Well, a resume is a difficult thing to bring down to 1 page if...
You've done lots of short-term contracting positions (i.e. over the course of 5 years you've done 10-15 contracts). I fall into this category. This is especially difficult if every contract was for different types of work in different industries with different systems and different accomplishments.
Even if I shrink it down to an 8 point font (which I've tried), it's still about 4 pages long. I would prefer if I could just have one page with the usual stuff, and then one page with systems knowledge/technical skills. I could summarize it all up as, "Did all sorts of technical contracting work for 5 years", but I don't think that sounds very impressive or interesting.
Here's some clipboard tips for you from a KDE/Opera fiend...
Turn off the URL handler for the clibpoard manager (click on the little clipboard icon in your system tray next to your clock and then click on preferences. Delete the file handler for http://*).
Setup a hotkey for the clipboard manager and configure it to pop up at your mouse location (under the general tab in preferences).
Don't bother clicking on the URL in Opera. just have the URL in your clipboard and middle-click your browser window (this will tell Opera--or any other Linux browser for that matter--to go to that URL).
Once you learn that A) you can middle-click URLs into browsers and B) how to use Klipper (the KDE clipboard manager) your pasting operations will be a dream come true!
As a matter of fact, now that I'm used to the Klipper, I wouldn't want to use anything else! I tried Gnome, but without Klipper, I was severely frustrated. When I boot into Windows to play games, I find myself missing Klipper!
I've emailed the Klipper developers and based upon my suggestions I believe KDE 3.1 will have the ability to store permanent items in the Klipper menu (for instance, you could keep your signiture in there for whenever/wherever you wanted to paste it--or any frequently used text string).
I setup Klipper to remember the last 20 clipboard items... So even if I accidentally highlight something, I can just control-shift-s and swap my clipboard for the text string I had previously. Once you try it, you'll never go back!
It's always cool to hear that these designers are still kicking.
You crack me up! So I guess old game developers never die. At least, if they had the foresight to up up down down left right left right A B select start at the beginning of their careers.
Yes, it's nice to hear that they're still kicking, but I'd like to see that they can punch too. Maybe still be able to pull of that Hadu-Ken energy burst combo.
Ummm... At what point did I say that the regular rate would be under $1/meg? If you actually READ WHAT I WROTE you would see that I was referring to overrage. Which in your example is $0.001/meg. Far from a heavy cost.
Also, ANALOG data rates on old celular networks were 14.4, however, if you were on Sprint's or Voicestream's data services, you could get 19.2 (which really translated to something like 16k). At least, that's what they advertised. Lookup GPRS on Google.
You sir, are not a geek. Rather, a presumptuous wannabe.
From reading the first few comments it seems that just about everyone is confused about this 3G launch. This *IS* 3G folks. 2.5G was GPRS which provides data services, but is slow as shit (it can be faster if you implement more channels, but no providers really support more than 3 at a time).
Also, as far as plans go, there are several. All of which include a few megabytes of transfer allowed per month (except for the cheapest which is 1 meg I think). The prices for overage are NOT $1 or $2/meg it's cheaper than that (though, I can't remember off the top of my head what it is).
What kind of speeds/latency can one expect from this network? About 127 kilobits/sec and ~400ms. While that isn't anywhere near your cable/DSL speeds, it's lightyears ahead of the 19.2 kilobits/sec that was previously the norm for cellular networks.
This is NOT meant to be a broadband replacement. It's meant to take cell phones to the next level of service. Using computers with them is just an afterthought.
Sun hardware isn't as great as you make it out to be...
I work at a failing Tier 1 ISP that will probably be declaring bankruptcy soon. We have (had) about 4500 Sun boxen (Servers, workstations, SunRays, etc) ranging from old Ultra-1s to E-10k. Most of which is E-3500 and E-4500. I call Sun at least once a week because some peice of hardware failed in some machine somewhere. Suffice to say, it seems like EVERY new Sun machine has at least 1 CPU problem (read: ecache error) within 1 month of operation.
Most of the time it's the processor, but a lot of the time it's the power supply or the memory.
We also have a "Gold" contract with Sun that entitles us to a 4 hour "fix it" window of support. When I get Sun on the phone they're courteous, knowledgable, and generally trustworthy. However, as soon as one of their techs shows up on site, any number of idiotic things can happen. Whether it be powering off the wrong machine, cabling RAIDs to the wrong machines, or just generally forgetting to put parts back into the boxes.
So from my point of view, all that crap about Sun hardware and service being great just doesn't add up. I'd much rather have a fleet of Dells running Linux than one E-4500. Even if one of the Dell's fails, at least the others are there to pick up the slack.
Also a thing to note that people don't usually take into consideration: The more processors a machine has, the more likely it is to fail. The more processors you have, the more chances you have for a CPU panic.
Today, the US Government passed a landmark bill that allows for life inprisonment for attempted murder through a computer. "Anyone can just sit down at their computer, push a button, and POOF! Instant erasure of the worst kind." says Attourney General John Ashcroft, "Not to mention most hackers can destroy the world economy from their parents basement."
Senetor Hollings also commented, "I believe this new legislation will act as a deterrant for would-be hackers trying to kill people with pirated music." he continues, "The reason why there aren't more people with broadband Internet connections is precisely because of things like this. How can the movie industry adopt a medium that can kill people with the push of a button? No, no one wants broadband if they know there's hackers out there that can kill them with a few mouse clicks."
A representative from the Bush Administration says that the new law will cut down on the rampant child pornography rings on the Internet by allowing Federal investigators to intercept any email containing questionable material and forward it directly to the President.
President Bush commented, "Al Queda is encrypting messages in porn sites all over the Internet. I plan to PERSONALLY put an end to this terrorist network."
At the very least, there should be limits to how much information an ISP can give a foreign government about an account holder.
I've been pushing for this for a long time now (yes, I've written my representatives). It has less to do with governments, but anyone in general.
Who can call up and ISP and ask for information on one of their customers? ANYONE. Who decides whether or not to give them the information? THE ISP.
If the government REALLY wants to push laws about the Internet, this should be one of their top priorities. They could make a great anti-spam law and at the same time protect the privacy of their citizens in the same bill!
A warrant should be required for information from an ISP, period. The same should go for accusations of abuse, copyright violation, etc. There's no excuse for terminating an account just because it was ACCUSED of violating some law, somewhere. Due process needs to take place. The current setup of various coporations shutting down websites works because, to the ISP (to avoid getting into a legal battle), you're guilty until proven innocent.
I was going to mention this, but you beat me to it. The type of 3D that I see *IS* realative to movement. The easiest way to explain this to someone is to have them cover/close one eye and look at a photograph. Now keep both eyes open and look at the photograph again. It doesn't change your perception of the photograph because it's just a flat 2D image.
However, if you were to cover one eye and look at a 3D object, you get a totally different sense of that object--despite the fact that you're not viewing it with retinal disparity. This is because of the movement of your head/body (no matter how still you think you can sit, you're still moving enough to give your eyes an image)
Ahh, "cross your eyes". Therein lies the problem. You see, there are millions of people all over the world that don't see perfectly out of both eyes. I am one of these people (legally blind in one eye). To us, steroescopic images like the ones you describe will never be more than a blurred picture or static on the screen.
Also, the angle of view on stereoscopic images is usually very limited. Technologies such as this get around that problem by projecting the image onto a curved surface which provides for more of a "true" 3d-look.
The real benefit of technolgy such as this is that we're one step closer to the 3D "JAWS" shark that Marty McFly encounters in Back To The Future 2 =)
LOL! There's a difference between the original poster and I. You see, I have no qualms about my alias linking with my real identity. Riskable happens to be my 'public' alias. Also, I'm male and well over the 'age of consent' (which the original poster is not) so I don't think meeting strangers 'over the net' or 'seeing sexually explicit material online' would be too much of a problem.
Where do you get off that I'm a poor shell scripter?!? The only publicly available script that I've written that I could find is here
It was very simple and to the point. Besides, that was TWO YEARS ago. hehe, I've done a lot more scripting/improved since then.
My info is MUCH easier to find than the original poster (just do a whois query on my domain name).
Thomas T Tuttle, (617) 928-016X, XX Lowell Ave, Newton, MA 02460 Thomas R Tuttle, (617) 923-923X, XX Bailey Rd, Watertown, MA 02472
An X was added to protect privacy (just a little). I don't believe this is you, since you were probably born in 1988 and probably don't have your own phone line.
Some of your hobbies: Cybiko, reading books (such as "The Giver": taken from here), HAM Radio, Lego Mindstorms.
Member of the Boston Ham Radio Club You're probably still using AOL as your primary net connection (you're still young, probably paid for by parents). You're also probably frustrated by this. You have a TI-85 (or similar) calculator that you like to fiddle with (and want to play games on)
All this in just a couple quick searches. Maybe you SHOULD be paranoid. I haven't even looked at your slashdot info (just google'd a bit).
There's a huge point your missing: Copyright doesn't just protect big media companies, it also protects the little guy. I can even demonstrate this in slashdot terms...
Say copyright is thrown out the window and all intellectual property becomes a giant free-for-all. Let's assume that "Bob Smith" wants to publish his works on the net. Under your thinking, because he's the originator, and the first to get it online, he'll make "a ton of money anyway".
For weeks, no one buys Bob's book. Then some guy claims on Slashdot that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and everyone hits his site at once to purchase it (or just read it for free with advertisments--whatever). Only problem is that Bob's site is on a DSL line. Hence, the Slashdot effect (this happens in the real world to lots of products actually). Bob's site goes down and all the sudden his product is VERY scarce.
An enterprising person with deep pockets and a fast connection/beefy server suddenly starts mirroring Bob's work and charging their own fee for it. Suddenly everyone has a mirror of the writing and because there's no copyright, Bob has no recourse... And he's "lost" tons of money.
This same rule applies to big business trying to rip off the small guy and take his stuff national (or worldwide).
The more rights you take away from kids, the more they'll grow up to have no respect for authority. Think teenage crime is bad now? Wait until a few more laws like this pass.
What's more likely to end up with violence?
A) Telling a kid he has no right to do something everyone else is able to do freely.
Real runs hidden applications when Windows loads and only recently stopped its practice of asking me if I want to upgrade.
Actually, Windows Media Player spies on you too. It's just hidden within the operating system and there's no way to turn it off. This is an abuse of monopoly power because if Real had the same access M$ does, they'd have just as good spyware built-in.
I support a large number of Mac people, and they just aren't moving to OS X.
You see, that's just the problem Apple is dealing with here. People aren't adopting Mac OS X fast enough. In order for them to really kick butt they need to get Mac OS into the hands of more people (so more developers will create software, so more people will switch, etc--it's a vicious circle).
Besides, they're not telling people they can't use Mac OS 9 anymore, they're telling the developers. It's all part of the master plan... and it does more good than bad. So what's the problem?
Actually, crashing into a brick wall at 55 MHP will kill you. At 85, maybe there's a small chance your extra force will allow you to pass through the brick wall and live.
Either way, they'll both still kill you. Fortunately, the highway dept. has had the foresight to NOT install brick walls in the middle of our highways, so we have nothing to worry about--save for getting ticketted. Which can cause you to want to bang your head against a brick wall.
If you had actually read the report you would realize that these cameras DO NOT "make the streets safer". As a matter of fact, the statistics showed that red light cameras actually INCREASED the number of rear-end accidents by as much as 700+ percent in some areas (just about ALL intersections with cameras showed increases in rear-end accidents)!
Also, if they were truly intended to increase safety, they would be installed at the worst intersections (i.e. the ones with the most accidents), right? Well, they're not. Every one of these cameras is installed at intersections with the lowest yellow light times. It has nothing to do with safety. They are positioned in such a way as to maximize revenue.
If you start heading into an intersection with a yellow light and "miss the red" by one second or less (as over 75% of all 'violators' do), what, exactly, are you guilty of? Did you just make the roads unsafe? Imagine if you got fined $270 every time you were one second late for something, anything. That's what's happening to most of these people who get fined.
Also, a single photograph of your car in mid-intersection with a picture of a red light above it doesn't tell the whole story. The lights make absolutely no distinction of the rest of your driving behavior leading up to the incident. For instance, a drunk driver swerving all over the road, then running a red light will merely be fined for running the red light. What would happen if a cop was there instead? A DWI arrest.
Five screen resolutions:
640 by 480 pixels at 138 Hz
800 by 600 pixels at 112 Hz
1024 by 768 pixels at 89 Hz
1152 by 864 pixels at 80 Hz
1280 by 960 pixels at 72 Hz
The eMac has a 17 inch display. Who the hell is going to run that thing at 1280x960!?! I'm sure your eyes would be just fine running at the recommended resolution of 1024x768 @89 Hz.
The actual range of the human eye for refresh rate is somewhere around 60-72 Hz anyway. So even if you do run at that way-too-big-for-this-screen resolution, you're still at the top of the spectrum.
Unless you're some sort of X-mutated cyclopse with a high-refresh eye, you'll be fine.
Unfortunately, this is a flawed argument. The problem is that sick people are almost never satisfied with a moderate amount of whatever makes them sick.
Unfortunately, you have a flawed argument. The problem is that non-sick people are almost never satisfied with a moderate amount of whatever doesn't make them sick.
This is why we have so many chubby people in America and why tons of people amass libraries of music/warez they will probably never even get chance to listen to/use. Is there a limit to how much money you'd like to make in a year?
The point being is that people are hardly ever satisfied in general. It has nothing to do with your tastes.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, a resume is a difficult thing to bring down to 1 page if...
You've done lots of short-term contracting positions (i.e. over the course of 5 years you've done 10-15 contracts). I fall into this category. This is especially difficult if every contract was for different types of work in different industries with different systems and different accomplishments.
Even if I shrink it down to an 8 point font (which I've tried), it's still about 4 pages long. I would prefer if I could just have one page with the usual stuff, and then one page with systems knowledge/technical skills. I could summarize it all up as, "Did all sorts of technical contracting work for 5 years", but I don't think that sounds very impressive or interesting.
The obvious answer to that R&D is to ask Gene Hackman which he prefers.
He'll probably blow us all away and say something completely out of line. Like, "pico".
Here's some clipboard tips for you from a KDE/Opera fiend...
Turn off the URL handler for the clibpoard manager (click on the little clipboard icon in your system tray next to your clock and then click on preferences. Delete the file handler for http://*).
Setup a hotkey for the clipboard manager and configure it to pop up at your mouse location (under the general tab in preferences).
Don't bother clicking on the URL in Opera. just have the URL in your clipboard and middle-click your browser window (this will tell Opera--or any other Linux browser for that matter--to go to that URL).
Once you learn that A) you can middle-click URLs into browsers and B) how to use Klipper (the KDE clipboard manager) your pasting operations will be a dream come true!
As a matter of fact, now that I'm used to the Klipper, I wouldn't want to use anything else! I tried Gnome, but without Klipper, I was severely frustrated. When I boot into Windows to play games, I find myself missing Klipper!
I've emailed the Klipper developers and based upon my suggestions I believe KDE 3.1 will have the ability to store permanent items in the Klipper menu (for instance, you could keep your signiture in there for whenever/wherever you wanted to paste it--or any frequently used text string).
I setup Klipper to remember the last 20 clipboard items... So even if I accidentally highlight something, I can just control-shift-s and swap my clipboard for the text string I had previously. Once you try it, you'll never go back!
Oh! You're right! Damn, I guess old pen & paper RPG developers never die... They just whip out the 1D20 and reroll every once in a while.
It's always cool to hear that these designers are still kicking.
You crack me up! So I guess old game developers never die. At least, if they had the foresight to up up down down left right left right A B select start at the beginning of their careers.
Yes, it's nice to hear that they're still kicking, but I'd like to see that they can punch too. Maybe still be able to pull of that Hadu-Ken energy burst combo.
Ummm... At what point did I say that the regular rate would be under $1/meg? If you actually READ WHAT I WROTE you would see that I was referring to overrage. Which in your example is $0.001/meg. Far from a heavy cost.
Also, ANALOG data rates on old celular networks were 14.4, however, if you were on Sprint's or Voicestream's data services, you could get 19.2 (which really translated to something like 16k). At least, that's what they advertised. Lookup GPRS on Google.
You sir, are not a geek. Rather, a presumptuous wannabe.
From reading the first few comments it seems that just about everyone is confused about this 3G launch. This *IS* 3G folks. 2.5G was GPRS which provides data services, but is slow as shit (it can be faster if you implement more channels, but no providers really support more than 3 at a time).
Also, as far as plans go, there are several. All of which include a few megabytes of transfer allowed per month (except for the cheapest which is 1 meg I think). The prices for overage are NOT $1 or $2/meg it's cheaper than that (though, I can't remember off the top of my head what it is).
What kind of speeds/latency can one expect from this network? About 127 kilobits/sec and ~400ms. While that isn't anywhere near your cable/DSL speeds, it's lightyears ahead of the 19.2 kilobits/sec that was previously the norm for cellular networks.
This is NOT meant to be a broadband replacement. It's meant to take cell phones to the next level of service. Using computers with them is just an afterthought.
Sun hardware isn't as great as you make it out to be...
I work at a failing Tier 1 ISP that will probably be declaring bankruptcy soon. We have (had) about 4500 Sun boxen (Servers, workstations, SunRays, etc) ranging from old Ultra-1s to E-10k. Most of which is E-3500 and E-4500. I call Sun at least once a week because some peice of hardware failed in some machine somewhere. Suffice to say, it seems like EVERY new Sun machine has at least 1 CPU problem (read: ecache error) within 1 month of operation.
Most of the time it's the processor, but a lot of the time it's the power supply or the memory.
We also have a "Gold" contract with Sun that entitles us to a 4 hour "fix it" window of support. When I get Sun on the phone they're courteous, knowledgable, and generally trustworthy. However, as soon as one of their techs shows up on site, any number of idiotic things can happen. Whether it be powering off the wrong machine, cabling RAIDs to the wrong machines, or just generally forgetting to put parts back into the boxes.
So from my point of view, all that crap about Sun hardware and service being great just doesn't add up. I'd much rather have a fleet of Dells running Linux than one E-4500. Even if one of the Dell's fails, at least the others are there to pick up the slack.
Also a thing to note that people don't usually take into consideration: The more processors a machine has, the more likely it is to fail. The more processors you have, the more chances you have for a CPU panic.
Today, the US Government passed a landmark bill that allows for life inprisonment for attempted murder through a computer. "Anyone can just sit down at their computer, push a button, and POOF! Instant erasure of the worst kind." says Attourney General John Ashcroft, "Not to mention most hackers can destroy the world economy from their parents basement."
Senetor Hollings also commented, "I believe this new legislation will act as a deterrant for would-be hackers trying to kill people with pirated music." he continues, "The reason why there aren't more people with broadband Internet connections is precisely because of things like this. How can the movie industry adopt a medium that can kill people with the push of a button? No, no one wants broadband if they know there's hackers out there that can kill them with a few mouse clicks."
A representative from the Bush Administration says that the new law will cut down on the rampant child pornography rings on the Internet by allowing Federal investigators to intercept any email containing questionable material and forward it directly to the President.
President Bush commented, "Al Queda is encrypting messages in porn sites all over the Internet. I plan to PERSONALLY put an end to this terrorist network."
At the very least, there should be limits to how much information an ISP can give a foreign government about an account holder.
I've been pushing for this for a long time now (yes, I've written my representatives). It has less to do with governments, but anyone in general.
Who can call up and ISP and ask for information on one of their customers? ANYONE. Who decides whether or not to give them the information? THE ISP.
If the government REALLY wants to push laws about the Internet, this should be one of their top priorities. They could make a great anti-spam law and at the same time protect the privacy of their citizens in the same bill!
A warrant should be required for information from an ISP, period. The same should go for accusations of abuse, copyright violation, etc. There's no excuse for terminating an account just because it was ACCUSED of violating some law, somewhere. Due process needs to take place. The current setup of various coporations shutting down websites works because, to the ISP (to avoid getting into a legal battle), you're guilty until proven innocent.
This needs to change
I was going to mention this, but you beat me to it. The type of 3D that I see *IS* realative to movement. The easiest way to explain this to someone is to have them cover/close one eye and look at a photograph. Now keep both eyes open and look at the photograph again. It doesn't change your perception of the photograph because it's just a flat 2D image.
However, if you were to cover one eye and look at a 3D object, you get a totally different sense of that object--despite the fact that you're not viewing it with retinal disparity. This is because of the movement of your head/body (no matter how still you think you can sit, you're still moving enough to give your eyes an image)
Ahh, "cross your eyes". Therein lies the problem. You see, there are millions of people all over the world that don't see perfectly out of both eyes. I am one of these people (legally blind in one eye). To us, steroescopic images like the ones you describe will never be more than a blurred picture or static on the screen.
Also, the angle of view on stereoscopic images is usually very limited. Technologies such as this get around that problem by projecting the image onto a curved surface which provides for more of a "true" 3d-look.
The real benefit of technolgy such as this is that we're one step closer to the 3D "JAWS" shark that Marty McFly encounters in Back To The Future 2 =)
Google search of das megabyte:
Results 1 - 10 of about 39,000. Search took 0.12 seconds.
This could take a while.
LOL! There's a difference between the original poster and I. You see, I have no qualms about my alias linking with my real identity. Riskable happens to be my 'public' alias. Also, I'm male and well over the 'age of consent' (which the original poster is not) so I don't think meeting strangers 'over the net' or 'seeing sexually explicit material online' would be too much of a problem.
Where do you get off that I'm a poor shell scripter?!? The only publicly available script that I've written that I could find is here
It was very simple and to the point. Besides, that was TWO YEARS ago. hehe, I've done a lot more scripting/improved since then.
My info is MUCH easier to find than the original poster (just do a whois query on my domain name).
It's interesting that you post this because you're obviously not very paranoid AT ALL:
__Thomas Tuttle__
Email: ThomasTuttle@@@EarthLink.net
AIM: MooseGuy529
Yahoo: MooseGuy88
ICQ: 1484(space added to prevent spam)03856
Most (un)likely matches in Real Life(tm):
Thomas T Tuttle, (617) 928-016X, XX Lowell Ave, Newton, MA 02460
Thomas R Tuttle, (617) 923-923X, XX Bailey Rd, Watertown, MA 02472
An X was added to protect privacy (just a little). I don't believe this is you, since you were probably born in 1988 and probably don't have your own phone line.
Some of your hobbies: Cybiko, reading books (such as "The Giver": taken from here), HAM Radio, Lego Mindstorms.
Member of the Boston Ham Radio Club
You're probably still using AOL as your primary net connection (you're still young, probably paid for by parents). You're also probably frustrated by this.
You have a TI-85 (or similar) calculator that you like to fiddle with (and want to play games on)
All this in just a couple quick searches. Maybe you SHOULD be paranoid. I haven't even looked at your slashdot info (just google'd a bit).
There's a huge point your missing: Copyright doesn't just protect big media companies, it also protects the little guy. I can even demonstrate this in slashdot terms...
Say copyright is thrown out the window and all intellectual property becomes a giant free-for-all. Let's assume that "Bob Smith" wants to publish his works on the net. Under your thinking, because he's the originator, and the first to get it online, he'll make "a ton of money anyway".
For weeks, no one buys Bob's book. Then some guy claims on Slashdot that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and everyone hits his site at once to purchase it (or just read it for free with advertisments--whatever). Only problem is that Bob's site is on a DSL line. Hence, the Slashdot effect (this happens in the real world to lots of products actually). Bob's site goes down and all the sudden his product is VERY scarce.
An enterprising person with deep pockets and a fast connection/beefy server suddenly starts mirroring Bob's work and charging their own fee for it. Suddenly everyone has a mirror of the writing and because there's no copyright, Bob has no recourse... And he's "lost" tons of money.
This same rule applies to big business trying to rip off the small guy and take his stuff national (or worldwide).
The more rights you take away from kids, the more they'll grow up to have no respect for authority. Think teenage crime is bad now? Wait until a few more laws like this pass.
What's more likely to end up with violence?
A) Telling a kid he has no right to do something everyone else is able to do freely.
B) Letting a kid purchase GTA3.
YOU make the call
Real runs hidden applications when Windows loads and only recently stopped its practice of asking me if I want to upgrade.
Actually, Windows Media Player spies on you too. It's just hidden within the operating system and there's no way to turn it off. This is an abuse of monopoly power because if Real had the same access M$ does, they'd have just as good spyware built-in.
Here's an article with the details.
I support a large number of Mac people, and they just aren't moving to OS X.
You see, that's just the problem Apple is dealing with here. People aren't adopting Mac OS X fast enough. In order for them to really kick butt they need to get Mac OS into the hands of more people (so more developers will create software, so more people will switch, etc--it's a vicious circle).
Besides, they're not telling people they can't use Mac OS 9 anymore, they're telling the developers. It's all part of the master plan... and it does more good than bad. So what's the problem?
There's a better link with all sorts of box-office statistics here
I can't believe TItanic made that much!
Actually, crashing into a brick wall at 55 MHP will kill you. At 85, maybe there's a small chance your extra force will allow you to pass through the brick wall and live.
Either way, they'll both still kill you. Fortunately, the highway dept. has had the foresight to NOT install brick walls in the middle of our highways, so we have nothing to worry about--save for getting ticketted. Which can cause you to want to bang your head against a brick wall.
If you had actually read the report you would realize that these cameras DO NOT "make the streets safer". As a matter of fact, the statistics showed that red light cameras actually INCREASED the number of rear-end accidents by as much as 700+ percent in some areas (just about ALL intersections with cameras showed increases in rear-end accidents)!
Also, if they were truly intended to increase safety, they would be installed at the worst intersections (i.e. the ones with the most accidents), right? Well, they're not. Every one of these cameras is installed at intersections with the lowest yellow light times. It has nothing to do with safety. They are positioned in such a way as to maximize revenue.
If you start heading into an intersection with a yellow light and "miss the red" by one second or less (as over 75% of all 'violators' do), what, exactly, are you guilty of? Did you just make the roads unsafe? Imagine if you got fined $270 every time you were one second late for something, anything. That's what's happening to most of these people who get fined.
Also, a single photograph of your car in mid-intersection with a picture of a red light above it doesn't tell the whole story. The lights make absolutely no distinction of the rest of your driving behavior leading up to the incident. For instance, a drunk driver swerving all over the road, then running a red light will merely be fined for running the red light. What would happen if a cop was there instead? A DWI arrest.
Damn cyclopses!
Actually (from the Apple website)...
Five screen resolutions:
640 by 480 pixels at 138 Hz
800 by 600 pixels at 112 Hz
1024 by 768 pixels at 89 Hz
1152 by 864 pixels at 80 Hz
1280 by 960 pixels at 72 Hz
The eMac has a 17 inch display. Who the hell is going to run that thing at 1280x960!?! I'm sure your eyes would be just fine running at the recommended resolution of 1024x768 @89 Hz.
The actual range of the human eye for refresh rate is somewhere around 60-72 Hz anyway. So even if you do run at that way-too-big-for-this-screen resolution, you're still at the top of the spectrum.
Unless you're some sort of X-mutated cyclopse with a high-refresh eye, you'll be fine.
Unfortunately, this is a flawed argument. The problem is that sick people are almost never satisfied with a moderate amount of whatever makes them sick.
Unfortunately, you have a flawed argument. The problem is that non-sick people are almost never satisfied with a moderate amount of whatever doesn't make them sick.
This is why we have so many chubby people in America and why tons of people amass libraries of music/warez they will probably never even get chance to listen to/use. Is there a limit to how much money you'd like to make in a year?
The point being is that people are hardly ever satisfied in general. It has nothing to do with your tastes.