Well, the parent post to mine was talking about what if the car was on the road, in front of a big 18-wheeler, when the front sensors sensed danger and decided to brake? The semi will roll over you. Sure, it was the semi driver's fault, but you're paying for it. But with a system that can see what's going on behind the car, there's less chance of that happening. Well, maybe they can build a radar that can see how big the car behind it is, but to judge the car's value, the human brain is still the best.:)
Sounds like you need James Bond's BMW, the one with the Stinger misilles.
A trick I learnt to fend off tailgaters; you can just turn on your lights and then off quickly, because the taillight share the same housing as the brakelights, it should be enough to cause panic to a guy moving at a high speed behind you. The brake light mounted on the back window doesn't light up, of course, but I guess seeing the main "brake" lights light up is enough of a distraction so that said jackass wouldn't be worrying why your third brake light didn't light up.
Maybe the car should have a radar at the back as well, taking into account what will happen if it suddenly brakes. A predictive system should probably turn on the brake lights (although no actual braking is taking place) just in case it really needs to break soon right after.
In the long run this is a good thing, because along with the criminals come ever more people willing to work even harder to make their lives better, now that they know a better life does exist.
Jesus Fucking Christ, it's a sorry thing that some people equate money and wealth to a better life, and that working hard to earn more will make them happier. It's that capitalist brainwashing that make your believe that busting your ass for a car, home theater, computer, big house, etc makes you *happier*. They're only things, which you'll probably find boring after 1 month of owning!
Mein Gott, I think the people of Bhutan were happy enough without television (yes that's the ignorance is bliss part), but I guess now they see stars on TV who have loads of money and nice cars and their problems are easily solved and they're always happy at the end of the 1/2, 1 or 2 hour show, and the Bhutanese think, wow money does make you happier!
Fuck Rupert Murdoch, this sort of shit makes we wanna go Fight Club.
Yeah, it scares me that I (like you) know what the control characters do... I guess I got that from reading the Jargon File from start to end. If I'm not mistaken CRLF was inherited from old IBM teletypes?
Apple's biggest competitors are probably the likes of Dell, Gateway and HP/Compaq, which do make "IBM compatibles", but IBM doesn't get a cent from them. Aah the good old days, when x86 clones were called "IBM compatibles", they strove to achieve "100% compatibility" too, whatever that meant. How is IBM doing in the desktop/notebook business anyway? Their notebooks are pretty nice, but as other people have mentioned, the right hand at IBM doesn't know what the other hands are doing.
Anyway, as I was going to bed last night, I got to wonder about the CRLF (DOS) vs CR (Unix) vs LF (Macs) incompatibility. Now that Apple has switched to Unix, anyone know if they have switched to using CR as their new newline symbol?
Great, so I bring home a girl and the house starts yelling "Penis too small? Buy our penis-enlarger now! Original from Sweden!" and "Hot teens wait for you! Call us now!"..
I hope they come up with a better protocol than SMTP in the future..
They sell Lindows computers online. Argh, conflict, they sell Linux-based system, that's good, but they're attacking NetFlix, that's bad. But Lindows is dumb and Michael Robertson is just like Gates (exploits others' technology to make money), so it's down with Wal-Mart! Down with Wal-Mart!
I found I learnt a lot by doing Javascript with HTML. HTML forms make a GUI that's fast and easy to write, less confusing than MS's MFC anyway. You learn a bit about OO as well, considering elements within an HTML page can be accessed as objects. Drawbacks, I think most variables in JS have global scope, and there's not a lot of multimedia (images/sounds) hacks that can be done, if at all.
I find RealOne's GUI really efficient and effective (no GUI where the window is a form of an 8-legged animal and the play button is on the animal's ass, and the whole thing is reconfigurable because it has an XML parser built-in crap!), it even tries to explain that some settings mean the player will send back information to Real's server. The annoying features (a media browser which is basically IE DLL embedded) can be turned off, and video playback speed has improved from RealPlayer 8. One thing they forgot though, is to deactivate the screensaver while video is playing.
Reminds me of the scene from the South Park movie, where the holographic war map crashes, and the General summons Bill Gates. Here an MP3 of their conversation.
Its speed maybe? Well, a different environment does take a while to get used to, but Opera displays most sites exactly like IE does, so there isn't a need to complain, after all, Slashdot still comes up in english whether you see it in Opera, Mozilla or IE.
that when he wants to develop an in-house program that isn't going to be distributed anywhere else, the GPL doesn't require him to release his sources to the public, so he didn't need to be really concerned about the licensing issue.
Hey, the laser beam could hit a nuclear reactor, how would you like that? Of course the probability of that would be a lot smaller, and I don't think no government would have laser-shooting satellites targetting its own country anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, the parent post to mine was talking about what if the car was on the road, in front of a big 18-wheeler, when the front sensors sensed danger and decided to brake? The semi will roll over you. Sure, it was the semi driver's fault, but you're paying for it. But with a system that can see what's going on behind the car, there's less chance of that happening. Well, maybe they can build a radar that can see how big the car behind it is, but to judge the car's value, the human brain is still the best. :)
Sounds like you need James Bond's BMW, the one with the Stinger misilles.
A trick I learnt to fend off tailgaters; you can just turn on your lights and then off quickly, because the taillight share the same housing as the brakelights, it should be enough to cause panic to a guy moving at a high speed behind you. The brake light mounted on the back window doesn't light up, of course, but I guess seeing the main "brake" lights light up is enough of a distraction so that said jackass wouldn't be worrying why your third brake light didn't light up.
Maybe the car should have a radar at the back as well, taking into account what will happen if it suddenly brakes. A predictive system should probably turn on the brake lights (although no actual braking is taking place) just in case it really needs to break soon right after.
You must be feeling pretty smug, being able to see those "cool" videos, and then teasing us about it.. bastard. ;)
In the long run this is a good thing, because along with the criminals come ever more people willing to work even harder to make their lives better, now that they know a better life does exist.
Jesus Fucking Christ, it's a sorry thing that some people equate money and wealth to a better life, and that working hard to earn more will make them happier. It's that capitalist brainwashing that make your believe that busting your ass for a car, home theater, computer, big house, etc makes you *happier*. They're only things, which you'll probably find boring after 1 month of owning!
Mein Gott, I think the people of Bhutan were happy enough without television (yes that's the ignorance is bliss part), but I guess now they see stars on TV who have loads of money and nice cars and their problems are easily solved and they're always happy at the end of the 1/2, 1 or 2 hour show, and the Bhutanese think, wow money does make you happier!
Fuck Rupert Murdoch, this sort of shit makes we wanna go Fight Club.
Yeah, it scares me that I (like you) know what the control characters do... I guess I got that from reading the Jargon File from start to end. If I'm not mistaken CRLF was inherited from old IBM teletypes?
But hey, we're talking the future here, where I hope I do have my own house, and dates.. :P
Then again I wouldn't install Clippy-The-Email-Reader at my house.
Apple's biggest competitors are probably the likes of Dell, Gateway and HP/Compaq, which do make "IBM compatibles", but IBM doesn't get a cent from them. Aah the good old days, when x86 clones were called "IBM compatibles", they strove to achieve "100% compatibility" too, whatever that meant. How is IBM doing in the desktop/notebook business anyway? Their notebooks are pretty nice, but as other people have mentioned, the right hand at IBM doesn't know what the other hands are doing.
Anyway, as I was going to bed last night, I got to wonder about the CRLF (DOS) vs CR (Unix) vs LF (Macs) incompatibility. Now that Apple has switched to Unix, anyone know if they have switched to using CR as their new newline symbol?
Great, so I bring home a girl and the house starts yelling "Penis too small? Buy our penis-enlarger now! Original from Sweden!" and "Hot teens wait for you! Call us now!"..
I hope they come up with a better protocol than SMTP in the future..
L UR BS R BLNG 2 US!
Doesn't OOo do RTFs, and Word is able to read that? But unfortunately RTFs don't do tables (IIRC). How bout HTML?
They sell Lindows computers online. Argh, conflict, they sell Linux-based system, that's good, but they're attacking NetFlix, that's bad. But Lindows is dumb and Michael Robertson is just like Gates (exploits others' technology to make money), so it's down with Wal-Mart! Down with Wal-Mart!
I found I learnt a lot by doing Javascript with HTML. HTML forms make a GUI that's fast and easy to write, less confusing than MS's MFC anyway. You learn a bit about OO as well, considering elements within an HTML page can be accessed as objects. Drawbacks, I think most variables in JS have global scope, and there's not a lot of multimedia (images/sounds) hacks that can be done, if at all.
So is making a mirror of the site okay? Or do you mean "copying any material for display"? Uh oh, I just downloaded it, and Opera is displaying it..
die by the lawsuit.
When will this happen to the RIAA?
And considering he got the monitor from eBay as broken, it probably hadn't been plugged in for a long time.
I find RealOne's GUI really efficient and effective (no GUI where the window is a form of an 8-legged animal and the play button is on the animal's ass, and the whole thing is reconfigurable because it has an XML parser built-in crap!), it even tries to explain that some settings mean the player will send back information to Real's server. The annoying features (a media browser which is basically IE DLL embedded) can be turned off, and video playback speed has improved from RealPlayer 8. One thing they forgot though, is to deactivate the screensaver while video is playing.
"Oh, they killed more people than we did, we're not that bad, we killed less people, see we're good people, less dead people, see?".
Does it have support for Java applets, or do you need to install the Java plugin to have applets? :P
Reminds me of the scene from the South Park movie, where the holographic war map crashes, and the General summons Bill Gates. Here an MP3 of their conversation.
Its speed maybe? Well, a different environment does take a while to get used to, but Opera displays most sites exactly like IE does, so there isn't a need to complain, after all, Slashdot still comes up in english whether you see it in Opera, Mozilla or IE.
that when he wants to develop an in-house program that isn't going to be distributed anywhere else, the GPL doesn't require him to release his sources to the public, so he didn't need to be really concerned about the licensing issue.
that should be plus easy to learn!
But, you forgot about the typewriters. Back to square one for you!
Hey, the laser beam could hit a nuclear reactor, how would you like that? Of course the probability of that would be a lot smaller, and I don't think no government would have laser-shooting satellites targetting its own country anyway.