Soooo unimaginative.
Ever considered that phones aren't the only devices using mobile internet?
Realised that in areas only serviced by ADSL and cable, that LTE gives you by far the highest upload speed?
They either stopped a lot to check the map, drove around in circles, took circuitous routes to use familiar roads, or had a passenger navigating. To me, the first three behaviours are nothing to get misty eyed about (you know, the "back in my day" shit).
When I briefly lived in Bristol and rode my motorbike around Bristol (old city with a tight and winding layout) and much of Europe, GPS coming through earphones was wonderful. Stopping, pulling off gloves, getting back pack off, and looking up the map gets old real fast.
In my home city all I need is a few key points written down, and often I remember them, but I wouldn't go demanding that others stop using GPS just because I can do without it.
Oh, you mean bureaucrats?
Well, obviously they are the experts on driving, disregard the people who rely on refining driving technique to the nth degree to put food on the table.
Yes, you do have a point about 4+ point restraints being superior, however IIRC from crash test videos, even a three point belt prevents your torso from travelling forward much.
Fuck yeah.
I think my best take-off was a short ~200 mile flight on a 737 between Seoul and Sacheon as it was starting to snow. Perhaps it was to get extra bleed air for deicing, but the pilot stood on the brakes at full throttle for like 30 seconds. I was near the back where you get more exhaust noise and the plane was roaring and shaking; it was fucking awesome. Then the lightly loaded plane with engines fully spooled up shot off when he released the brakes.
They are not noise cancelling, they just reduce the level of external sound so that your audio is more effective at masking it. If you're not playing anything then they're just like earplugs, which isn't such a bad thing. I use my canalphones on long distance flights even though I don't have a portable device to use them with:p
+500 on the paying attention.
Driving/riding is a bit draining because of how much attention it requires.
It pisses me off to see how little attention people pay; you can tell by how they respond to surprises and traffic lights. It infuriates me when I see people take over a second to react to a red light turning green while they're braking; how slow are their minds ticking over?
I'd like to add that drivers should be paying attention to more than the car in front, you should be looking far ahead and anticipating.
The "unusual and uncomfortable" position is the one used by all race drivers and is taught in driving courses.
Your driver's ed instructions are not optimum, and not because of safety system flaws.
Wrong. Unless compared to ancient ABS systems, even professional race car drivers can't beat ABS.
At best they can match it in a straight line, but when you add cornering or patchy grip, no driver can individually modulate 4 wheels like a modern 4 channel ABS can. So if the best you can do in ideal conditions is match the ABS, I'd say "ABS = shorter distance" is a reasonable claim.
"The Audi R8 GT3s at the Spa 24 hours last weekend had ABS. One car lost ABS whilst it was wet - instant 3 seconds slower per lap than the sister car."
"Two back to back races in May 2010: 1000km or Spa and 24h of Nurburgring. LMS and ALMS GT2 rules don't allow ABS, while the ADAC regulations for N24 do allow ABS. Hankook Farnbacher Racing entered both races with the same car (Ferrari F430 GTC). Even though they had only a week to prepare for the 24 hour race at Nordschleife, and the fact they don't use ABS for their regular races, Farnbacher team still opted to install ABS. By the way, they finished 2rd overall behind the works BMW team and first in their class."
"However, I'm not aware of any racing driver at any level (up to and including F1) who has asked for ABS to be removed from their car where the rules allow it to be fitted (there may be some but they are unusual even so). All other things being equal, a decent ABS system is a net benefit on any car be it road or race.
Memorably, Senna's much-vaunted performance at a wet Donington was done with ABS and TC. As such Senna never considered it much of a performance; although as his rivals also had ABS and TC one can still see that the quality of the driver shone through the murk and spray such was his inherent superiority racing in the wet."
That's an interesting difference between a fire truck and a car, unless the truck has ABS.
In a car without ABS you will plow straight ahead with locked front wheels. I've very gently used brake application to tighten an understeering turn, but you really skate the line of transferring weight and exceeding grip by trying to transfer weight.
Fuck that, you try controlling a car on the limit with straight arms. I guarantee that you will be pulling yourself forward off the seat as you run out of reach at the top of the wheel.
Go look at ANY race car drivers arms and then find me one that has been impaled by the wheel.
What a terrible recommendation.
I have to call bollocks on that. The only position I've ever seen in F1, touring cars, single make series, rally, open wheelers, dragsters etc etc is either 9 and 3 or 9:30 and 2:30. In fact, the BMW F1 wheels are moulded to the hands... in the 9 and 3 position.
A quick google image search corroborates this.
RDP is for clicking. You can't create a tunnel over it or pipe program IO. I use RDP a lot, but sometimes I *really* want an SSH server.
But there are SSH servers available for Windows and I have used them for tunneling.
My gripe with Windows is the intentional crippling: no concurrent RDP sessions without a hacked dll, no packet routing, some other things I've needed and forgotten.
You must live in a vacuum if you've never pinged overseas and gotten a result longer than 2*distance/c.
Also amazing is that you're not able to imagine why going through *at least* a half a dozen routers and many repeaters would slow the signal down.
Typos and mistakes are one thing, being a total dick about being wrong is another. I have a special place for people like you too. You'd probably fit the sociopathic manager role really well.
Your sentence sucks. It's a matter of logic not grammar.
"Do not buy" "non-standard" "such as" "Micro-USB". There's no way to fix that with punctuation nor by being an arsehole. WTF is wrong with you?
A good file system with restripeable RAID is pretty nifty. Admittedly you won't use the feature often, but it's a nice alternative to backing up and restoring onto a new array.
Only thing I know of is Ksplice which is a private company that offered special run-time kernel patches. Oracle bought them out and no longer releases the software and the patches for free.
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Soooo unimaginative. Ever considered that phones aren't the only devices using mobile internet? Realised that in areas only serviced by ADSL and cable, that LTE gives you by far the highest upload speed?
They either stopped a lot to check the map, drove around in circles, took circuitous routes to use familiar roads, or had a passenger navigating. To me, the first three behaviours are nothing to get misty eyed about (you know, the "back in my day" shit).
When I briefly lived in Bristol and rode my motorbike around Bristol (old city with a tight and winding layout) and much of Europe, GPS coming through earphones was wonderful. Stopping, pulling off gloves, getting back pack off, and looking up the map gets old real fast. In my home city all I need is a few key points written down, and often I remember them, but I wouldn't go demanding that others stop using GPS just because I can do without it.
Oh, you mean bureaucrats? Well, obviously they are the experts on driving, disregard the people who rely on refining driving technique to the nth degree to put food on the table.
Interesting, thanks.
Yes, you do have a point about 4+ point restraints being superior, however IIRC from crash test videos, even a three point belt prevents your torso from travelling forward much.
Fuck yeah.
I think my best take-off was a short ~200 mile flight on a 737 between Seoul and Sacheon as it was starting to snow. Perhaps it was to get extra bleed air for deicing, but the pilot stood on the brakes at full throttle for like 30 seconds. I was near the back where you get more exhaust noise and the plane was roaring and shaking; it was fucking awesome. Then the lightly loaded plane with engines fully spooled up shot off when he released the brakes.
They are not noise cancelling, they just reduce the level of external sound so that your audio is more effective at masking it. If you're not playing anything then they're just like earplugs, which isn't such a bad thing. I use my canalphones on long distance flights even though I don't have a portable device to use them with :p
+500 on the paying attention. Driving/riding is a bit draining because of how much attention it requires. It pisses me off to see how little attention people pay; you can tell by how they respond to surprises and traffic lights. It infuriates me when I see people take over a second to react to a red light turning green while they're braking; how slow are their minds ticking over? I'd like to add that drivers should be paying attention to more than the car in front, you should be looking far ahead and anticipating.
The "unusual and uncomfortable" position is the one used by all race drivers and is taught in driving courses. Your driver's ed instructions are not optimum, and not because of safety system flaws.
Wrong. Unless compared to ancient ABS systems, even professional race car drivers can't beat ABS. At best they can match it in a straight line, but when you add cornering or patchy grip, no driver can individually modulate 4 wheels like a modern 4 channel ABS can. So if the best you can do in ideal conditions is match the ABS, I'd say "ABS = shorter distance" is a reasonable claim.
"The Audi R8 GT3s at the Spa 24 hours last weekend had ABS. One car lost ABS whilst it was wet - instant 3 seconds slower per lap than the sister car."
"Two back to back races in May 2010: 1000km or Spa and 24h of Nurburgring. LMS and ALMS GT2 rules don't allow ABS, while the ADAC regulations for N24 do allow ABS. Hankook Farnbacher Racing entered both races with the same car (Ferrari F430 GTC). Even though they had only a week to prepare for the 24 hour race at Nordschleife, and the fact they don't use ABS for their regular races, Farnbacher team still opted to install ABS. By the way, they finished 2rd overall behind the works BMW team and first in their class."
"However, I'm not aware of any racing driver at any level (up to and including F1) who has asked for ABS to be removed from their car where the rules allow it to be fitted (there may be some but they are unusual even so). All other things being equal, a decent ABS system is a net benefit on any car be it road or race. Memorably, Senna's much-vaunted performance at a wet Donington was done with ABS and TC. As such Senna never considered it much of a performance; although as his rivals also had ABS and TC one can still see that the quality of the driver shone through the murk and spray such was his inherent superiority racing in the wet."
Mind you, side airbags are brilliant, because passenger car seats and belts provide little sideways restraint and people don't wear helmets.
That's an interesting difference between a fire truck and a car, unless the truck has ABS. In a car without ABS you will plow straight ahead with locked front wheels. I've very gently used brake application to tighten an understeering turn, but you really skate the line of transferring weight and exceeding grip by trying to transfer weight.
Fuck that, you try controlling a car on the limit with straight arms. I guarantee that you will be pulling yourself forward off the seat as you run out of reach at the top of the wheel. Go look at ANY race car drivers arms and then find me one that has been impaled by the wheel. What a terrible recommendation.
I'm sure there's an FAQ that tells me why I don't (I'm newly registered), but I wish I was able to moderate this. People sit too damn far back.
I don't think you have much, if any, hard driving experience...
F1 does not use 8 and 4. 9 and 3. The BMW wheels even have hand shape grips at 9 and 3. Go watch onboard videos and pics.
I have to call bollocks on that. The only position I've ever seen in F1, touring cars, single make series, rally, open wheelers, dragsters etc etc is either 9 and 3 or 9:30 and 2:30. In fact, the BMW F1 wheels are moulded to the hands... in the 9 and 3 position. A quick google image search corroborates this.
RDP is for clicking. You can't create a tunnel over it or pipe program IO. I use RDP a lot, but sometimes I *really* want an SSH server. But there are SSH servers available for Windows and I have used them for tunneling. My gripe with Windows is the intentional crippling: no concurrent RDP sessions without a hacked dll, no packet routing, some other things I've needed and forgotten.
You must live in a vacuum if you've never pinged overseas and gotten a result longer than 2*distance/c. Also amazing is that you're not able to imagine why going through *at least* a half a dozen routers and many repeaters would slow the signal down.
Typos and mistakes are one thing, being a total dick about being wrong is another. I have a special place for people like you too. You'd probably fit the sociopathic manager role really well.
Oh OK, I agree.
My heatgun cost me $15 *in Australia*. You could probably get it even cheaper elsewhere.
Your sentence sucks. It's a matter of logic not grammar. "Do not buy" "non-standard" "such as" "Micro-USB". There's no way to fix that with punctuation nor by being an arsehole. WTF is wrong with you?
A good file system with restripeable RAID is pretty nifty. Admittedly you won't use the feature often, but it's a nice alternative to backing up and restoring onto a new array.
Only thing I know of is Ksplice which is a private company that offered special run-time kernel patches. Oracle bought them out and no longer releases the software and the patches for free.