If I remember correctly, even Google Maps says that the main-road route is only a few minutes faster. It's not that many fewer miles, it's maybe 10 miles to go the longer route.
Also, the problem is that the country road probably *is* a slight bit faster, IF you don't get stuck behind some slow-ass. Around here, though, it's extremely common to get behind people who just love to drive 10mph *under* the speed limit, or more. So if you get stuck behind one of them, suddenly the shorter 1-lane route is now significantly longer because you can go 10-20 miles behind them without an opportunity to pass.
But as I said before, my HERE-based car nav system doesn't do this, it tells me to stick to the main roads.
I'm not a Christian, but Paul was not Jesus, and didn't even live at the same time. Just because some other people took Paul's writings, shoved them into a book together with 4 other guy's books who wrote down orally-passed-down stories about some guy named Jesus, and called it "the Holy Bible" does not mean that Jesus endorsed this Paul guy who lived decades later.
Now, I'll agree that everything in the Bible is part and parcel of "Christianity", because modern Christians believe it so, but the OP never said anything about Christians, he specifically opined about what *Jesus* would think, not what Paul or any other Christian, ancient or modern, would think.
ISIS holds territory, and defends it militarily. They collect taxes, and they provide services to the populations under their control. They have a government, they pass laws, and they enforce those laws with police. They are a state in every sense of the term. You don't have to be recognized by other nations to be a valid state, you just have to be able to hold and defend your territory and have a government, which they do.
And Americans are awfully quiet when christian politicians harass transsexuals with...
Oh bullshit. Anyone who isn't a Christian decries this crap all the time. And then, in response, the Christian conservatives all bitch and complain about how Christians are being "persecuted" for wanting to "exercise their freedom of religion". It's even an issue on the GOP side with the Presidential election.
Did you somehow sleep through the media flap when that fat, ugly woman in Kentucky on her 4th marriage refused to sign marriage licenses for homosexuals?
Muslim extremists, Christian extremists - they're just two sides of the same coin. Fortunately, the majority in both camps don't go along with this crap
That's incorrect. Pew research has conducted polls showing that majorities of regular, everyday Muslims believe in policies like those.
The thing we have going for us here in "Christian countries" (the West) is that 1) much of Christianity has gotten away from the Medieval, violent stuff thanks to the Enlightenment (unfortunately, it seems that parts of America are slow to catch up; all the craziest and most extreme Christians are here in the US), and 2) the native-born occupants of Western nations are (thankfully) becoming less and less religious, and more secular. However, the same is not true in Islamic countries: everyone there is Islamic, there is no growing agnostic or atheist movement, and Islam never went through the Enlightenment.
I'm tellin' you, FOSS is just going to hell these days. It used to be fun and exciting back in the late 90s and early 2000s, and reached a peak around 2010 I think, but these days it's just going downhill.
I've tried newer versions of it. It still sucks. It's completely minimalistic, there's barely any configuration settings, and it's buggy as hell. I hate it. The only reason I use it at all is because that's what my work machine comes with, and there's no easy way to install KDE (it's CentOS7).
Honestly, I feel like Gnome is just like Windows Metro: a UI that I hate that people are trying to force on me. On the Windows side, it's MS trying to force their shitty UI on me through their market dominance and the fact that it's pretty hard to get any kind of job that doesn't require you to use Windows in some fashion (even if it's just email and Office). On the Linux side, it's a cabal of distro makers that have all, for some weird unknown reason, decided to push Gnome as the "preferred" UI. For Red Hat, it makes sense because it's their ugly baby (though again, it only makes some sense because it's a shitty UI and doesn't help adoption, esp. in the corporate/government sector that they work in), but this doesn't explain why everyone else including Debian loves it so much. At least Ubuntu tried to do something different, but it's no better.
Not me. It'll claim that the windy little country road is faster, but it's definitely not. I guess they never thought that, on a single-lane little windy road, you might get stuck behind some slow-ass, whereas on a two-lane road you can pass them. Most nav systems I've heard of will prioritize larger streets over tiny residential roads for this very reason (and because the speed limit is lower on them of course).
For this particular route, if you look at it on a map, the windy country road definitely looks shorter (hypotenuse of a triangle, sorta), but it's not shorter to drive on, and a lot more aggravating.
Any decent GPS system allows you to select "avoid toll roads".
However, I haven't seen any give you the option in real-time. For instance, Google Maps currently will suggest alternate routes as you drive, showing you how much extra time they'll take: "3 minutes slower", etc. However, what it doesn't do, and should, is suggest alternates and show how much more or less it'll cost you. You'd think this would be a pretty obvious feature to offer, given they already have it showing alternate routes.
Yeah, "good" taxi drivers eschew GPS and instead tell you how well they know the local area, and then drive you around in circles so they can get a bigger fare.
It depends. The GPS is only as good as the data it's been given. So I've found that for long trips, it's generally good, but it can make some really bad calls sometimes. For instance, I frequently drive about an hour north from my house to DC. My car's GPS (using HERE maps) gives me a completely sensible route, which I follow. Google Maps, however, wants me to take an early left turn onto some windy little single-lane country road, probably because it might technically be 100 feet shorter in absolute distance that way. But it's a much slower route: I tried it once or twice and got stuck behind very slow drivers. I never went that way again because the slightly longer route is along main roads and doesn't have this problem.
Also, very close to your destination, GPS can make errors. I'm thinking of one restaurant I used to frequent, where Google Maps would tell me to turn before the restaurant and go an extra half-mile in a big circle, all because it didn't think I could take a left turn into the restaurant's parking lot, when in fact there's a turn lane there for that very purpose.
Basically, with GPS, you need to zoom out and look at the route it's chosen for you, and make sure it isn't doing anything really stupid. And if you're not familiar with an area, you need to be extra cautious because it'll happily guide you onto small residential streets or other stupid routes. It also helps to have multiple GPS units running at once. My car's system works pretty well and of course is well-integrated, but it doesn't have traffic updates or show alternate routes in real-time (it's based on stored maps). Google Maps does those things, but more frequently makes poor choices for routes (tiny country roads like I mentioned above). Having two different systems in parallel can help you cross check them against each other. The bottom line: never fully trust a GPS system.
I really should install Waze and try that out to see how it compares to Google Maps.
Cellphones must be a godsend to 911 in this regard. I wonder how many people died over the years because they couldn't tell the ambulance where to come?
So, in a sense, we're working against natural selection now by allowing people this dumb to live when in the recent past they would have died?
Well official Nvidia drivers are available for Linux and are commonly-used, so that's not a strike against Linux.
What *is* a "strike" against Linux is that you can't get official drivers from various small peripherals. Instead, you have to use community-written drivers for things like USB-to-serial converters, rather than having to load a 100MB "driver package" like you do on Windows which is full of drivers, various crapware applications you don't want, spyware, etc.
The GPL has no such demand or requirement, that's a myth.
The GPL requires that you make the source code available to anyone you distribute binaries to. If you're making a Linux distro for use in your government, that means you need to make the source code available to your government, which is you. As long as you don't give it to anyone else, there's no problem. There's no reason a government would hand out copies of a government-use-only OS to anyone outside that government (or they could make a special stripped-down version for them if they wanted). Besides, not everything in a Linux distro is GPL.
AFAIC, the only reason every government isn't using their own internal Linux distro is either corruption or incompetence. Windows is well-known to be loaded with spyware now; you'd have to be a complete loon to think that Windows isn't spying on you, considering it's publicly acknowledged that they do. So why would you run your government systems, with critical or classified information, on such an OS, instead of one which you have full control over? That's aside from the issue of how much money you'd save by not sending it to a foreign country, and instead employing your own people to maintain your governmentOS.
What about the lack of productivity due to Windows? I remember wasting at least a whole day at a job a couple years ago trying to get a large network printer (Ricoh I think) to work with Windows, because of various driver and security problems. The corporate IT department had to come out several times to try to get it working, and finally ended up doing some weird backwards method. In Linux, getting a network printer to work is easy.
It's not like they need to do a lot of work: Linux and its distros already exist, along with open-source versions of most of the software you list there. All a government has to do is adopt it, and maybe do a few customizations.
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Then you're either a liar or an idiot, because those are the socialist countries that Bernie admires and wants to emulate.
Linux has never had vi included in any distro to my knowledge. It's always been vim, and/or some other vi clone like elvis. vi has only ever been included with actual UNIXes like Solaris. The copyright to vi was owned by AT&T so it was illegal to include it with Linux, or even with *BSD. This did change in 2002 according to Wikipedia and some guy resurrected it as "Traditional vi", and added a lot of features to it, but no one actually uses that.
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And Rafael Cruz is not the one on the ticket - his son is.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Has Ted ever publicly disavowed his father's theology? If not, then we can safely assumes he agrees with it.
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What? That's completely ridiculous. Cruz is a Dominionist; he wants to establish a theocracy of sorts.
Of the current candidates, Bernie's the closest thing to social libertarianism you're going to get.
Indeed, DSG is mainly a VW group thing. However, it is probably more common than actual automatics these days.
Huh? No, it isn't, not by a long shot. On VW-group cars, it certainly is, but not on everyone else's cars. AFAIK, the only non-VW carmaker even using them is Ford, and even there I think it's only their smaller models like the Focus.
According to Wikipedia, only the Ford models Ford Focus, Ford C-Max, Ford S-Max, Ford Galaxy, Ford Mondeo, Ford Fiesta, Ford EcoSport have them, since 2008. The main page for DSG only even talks about VW cars.
Sorry, I realized I got a little testy there after I clicked "submit" and would have preferred to tone that down a bit. Fucking Slashdot: I've been bitching for *years* that they should allow editing of posts. Even if it was within a 5-minute window, that'd be a huge help while preventing people from radically changing posts after they've been replied to. (Or, just lock them down as soon as they get replied to.) Maybe these new owners will *finally* fix this.
Anyway, I stand by my recommendation for the FX-888d for most use. It doesn't have all the fancy features of the others (though the 30-minute inactivity timer sounds really nice; I've left mine on overnight accidentally a few times), but as long as you don't need to change tip temperature regularly it works great. I've soldered thousands of joints with mine. But I do admit the UI is pretty lame.
Huh? That Kaiser, Willys, AMC, etc. stuff is all ancient history. Patents only last 20 years. Maybe if they've come up with some new patentable stuff since 1996, sure, but anything older than that is public domain now. And I have a hard time believing anything really all that new and valuable has been done with 4WD since 1996. AWD is a different story; there's been a lot of advances there, but that hasn't been with Jeep, that's been with the Japanese and Euros, especially Subaru. Mazda's even got some new on-demand AWD system in their CUVs which they claim doesn't even have a fuel economy impact, aside from the added weight of the system.
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If I remember correctly, even Google Maps says that the main-road route is only a few minutes faster. It's not that many fewer miles, it's maybe 10 miles to go the longer route.
Also, the problem is that the country road probably *is* a slight bit faster, IF you don't get stuck behind some slow-ass. Around here, though, it's extremely common to get behind people who just love to drive 10mph *under* the speed limit, or more. So if you get stuck behind one of them, suddenly the shorter 1-lane route is now significantly longer because you can go 10-20 miles behind them without an opportunity to pass.
But as I said before, my HERE-based car nav system doesn't do this, it tells me to stick to the main roads.
By the way, try sudo yum groupinstall 'KDE Desktop' if that's what you want.
No can do, I don't have internet access on that system.
I'm not a Christian, but Paul was not Jesus, and didn't even live at the same time. Just because some other people took Paul's writings, shoved them into a book together with 4 other guy's books who wrote down orally-passed-down stories about some guy named Jesus, and called it "the Holy Bible" does not mean that Jesus endorsed this Paul guy who lived decades later.
Now, I'll agree that everything in the Bible is part and parcel of "Christianity", because modern Christians believe it so, but the OP never said anything about Christians, he specifically opined about what *Jesus* would think, not what Paul or any other Christian, ancient or modern, would think.
You're a complete idiot.
ISIS holds territory, and defends it militarily. They collect taxes, and they provide services to the populations under their control. They have a government, they pass laws, and they enforce those laws with police. They are a state in every sense of the term. You don't have to be recognized by other nations to be a valid state, you just have to be able to hold and defend your territory and have a government, which they do.
And Americans are awfully quiet when christian politicians harass transsexuals with...
Oh bullshit. Anyone who isn't a Christian decries this crap all the time. And then, in response, the Christian conservatives all bitch and complain about how Christians are being "persecuted" for wanting to "exercise their freedom of religion". It's even an issue on the GOP side with the Presidential election.
Did you somehow sleep through the media flap when that fat, ugly woman in Kentucky on her 4th marriage refused to sign marriage licenses for homosexuals?
Muslim extremists, Christian extremists - they're just two sides of the same coin. Fortunately, the majority in both camps don't go along with this crap
That's incorrect. Pew research has conducted polls showing that majorities of regular, everyday Muslims believe in policies like those.
The thing we have going for us here in "Christian countries" (the West) is that 1) much of Christianity has gotten away from the Medieval, violent stuff thanks to the Enlightenment (unfortunately, it seems that parts of America are slow to catch up; all the craziest and most extreme Christians are here in the US), and 2) the native-born occupants of Western nations are (thankfully) becoming less and less religious, and more secular. However, the same is not true in Islamic countries: everyone there is Islamic, there is no growing agnostic or atheist movement, and Islam never went through the Enlightenment.
I'm tellin' you, FOSS is just going to hell these days. It used to be fun and exciting back in the late 90s and early 2000s, and reached a peak around 2010 I think, but these days it's just going downhill.
I've tried newer versions of it. It still sucks. It's completely minimalistic, there's barely any configuration settings, and it's buggy as hell. I hate it. The only reason I use it at all is because that's what my work machine comes with, and there's no easy way to install KDE (it's CentOS7).
Honestly, I feel like Gnome is just like Windows Metro: a UI that I hate that people are trying to force on me. On the Windows side, it's MS trying to force their shitty UI on me through their market dominance and the fact that it's pretty hard to get any kind of job that doesn't require you to use Windows in some fashion (even if it's just email and Office). On the Linux side, it's a cabal of distro makers that have all, for some weird unknown reason, decided to push Gnome as the "preferred" UI. For Red Hat, it makes sense because it's their ugly baby (though again, it only makes some sense because it's a shitty UI and doesn't help adoption, esp. in the corporate/government sector that they work in), but this doesn't explain why everyone else including Debian loves it so much. At least Ubuntu tried to do something different, but it's no better.
Not me. It'll claim that the windy little country road is faster, but it's definitely not. I guess they never thought that, on a single-lane little windy road, you might get stuck behind some slow-ass, whereas on a two-lane road you can pass them. Most nav systems I've heard of will prioritize larger streets over tiny residential roads for this very reason (and because the speed limit is lower on them of course).
For this particular route, if you look at it on a map, the windy country road definitely looks shorter (hypotenuse of a triangle, sorta), but it's not shorter to drive on, and a lot more aggravating.
You just agreed with him.
Any decent GPS system allows you to select "avoid toll roads".
However, I haven't seen any give you the option in real-time. For instance, Google Maps currently will suggest alternate routes as you drive, showing you how much extra time they'll take: "3 minutes slower", etc. However, what it doesn't do, and should, is suggest alternates and show how much more or less it'll cost you. You'd think this would be a pretty obvious feature to offer, given they already have it showing alternate routes.
Yeah, "good" taxi drivers eschew GPS and instead tell you how well they know the local area, and then drive you around in circles so they can get a bigger fare.
Fuck that, I'll take an Uber instead.
It depends. The GPS is only as good as the data it's been given. So I've found that for long trips, it's generally good, but it can make some really bad calls sometimes. For instance, I frequently drive about an hour north from my house to DC. My car's GPS (using HERE maps) gives me a completely sensible route, which I follow. Google Maps, however, wants me to take an early left turn onto some windy little single-lane country road, probably because it might technically be 100 feet shorter in absolute distance that way. But it's a much slower route: I tried it once or twice and got stuck behind very slow drivers. I never went that way again because the slightly longer route is along main roads and doesn't have this problem.
Also, very close to your destination, GPS can make errors. I'm thinking of one restaurant I used to frequent, where Google Maps would tell me to turn before the restaurant and go an extra half-mile in a big circle, all because it didn't think I could take a left turn into the restaurant's parking lot, when in fact there's a turn lane there for that very purpose.
Basically, with GPS, you need to zoom out and look at the route it's chosen for you, and make sure it isn't doing anything really stupid. And if you're not familiar with an area, you need to be extra cautious because it'll happily guide you onto small residential streets or other stupid routes. It also helps to have multiple GPS units running at once. My car's system works pretty well and of course is well-integrated, but it doesn't have traffic updates or show alternate routes in real-time (it's based on stored maps). Google Maps does those things, but more frequently makes poor choices for routes (tiny country roads like I mentioned above). Having two different systems in parallel can help you cross check them against each other. The bottom line: never fully trust a GPS system.
I really should install Waze and try that out to see how it compares to Google Maps.
Cellphones must be a godsend to 911 in this regard. I wonder how many people died over the years because they couldn't tell the ambulance where to come?
So, in a sense, we're working against natural selection now by allowing people this dumb to live when in the recent past they would have died?
Well official Nvidia drivers are available for Linux and are commonly-used, so that's not a strike against Linux.
What *is* a "strike" against Linux is that you can't get official drivers from various small peripherals. Instead, you have to use community-written drivers for things like USB-to-serial converters, rather than having to load a 100MB "driver package" like you do on Windows which is full of drivers, various crapware applications you don't want, spyware, etc.
The GPL has no such demand or requirement, that's a myth.
The GPL requires that you make the source code available to anyone you distribute binaries to. If you're making a Linux distro for use in your government, that means you need to make the source code available to your government, which is you. As long as you don't give it to anyone else, there's no problem. There's no reason a government would hand out copies of a government-use-only OS to anyone outside that government (or they could make a special stripped-down version for them if they wanted). Besides, not everything in a Linux distro is GPL.
AFAIC, the only reason every government isn't using their own internal Linux distro is either corruption or incompetence. Windows is well-known to be loaded with spyware now; you'd have to be a complete loon to think that Windows isn't spying on you, considering it's publicly acknowledged that they do. So why would you run your government systems, with critical or classified information, on such an OS, instead of one which you have full control over? That's aside from the issue of how much money you'd save by not sending it to a foreign country, and instead employing your own people to maintain your governmentOS.
What about the lack of productivity due to Windows? I remember wasting at least a whole day at a job a couple years ago trying to get a large network printer (Ricoh I think) to work with Windows, because of various driver and security problems. The corporate IT department had to come out several times to try to get it working, and finally ended up doing some weird backwards method. In Linux, getting a network printer to work is easy.
It's not like they need to do a lot of work: Linux and its distros already exist, along with open-source versions of most of the software you list there. All a government has to do is adopt it, and maybe do a few customizations.
Then you're either a liar or an idiot, because those are the socialist countries that Bernie admires and wants to emulate.
nothing but Vi (no Vi, not Vim)
Linux has never had vi included in any distro to my knowledge. It's always been vim, and/or some other vi clone like elvis. vi has only ever been included with actual UNIXes like Solaris. The copyright to vi was owned by AT&T so it was illegal to include it with Linux, or even with *BSD. This did change in 2002 according to Wikipedia and some guy resurrected it as "Traditional vi", and added a lot of features to it, but no one actually uses that.
And Rafael Cruz is not the one on the ticket - his son is.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Has Ted ever publicly disavowed his father's theology? If not, then we can safely assumes he agrees with it.
What? That's completely ridiculous. Cruz is a Dominionist; he wants to establish a theocracy of sorts.
Of the current candidates, Bernie's the closest thing to social libertarianism you're going to get.
Indeed, DSG is mainly a VW group thing. However, it is probably more common than actual automatics these days.
Huh? No, it isn't, not by a long shot. On VW-group cars, it certainly is, but not on everyone else's cars. AFAIK, the only non-VW carmaker even using them is Ford, and even there I think it's only their smaller models like the Focus.
According to Wikipedia, only the Ford models Ford Focus, Ford C-Max, Ford S-Max, Ford Galaxy, Ford Mondeo, Ford Fiesta, Ford EcoSport have them, since 2008. The main page for DSG only even talks about VW cars.
Sorry, I realized I got a little testy there after I clicked "submit" and would have preferred to tone that down a bit. Fucking Slashdot: I've been bitching for *years* that they should allow editing of posts. Even if it was within a 5-minute window, that'd be a huge help while preventing people from radically changing posts after they've been replied to. (Or, just lock them down as soon as they get replied to.) Maybe these new owners will *finally* fix this.
Anyway, I stand by my recommendation for the FX-888d for most use. It doesn't have all the fancy features of the others (though the 30-minute inactivity timer sounds really nice; I've left mine on overnight accidentally a few times), but as long as you don't need to change tip temperature regularly it works great. I've soldered thousands of joints with mine. But I do admit the UI is pretty lame.
Maybe I'll upgrade to that 951 later.
Huh? That Kaiser, Willys, AMC, etc. stuff is all ancient history. Patents only last 20 years. Maybe if they've come up with some new patentable stuff since 1996, sure, but anything older than that is public domain now. And I have a hard time believing anything really all that new and valuable has been done with 4WD since 1996. AWD is a different story; there's been a lot of advances there, but that hasn't been with Jeep, that's been with the Japanese and Euros, especially Subaru. Mazda's even got some new on-demand AWD system in their CUVs which they claim doesn't even have a fuel economy impact, aside from the added weight of the system.