Before going on, it should be noted I am making the assumption that the truck was travelling on the correct side of the road.
In which case, what was this guy thinking? Was he high, or just really, really, really stupid? Did he never read his (or any) state's Bicycle Operator's Manual (ask your DMV about it, they should have it). In every state and province in the US, Canada and Mexico, bicycles operate by the same rules of the road as motor vehicles, except where posted otherwise or as practical (ie, seatbelts aren't required for bicycles, but riding on the right side of the road, correct use of lanes, staying off the sidewalk, white headlight/red rear light/reflector at night/rain/fog, are absolutely mandatory).
My sympathies are with the trucker who was inconvenienced by your "friend's" mortal stupidity.
Furthermore, why should one assume that a user knows they must backup when reinstalling? On some O/S installs the old data is retained.
It just goes without saying. Why should you have to tell them? After all, in north america save for California (not so bright there), you generally don't have to tell people that there's a good chance you'll lose everything if you drive on the left.
Likewise, if you fail to do the obvious with your data, you *will* lose it one way or another. Duh!
I forget what company my high school's student store had gone with to order media for the store shelves, but that brand lasted less than a week on the shelves. It's been traditional since day one to break nonfunctional media to prevent someone else from trying in frustration to use it (kind of like hanging the phone receiver upside down when Verizon can't deliver a dialtone for the umpteenth time this week).
Well, these disks were of particularly poor quality, high failure rate and had metal shirikens in it to hold it together instead of the standard plastic-and-felt typically found in floppy disks. I'm not sure if it was student outrage or the school physician running out of sutures that put an end to those floppies being sold.
It tickles, unless the stitches leave a nice, ropy scar like they did on me, in which you will feel every last bit of thread get ripped out no matter how gentle and careful the doctor is. Bring a designated driver, hit a bar afterwards, you'll need it.
I doubt many people. I mean, it sounds like something Bill Engvall jokes about.
"So I'm running a CPU fan booth at a computer show, and some guy walks up and puts his finger into one of the high speed fans, then complains it doesn't have a grill. See, if he had been wearing his 'I'm Stupid' sign, I could have said, 'Now, I know you're probably not going to understand this, but putting your hand into a moving fan is really gonna hurt!"
That's the part I've never understanded about the US. On one hand the US is ultra-religious. But on the other hand helping the poor is totaly unamerican (socialism is baaaaaaaad). Now what I don't get is this: is the US hypocritical (a lot of talking, but noone really meaning what they say) or is this a case of a splitten personality? (radical differences in oppinion)
As someone who has the misfortune of living in the states, the former is true, particularly in areas with high Californian or DC influence. Personally, I find it insulting when conservatives call themselves Christians: When was the last time they helped anything other than their wallet?
This isn't meant as flamebait or anti-americanism or something. It's just strange that a society that holds on to religion in so many ways, seems to disagree with a major portion of it.
This is what you get when a country collectively has more money than brain cells and no conscious.
So? Thanks to Boy Scouts, I got to go earn my Aviation merit badge when I was 14 at Portland AFB in Northeast Portland, Oregon. I doubt many civilians can say they've sat in the cockpit of an F16. Militaries do these sort of things out of a need for good public relations and basic employer courtesy (they work for us, after all).
I wish those cats were in charge of the airport security at the commercial terminal on the civilian side of the runway at PAFB/Portland International Airport; the lines would move faster and the process would be *FAR* less invasive...
But Hello is an IM service in roughly the same sense that Qwest is an IM service...they both facilitate instant messages, but only in particularly obscure formats that are a pain to deal with, like BLOBs or voice chat through a perpetually water-shorted lines.
Jabber, on the other hand, *IS IM* because it's based on the XMPP protocol, the only IM protocol to become a standard. (This means that MSN, Yahoo, Gadu Gadu, AIM and ICQ also no longer count).
If you think about it, how many times do you know users who actually use the clock that is displayed on their task bar?
I've never bothered to buy a clock at home, the clock in my Kia always drifted badly from the day I got it until it burned out 8 years ago, and I can't see a clock at work. I can't consciously recall seeing a clock that wasn't on a computer or PDA screen or a public, outdoor clock tower in years.
When AOL sends their crap through snail mail, AOL themselves is paying for it to be sent.
Since when has the USPS not been heavily government subsidized for bulk-rate delivery? Since when has AOL been sending their spam through anything other than USPS bulk-rate postage?
So, who pays when AOL (or anybody else) spams? You do, in higher postage, taxes, and garbage collection! Congress got it wrong: CAN-SPAM should have applied to snail mail. Law is considerably more effective to meatspace crime than cyberspace crime.
But why let the client get bloated over what the server should be handling anyway? What do multi-IM clients win you that a Jabber server with plenty of transports can't do better?
IM could really need some kind of standarization, preferably not relying on a single entity to act as the hub. I think that what we need is a system like that used for email, with the features of IM.
It already exists. Why aren't you using Jabber and it's XMPP standard?
Naw, people who had much contact with the night shift security desks at Oregon Health Sciences University about two years ago can verify I had been predicting a Jabber-based Google IM to eventually happen.
Only if you hate service discovery, or easy setup. Once you've set up Jabber the first time, the only thing you have to remember when installing Psi on another system is your JID and password. The Jabber server does the rest, from remembering how you have your contacts sorted to signing you on the other IM networks. This jabber tutorial can help you get started.
GMail prevents MSIE from remembering your password. GMail sucks.
WTF? Organization asserts the right to not let buggy, easily compromised software remember login credentials for it's services. Organization shows it cares about security, therefor sucks? No wonder you're a Windows user...
You know Psi is on the same platforms and can talk to the same networks through a good Jabber server, right? Only one login to remember once you're set up in Jabber, and far smaller than Gaim, too.
Jabber also only uses the Jabber contact list, but remembers how you set to that. If you switch to Jabber, you only have to install the client and not install the client and resort your buddy list when you need to install on a new machine.
(and nobody advertises having a Jabber account - I usually run a Jabber client, too).
You don't, but many people do. There's even a place to enter a JID (though it seems self-defeating to include IDs on obsolete, nonstandard protocols, too...)
Given that client-support for multiple protocols is a great way to get a gigantic, underfeatured buggy pieces of crap (see Trillian, GAIM, et. al. for examples), seems like the best way is also the right way in Jabber: Let the server do the walking.
The difference, though, is most rapists and murderers aren't serial and don't re-offend. Spammers regularly re-offend. It's not the quality of the crime, it's the quantity.
Get on it, man. Get yourself some sewing skills, a lot of neoprene in a bunch of different colors, some thick thread, a commercial sewing machine and a cart down at the mall and start sellin!
I prefer plastic above the rest, as while it is more synthetic and prone to generating static electricity if rubbed with a wool cloth it generally works well and offers a greater degree of artistic freedom to the case designer.
And no case ground or RF shielding. Plastic is almost always a very poor choice for electronic equipment, particularly anything that might be near RF equipment (ie, your neighbor with a high-power HF rig; your stereo; etc.). I'd rather have aluminum than plastic, at least aluminum is closer to what you're looking for, as poor of an RF sheild and conductor as it may be.
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In which case, what was this guy thinking? Was he high, or just really, really, really stupid? Did he never read his (or any) state's Bicycle Operator's Manual (ask your DMV about it, they should have it). In every state and province in the US, Canada and Mexico, bicycles operate by the same rules of the road as motor vehicles, except where posted otherwise or as practical (ie, seatbelts aren't required for bicycles, but riding on the right side of the road, correct use of lanes, staying off the sidewalk, white headlight/red rear light/reflector at night/rain/fog, are absolutely mandatory).
My sympathies are with the trucker who was inconvenienced by your "friend's" mortal stupidity.
It just goes without saying. Why should you have to tell them? After all, in north america save for California (not so bright there), you generally don't have to tell people that there's a good chance you'll lose everything if you drive on the left.
Likewise, if you fail to do the obvious with your data, you *will* lose it one way or another. Duh!
I forget what company my high school's student store had gone with to order media for the store shelves, but that brand lasted less than a week on the shelves. It's been traditional since day one to break nonfunctional media to prevent someone else from trying in frustration to use it (kind of like hanging the phone receiver upside down when Verizon can't deliver a dialtone for the umpteenth time this week).
Well, these disks were of particularly poor quality, high failure rate and had metal shirikens in it to hold it together instead of the standard plastic-and-felt typically found in floppy disks. I'm not sure if it was student outrage or the school physician running out of sutures that put an end to those floppies being sold.
It tickles, unless the stitches leave a nice, ropy scar like they did on me, in which you will feel every last bit of thread get ripped out no matter how gentle and careful the doctor is. Bring a designated driver, hit a bar afterwards, you'll need it.
"So I'm running a CPU fan booth at a computer show, and some guy walks up and puts his finger into one of the high speed fans, then complains it doesn't have a grill. See, if he had been wearing his 'I'm Stupid' sign, I could have said, 'Now, I know you're probably not going to understand this, but putting your hand into a moving fan is really gonna hurt!"
As someone who has the misfortune of living in the states, the former is true, particularly in areas with high Californian or DC influence. Personally, I find it insulting when conservatives call themselves Christians: When was the last time they helped anything other than their wallet?
This isn't meant as flamebait or anti-americanism or something. It's just strange that a society that holds on to religion in so many ways, seems to disagree with a major portion of it.
This is what you get when a country collectively has more money than brain cells and no conscious.
I wish those cats were in charge of the airport security at the commercial terminal on the civilian side of the runway at PAFB/Portland International Airport; the lines would move faster and the process would be *FAR* less invasive...
So Google's next acquisition is Opera. Maybe they can make that not suck now...
Jabber, on the other hand, *IS IM* because it's based on the XMPP protocol, the only IM protocol to become a standard. (This means that MSN, Yahoo, Gadu Gadu, AIM and ICQ also no longer count).
I've never bothered to buy a clock at home, the clock in my Kia always drifted badly from the day I got it until it burned out 8 years ago, and I can't see a clock at work. I can't consciously recall seeing a clock that wasn't on a computer or PDA screen or a public, outdoor clock tower in years.
Since when has the USPS not been heavily government subsidized for bulk-rate delivery? Since when has AOL been sending their spam through anything other than USPS bulk-rate postage?
So, who pays when AOL (or anybody else) spams? You do, in higher postage, taxes, and garbage collection! Congress got it wrong: CAN-SPAM should have applied to snail mail. Law is considerably more effective to meatspace crime than cyberspace crime.
Oh yeah!? Well, I got the same result by realigning the deflector array and routing more power through the flux capacitor!
But why let the client get bloated over what the server should be handling anyway? What do multi-IM clients win you that a Jabber server with plenty of transports can't do better?
Fuck ad-free, it's still proprietary.
It already exists. Why aren't you using Jabber and it's XMPP standard?
Naw, people who had much contact with the night shift security desks at Oregon Health Sciences University about two years ago can verify I had been predicting a Jabber-based Google IM to eventually happen.
Only if you hate service discovery, or easy setup. Once you've set up Jabber the first time, the only thing you have to remember when installing Psi on another system is your JID and password. The Jabber server does the rest, from remembering how you have your contacts sorted to signing you on the other IM networks. This jabber tutorial can help you get started.
WTF? Organization asserts the right to not let buggy, easily compromised software remember login credentials for it's services. Organization shows it cares about security, therefor sucks? No wonder you're a Windows user...
Jabber also only uses the Jabber contact list, but remembers how you set to that. If you switch to Jabber, you only have to install the client and not install the client and resort your buddy list when you need to install on a new machine.
You don't, but many people do. There's even a place to enter a JID (though it seems self-defeating to include IDs on obsolete, nonstandard protocols, too...)
Given that client-support for multiple protocols is a great way to get a gigantic, underfeatured buggy pieces of crap (see Trillian, GAIM, et. al. for examples), seems like the best way is also the right way in Jabber: Let the server do the walking.
The difference, though, is most rapists and murderers aren't serial and don't re-offend. Spammers regularly re-offend. It's not the quality of the crime, it's the quantity.
Get on it, man. Get yourself some sewing skills, a lot of neoprene in a bunch of different colors, some thick thread, a commercial sewing machine and a cart down at the mall and start sellin!
And no case ground or RF shielding. Plastic is almost always a very poor choice for electronic equipment, particularly anything that might be near RF equipment (ie, your neighbor with a high-power HF rig; your stereo; etc.). I'd rather have aluminum than plastic, at least aluminum is closer to what you're looking for, as poor of an RF sheild and conductor as it may be.
And when I get a headache from too much caffiene, I reach for Nuprin. Little, yellow, different.