Sounds like what's causing the accidents isn't the yellow light but distracted drivers. So the argument boils down to, "don't enforce the law meant to prevent bad drivers from causing accidents because bad drivers breaking other laws might cause accidents."
That said, shortening the yellow isn't done for public safety reasons, it's done to improperly generate revenue to the detriment of public safety and the Law itself. So I'm not counting it.
It should be. 1 second per 10mph is the norm, and in a city the speed limit is usually 30 or 35. Some municipalities shorten it when they put cameras in, which is bullshit.
That would be true if people treated yellow lights as the law requires. If you're in the intersection when the light turns red, it wasn't because you couldn't stop in time, it was because you tried to beat it instead of stopping.
"I wanted to beat the light" isn't. "I know yellow means I should only enter if I can't stop, but I did it anyway." isn't. If you're in the intersection when the light turns red, you ran it. Just because you can't get away with it anymore doesn't mean your intentions were good.
Germany has vocational training and apprenticeships for students who don't belong in college. They don't waste their time and financial future studying things that won't get them work, they're making money.
You also have to look at demand. The overarching idea that college is so important that everyone should go is just plain wrong. How many people go to college only to leave with massive debt and a degree they never actually use? For many, if not most, college is simply an expensive waste of time. The idea that modern jobs require it is wrong. College is not job training, it's higher education. It is not a solution to a changing employment landscape, that's vocational education.
We need to accept that not everyone benefits from college, not everyone needs college, and not everyone should go. College used to be for the smarter students who could make use of it. Now it's been reduced to high school+, dumbed down for students who shouldn't be wasting their time there and probably won't make it to a second year.
I'm more concerned with artificially inflated demand than I am with supply.
Ah, okay. I don't like the way they're going either, but I can see why they would. Part of it is how they're changing their entire update/upgrade model to an SaS deal (which I'm not into), meaning that in the end they may never "sell" another copy. I think they also lost the sweetheart deal they used to force on manufacturers - that whole "microsoft tax"/"you're paying for a license for every computer you sell even if you don't install Windows on it" thing. Yeah, it was total BS, but from their perspective it's a loss that has to be recouped.
So in the end, I don't like it but I understand it and get where they're coming from. Still, I'd rather just pay $100 every few years for an upgrade license. Full disclosure: I'm being a little shitty when I say that as I have rarely had to pay for it at all and never paid full price. I've gotten licenses from work, school, or picked up student copies or resold volume licenses. Meaning I'm one of the people who encouraged Microsoft to make this move. Sorry.
I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen a late-model iPhone on sale or with a retail price below Apple's MSRP. The closest I can come up with is a carrier plan that, in the end, charges more for the phone but gives a lower (or no) up front cost.
Can anybody else find a new (not used or refurbed) iPhone of the current or last generation for less than Apple's standard price?
Are they having trouble finding jobs that offer health insurance? I would think that the number of unemployed (non-retired) former astronauts would be around zero.
I was hoping somebody would bring that up. Used to be that all astronauts were military, thus VA eligible. Now that they aren't, I'm still surprised to hear that there's one without insurance - are ex-astronauts having trouble finding amazing jobs that provide insurance? That's really the most surprising part for me.
If you picked up Pro copies, you can turn that stuff off, strip crap from the image ("Get Office" and the rest of the built in crap packages), edit the image so it installs with telemetry and CEIP off, etc., etc. Something I really need to do again at work, I've let our images get way out of date. Remind me to bug my boss to pull the latest image from the volume licensing center.
I'm having trouble figuring out if you're advocating Windows or Linux. Kinda sounds like you're saying linux has inferior installation options - You have to manually add repositories instead of just running an executable and there's no support for graphics. Come to think of it, just finding the right package name can take as long as finding a download, and if you have to add a repository you need to find the right URL, put it in your list, refresh your repos, and then search for the right package name. I'm starting to appreciate getting a driver with a few clicks then getting to look at sometimes cool pictures instead of just a progress indicator. That's incalculably more entertaining.
Dude, I'm sold. Windows for the win thanks to Dr. Yak!
I was so pissed off when GFE demanded a signin. Half because I wanted to see how it set a game (I forget which), half because I couldn't remember or find my nvidia creds, and half because it was incredibly rude and annoying. So annoying that I was 150% fed up with it.
That said, driver installs are where I'm most willing to be shown ads. Beats the hell out of just watching a progress bar.
It's because you have the Pro version. It's like TV - pay for HBO or get NBC in exchange for ads.
I didn't know you could avoid seeing ads while upgrading Nvidia drivers, but I've been updating through GeForce Experience for a while. No such frontend for AMD drivers, and those are choc full of ads too.
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That said, shortening the yellow isn't done for public safety reasons, it's done to improperly generate revenue to the detriment of public safety and the Law itself. So I'm not counting it.
the Treasury department's Inspector General's page that I used to report an IRS phishing call.
Just a minute ago when I needed to dump the contents of a file to stdout.
It should be. 1 second per 10mph is the norm, and in a city the speed limit is usually 30 or 35. Some municipalities shorten it when they put cameras in, which is bullshit.
That would be true if people treated yellow lights as the law requires. If you're in the intersection when the light turns red, it wasn't because you couldn't stop in time, it was because you tried to beat it instead of stopping.
"I wanted to beat the light" isn't. "I know yellow means I should only enter if I can't stop, but I did it anyway." isn't. If you're in the intersection when the light turns red, you ran it. Just because you can't get away with it anymore doesn't mean your intentions were good.
Using GPS means you don't have to think about how to get where you're going. Shocking.
Germany has vocational training and apprenticeships for students who don't belong in college. They don't waste their time and financial future studying things that won't get them work, they're making money.
We need to accept that not everyone benefits from college, not everyone needs college, and not everyone should go. College used to be for the smarter students who could make use of it. Now it's been reduced to high school+, dumbed down for students who shouldn't be wasting their time there and probably won't make it to a second year.
I'm more concerned with artificially inflated demand than I am with supply.
So in the end, I don't like it but I understand it and get where they're coming from. Still, I'd rather just pay $100 every few years for an upgrade license. Full disclosure: I'm being a little shitty when I say that as I have rarely had to pay for it at all and never paid full price. I've gotten licenses from work, school, or picked up student copies or resold volume licenses. Meaning I'm one of the people who encouraged Microsoft to make this move. Sorry.
That might be my all time favorite non-snowman Calvin and Hobbes strip. It stuck with me for so long that I used it myself.
Can anybody else find a new (not used or refurbed) iPhone of the current or last generation for less than Apple's standard price?
By piracy, do you mean "people refusing to pay for software but using it anyway"? Are you sure you don't see how that supports my point?
Hah! Now that's some sweet pedantry!
Do background tabs really need to eat a quarter-gig?
Not just the headline, the article is chock full of statements like, "After all, no one expects to pay for an OS anymore."
National heros are usually employed, soldiers get care through the VA, public servants get generous benefits including insurance.
Are they having trouble finding jobs that offer health insurance? I would think that the number of unemployed (non-retired) former astronauts would be around zero.
I was hoping somebody would bring that up. Used to be that all astronauts were military, thus VA eligible. Now that they aren't, I'm still surprised to hear that there's one without insurance - are ex-astronauts having trouble finding amazing jobs that provide insurance? That's really the most surprising part for me.
If you picked up Pro copies, you can turn that stuff off, strip crap from the image ("Get Office" and the rest of the built in crap packages), edit the image so it installs with telemetry and CEIP off, etc., etc. Something I really need to do again at work, I've let our images get way out of date. Remind me to bug my boss to pull the latest image from the volume licensing center.
Dude, I'm sold. Windows for the win thanks to Dr. Yak!
That said, driver installs are where I'm most willing to be shown ads. Beats the hell out of just watching a progress bar.
I didn't know you could avoid seeing ads while upgrading Nvidia drivers, but I've been updating through GeForce Experience for a while. No such frontend for AMD drivers, and those are choc full of ads too.
Seems people have a choice - pay with their cash or pay with their eyes and info. I paid cash and turned off the eyes and info options.
I dunno, I use the Pro and Enterprise versions and just flip some switches.