Yeah, it's great that Apple's tight lock and key has given it 90% marketshare over the last decade or two while Microsoft caters to a 10-15% niche because of their crappy mess... oh, wait...
Apple will argue that since it's a UK company, they should be using.co.uk and not.com. Apple's billions of dollars... err... "Justice Points" will surely help in any legal battle.
The rural areas here were settled centuries ago and still are beautiful... in fact, most of the ongoing damage is from acid rain originating with cities and factories in the mid-west drifting up this way with the weather patterns.
Depends on your job. My parents opted to commute 20 miles to a small city because it's cheaper than living close to the city - especially considering how much better the rural schools are. Not to mention the whole family lives around here (my father's side moved up here from Long Island when he was young because there was better opportunity).
Nah, black people aren't the problem. It's mostly the democrats in the cities we try to stay away from (that blacks make a significant part of their ranks is a coincidence) because they're the ones passing laws and regulations to "preserve" the wild they never go near without realizing that they're actually hurting it.
Most highways that are 55mph are designed for higher speeds and even those that aren't can be adjusted over the course of regularly scheduled maintenance. Any idiot should also be able to figure out my example of 100 mph where its currently 55mph is for areas with consistent cruising speeds... nothing there says its for stop-and-go areas (which would become more rare with all-driverless traffic) or the initial acceleration. Smart cars could also compensate for tight curves by slowing down ahead of time.
Nah, once you get a job that's worthwhile (and a decent boss too) you're paid for what you do, not just being another warm body that shows up on time and leaves on time. As it is, I can usually leave early/come in late if all of my work is done and there's nothing readily available for me to help with. I haven't touched a timeclock since before college.
Nearest bus stop is about 2 miles away (not too bad, just very hilly)... but what do I do with my bike once I get there? Don't think it would fit on the bus too well. And what about the six months a year that it tends to be very cold and snowy? Or the other six months of the year where it rains almost as much as not? And then there's the fact taking the bus would be two hours each way instead of 30 minutes. I'd have to get up at 4:30 instead of 6 and wouldn't get home until at least 7pm. Hardly ideal.
The cities are full, we like trees, air, fresh water, fishing and hunting, jobs were more readily available in less urban areas, closer to family and friends, better schools in the rural areas... and much more.
Driverless cars can safely drive much closer together and go faster. Suddenly instead of a given stretch being able to handle 500 cars at a time at 60mph, it can now handle 1,200 cars (with much less space between them) at 100 mph. Driverless cars may also improve carpooling and other similar techniques for reducing the necessary number of cars.
The most navigable cities I've driven through have a layout where most of the city is a typical grid (often North/South/East/West) but have a few major avenues going at a 45 degree angle (NE/SW and NW/SE) just to help cut across the grid. Most of the cities here also have one expressway looping around the outside of the city and another one cutting through the heart of it - between them, you can get fairly close to your destination pretty fast.
The only public transportation that even comes close to all of the advantages of an automated car is taxis... individual vehicles that go from Point A to Point B. Buses, subways, etc all fail hard when you start talking about suburbs, rural areas, etc. Automated cars would be able to handle all of these and more.
Which is how drivers should be driving anyway... it's just one more example of "computers are programmed better than human drivers are trained". I bet computers would remember their turn signal more often too.
A good point... a fleet of driverless cars could pick up a person, take them to work, then go ferry around other people when your own car would just be sitting in a lot unused. Of course, snowy weather might might it impractical as a driverless car now has twice the distance to go (first to pick you up, then to where you want to go) and thus twice the chance of getting stuck, going off the road, etc. Hertz and Enterprise would be all over this.
A good point. When playing Sim City, "fun" designs are nice for small towns (only practical at all in SimCity 4) or very small neighborhoods but they completely lack scalability. I don't think the roads add a personal touch half so much as the buildings, businesses and homes alongside them.
If I could use my laptop during my commute to/from work, I could shave an hour off my day as the first and last half hour are typically paperwork/desk work anyway. Suddenly I can sleep in 30 minutes later and be home in time to make a much nicer dinner (yeah, I'm my gf's bitch around the house).
America has many well designed cities. And many poorly designed cities. However, if all cars were converted to driverless, then the increased efficiency may be such that you could have far fewer roads because a road could handle that many more cars without becoming congested - especially with some sort of inter-vehicle communication protocol. You could have cars traveling 100 mph almost bumper to bumper on highways that are currently at 55mph. This would allow you to have more roads designated cars-only to avoid many of the pitfalls of mixed traffic. The next step will likely be driverless cars with the option to switch to manual (think Demolition Man) for areas that are not driverless-friendly.
In 2006, Exchange 2003 was the current variant (2007 was released at the end of that year). I know, I know - the college really should have taken a time machine into the future rather than requiring OWA in spite of more than 85% of the students have college-issued laptops with Outlook installed on them (and were on the domain to boot). I'm talking about when I was in college, not now. Thus the use of past tense and pointing it occurred before Chrome was ever released.
If I had problems with the Linux 1.x kernel at a time when it was the most current and we were being forced to use it in spite of a relatively simple alternative, then yes, I would bitch.
It's gotten a lot better, especially with Exchange 2010 but this was Exchange 2003 when IE6 was still king, Firefox/Opera/Safari were barely supported by anything and Chrome didn't exist.
Our college had Exchange and we were expected to use OWA, so if you use anything other than IE say goodbye to most features (assuming it was useable at all).
No. Cats are obviously evil genius masterminds who have plans stretching from the dawn of time until the re-awakening of the Great Old Ones. No instinct - just pure, unadulterated malevolence.
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It seems Avira is taking a page out of McAfee's playbook.
But it's about 6 hours from NYC. We ship all of the birth defects down there to blend in.
Yeah, it's great that Apple's tight lock and key has given it 90% marketshare over the last decade or two while Microsoft caters to a 10-15% niche because of their crappy mess... oh, wait...
Apple will argue that since it's a UK company, they should be using .co.uk and not .com. Apple's billions of dollars... err... "Justice Points" will surely help in any legal battle.
Mostly because the taxi driver is main cost of taking a taxi, same as most businesses - paying people is almost always the single largest expense.
The rural areas here were settled centuries ago and still are beautiful... in fact, most of the ongoing damage is from acid rain originating with cities and factories in the mid-west drifting up this way with the weather patterns.
Depends on your job. My parents opted to commute 20 miles to a small city because it's cheaper than living close to the city - especially considering how much better the rural schools are. Not to mention the whole family lives around here (my father's side moved up here from Long Island when he was young because there was better opportunity).
Nah, black people aren't the problem. It's mostly the democrats in the cities we try to stay away from (that blacks make a significant part of their ranks is a coincidence) because they're the ones passing laws and regulations to "preserve" the wild they never go near without realizing that they're actually hurting it.
Most highways that are 55mph are designed for higher speeds and even those that aren't can be adjusted over the course of regularly scheduled maintenance. Any idiot should also be able to figure out my example of 100 mph where its currently 55mph is for areas with consistent cruising speeds... nothing there says its for stop-and-go areas (which would become more rare with all-driverless traffic) or the initial acceleration. Smart cars could also compensate for tight curves by slowing down ahead of time.
Nah, once you get a job that's worthwhile (and a decent boss too) you're paid for what you do, not just being another warm body that shows up on time and leaves on time. As it is, I can usually leave early/come in late if all of my work is done and there's nothing readily available for me to help with. I haven't touched a timeclock since before college.
Nearest bus stop is about 2 miles away (not too bad, just very hilly)... but what do I do with my bike once I get there? Don't think it would fit on the bus too well. And what about the six months a year that it tends to be very cold and snowy? Or the other six months of the year where it rains almost as much as not? And then there's the fact taking the bus would be two hours each way instead of 30 minutes. I'd have to get up at 4:30 instead of 6 and wouldn't get home until at least 7pm. Hardly ideal.
The cities are full, we like trees, air, fresh water, fishing and hunting, jobs were more readily available in less urban areas, closer to family and friends, better schools in the rural areas... and much more.
But who would drive me to the bus stop?
Driverless cars can safely drive much closer together and go faster. Suddenly instead of a given stretch being able to handle 500 cars at a time at 60mph, it can now handle 1,200 cars (with much less space between them) at 100 mph. Driverless cars may also improve carpooling and other similar techniques for reducing the necessary number of cars.
The most navigable cities I've driven through have a layout where most of the city is a typical grid (often North/South/East/West) but have a few major avenues going at a 45 degree angle (NE/SW and NW/SE) just to help cut across the grid. Most of the cities here also have one expressway looping around the outside of the city and another one cutting through the heart of it - between them, you can get fairly close to your destination pretty fast.
The only public transportation that even comes close to all of the advantages of an automated car is taxis... individual vehicles that go from Point A to Point B. Buses, subways, etc all fail hard when you start talking about suburbs, rural areas, etc. Automated cars would be able to handle all of these and more.
Which is how drivers should be driving anyway... it's just one more example of "computers are programmed better than human drivers are trained". I bet computers would remember their turn signal more often too.
A good point... a fleet of driverless cars could pick up a person, take them to work, then go ferry around other people when your own car would just be sitting in a lot unused. Of course, snowy weather might might it impractical as a driverless car now has twice the distance to go (first to pick you up, then to where you want to go) and thus twice the chance of getting stuck, going off the road, etc. Hertz and Enterprise would be all over this.
A good point. When playing Sim City, "fun" designs are nice for small towns (only practical at all in SimCity 4) or very small neighborhoods but they completely lack scalability. I don't think the roads add a personal touch half so much as the buildings, businesses and homes alongside them.
If I could use my laptop during my commute to/from work, I could shave an hour off my day as the first and last half hour are typically paperwork/desk work anyway. Suddenly I can sleep in 30 minutes later and be home in time to make a much nicer dinner (yeah, I'm my gf's bitch around the house).
America has many well designed cities. And many poorly designed cities. However, if all cars were converted to driverless, then the increased efficiency may be such that you could have far fewer roads because a road could handle that many more cars without becoming congested - especially with some sort of inter-vehicle communication protocol. You could have cars traveling 100 mph almost bumper to bumper on highways that are currently at 55mph. This would allow you to have more roads designated cars-only to avoid many of the pitfalls of mixed traffic. The next step will likely be driverless cars with the option to switch to manual (think Demolition Man) for areas that are not driverless-friendly.
But which time zone?
In 2006, Exchange 2003 was the current variant (2007 was released at the end of that year). I know, I know - the college really should have taken a time machine into the future rather than requiring OWA in spite of more than 85% of the students have college-issued laptops with Outlook installed on them (and were on the domain to boot). I'm talking about when I was in college, not now. Thus the use of past tense and pointing it occurred before Chrome was ever released.
If I had problems with the Linux 1.x kernel at a time when it was the most current and we were being forced to use it in spite of a relatively simple alternative, then yes, I would bitch.
It's gotten a lot better, especially with Exchange 2010 but this was Exchange 2003 when IE6 was still king, Firefox/Opera/Safari were barely supported by anything and Chrome didn't exist.
Ok, so it's people blocking off an entire street (the bandwidth for that co-lo) to protest a single customer (Virgin).
Our college had Exchange and we were expected to use OWA, so if you use anything other than IE say goodbye to most features (assuming it was useable at all).
No. Cats are obviously evil genius masterminds who have plans stretching from the dawn of time until the re-awakening of the Great Old Ones. No instinct - just pure, unadulterated malevolence.