What always happens to me is that I'm a pedestrian waiting to cross, some idiot pulls up part way into the intersection, waiting to turn left. He doesn't get a chance, but he doesn't go all the way out on red, and can't back up, so he's sitting there almost in the intersection, blocking the crosswalk. I can either walk in front of him and be in the intersection and risk getting hit by the cross traffic, or walk behind him and risk getting backed into. The latter has almost happened a few times, where the fucking idiot decides he can back up some, while I'm walking behind him. At that point I'm between two cars getting closer together.
Wow, you had me going to the "I was bummed" part. I thought, "wow, this poster saw evidence against him and admitted that he didn't come to a stop." but then your weaseling out of it using your personal advantage sickened me.
I find this slightly odd, reading through the comments here suggests that 90% or more of people misunderstand what yellow means - they think it means "go if you think you can squeeze through", rather than "stop, unless you absolutely can't".
Based on that, I wonder if the best solution to solving this problem is actually to *shorten* the period that the lights stay yellow, but to increase the amount of time that all lights are red. That is, make some of the time in which your light is yellow, into time in which it's red, and the opposing flow of traffic *still* isn't moving.
I find it slightly odd that you think your proposed solution wouldn't be met with a similar response, that "red means try to get through, unless you see the other direction already going". After all, why would anyone stop at a light that just turned red, if they knew it would stay red for a while before the other direction got a green? It's the same logic they currently use for yellow, so I don't se any reason it would go away.
A Cell phone is a multi-use information device. People call you, you call people, you need directions while driving, call people and tell them you're late, whatever.. People have a virtually unlimted reasons to use them, and those reasons don't go away when they get behind the wheel.
Likewise, a handheld video game is a multi-use entertainment device. People have a virtually unlimited reasons to use them, and those reasons don't go away when they get behind the wheel. There's no reason to ban me from playing video games while driving. I can do it just fine. Why, right now I'm driving while typi
I'd like to introduce you to a new website that has absolutely no questionable content: example.com. I offer it as a serious alternative to Wikipedia and even Citizendium, which mention some topics which some find uncomfortable, or even might find uncomfortable at some point in their lives.
You might want to read the article. It states quite clearly that paying kids for books read increased standardized test scores on reading and that these were long term gains
If Battle of the Browsers simply isn't what it use[d], then what did it use? Did it use the Convention of the Browsers? Trial of the Browsers? Your subject just isn't making sense.
Exactly. I don't get why I should have any part in them giving money to someone who claimed to be me. It wasn't me. Sorry you guys lost money, but it's your problem, not mine. I never agreed to any of it, so fuck off and deal with your loss. Next.
How about a car with a hood you can open and add oil/radiator fluid/brake fluid yourself, and then an update locks the hood so only mechanics can open it?
Voting on whether people should be able to read about euthenasia is like voting on whether people should be able to write the letter C in ball-point pen at home on their own paper. It shouldn't be democratic; it should be dictorial: I decide whether I can write such a thing.
6. You find out that Verizon has offered what you want all along, under the name of "business rental".
7. You get a "business rental", but it costs 10 times as much, becuase you get exclusive use of it at any time.
When you run Flying Images across different browsers you'll see that Internet Explorer 9 can handle hundreds of images at full speed while other browsers, including Internet Explorer 8, quickly come to a crawl.
Finally, someone is doing this right. I don't know how many times I've wished for hundreds of flying images obscuring the web page content. I was getting bored of just one or two constantly distracting me every time I scrolled or did anything, since they didn't always make me leave the page in disgust. But hundreds, shit yeah. I feel like the time I got one of those five-blade razors. This is one big step to the day they finally bring the Web up to television standards, so that I can confidently avoid it just like I've avoided TV for the last decade. Here's to progress.
No, that's definitely not true. The hypervisor isn't what made running Linux possible; it's what made it limited when it did run.
Yeah right, next thing you'll be telling me that DRM isn't what makes copying music and movies possible! Before we had hypervisors and DRM, we couldn't run Linux or copy music at all!
Anyone who points out that people can do good and bad things is clearly a good person. No question about it. It would be awful manners to even suggest such a thing.
Of course, the exo-biologists (and geeks here on Slashdot) will make the connection, but I'm hardly surprised TFA didn't. Me, I'm no longer surprised to hear that there are such organisms -- the longer we have known about "extremophiles" the more it makes it fairly obvious that critters adapt to all sorts of condition, and quite likely originated in them.
Yes, I've learned about a life form that can live without sunlight, members of the opposite sex, and surive entirely on pizza and soda pop. There's even a website devoted to this life form, but I forget the name right now.
Yeah, it's like a hard drive crashing. Used to, that meant the heads crashing into the disk and literally destroying data. Now it just means that the OS wrote some crap and corrupted a directory or something requiring a reinstall. I guess its meaning got corrupted because actual crashes are so rare with modern hard drives.
Next you'll be telling me that walking and fighting skills in third-person games don't apply in real-life when I'm walking. I think my walking and fighting skills have improved immeasurably due to third-person games.
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What always happens to me is that I'm a pedestrian waiting to cross, some idiot pulls up part way into the intersection, waiting to turn left. He doesn't get a chance, but he doesn't go all the way out on red, and can't back up, so he's sitting there almost in the intersection, blocking the crosswalk. I can either walk in front of him and be in the intersection and risk getting hit by the cross traffic, or walk behind him and risk getting backed into. The latter has almost happened a few times, where the fucking idiot decides he can back up some, while I'm walking behind him. At that point I'm between two cars getting closer together.
Wow, you had me going to the "I was bummed" part. I thought, "wow, this poster saw evidence against him and admitted that he didn't come to a stop." but then your weaseling out of it using your personal advantage sickened me.
I find it slightly odd that you think your proposed solution wouldn't be met with a similar response, that "red means try to get through, unless you see the other direction already going". After all, why would anyone stop at a light that just turned red, if they knew it would stay red for a while before the other direction got a green? It's the same logic they currently use for yellow, so I don't se any reason it would go away.
What is this "US" and why is its gain my loss, even though I'm a citizen and still live in the country?
Likewise, a handheld video game is a multi-use entertainment device. People have a virtually unlimited reasons to use them, and those reasons don't go away when they get behind the wheel. There's no reason to ban me from playing video games while driving. I can do it just fine. Why, right now I'm driving while typi
I'd like to introduce you to a new website that has absolutely no questionable content: example.com. I offer it as a serious alternative to Wikipedia and even Citizendium, which mention some topics which some find uncomfortable, or even might find uncomfortable at some point in their lives.
Wait, Java only has unsigned types currently?!?
You might want to pay me first.
So, Intel, only 592 more cores to go, then it'll be enough for anybody. Get to work!
but based on the subject, this message could be about anything.
If Battle of the Browsers simply isn't what it use[d], then what did it use? Did it use the Convention of the Browsers? Trial of the Browsers? Your subject just isn't making sense.
Exactly. I don't get why I should have any part in them giving money to someone who claimed to be me. It wasn't me. Sorry you guys lost money, but it's your problem, not mine. I never agreed to any of it, so fuck off and deal with your loss. Next.
Yeah, I just failed on my joke delivery.
How about a car with a hood you can open and add oil/radiator fluid/brake fluid yourself, and then an update locks the hood so only mechanics can open it?
Voting on whether people should be able to read about euthenasia is like voting on whether people should be able to write the letter C in ball-point pen at home on their own paper. It shouldn't be democratic; it should be dictorial: I decide whether I can write such a thing.
So why the hell are all these people still giving said companies money? Stop supporting them and they'll go bankrupt.
6. You find out that Verizon has offered what you want all along, under the name of "business rental".
7. You get a "business rental", but it costs 10 times as much, becuase you get exclusive use of it at any time.
You could just name every one of your turns in the game. "I'm going to name this turn Haikemck. 50 points."
Finally, someone is doing this right. I don't know how many times I've wished for hundreds of flying images obscuring the web page content. I was getting bored of just one or two constantly distracting me every time I scrolled or did anything, since they didn't always make me leave the page in disgust. But hundreds, shit yeah. I feel like the time I got one of those five-blade razors. This is one big step to the day they finally bring the Web up to television standards, so that I can confidently avoid it just like I've avoided TV for the last decade. Here's to progress.
Yeah right, next thing you'll be telling me that DRM isn't what makes copying music and movies possible! Before we had hypervisors and DRM, we couldn't run Linux or copy music at all!
Anyone who points out that people can do good and bad things is clearly a good person. No question about it. It would be awful manners to even suggest such a thing.
Yes, I've learned about a life form that can live without sunlight, members of the opposite sex, and surive entirely on pizza and soda pop. There's even a website devoted to this life form, but I forget the name right now.
Yeah, it's like a hard drive crashing. Used to, that meant the heads crashing into the disk and literally destroying data. Now it just means that the OS wrote some crap and corrupted a directory or something requiring a reinstall. I guess its meaning got corrupted because actual crashes are so rare with modern hard drives.
Isn't what an optimizing compiler does another way of saying it refactors the code? I fail to see the essential difference here.
Next you'll be telling me that walking and fighting skills in third-person games don't apply in real-life when I'm walking. I think my walking and fighting skills have improved immeasurably due to third-person games.