Mine failed a couple of years ago in my 1991 VW Jetta, causing the car to fail to start but not before the starter burned out. So, yes, I have, and with consequences. Tie that to the brakes? No way.
Brake by wire? Sounds horrid.
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The usual hydraulically controlled brakes are no longer prime; the brake pedal you push is like a mouse click to a computer.
So when the computer crashes, so do you? No thanks.
What?!? You don't have a corner grocery? Of course you don't, your city hasn't been redesigned yet.
It's because my city (San Francisco) wasn't redesigned in the first place by idiot zoning boards that demand only residences in the residential areas that I have not one but five corner groceries within two blocks of my home, and a nice supermarket just beyond.
I'll admit, I don't live in the suburbs, because to do so would probably lead me to throw myself under the nearest moving SUV.
I suspect the SFPD has slightly more important things on its mind than cracking down on Segway users. Buy one from Amazon and I bet you'll get one ticket per year.
Again, I must remind the reader that this is the first of its kind.
I've had my current bicycle since 1986. Price: $235 new. Total spent on repairs: probably $500. Yes, if I were physically unable to ride it (and if they guy were actually trying to sell me one), Segway might be interesting, but for me a bicycle is a much better choice.
It is his fault. He spent all his time hyping the thing on talk shows and lobbying for traffic laws to favor it, instead of actually selling it, or making it less expensive. According to the Wired article he didn't even hire a director of sales for quite a while! Appalling.
And the guy could have spent less money on lobbying every state in the union to change its traffic laws to accommodate the thing and instead focused on making it just a wee bit cheaper? Just a thought. Powell and Peralta sure didn't worry about legalizing skateboards on the streets of LA - they just sold 'em.
And (except for the horrid font smoothing) I love it. I agree that Jaguar is much better than what came before. The point is that if the content is good enough, people should and will pay for it.
It is an interesting viewpoint - more suggesting that MS adopt Apple's recent strategy than, say, GNOME's. It actually makes quite a lot of sense - witness even pro-OSS (or perhaps more accurately pro-UNIX) slashdot editors falling all over themselves in praise of Mac OS X.
Hell, Apple made people pay for a point release (Jaguar) - and Mac fans willingly do so. Perhaps the kind of stuff included there (e.g. the iLife suite, and OS X's stability) would be the sort of thing MS should try to offer in the next rev of XP, rather than a more subtly DRM-crippled Winamp competitor than nobody will use? Just a thought.
This hilarious webpage lists a very large number of truly awful baby names. Most notable is the new trend of intentionally misspelling names to make them unique. Horrid! If I ever suggest doing this to my kid, dear readers, please tie me up in duct tape and throw me in San Francisco Bay.
So if I win enough at the arcades on the Sega machines, I can win carefully wrapped packs of cigarettes that I can exchange for cash at the shady back window? Excellent!
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Maybe it's Palm that's dying. The author didn't even think of that (or much else).
Mine failed a couple of years ago in my 1991 VW Jetta, causing the car to fail to start but not before the starter burned out. So, yes, I have, and with consequences. Tie that to the brakes? No way.
So when the computer crashes, so do you? No thanks.
POS indeed!
It has the "Media Keys" feature, but you can do what everyone else does and ignore it.
Just like password protected Word files or ebooks? this will get cracked sooner than you can say "screenshot."
SBC promises to serve you after they get their next freebie from the taxpayers. Or maybe the next one. You know, new name, same great company!
Don't you feel just a tiny bit offended?
It's because my city (San Francisco) wasn't redesigned in the first place by idiot zoning boards that demand only residences in the residential areas that I have not one but five corner groceries within two blocks of my home, and a nice supermarket just beyond.
I'll admit, I don't live in the suburbs, because to do so would probably lead me to throw myself under the nearest moving SUV.
I suspect the SFPD has slightly more important things on its mind than cracking down on Segway users. Buy one from Amazon and I bet you'll get one ticket per year.
I've had my current bicycle since 1986. Price: $235 new. Total spent on repairs: probably $500. Yes, if I were physically unable to ride it (and if they guy were actually trying to sell me one), Segway might be interesting, but for me a bicycle is a much better choice.
It is his fault. He spent all his time hyping the thing on talk shows and lobbying for traffic laws to favor it, instead of actually selling it, or making it less expensive. According to the Wired article he didn't even hire a director of sales for quite a while! Appalling.
And the guy could have spent less money on lobbying every state in the union to change its traffic laws to accommodate the thing and instead focused on making it just a wee bit cheaper? Just a thought. Powell and Peralta sure didn't worry about legalizing skateboards on the streets of LA - they just sold 'em.
"Visual Basic Input Output System"
Or you were trolling. If so, nicely done.
I see you're new here.
Mac OS X works fine.
and have previously used other Mac versions dating back to MacInTax '97 or so. Haven't installed or run it however. Anyone have any problems with it?
There are tons of petitions on a wide array of subjects. The problem is that nobody pays any attention to them.
And (except for the horrid font smoothing) I love it. I agree that Jaguar is much better than what came before. The point is that if the content is good enough, people should and will pay for it.
Hell, Apple made people pay for a point release (Jaguar) - and Mac fans willingly do so. Perhaps the kind of stuff included there (e.g. the iLife suite, and OS X's stability) would be the sort of thing MS should try to offer in the next rev of XP, rather than a more subtly DRM-crippled Winamp competitor than nobody will use? Just a thought.
This hilarious webpage lists a very large number of truly awful baby names. Most notable is the new trend of intentionally misspelling names to make them unique. Horrid! If I ever suggest doing this to my kid, dear readers, please tie me up in duct tape and throw me in San Francisco Bay.
Better yet, if you have the budget, use iPods. Your users will thank you.
So if I win enough at the arcades on the Sega machines, I can win carefully wrapped packs of cigarettes that I can exchange for cash at the shady back window? Excellent!
Really, humor columns on slashdot should automatically mod all posts as redundant...