Yeah, I did... I saw a movie about peak oil and the signs that we might already be there just about that long ago. Better safe than sorry.
Since I commute by bus/train, I'm largely insulated from this.
Too bad, it's the law, and if you don't obey it, I hope you get the penalties.
What harm could a bike possibly do? Slow you down for 30 seconds? Who gives a shit? I wonder the same thing about people who won't stop for a pedestrian in the pouring rain. I'm running trying to get out of a downpour and you're sitting in a dry car. Have some consideration.
Biking is a way to commute without using fossil fuels, and is what more people should be doing. I don't ride a bike, but am planning to start. Problems that would be solved by most people biking ARE problems of society, so why don't you use your head.
Depending on where you live, the sidewalks are no good for bicycling. Where I grew up, the sidewalks are all slate and the trees have moved them about over the years.
What you're missing is that most of us have been pissed off all along that you are driving something so wasteful and not paying for the pollution and damage you cause. You are effectively throwing away gasoline, and you don't have to deal with the consequences other than price. Damn right I think it's funny that someone who was such an asshole for so long loses all that money -- maybe he'll learn a lesson.
Incidentally, the stupid truck you bought was only marketed to you because it wastes fuel and to make carmakers money. The whole need for this type of vehicles on public streets was manufactured. Congratulations -- you fell for it!
Every weekend?
I'm not arguing with you, I just heard an interesting point on NPR's CarTalk I believe it was. Someone called in asking about a pickup and the guys asked him what he was going to use it for. He said, well, commuting mostly, but I want to haul things sometimes. The guys asked, why not buy a commuter vehicle and occasionally rent a truck?
It wouldn't come out cheaper for everyone (and if the Ranger does get as good mileage as a similar small car, then it doesn't really matter), but for most I'd suspect it would, especially when you can rent a pickup at Home Depot for very cheap for a little while.
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If you can't overtake a truck with a sedan, you're driving the wrong sedan.:)
and you don't want to make calls on train or plane or whatnot because it's rude. If only you weren't one of 27 people on the planet that know that.:( This is why I use text far more than phone -- text doesn't make noise, and generally if I'm out, I can't be making noise.
There are a lot of things that now provide us with choices galore and I'm not so sure we're better off. For example, supermarkets vs. regular markets, where you buy not necessarily what you want, but what you're willing to have that is in season or that this particular vendor was able to get. Shopping at older supermarkets in older cities and dollar stores and farmers markets is a different experience... you don't necessarily go to the store looking for what you need for a recipe, you get home seeing what it is you can make with what you got. I think it's probably true that a lot of our energy usage comes from too much choice -- we can get things from places very far away in mass quantities that you can't grow near your house, and you can get things year round that only grow near you in certain seasons.
It makes me really think about trying to live a little bit more within natural means. If using less energy and having to be very careful about every watt and not being able to get everything I want whenever I want it helps me have a better respect for what went into it, so be it. Though, it won't make much of a dent until plenty of people do the same (and they don't -- we've only just started to realize "wait, gas is getting expensive," which is pretty early in the process).
Their energy costs are astronomical, compared to mine, but more importantly, their entire lives are controlled by it. Every decision that they make have to take into consideration the energy effects. It drives my wife nuts that she has to notify my mom in advanced if she wants to blow-dry her hair. Maybe if did take into consideration the energy effects when we do things, perhaps we'd not be in this mess.
You still haven't demonstrated any machine they've sold that was no longer supported 2 years later. Were sun4m machines selling 5 years ago, shortly before Solaris 10 came out?
I think that was a bad move, considering some of us run things like BOINC and now have to suffer through months of this. I didn't even REALLY notice something was wrong until I read this and said to myself "that's what all this dragging at random times is!"
Sorry to say that that is not true. Major upgrades often work, but it seems like after one or two of them, you're not going to have as good a copy as those who did a fresh install have. I am speaking from experience here -- some of your personally modified config files and kludges for your new hardware, etc., etc. will come back to bite you someday.
Umm, Solaris 10 still runs on our E450's that became available in 1997. That's more than 10 years of support. They haven't been made since 2002 and they even have hardware support until toward the end of this year. I'm sure that modern Solaris will continue to run on them for another 5 years after that.
I don't work for Sun, I just want you to get real.
Jeez, I'm sorry about that! For every starter kit I ordered, I seemed to get about 10 of them (for awhile, I would get a box of Solaris 10 on Fridays). I guess we had our wires crossed there for a bit.;)
I think it depends upon why you're using the OS you're using. I personally don't need comfort in an OS I'm running for work -- I wouldn't be good at what I do if knowing where commands are located was considered "hard" for me. If knowing how to administrate more than one type of *NIX is too hard, I think these folks might want to find another line of work. While this has died down some, I had to be familiar with IRIX, HP-UX, Linux and Solaris and work between them all day long. Yeah, sometimes I'll type the wrong command, but really, no big deal.
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Yeah, I did... I saw a movie about peak oil and the signs that we might already be there just about that long ago. Better safe than sorry. Since I commute by bus/train, I'm largely insulated from this.
Too bad, it's the law, and if you don't obey it, I hope you get the penalties. What harm could a bike possibly do? Slow you down for 30 seconds? Who gives a shit? I wonder the same thing about people who won't stop for a pedestrian in the pouring rain. I'm running trying to get out of a downpour and you're sitting in a dry car. Have some consideration.
Biking is a way to commute without using fossil fuels, and is what more people should be doing. I don't ride a bike, but am planning to start. Problems that would be solved by most people biking ARE problems of society, so why don't you use your head.
I have zero sympathy for a jackass who drives a car in a city, but that's just me.
Depending on where you live, the sidewalks are no good for bicycling. Where I grew up, the sidewalks are all slate and the trees have moved them about over the years.
What you're missing is that most of us have been pissed off all along that you are driving something so wasteful and not paying for the pollution and damage you cause. You are effectively throwing away gasoline, and you don't have to deal with the consequences other than price. Damn right I think it's funny that someone who was such an asshole for so long loses all that money -- maybe he'll learn a lesson. Incidentally, the stupid truck you bought was only marketed to you because it wastes fuel and to make carmakers money. The whole need for this type of vehicles on public streets was manufactured. Congratulations -- you fell for it!
Every weekend? I'm not arguing with you, I just heard an interesting point on NPR's CarTalk I believe it was. Someone called in asking about a pickup and the guys asked him what he was going to use it for. He said, well, commuting mostly, but I want to haul things sometimes. The guys asked, why not buy a commuter vehicle and occasionally rent a truck? It wouldn't come out cheaper for everyone (and if the Ranger does get as good mileage as a similar small car, then it doesn't really matter), but for most I'd suspect it would, especially when you can rent a pickup at Home Depot for very cheap for a little while.
If you can't overtake a truck with a sedan, you're driving the wrong sedan. :)
It's that missing $50k that's the problem.
There are a lot of things that now provide us with choices galore and I'm not so sure we're better off. For example, supermarkets vs. regular markets, where you buy not necessarily what you want, but what you're willing to have that is in season or that this particular vendor was able to get. Shopping at older supermarkets in older cities and dollar stores and farmers markets is a different experience... you don't necessarily go to the store looking for what you need for a recipe, you get home seeing what it is you can make with what you got. I think it's probably true that a lot of our energy usage comes from too much choice -- we can get things from places very far away in mass quantities that you can't grow near your house, and you can get things year round that only grow near you in certain seasons.
It makes me really think about trying to live a little bit more within natural means. If using less energy and having to be very careful about every watt and not being able to get everything I want whenever I want it helps me have a better respect for what went into it, so be it. Though, it won't make much of a dent until plenty of people do the same (and they don't -- we've only just started to realize "wait, gas is getting expensive," which is pretty early in the process).
You still haven't demonstrated any machine they've sold that was no longer supported 2 years later. Were sun4m machines selling 5 years ago, shortly before Solaris 10 came out?
I think that was a bad move, considering some of us run things like BOINC and now have to suffer through months of this. I didn't even REALLY notice something was wrong until I read this and said to myself "that's what all this dragging at random times is!"
Sorry to say that that is not true. Major upgrades often work, but it seems like after one or two of them, you're not going to have as good a copy as those who did a fresh install have. I am speaking from experience here -- some of your personally modified config files and kludges for your new hardware, etc., etc. will come back to bite you someday.
Or, if you know what you're talking about, aptitude install firefox2.
I had all sorts of problems after having upgraded from Edgy to Feisty to Gutsy to Hardy BETA. A fresh install made it act completely differently.
That said, that sucks. It should just work, and I can't really understand why that should be so hard.
Umm, it's the same thing -- sorry to disappoint.
Whoosh.
Umm, Solaris 10 still runs on our E450's that became available in 1997. That's more than 10 years of support. They haven't been made since 2002 and they even have hardware support until toward the end of this year. I'm sure that modern Solaris will continue to run on them for another 5 years after that.
I don't work for Sun, I just want you to get real.
I'm not sure it will run on Sparc 10, will it? Is that even sun4u?
Jeez, I'm sorry about that! For every starter kit I ordered, I seemed to get about 10 of them (for awhile, I would get a box of Solaris 10 on Fridays). I guess we had our wires crossed there for a bit. ;)
How are the Niagara-based CPU's not being sold with fervor?
I think it depends upon why you're using the OS you're using. I personally don't need comfort in an OS I'm running for work -- I wouldn't be good at what I do if knowing where commands are located was considered "hard" for me. If knowing how to administrate more than one type of *NIX is too hard, I think these folks might want to find another line of work. While this has died down some, I had to be familiar with IRIX, HP-UX, Linux and Solaris and work between them all day long. Yeah, sometimes I'll type the wrong command, but really, no big deal.
I would probably choose Solaris over Linux on Sun hardware. FMA, ZFS and ldoms (depending on the machine of course) are pretty cool.