeycomb should not expect updates at this point. And Jellybeaners should get support until next year sometime.
1. I don't use Windows 10, have only seen it on machines that were already preinstalled with it or already upgraded. I have never observed the Windows 10 upgrade process outside of those videos people posted where they were livestreaming a game session and Windows 10 install came crashing in like the Kool Aid Man. And even then the video doesn't really show you anything.
2. The person that happened to was not technical and sure as heck didn't mention anything about a backup.
So yes I probably should have looked into it more, but that boat has long since sailed.
Nowadays, but even that isn't strictly necessary. In the olden days most computers both came preloaded and had a CD/DVD copy of Windows or the OEM's cut of it. And back then a reinstall was no big deal for a novice either, I found that out when talking to my sister about a problem she was having with Thunderbird. She couldn't figure out how to fix the problem or uninstall Thunderbird so her solution was to pop in the Windows disc and *do a full-wipe reinstall of Windows*. I happened to catch her when she was about to do it for the 4th time and showed her how to fix Thunderbird instead.
These days there's no disc so you have to create your own backup media but again with most OEM machines there's a big friendly wizard that will talk you through that step by step. And there's also a big friendly "Factory Reset" button in those same OEM utilities that does a wipe-restore of Windows with a single click.
So not quite the same, but the potential for mayhem is admittedly still there.
>>One of the people I work with is one of the biggest technophobes you'd ever meet. One morning several months ago, she came in and was practically in tears after accidentally agreeing to the upgrade, and then almost lost her mind when she asked me if there was some easy way to go back to Windows 8 and I had to tell her no.
>So was that an intentional lie, or did you really not know? You see it is things like this that make people question the credibility of the entire Windows ecosystem.
As I mentioned above I don't use Windows 10, and was even less familiar with it at the time of the incident. I did a Google search for information on rollback at the time and didn't find anything so that's what I told her. If I had found that she could have, I would have told her about it because I sure as hell wasn't looking forward to a barrage of complaining about it.
>>A week later she's telling me how Windows 10 is just as good or perhaps even a bit better and easier to use than Windows 8 and she's glad she upgraded.
>I hear the same thing from new Mac and Linux users. Funny how that works.
Different experiences I guess. All I ever heard from people were questions about why the they need doesn't want to install or exist for Linux. And yes it's possible to get Photoshop to work now:
But read that through the lens of someone who breaks into a sweat when a Windows installshield asks them what path they want to place the program files on. Especially the line that says "If a few errors pop-up, don’t worry – chances are this install will still work."
Linux on the desktop is getting better, but it's still things like this that torpedo adoption. And trying to pretend it's sunshine and puppies is not helping either.
Grandma CAN get on fine with it, if it was easy to get it to her. That's the hurdle. It's not a stupid myth, the problem is reinforced by people like you who don't recognize the actual roadblocks with adoption. Let's get real here, straight up Linux on the desktop will never take majority market share away from Windows. If Microsoft loses the desktop crown it's almost certainly going to go to ChromeOS, Android, or one of their descendants. Chromebooks already have more market share than Linux on the desktop does, and it's growing year over year - over 12 million of them in the last 2 years.
And even with your correction I have severe difficulty believing there are 5 billion desktops in the world. 5 billion computers, sure.
Because if people in the tech industry who work with it on a daily basis won't use it for a desktop OS, why the hell would some grandma?
> BTW, word of mouth is spreading. Even TBBT comedy TV show references Linux and Ubuntu in at least one episode.
I've been watching word of mouth spread for 20 years. Still ain't happening. I had modest hope for SteamOS to give some exposure through preloaded Steam boxes but even that isn't going so well. And a few mentions on TBBT or Mr. Robot aren't going to convince anyone who wasn't already thinking about it to take the plunge. "Oh it's easy, you just download the.ISO and then burn it onto a DVD and then install. Oh, don't have blanks? No problem, get the.ISO still and then get one of your thumb drives and then download and install Linux Live USB creator. Then open that, find the.ISO file and choose the correct drive for your thumb drive. Make sure you get that right, don't want to accidentally wipe out your machine. Then set the amount of persistent memory and... hey, where are you going? I thought you wanted to try Linux out?"
It's not "raining shills" it's raining realists. Sorry reality sucks but there it is.
If you're not going to give me free security updates to the device I bought from you, I'll take the money you're asking for those updates and consider it as a discount on the product I'll buy from your competitor to replace your insecure device.
Honestly? Get real. 99.9% of the people who are having Win10 shoved down their throats don't even know what Linux is, let alone would even consider switching to it as a desktop OS. I work with it daily and even I don't have Linux as a desktop OS at home by choice for a variety of reasons, and don't have it as a desktop OS at work per corporate policy.
And 98% of those people who had Win10 foisted on them don't really mind after the initial getting used to it period. One of the people I work with is one of the biggest technophobes you'd ever meet. One morning several months ago, she came in and was practically in tears after accidentally agreeing to the upgrade, and then almost lost her mind when she asked me if there was some easy way to go back to Windows 8 and I had to tell her no. A week later she's telling me how Windows 10 is just as good or perhaps even a bit better and easier to use than Windows 8 and she's glad she upgraded.
If that's the case then I'd really suggest looking at how you're measuring that 1500 calories, because once I started doing it, the weight came off so I suspect that what you think you're eating is probably not actually 1500 calories. My big (ha!) problem is that I lack willpower and am lazy. Need to get back on it again.
Based on your height, weight and age that you stated elsewhere, you resting mass intake is 2800 calories per day. Even if your body freaked out and dropped that by 800 calories you're still looking at 2000 calories per day for maintenance. Which is last time I checked, still greater than 1500.
Then there's the question of adding exercise to the equation. Moving around takes energy, there's no way around that.
I replied to you upthread but have to post again seeing this. Again, please report to the James Randi foundation for testing and to claim your prize for breaking the laws of thermodynamics. Unless you're awake for 15-20 minutes a day and spend the rest of your time comatose, your basic metabolic burn rate will exceed 2500 calories per day sitting in a recliner and not moving. Either you're lying or you can't measure calories.
I'll call you a liar. Unless you're under 5' tall, 1500 calories a day will cause you to lose weight. Source: Me. Also a fatass who finds when I cut my intake to 1500 calories and sticks with it - regardless of carbs - I lose weight. It's like magic, you give your body less fuel and it burns its reserves to make up the difference needed to operate. Or are you saying you're somehow still fat despite cutting intake to a confirmed 1500 calories that you have maintained for a considerable time? If so, please contact the James Randi foundation as I am sure they have some sort of 1 million dollar prize for demonstrating your immunity to the laws of physics in a controlled environment.
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> Another is to have you neighbour park off the kerb a bit and you do the same on the other side of the road, instant bottle neck.
And a quick call to 311 would see you and your neighbor receive parking tickets within the hour, at least where I live, for pulling that.
> Traffic Cones also have a remarkable effect on restricting flow, and everyone just accepts that they are there for a legitimate reason.
Similar deal, the city has bylaw enforcement that doesn't look fondly upon cowboy traffic enforcement and if they manage to find out who you are they will make things unpleasant for you.
> The world is shaped by unreasonable people. You have a choice if you want to do the shaping, or be shaped by others.
Are you including yourself in that category?
I can imagine. I like to drive my car a little sporty, and when I got my new one I was very uncomfortable with the feeling of how it reacted differently at speed to turns for a few days. Slightly bigger car and different weight distribution, it just felt... off. I would think that would be worse with a different bike.
> I think a lot of people mess up because they use their left foot for the brake and the right for the accelerator.
Seriously? Who does that? Jesus Christ, that's a recipe for disaster when the meatbag panics and stiffens their legs. This is yet another in a long series of reasons that I think everyone should be forced to learn on a stick shift, and maybe even drive one daily until it's muscle memory that the left foot is for the clutch or nothing at all.
How exactly do you plan on doing that without breaking the law?
> Those cars you mention are hitting pedestrians in my residential neighborhood with increasing frequency
So what you're saying is you have shitty drivers in your city who shouldn't be on the roads at all. Sounds like a bigger problem that needs addressing than just making sure they don't run over *your* neighbors.
> Their first instinct was to slam down on the brake pedal, but you would be amazed at how many managed to hit the throttle by mistake.
There have been a few proposals to combine the gas and brake pedals into one pedal to combat this problem. Here's one variant:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/business/global/04pedal.html?_r=0
Another one I saw several years ago would have the acceleration function tied to the pedal being attached to the control arm on a pivot and by pressing the top of the pedal, the car would accelerate. If you panicked, your foot would slam the whole pedal to the floor and the brakes would activate on full. Interesting ideas but I'm sure there would be loads of resistance to adoption.
> The car was 5 days old, it takes more time than that to become intimately familiar with the car.
This is a key piece. I was astonished when I bought a new car how different everything felt for a few weeks. I'd had the old car for 12 years and everything was second nature in it but it takes a while to get used to a new vehicle's layout and handling.
> Firing the bottom 20% of your work force every year is no different than YOU, as a consumer, not purchasing another good or service again because it didn't give you what you paid for. It is assigning value via your wallet.
But that's not how that worked under stack ranking. What they did was apply it to groups and teams. Suppose you are running a division and you want to put together - for lack of a better term - an all star team to tackle a bunch of problems. So you get the top 15 people from different teams to work on big problems and you solve a bunch of issues. Great! Now it's a year later and it's review time. According to stack ranking, 20% of those people, who would have been on the top of the stack in their old teams, are now on the chopping block because you have to get rid of 20% because rules. Congrats. You've now sent 3 of your best staff off to the wilderness and infected the other 12 (and probably a lot of others who hear about what happened) with dissatisfaction. Now the other 12 want to be put back on their old teams and most of them are also sending out their resumes.
This kind of shit also happened at Microsoft a lot when they embraced stack ranking. Without the firings though, they just shafted the bottom third of their all star teams on compensation which pissed them off and they left.
Stack ranking is a disaster and any company that still thinks it's a great thing is driving away talent.
I'd say it's a false supposition. This isn't the first treatment that's been tried for strokes that involves penetration of the BBB. If the action of the barrier being opened was the source of the effect it would have been noticed long ago.
> The set I bought can act as a Chromecast receiver (and it does so marvelously, I might add).
I recently bought a TV as well, and mine can also do so quite well. Two unfortunate things though. 1. All of my devices go through a receiver for audio and when I light up the TV with a cast, it doesn't pipe audio through the receiver, instead using the comparatively crappy TV speakers. Sure I could run a SPDIF cable to the receiver for that but then that brings us to point 2. The TV's networking has to be online for all its smart feature updates and firmware upgrades if the Chromecast functionality is to operate.
I ended up disabling networking on the TV because I don't want telemetry going back to Samsung, and plugged in the Chromecast I already had to the receiver again. The unfortunate thing seems to be if you want a good TV these days, it's going to be a smart TV. And even a large number of the crappy ones are smart too.
If you are capable of doing what you need to do on a Linux machine, there's no reason you can't. For a lot of people though, some of the software they use only runs on Windows or the Linux based alternative is actually kind of terrible, so we're stuck.
I think as long as it's reasonable to assume the device is still in modest use, it should be updated. For a phone, 4-5 years would be a good benchmark. For example, Ice Cream Sandwich is almost 5 years old and not many devices use it any longer, so security updates by manufacturers should be expected to drop off at that 5 year mark. Any device using Gingerbread or Honeycomb should not expect updates at this point. And Jellybeaners should get support until next year sometime.
Two things:
1. I don't use Windows 10, have only seen it on machines that were already preinstalled with it or already upgraded. I have never observed the Windows 10 upgrade process outside of those videos people posted where they were livestreaming a game session and Windows 10 install came crashing in like the Kool Aid Man. And even then the video doesn't really show you anything.
2. The person that happened to was not technical and sure as heck didn't mention anything about a backup.
So yes I probably should have looked into it more, but that boat has long since sailed.
Nowadays, but even that isn't strictly necessary. In the olden days most computers both came preloaded and had a CD/DVD copy of Windows or the OEM's cut of it. And back then a reinstall was no big deal for a novice either, I found that out when talking to my sister about a problem she was having with Thunderbird. She couldn't figure out how to fix the problem or uninstall Thunderbird so her solution was to pop in the Windows disc and *do a full-wipe reinstall of Windows*. I happened to catch her when she was about to do it for the 4th time and showed her how to fix Thunderbird instead.
These days there's no disc so you have to create your own backup media but again with most OEM machines there's a big friendly wizard that will talk you through that step by step. And there's also a big friendly "Factory Reset" button in those same OEM utilities that does a wipe-restore of Windows with a single click.
So not quite the same, but the potential for mayhem is admittedly still there.
>>One of the people I work with is one of the biggest technophobes you'd ever meet. One morning several months ago, she came in and was practically in tears after accidentally agreeing to the upgrade, and then almost lost her mind when she asked me if there was some easy way to go back to Windows 8 and I had to tell her no.
>So was that an intentional lie, or did you really not know? You see it is things like this that make people question the credibility of the entire Windows ecosystem.
As I mentioned above I don't use Windows 10, and was even less familiar with it at the time of the incident. I did a Google search for information on rollback at the time and didn't find anything so that's what I told her. If I had found that she could have, I would have told her about it because I sure as hell wasn't looking forward to a barrage of complaining about it.
>>A week later she's telling me how Windows 10 is just as good or perhaps even a bit better and easier to use than Windows 8 and she's glad she upgraded.
>I hear the same thing from new Mac and Linux users. Funny how that works.
Different experiences I guess. All I ever heard from people were questions about why the they need doesn't want to install or exist for Linux. And yes it's possible to get Photoshop to work now:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/530110/how-can-i-install-photoshop-cs6-on-ubuntu-14-04
But read that through the lens of someone who breaks into a sweat when a Windows installshield asks them what path they want to place the program files on. Especially the line that says "If a few errors pop-up, don’t worry – chances are this install will still work."
Linux on the desktop is getting better, but it's still things like this that torpedo adoption. And trying to pretend it's sunshine and puppies is not helping either.
Because I don't use Windows 10, and at the time she asked me a Google search didn't reveal that little gem?
Grandma CAN get on fine with it, if it was easy to get it to her. That's the hurdle. It's not a stupid myth, the problem is reinforced by people like you who don't recognize the actual roadblocks with adoption. Let's get real here, straight up Linux on the desktop will never take majority market share away from Windows. If Microsoft loses the desktop crown it's almost certainly going to go to ChromeOS, Android, or one of their descendants. Chromebooks already have more market share than Linux on the desktop does, and it's growing year over year - over 12 million of them in the last 2 years.
And even with your correction I have severe difficulty believing there are 5 billion desktops in the world. 5 billion computers, sure.
> Who gives a shit?
Because if people in the tech industry who work with it on a daily basis won't use it for a desktop OS, why the hell would some grandma?
> BTW, word of mouth is spreading. Even TBBT comedy TV show references Linux and Ubuntu in at least one episode.
I've been watching word of mouth spread for 20 years. Still ain't happening. I had modest hope for SteamOS to give some exposure through preloaded Steam boxes but even that isn't going so well. And a few mentions on TBBT or Mr. Robot aren't going to convince anyone who wasn't already thinking about it to take the plunge. "Oh it's easy, you just download the .ISO and then burn it onto a DVD and then install. Oh, don't have blanks? No problem, get the .ISO still and then get one of your thumb drives and then download and install Linux Live USB creator. Then open that, find the .ISO file and choose the correct drive for your thumb drive. Make sure you get that right, don't want to accidentally wipe out your machine. Then set the amount of persistent memory and... hey, where are you going? I thought you wanted to try Linux out?"
It's not "raining shills" it's raining realists. Sorry reality sucks but there it is.
If you're not going to give me free security updates to the device I bought from you, I'll take the money you're asking for those updates and consider it as a discount on the product I'll buy from your competitor to replace your insecure device.
Honestly? Get real. 99.9% of the people who are having Win10 shoved down their throats don't even know what Linux is, let alone would even consider switching to it as a desktop OS. I work with it daily and even I don't have Linux as a desktop OS at home by choice for a variety of reasons, and don't have it as a desktop OS at work per corporate policy.
And 98% of those people who had Win10 foisted on them don't really mind after the initial getting used to it period. One of the people I work with is one of the biggest technophobes you'd ever meet. One morning several months ago, she came in and was practically in tears after accidentally agreeing to the upgrade, and then almost lost her mind when she asked me if there was some easy way to go back to Windows 8 and I had to tell her no. A week later she's telling me how Windows 10 is just as good or perhaps even a bit better and easier to use than Windows 8 and she's glad she upgraded.
If that's the case then I'd really suggest looking at how you're measuring that 1500 calories, because once I started doing it, the weight came off so I suspect that what you think you're eating is probably not actually 1500 calories. My big (ha!) problem is that I lack willpower and am lazy. Need to get back on it again.
I'll say. They don't even sell servers any more after killing Xserve line in 2010.
Based on your height, weight and age that you stated elsewhere, you resting mass intake is 2800 calories per day. Even if your body freaked out and dropped that by 800 calories you're still looking at 2000 calories per day for maintenance. Which is last time I checked, still greater than 1500.
Then there's the question of adding exercise to the equation. Moving around takes energy, there's no way around that.
I replied to you upthread but have to post again seeing this. Again, please report to the James Randi foundation for testing and to claim your prize for breaking the laws of thermodynamics. Unless you're awake for 15-20 minutes a day and spend the rest of your time comatose, your basic metabolic burn rate will exceed 2500 calories per day sitting in a recliner and not moving. Either you're lying or you can't measure calories.
I'll call you a liar. Unless you're under 5' tall, 1500 calories a day will cause you to lose weight. Source: Me. Also a fatass who finds when I cut my intake to 1500 calories and sticks with it - regardless of carbs - I lose weight. It's like magic, you give your body less fuel and it burns its reserves to make up the difference needed to operate. Or are you saying you're somehow still fat despite cutting intake to a confirmed 1500 calories that you have maintained for a considerable time? If so, please contact the James Randi foundation as I am sure they have some sort of 1 million dollar prize for demonstrating your immunity to the laws of physics in a controlled environment.