Why is it entirely the responsibility of the person driving the car? I understand I'm driving the more dangerous vehicle, but I'm also in the much less maneuverable vehicle that has far far less choice in places to be.
You're re-adjusting to fit your own version of my words. The slow-down in traffic IS worth it, and currently happens most of the time, to save lives.
The bicycles should be removed so that there are no lives at risk to be saved and no slow down required.
In large city areas where Bicycling becomes much more effective a transport mode I support building bike lanes. In other areas they should be completely banned on main roads.
It has nothing to do with ME being more equal, but with elevating the bicycles above the majority of people who drive to get where they need to go on a daily basis.
I represent the majority as someone who doesn't have the time to spend biking to/from everywhere they need to go.
Bicycles are being elevated above vehicles for no particular reason other than they're supposedly healthier.
I'll be perfectly honest, I like bicycling, if I could I would bike to more places. Its in no way fast enough to get me where I need to go on time however, and never will be, so I drive. Beyond that I would never bike in areas that are unsafe for myself and others to do so.
Its only BECAUSE I drive cautiously that I was able to avoid it by stopping.
I live in a hilly area right now and used to live in a mountainous area. The problem is that other people on the road are hitting these cyclists and getting into accidents with oncoming traffic. There is absolutely zero need of this happening at all.
Biking is a fucking hobby. Restrict it to areas not meant for public traffic. You don't see me going through the ditched median in my 4x4 truck just because I can.
The corner is fine when there is no bike traffic. My Solution: Stop the bike traffic. There are groomed trails and everything around here for biking. There is absolutely no need for them to be on the roads.
Your solution: Do 2-3mph around every single low-visibility turn, or spend millions fixing them.
Sorry, but the slowdown in traffic isn't worth it, and its not worth millions in government costs to support the hobby of a minority of people.
I wouldn't actually like to kill them per say, but their deaths can only improve the gene pool.
It wouldn't be a problem if there WAS a way to safely pass the morons without going into oncoming traffic.
The bikes here are causing car accidents. In a recent case a fatal one. They should be outlawed on the roadways.
Sure if there were bike lanes etc everywhere or at least a wide paved shoulder for them to ride on, or maybe if I lived in a magical place where all of the roads are straight. However I've twice now almost run over a bike around a blind corner going up a hill.
There ARE areas here with a few bike lanes and in those places they're fine and not a nuisance at all. You have to watch for them at intersections etc but thats not a big deal.
However in this day and age bicycles belong firmly planted in the "recreation" category of life. Not as a mode of transportation. Its even less safe than riding a motor cycle in general traffic and around here we generally refer to motorcyclists as organ donors.
Well that finishes me for moving to the netherlands.
I'd like to kill the idiot bicycles that are on the roads that A) can't keep up with traffic and B) insist on riding in traffic.
If there were bicycle lanes or mandatory wide shoulders for the bikes I wouldn't mind, and maybe thats the case there, but here I get so irritated with stupid bicyclists almost killing themselves on my or others front bumpers it borders on psychotic rage at times.
I tried Linux years ago on my Radeon 7500 and couldn't figure out why the hell everyone was bitching about the ATI drivers. I've had linux installed on pretty much every generation of ATI card since(save that I skipped the HD2xxx and HD3xxx series, plus the Xxxx series was an X600 all in wonder, which ran fantastic, actually better than on windows) and I still haven't had problems.
The only caveat is I usually upgrade a generation or close to a generation behind. By then linux driver support is in place. However on the same token I have 2 laptops here with nvidia mobile GFX in them that have the same damn problems as the above user described. I'll get the things working great for about 2 minutes and then another update will hit and fuck the whole thing again.
My plan was to leave my desktops on windows for gaming and run Linux on my HTPCs and laptops because I don't need those to run all the latest games. I was sorely mistaken >_ I do have an E350 laptop that beyond some sound issues(common to everything I've ever installed pretty much any linux distro on except that one X600 AIW that just for some crazy reason worked fantastic on TV out) works great.
Add on top of that I like my hardware to fail when it fails. Not throw random artifacts, bugs, the works, and make me spend 3-5 fucking hours till I finally figure out that the video card is overheating but instead of crashing the computer or rebooting itself its throwing the whole system for a loop.
People come to me with mysterious hardware-related computer problems I now start at whatever NVidia parts are installed to diagnose it. Its not always correct but its saved me enough time checking other shit that it is now my best practice to save time.
See, its once you throw that feminist crap in there that they stop doing it.
I said nothing about feminists. I don't date them. Feminists who identify as such in this day and age are generally just plain lunatics. The "I am woman here me roar" types that fuck with shit and go on power trips for no reason other than to prove that they can.
The feminist battle is won. In countries like Canada its already the other fucking way to where men are being discriminated against for jobs etc due to mandatory quotas that are difficult to fill simply because there are LESS qualified female candidates. Women are still the nurturing, child-bearing care-givers and will continue to be so due to biology. As such the pool of women who choose not to work or choose to work part-time(thus preventing them from filling many important roles) is rather large.
That contract placement... you've had a successful business for 8 years. That holds weight above ALL else in the HR world.
For actual 9-5 job hiring with no business ownership you would have been screwed. If you had really good experience with proven project success, you might get a look in. Otherwise your resume would be binned.
There are a very few places that dont' do this, but in general the HR dept is managed by someone with an over-inflated sense of self-importance that has a degree of some sort and thinks everyone else should have to do the same.
Because of the reasons companies are not mass deploying iOS already. Apple won't let them at the nuts and bolts to do their own security audits and never will unless they change course drastically.
Android on the other hand is very easy to audit. At present its not the best, but Apple won't let you at the nuts and bolts enough to essentially replicate what BES is now like they would be able to on Android.
RIM gets around this by allowing companies to have their own IT staff participate in penetration testing etc, and RIM will actually train your own staff members to do all of the admin and hardening. While being essentially a closed system the BES is very open.
They do, and I was saying this in regards to a world without RIM.
Without RIM you could pretty easily see a company that just does security springing up to make a sandbox/remote control suite for Android. I cant see Apple allowing the same.
They do, but the only ones that actually need that level of security generally only need it at either the highest echelons or is someone like the DoD. Sure RIM can survive on those customers but its margins are going to have to go way up and its going to have to restructure its whole business model to target ONLY the enterprise.
I was also saying this based on RIM going kaput. BES is very obviously the best choice at the moment, but in a world without BES Android becomes your only real remaining option.
Don't forget that Android devices are ridiculously easy to lock down and set up with full encryption. There are actually companies out there whose entire business is doing just that for the corporate use scenario.
Its so stupidly easy to integrate Android with all of their existing email and even internal messaging apps(most of which are written in Java and trivially ported to native) that it beggars belief that they would consider much of anything else.
iPhone doesn't allow the kind of direct control that Corporate security demands, and WP7 has such a low penetration that no one is asking for it anyways. Android, even though there could definitely be better solutions, is currently the only real choice for corporate america. The worker drones get something that does everything an iPhone does(in some cases does it better, in some cases worse, but the important things are roughly the same, except for the GPS nav on android is much better) and they get their security.
Not all of us can. There are european, russian, and Canadian population centers that all can't survive on a vegetarian diet, and if they do try they will die young.
Easiest example is the Inuit in Canada's north. They can survive(and quite well) on an entirely meat and fish based diet but large quantities of vegetables getting added in leads to all sorts of things they're having problems with now. Failure in many of the major organs, improper brain development, fast onset diabetes, and many more.
I should have known EA would make it Pay-To-Win...
Hopefully thats not the case, but every time I see buying gear in a game its almost inevitably what happens.
Unless they restrict it to being able to purchase say, XP bonuses to make the grind shorter or vanity gear(or gear skins)/pets etc then its a pretty horrible idea and will just sink the game further.
I'll probably never go back. At least not for a long time. The problem for me is they're finished developing the mid-level and end-game dungeons etc. They're not going to go in and re-do those to bring them up to the quality level of the first dungeon.
I've been burned too badly to waste money to try it again at this point.
SWTOR was actually pretty balanced with the exception of one class and one or two sub-types.
The problem wasn't bugs either. It was probably -THE- singular most bug-free MMO launch I have EVER had the pleasure of going through.
It was the fact that the game was awesome till level 20 then fell off a cliff. It was unfinished and a lot of the reason was they wasted too much time balancing and tacking on PVP shit in beta.
WoW became linear and the chaoticness it once had is now buried out behind activisions shed somewhere. AKA its purely boring.
Resilience is a bad tacked on mechanic to fix a bad tacked on competitive PVP system.
In reality they should choose a direction and go with it. People will always want to have some fun nuking other people here and there but things like battlegrounds and Southshore in WoW solved that urge nicely. PVP being a total bolt-on actually works, and IMO created more fun PVP than this new crap they have. I actually enjoyed seeing the odd mage run into the middle of a huge group and massacre them just because no one in the group was bright enough to target the mage long enough to two-shot him.
Being slightly unbalanced and having most classes wrecking most other classes faces is chaotic, and fucking awesome.
AKA you're supposed to be overpowered depending on the difficulty level you choose. You're not supposed to be balanced but all classes should be playable... etc. Sort of like Vanilla WoW. All classes had SOMETHING to make at least one of that class desirable in a raid but beyond that nothing was very terribly balanced. This is where Blizzard got it right. They made it FUN first, and balanced afterwards. So much feedback from so-called "elite" players espousing that "balanced" IS fun has destroyed that game. They did the same thing to SWTOR.
Sadly they spent so much time balancing that PVP was pretty good at first (in beta) and still the most popular feature at release, then turned thier backs on it entirely without taking enough time to properly fix PVE first.
Essentially, you can't have it all. Either your game needs to be PVP focused or PVE focused, and the other thing is going to be bolted on and should stay that way.
I meant starting classes. I.E. total entrants into a program. Sigh, I think that one not-clarified-enough-for-university-grads is causing some headaches.
I should have qualified that with *reputable in my area.
I can't offer direct citation because the information is from a department head at a college I attended. It came out of a meeting of many such IT department heads she had seen not long beforehand.
To offer anecdotal evidence: I started the program with 192 others. Once we were finished 3 years later there were 8 of us left. We were told we had a much higher than normal attrition rate, but there you have it.
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Why is it entirely the responsibility of the person driving the car? I understand I'm driving the more dangerous vehicle, but I'm also in the much less maneuverable vehicle that has far far less choice in places to be.
You're re-adjusting to fit your own version of my words. The slow-down in traffic IS worth it, and currently happens most of the time, to save lives.
The bicycles should be removed so that there are no lives at risk to be saved and no slow down required.
In large city areas where Bicycling becomes much more effective a transport mode I support building bike lanes. In other areas they should be completely banned on main roads.
It has nothing to do with ME being more equal, but with elevating the bicycles above the majority of people who drive to get where they need to go on a daily basis.
I represent the majority as someone who doesn't have the time to spend biking to/from everywhere they need to go.
Bicycles are being elevated above vehicles for no particular reason other than they're supposedly healthier.
I'll be perfectly honest, I like bicycling, if I could I would bike to more places. Its in no way fast enough to get me where I need to go on time however, and never will be, so I drive. Beyond that I would never bike in areas that are unsafe for myself and others to do so.
You'll notice I've said "Almost"
Its only BECAUSE I drive cautiously that I was able to avoid it by stopping.
I live in a hilly area right now and used to live in a mountainous area. The problem is that other people on the road are hitting these cyclists and getting into accidents with oncoming traffic. There is absolutely zero need of this happening at all.
Biking is a fucking hobby. Restrict it to areas not meant for public traffic. You don't see me going through the ditched median in my 4x4 truck just because I can.
The corner is fine when there is no bike traffic.
My Solution: Stop the bike traffic. There are groomed trails and everything around here for biking. There is absolutely no need for them to be on the roads.
Your solution: Do 2-3mph around every single low-visibility turn, or spend millions fixing them.
Sorry, but the slowdown in traffic isn't worth it, and its not worth millions in government costs to support the hobby of a minority of people.
I wouldn't actually like to kill them per say, but their deaths can only improve the gene pool.
It wouldn't be a problem if there WAS a way to safely pass the morons without going into oncoming traffic.
The bikes here are causing car accidents. In a recent case a fatal one. They should be outlawed on the roadways.
Sure if there were bike lanes etc everywhere or at least a wide paved shoulder for them to ride on, or maybe if I lived in a magical place where all of the roads are straight. However I've twice now almost run over a bike around a blind corner going up a hill.
There ARE areas here with a few bike lanes and in those places they're fine and not a nuisance at all. You have to watch for them at intersections etc but thats not a big deal.
However in this day and age bicycles belong firmly planted in the "recreation" category of life. Not as a mode of transportation. Its even less safe than riding a motor cycle in general traffic and around here we generally refer to motorcyclists as organ donors.
Well that finishes me for moving to the netherlands.
I'd like to kill the idiot bicycles that are on the roads that A) can't keep up with traffic and B) insist on riding in traffic.
If there were bicycle lanes or mandatory wide shoulders for the bikes I wouldn't mind, and maybe thats the case there, but here I get so irritated with stupid bicyclists almost killing themselves on my or others front bumpers it borders on psychotic rage at times.
My kingdom for a mod point or 10...
I tried Linux years ago on my Radeon 7500 and couldn't figure out why the hell everyone was bitching about the ATI drivers. I've had linux installed on pretty much every generation of ATI card since(save that I skipped the HD2xxx and HD3xxx series, plus the Xxxx series was an X600 all in wonder, which ran fantastic, actually better than on windows) and I still haven't had problems.
The only caveat is I usually upgrade a generation or close to a generation behind. By then linux driver support is in place. However on the same token I have 2 laptops here with nvidia mobile GFX in them that have the same damn problems as the above user described. I'll get the things working great for about 2 minutes and then another update will hit and fuck the whole thing again.
My plan was to leave my desktops on windows for gaming and run Linux on my HTPCs and laptops because I don't need those to run all the latest games. I was sorely mistaken >_ I do have an E350 laptop that beyond some sound issues(common to everything I've ever installed pretty much any linux distro on except that one X600 AIW that just for some crazy reason worked fantastic on TV out) works great.
Add on top of that I like my hardware to fail when it fails. Not throw random artifacts, bugs, the works, and make me spend 3-5 fucking hours till I finally figure out that the video card is overheating but instead of crashing the computer or rebooting itself its throwing the whole system for a loop.
People come to me with mysterious hardware-related computer problems I now start at whatever NVidia parts are installed to diagnose it. Its not always correct but its saved me enough time checking other shit that it is now my best practice to save time.
If I didn't know better I'd swear this was a review of Gnome.
See, its once you throw that feminist crap in there that they stop doing it.
I said nothing about feminists. I don't date them. Feminists who identify as such in this day and age are generally just plain lunatics. The "I am woman here me roar" types that fuck with shit and go on power trips for no reason other than to prove that they can.
The feminist battle is won. In countries like Canada its already the other fucking way to where men are being discriminated against for jobs etc due to mandatory quotas that are difficult to fill simply because there are LESS qualified female candidates. Women are still the nurturing, child-bearing care-givers and will continue to be so due to biology. As such the pool of women who choose not to work or choose to work part-time(thus preventing them from filling many important roles) is rather large.
While I don't understand them at all, in my personal experience most vegetarian & vegan chicks swallow.
Go forth young nerds and benefit from my words!
That contract placement... you've had a successful business for 8 years. That holds weight above ALL else in the HR world.
For actual 9-5 job hiring with no business ownership you would have been screwed. If you had really good experience with proven project success, you might get a look in. Otherwise your resume would be binned.
There are a very few places that dont' do this, but in general the HR dept is managed by someone with an over-inflated sense of self-importance that has a degree of some sort and thinks everyone else should have to do the same.
Oh I definitely think RIM should abandon the consumer market altogether. Its not their game, and never was.
Going after it has cost the company big time and they need to get back to ensuring they keep their core market.
Because of the reasons companies are not mass deploying iOS already. Apple won't let them at the nuts and bolts to do their own security audits and never will unless they change course drastically.
Android on the other hand is very easy to audit. At present its not the best, but Apple won't let you at the nuts and bolts enough to essentially replicate what BES is now like they would be able to on Android.
RIM gets around this by allowing companies to have their own IT staff participate in penetration testing etc, and RIM will actually train your own staff members to do all of the admin and hardening. While being essentially a closed system the BES is very open.
They do, and I was saying this in regards to a world without RIM.
Without RIM you could pretty easily see a company that just does security springing up to make a sandbox/remote control suite for Android. I cant see Apple allowing the same.
They do, but the only ones that actually need that level of security generally only need it at either the highest echelons or is someone like the DoD. Sure RIM can survive on those customers but its margins are going to have to go way up and its going to have to restructure its whole business model to target ONLY the enterprise.
I was also saying this based on RIM going kaput. BES is very obviously the best choice at the moment, but in a world without BES Android becomes your only real remaining option.
Don't forget that Android devices are ridiculously easy to lock down and set up with full encryption. There are actually companies out there whose entire business is doing just that for the corporate use scenario.
Its so stupidly easy to integrate Android with all of their existing email and even internal messaging apps(most of which are written in Java and trivially ported to native) that it beggars belief that they would consider much of anything else.
iPhone doesn't allow the kind of direct control that Corporate security demands, and WP7 has such a low penetration that no one is asking for it anyways. Android, even though there could definitely be better solutions, is currently the only real choice for corporate america. The worker drones get something that does everything an iPhone does(in some cases does it better, in some cases worse, but the important things are roughly the same, except for the GPS nav on android is much better) and they get their security.
Theres actually a very simple answer to that one:
Not all of us can. There are european, russian, and Canadian population centers that all can't survive on a vegetarian diet, and if they do try they will die young.
Easiest example is the Inuit in Canada's north. They can survive(and quite well) on an entirely meat and fish based diet but large quantities of vegetables getting added in leads to all sorts of things they're having problems with now. Failure in many of the major organs, improper brain development, fast onset diabetes, and many more.
Paying for gear?
I should have known EA would make it Pay-To-Win...
Hopefully thats not the case, but every time I see buying gear in a game its almost inevitably what happens.
Unless they restrict it to being able to purchase say, XP bonuses to make the grind shorter or vanity gear(or gear skins)/pets etc then its a pretty horrible idea and will just sink the game further.
I'll probably never go back. At least not for a long time. The problem for me is they're finished developing the mid-level and end-game dungeons etc. They're not going to go in and re-do those to bring them up to the quality level of the first dungeon.
I've been burned too badly to waste money to try it again at this point.
SWTOR was actually pretty balanced with the exception of one class and one or two sub-types.
The problem wasn't bugs either. It was probably -THE- singular most bug-free MMO launch I have EVER had the pleasure of going through.
It was the fact that the game was awesome till level 20 then fell off a cliff. It was unfinished and a lot of the reason was they wasted too much time balancing and tacking on PVP shit in beta.
WoW became linear and the chaoticness it once had is now buried out behind activisions shed somewhere. AKA its purely boring.
Resilience is a bad tacked on mechanic to fix a bad tacked on competitive PVP system.
In reality they should choose a direction and go with it. People will always want to have some fun nuking other people here and there but things like battlegrounds and Southshore in WoW solved that urge nicely. PVP being a total bolt-on actually works, and IMO created more fun PVP than this new crap they have. I actually enjoyed seeing the odd mage run into the middle of a huge group and massacre them just because no one in the group was bright enough to target the mage long enough to two-shot him.
Being slightly unbalanced and having most classes wrecking most other classes faces is chaotic, and fucking awesome.
No no, Everyone wanted KotoR 3 with co-op mode.
AKA you're supposed to be overpowered depending on the difficulty level you choose. You're not supposed to be balanced but all classes should be playable... etc. Sort of like Vanilla WoW. All classes had SOMETHING to make at least one of that class desirable in a raid but beyond that nothing was very terribly balanced. This is where Blizzard got it right. They made it FUN first, and balanced afterwards. So much feedback from so-called "elite" players espousing that "balanced" IS fun has destroyed that game. They did the same thing to SWTOR.
Sadly they spent so much time balancing that PVP was pretty good at first (in beta) and still the most popular feature at release, then turned thier backs on it entirely without taking enough time to properly fix PVE first.
Essentially, you can't have it all. Either your game needs to be PVP focused or PVE focused, and the other thing is going to be bolted on and should stay that way.
I meant starting classes. I.E. total entrants into a program. Sigh, I think that one not-clarified-enough-for-university-grads is causing some headaches.
I should have qualified that with *reputable in my area.
I can't offer direct citation because the information is from a department head at a college I attended. It came out of a meeting of many such IT department heads she had seen not long beforehand.
To offer anecdotal evidence: I started the program with 192 others. Once we were finished 3 years later there were 8 of us left. We were told we had a much higher than normal attrition rate, but there you have it.