As a car driver, I can't see that it's my responsibility to anticipate that a cyclist will pull out to pass a parked car without looking to see if I'm approaching at 18 mph faster than him - it's your life, and your safety. It's your responsibility to look out for cyclists seeing as your car is much bigger and more lethal than a bike. Not that I'm saying the cyclist doesn't have this responsiblity too - far from it. Everyone who shares the road presents their own hazards to other road users, therefore they have an obligation to look out for each other.
Oh, and if you kick my car, I'll kick you:P Really? Even if you're in a queue and can't move, and can't abandon your car to follow on foot?;)
I seem to be one of the few drivers I know that actually have no problem with cyclists at all. Just give them some space and some consideration, it's all good. Yes, there are a few arrogant ones with chips on their shoulders, but with the shitty attitude that car drivers have towards them, when they in fact automatically have the moral high ground on environmental reasons, I don't blame them.
What does irritate me is cyclists who have little consideration for pedestrians - riding on the pavement, breezing through pedestrian crossings on red lights, etc.
See, that's how to troll. It's all about subtlety.
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Xen pretty much just sucks. KVM is a bit (but not much) better. Really the only thing that works right now is VMware ESX.... Xen's hypervisor and paravirtualisation technology are sound. The thing that lets it down is the infuriatingly temperamental pile of shell scripts that hold it all together. In my experience, if you don't get everything "just so", be prepared for a lot of cryptic and misleading error messages and verbose but unhelpful log files.
Can it sniff out nearby objects/people, ingest them, shred/melt them down to create new raw materials for buildling copies of itself? Thought not. We're safe... for now...
Besides, when someone at a party asks you what you do for a living, which is the cooler answer:
[_] "I'm a software architect."
[_] "I'm a software engineer"
[X] "I'm a writer."
Heh. I usually say "software engineer" - doesn't usually go down too badly, responses vary greatly - I'd say about 40% impressed, 40% indifferent, and 30% disgusted. Inventing something "cool" is all very well if you've got the mental agility to field the inevitable follow-up questions without blowing your cover.
Generally though, I find the subject of what people do for a living to be something that should be touched on briefly and then moved swiftly on from... a room full of people saying "so what do you do?" is a sure sign of a lousy party.
I have a short "personal statement" at the end of my CV, just a couple of hundred words saying what I'm about and what I'm looking for, work-wise. It's a good catch-all section where you can put in anything that doesn't fit neatly under any of the other headings.
I also have a concise bullet-pointed list of "key skills" near the top, before the work history, where I list all the things I'm good at and the technologies I'm familiar with. It immediately gives the person who's going through a huge pile of CVs an at-a-glance picture, which should really catch their attention. That's my theory, anyway.
Can anyone explain why this photo appears to show Phoenix descending on its parachute into a huge crater, when everything else is saying that it landed on a flat plain, including the photos from Phoenix's camera?
Surely if Phoenix was in a crater, it wouldn't be able to see the horizon, just the sides of the crater?
The BBC haven't been afraid of using the c-word. Panorama did an investigation into CoS, and got hours of interview footage which they ended up not being able to use - all because the journalist doing the interview said the phrase "some say that Scientology is a cult" during one of his questions. If you can get hold of a copy of the program, it's well worth a look - search for "panorama scientology" on any of the torrent sites.
Why do people want Blu-ray in their 360? Just to watch Blu-ray videos?
Certainly no game manufacturer would do a Blu-ray game since it could not be guaranteed to be in every machine. So what is the point?
If you want to watch Blu-ray videos then you could use some other method, why hook it to a 360? Probably to attract those people that are undecided about whether to go for the PS3 or the 360, but quite like the idea of being able to play Blu-Ray discs on the PS3 without having to buy two devices.
If there is any problem facing Debian (and it's debatable whether or not there is any at all), it's not a lack of commercial backing, but rather the management structure within the project. In the past it has been prone to a fair amount of in-fighting, where there are lots of conflicting opinions about how things should be done, and things don't move forward until they're resolved. This is partly why the move from Sarge to Etch took as long as it did. Sometimes, someone needs to take charge and make a decision, whether or not everyone is happy with it. Unfortunately, when everyone is working for you for free, it's not smart to piss too many of them off too often.
That said, Debian is still my weapon of choice for stable, reliable servers. Unless you have very specific needs that can only be catered for by other OSes, you can't beat it.
I can't recall the comedian, but someone once noted "Why do vegetarians need to make their food (tofu pups, veggieburgers) look like meat they simply wont eat? You don't see monks keeping blow-up dolls just hanging around." It may be a joke but there's a valid point. "Meat substitute" products are a way to make it easier to eat a vegetarian diet while still sticking to well-known recipes and meals that people know and love. You don't need meat substitutes to be a vegetarian, there are plenty of perfectly good, original, meat-free recipes that are far more interesting than boring, bland tofu, and there are plenty of vegetarians that find the idea of meat substitutes quite distasteful...
There's plenty of proof. They're called fossils. Maybe you should actually study evolutionary biology for a bit - your statement is quite a naive one and shows up your ignorance of the subject.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
--Charles Darwin
He's definitely got a point, and it's something that's readily apparent if you look at people, civilisations, businesses... this is why the idea of "conservatism" seems completely counter-intuitive to me.
The client library is GPL. There's nothing to stop anyone writing their own client library under another license, but nobody's done that yet (as far as I know).
So y'know, take it easy on the creationists. They may not understand how science works, but when faced with an article like this, can you really blame them? We live in an age where we have more understanding of the world around us than we ever have before, and all this knowledge is freely available to anyone and everyone. There's no excuse for creationism and the fact that to this day it's still so popular is frankly an embarassment, and shows that modern science education is a dismal failure. If anything we need to go less easy on them.
Little known fact: the Irish drink the most tea per capita in the world, a full 20% more per capita than the British. I heard it was actually Iraq. I did get this from the back of a pack of rolling papers, so not exactly the most reputable source imaginable, but this site seems to back it up...
Everyone is always quick to bash RoR but I have honestly never heard a well crafted explanation as to why it's an inferior language / framework. I personally use Java, but that's only because I was raised on it.
So I ask: Why the bashing? Generally because Rails seems to attract a lot of zealotry, and wild claims of it being the best at everything imaginable and how everything else sucks compared to it.
It's a very nifty framework and it definitely has its place. But it's not the be-all-and-end-all of web development that some people claim it is. I see the bashing as mostly a backlash against the zealots.
Same here. I saw this coming a mile off, and I refuse to register mine, although I usually top up with a debit card out of sheer laziness. Anyone that has a modicum of intelligence and is up to no good will use unregistered cards topped up with cash only, and probably only use them once.
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I seem to be one of the few drivers I know that actually have no problem with cyclists at all. Just give them some space and some consideration, it's all good. Yes, there are a few arrogant ones with chips on their shoulders, but with the shitty attitude that car drivers have towards them, when they in fact automatically have the moral high ground on environmental reasons, I don't blame them.
What does irritate me is cyclists who have little consideration for pedestrians - riding on the pavement, breezing through pedestrian crossings on red lights, etc.
See, that's how to troll. It's all about subtlety.
Can it sniff out nearby objects/people, ingest them, shred/melt them down to create new raw materials for buildling copies of itself? Thought not. We're safe... for now...
Besides, when someone at a party asks you what you do for a living, which is the cooler answer:
- [_] "I'm a software architect."
- [_] "I'm a software engineer"
- [X] "I'm a writer."
Heh. I usually say "software engineer" - doesn't usually go down too badly, responses vary greatly - I'd say about 40% impressed, 40% indifferent, and 30% disgusted. Inventing something "cool" is all very well if you've got the mental agility to field the inevitable follow-up questions without blowing your cover.Generally though, I find the subject of what people do for a living to be something that should be touched on briefly and then moved swiftly on from... a room full of people saying "so what do you do?" is a sure sign of a lousy party.
I have a short "personal statement" at the end of my CV, just a couple of hundred words saying what I'm about and what I'm looking for, work-wise. It's a good catch-all section where you can put in anything that doesn't fit neatly under any of the other headings.
I also have a concise bullet-pointed list of "key skills" near the top, before the work history, where I list all the things I'm good at and the technologies I'm familiar with. It immediately gives the person who's going through a huge pile of CVs an at-a-glance picture, which should really catch their attention. That's my theory, anyway.
Can anyone explain why this photo appears to show Phoenix descending on its parachute into a huge crater, when everything else is saying that it landed on a flat plain, including the photos from Phoenix's camera?
Surely if Phoenix was in a crater, it wouldn't be able to see the horizon, just the sides of the crater?
The BBC haven't been afraid of using the c-word. Panorama did an investigation into CoS, and got hours of interview footage which they ended up not being able to use - all because the journalist doing the interview said the phrase "some say that Scientology is a cult" during one of his questions. If you can get hold of a copy of the program, it's well worth a look - search for "panorama scientology" on any of the torrent sites.
Most likely yes. By the way, it's not "Euro dollar", it's just "Euro".
So you're the guy that's been DOSing me!
Stop it.
Certainly no game manufacturer would do a Blu-ray game since it could not be guaranteed to be in every machine. So what is the point?
If you want to watch Blu-ray videos then you could use some other method, why hook it to a 360? Probably to attract those people that are undecided about whether to go for the PS3 or the 360, but quite like the idea of being able to play Blu-Ray discs on the PS3 without having to buy two devices.
If there is any problem facing Debian (and it's debatable whether or not there is any at all), it's not a lack of commercial backing, but rather the management structure within the project. In the past it has been prone to a fair amount of in-fighting, where there are lots of conflicting opinions about how things should be done, and things don't move forward until they're resolved. This is partly why the move from Sarge to Etch took as long as it did. Sometimes, someone needs to take charge and make a decision, whether or not everyone is happy with it. Unfortunately, when everyone is working for you for free, it's not smart to piss too many of them off too often.
That said, Debian is still my weapon of choice for stable, reliable servers. Unless you have very specific needs that can only be catered for by other OSes, you can't beat it.
Reminds me of this article...
There's plenty of proof. They're called fossils. Maybe you should actually study evolutionary biology for a bit - your statement is quite a naive one and shows up your ignorance of the subject.
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
He's definitely got a point, and it's something that's readily apparent if you look at people, civilisations, businesses... this is why the idea of "conservatism" seems completely counter-intuitive to me.--Charles Darwin
OK, -1 Flamebait, I probably deserve it
I had a similar problem putting my turbine and solar panels up. Eventually I had to put them up in the loft next to the TV antenna.
Are you sure? The Catalyst 6000 series does Layer 3 but is still classed as a switch.
The client library is GPL. There's nothing to stop anyone writing their own client library under another license, but nobody's done that yet (as far as I know).
A neutron walks into a bar.
Neutron: One beer please
Barman hands neutron a beer
Neutron: How much is that?
Barman: To you? No charge!
So I ask: Why the bashing? Generally because Rails seems to attract a lot of zealotry, and wild claims of it being the best at everything imaginable and how everything else sucks compared to it.
It's a very nifty framework and it definitely has its place. But it's not the be-all-and-end-all of web development that some people claim it is. I see the bashing as mostly a backlash against the zealots.
Same here. I saw this coming a mile off, and I refuse to register mine, although I usually top up with a debit card out of sheer laziness. Anyone that has a modicum of intelligence and is up to no good will use unregistered cards topped up with cash only, and probably only use them once.