This is/. grasshopper. It's a wildcard, not self-censoring;) Although if you really took the long view, it's a wildcard that even includes self-censorship.
Actually, that's the exact minimum number of occurences you have to have for 95%. 19 times out of 20. It could be more, but not less.
Wow, that's an impressively subtle mathematical deduction you're demonstrating there;)
The original poster used "about" to qualify his figure of 95%. I even boldfaced that in my response. So, in fact, it could very well be less than 20 cases.
> So in your admission, at least 20 times you have almost hit a person or another car, and at least one of those times it was at high speed.
>> I can say from my own experience, as someone who regularly "speeds" that about 95% of the time that I have had a close call with a pedestrian or another car it has not involved speed
In the first place, "about 95%" does not mean that there were in fact 20 cases of which there was one exception.
Nor does "speeds" imply "high speed". A sufficient definition of speeding is driving higher than the posted speed limit. The original poster said he regularly speeds, or, drives higher than the posted speed limit. You're not entitled to infer that he regularly (or ever) drives at high speed.
i haven't gone back, but i did get stuck with a handful of new error messages after moving to 2.6 (debian sarge) that i haven't been able to track down yet:
warning can't open/etc/mtab mount: fstype devfs not supported by kernel
FATAL: Module ide_disk not found ata_piix not found sd_mod not found
umount: devfs: not mounted
annoying annoying annoying. doubly so since they don't appear to get logged.
Think about how cheap a national healthcare system would be (cheaper than HMOs), coupled with a national network of homeless shelters, from which the state could draw workers for public projects -- keeping streets clean and such. We'd spend just as much money as we do now, but we'd eliminate homelessness, reduce disease, and have cleaner cities.
HA: I enjoyed reading your comments in this thread. Do you have any sources/urls for the bit I quoted above?
it's a really good read. fast and eye-opening. i read it as part of a political philosophy class, to provide some real-world perspective on the subject of distributive justice.
amazon has both a summary and pages you can peruse.
where was this linked from? i was just looking at OOo for documentation/support and really, the mail reader interface for the mailing list archive they have is slower than bootstrapping gentoo on a p75:P i was just thinking why on earth isn't there a web forum.
anyway, as for what someone might want support on: i was interested in the bibliography database and i was running into problems with formatting and publishing entries that weren't well-covered in the help files.
it looks...awful. the new moz 1.5 beta site looks good, as does the thunderbird site, but the firebird site looks like a bad joke. i'm just waiting for a flash jobbie screaming "SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY". they ought to at least put up a link to the 0.7 release notes (maybe explain the new auto-download feature). ok enough ranting on the site.
anyway, i love the product. in fact, i'm posting this with 0.7. actually i'm just glad they fixed the form completion bug back with 0.6.1.
and yet...i have yet to see one save the sgi one that is both too expensive and hard to find. i had asked the folks at hush if they had any info on it, but never got a response.
not being able to use dvi-d displays seems short-sighted.
it's the samsung sgh-i500, not to be confused with the sph-i500. looks sweet.
i am a little skeptical of the palmos 5 business. a lot of ppl criticized the new kyocera 7135 for coming out so late with only palmos 4 support. but palmos 4 means a less power-hungry processor, which translates into better battery life--critical for a phone. but if samsung can pull it off with this new phone, i'm all over it. of course we may not see it for a long long time.
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This is /. grasshopper. It's a wildcard, not self-censoring ;) Although if you really took the long view, it's a wildcard that even includes self-censorship.
Actually, that's the exact minimum number of occurences you have to have for 95%. 19 times out of 20. It could be more, but not less.
;)
;)
Wow, that's an impressively subtle mathematical deduction you're demonstrating there
The original poster used "about" to qualify his figure of 95%. I even boldfaced that in my response. So, in fact, it could very well be less than 20 cases.
Reading, it's still fundamental
> So in your admission, at least 20 times you have almost hit a person or another car, and at least one of those times it was at high speed.
>> I can say from my own experience, as someone who regularly "speeds" that about 95% of the time that I have had a close call with a pedestrian or another car it has not involved speed
In the first place, "about 95%" does not mean that there were in fact 20 cases of which there was one exception.
Nor does "speeds" imply "high speed". A sufficient definition of speeding is driving higher than the posted speed limit. The original poster said he regularly speeds, or, drives higher than the posted speed limit. You're not entitled to infer that he regularly (or ever) drives at high speed.
Reading. It's fundamental.
that's the thing--no reference to devfs in /etc/fstab and none of those modules are listed in /etc/modules either.
strange, eh? it was a brand new woody installation that was immediately upgraded to sarge and kernel 2.6.0
i haven't gone back, but i did get stuck with a handful of new error messages after moving to 2.6 (debian sarge) that i haven't been able to track down yet:
/etc/mtab
warning can't open
mount: fstype devfs not supported by kernel
FATAL: Module ide_disk not found
ata_piix not found
sd_mod not found
umount: devfs: not mounted
annoying annoying annoying. doubly so since they don't appear to get logged.
Imagine if GM had 95% of the American auto market and built their cars to only run on GM brand gasoline?
Reminds me of the printer cartridge article, "A Cartridge Conspiracy" by Phillip Robinson that's quoted in this post.
Think about how cheap a national healthcare system would be (cheaper than HMOs), coupled with a national network of homeless shelters, from which the state could draw workers for public projects -- keeping streets clean and such. We'd spend just as much money as we do now, but we'd eliminate homelessness, reduce disease, and have cleaner cities.
HA: I enjoyed reading your comments in this thread. Do you have any sources/urls for the bit I quoted above?
Some more on that history: Larry McVoy on Bitkeeper, kernel development, Linux Torvalds & Bruce Perens
This is too easy, but I can't resist. You're not having very good sex, are you? ;)
incidentally, any recommendations for a magstripe reader and software?
:)
what about a writer?
or just a pointer to a faq
that's because the axis powers are so tricksy. only zog the undeniable can lead us past this tomfoolery.
it's a really good read. fast and eye-opening. i read it as part of a political philosophy class, to provide some real-world perspective on the subject of distributive justice.
amazon has both a summary and pages you can peruse.
Who's got a patent on the "bro"?
damn that's twice today i've almost fallen out of my chair reading /.
where was this linked from? i was just looking at OOo for documentation/support and really, the mail reader interface for the mailing list archive they have is slower than bootstrapping gentoo on a p75 :P i was just thinking why on earth isn't there a web forum.
anyway, as for what someone might want support on: i was interested in the bibliography database and i was running into problems with formatting and publishing entries that weren't well-covered in the help files.
note to self: don't put a drink to your lips just before clicking to view a comment below your threshold.
;)
thanks for the laugh
Compare! and Why? ;)
it looks...awful. the new moz 1.5 beta site looks good, as does the thunderbird site, but the firebird site looks like a bad joke. i'm just waiting for a flash jobbie screaming "SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY". they ought to at least put up a link to the 0.7 release notes (maybe explain the new auto-download feature). ok enough ranting on the site.
anyway, i love the product. in fact, i'm posting this with 0.7. actually i'm just glad they fixed the form completion bug back with 0.6.1.
You didn't bother reading the article, did you?
You're new here, eh?
no legacy ports? why doesn't via at least use a dvi-i port? those that need vga can then use an adaptor. the rest of us can use dvi-d.
and yet...i have yet to see one save the sgi one that is both too expensive and hard to find. i had asked the folks at hush if they had any info on it, but never got a response.
not being able to use dvi-d displays seems short-sighted.
anyone know if the optional lvds connector they mention in the review could somehow be used with a dvi-d equipped display?
like this?
it's the samsung sgh-i500, not to be confused with the sph-i500. looks sweet.
i am a little skeptical of the palmos 5 business. a lot of ppl criticized the new kyocera 7135 for coming out so late with only palmos 4 support. but palmos 4 means a less power-hungry processor, which translates into better battery life--critical for a phone. but if samsung can pull it off with this new phone, i'm all over it. of course we may not see it for a long long time.
is there a way in phoenix to have middle-click open a link in a new window (as opposed to a tab)? like you can in mozilla....
it's driving me batty.
would the built-in antenna on pc laptops designed with 802.11b in mind work well with this?