EVERYTHING comes with a price. In some cases, an RDBMS is the answer. In other cases, a key:value store is the answer. Everything has trade-offs, and there is no one answer that fits all use-cases. Dismissing an RDBMS because it doesn't work perfectly in some specific situations is short-sighted. Use the right tool for the job.
There's nothing stopping someone from setting up a "standards body" and trying to dictate what libs should and should not be used. All they have to do is get a few major distros on board, and convince people that's the way to go. Simple.
Not only that, but PC manufacturers install all sorts of crapware. Just because you have a new PC doesn't mean it has a "clean install" of Windows on it.
Crappy/nonexistant local stations, low adoption of RDS. It comes on a lot of newer foreign cars, but not all station support it, and many stations won't do handoff, if they even have more than one transmitter. Many places are only covered by a couple stations, and your choice is country or preaching. Many places have no station that comes in clearly at all. Realize that I can drive for ten hours without leaving my state, and during that time there might be times when I don't see another car or so much as a house for 30 miles. And I don't even live in one of the huge western states with regions of virtually uninhabited desert, I live in Michigan.
I got endless hours of amusement by reaching across the imaginary line down the middle of the seat between my sister and I, waiting until she started yelling at me, then pulling my hand back and sitting there innocently before my mom saw. Kids these days are so spoiled.
How many stations do that? And what is their coverage like where I drive? Also, my radio doesn't do RDS.
I love my Sirius radio. When I got it I pretty much stopped using my iPod and CDs in my car.
LPS/SOX is better, really; the spectrum of LEDs is pretty intrusive to observations. LPS/SOX is also more efficient IIRC, but the bulbs don't last anywhere near as long.
xf86cfg? LUXURY! I remember using xf86config. Make a typo entering your monitor's scan rate? Too bad. Try again from the beginning, or edit the file with vi.
I'm not an engineer, but I did pass high school physics.
Static friction is what you get when one object isn't moving relative to the other (the patch of your tire that's sitting on the ground). Kinetic friction is what you get when one object is sliding on the other. The coefficient of static friction of your car tires is a lot higher than that of the kinetic friction.
It helps on ice, dry roads, and wet roads. Snow is a bit different, because you actually want some of it to pack up under your wheels. It depends on the exact conditions; it isn't automatically 100% better for every possible condition in which you could be driving.
I'd say it's more half-and-half.
But if you're already doing 80, accelerating isn't going to help much. It's more a help at lower speeds, i.e. you're in an intersection and someone is about to t-bone you. Hitting the brakes they're going to get you right in the driver's door, accelerating they either miss you totally or just clip your rear bumper.
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EVERYTHING comes with a price. In some cases, an RDBMS is the answer. In other cases, a key:value store is the answer. Everything has trade-offs, and there is no one answer that fits all use-cases. Dismissing an RDBMS because it doesn't work perfectly in some specific situations is short-sighted. Use the right tool for the job.
There's nothing stopping someone from setting up a "standards body" and trying to dictate what libs should and should not be used. All they have to do is get a few major distros on board, and convince people that's the way to go. Simple.
I've gotten change requests and requirements specs in Comic Sans.
The thing with the Beethoven symphonies was successful? I wasn't a fan of his interpretations.
Not only that, but PC manufacturers install all sorts of crapware. Just because you have a new PC doesn't mean it has a "clean install" of Windows on it.
Crappy/nonexistant local stations, low adoption of RDS. It comes on a lot of newer foreign cars, but not all station support it, and many stations won't do handoff, if they even have more than one transmitter. Many places are only covered by a couple stations, and your choice is country or preaching. Many places have no station that comes in clearly at all. Realize that I can drive for ten hours without leaving my state, and during that time there might be times when I don't see another car or so much as a house for 30 miles. And I don't even live in one of the huge western states with regions of virtually uninhabited desert, I live in Michigan.
I got endless hours of amusement by reaching across the imaginary line down the middle of the seat between my sister and I, waiting until she started yelling at me, then pulling my hand back and sitting there innocently before my mom saw. Kids these days are so spoiled.
How many stations do that? And what is their coverage like where I drive? Also, my radio doesn't do RDS. I love my Sirius radio. When I got it I pretty much stopped using my iPod and CDs in my car.
Yeah, they suck for color rendition. But the whole "make night into day" thing is overrated IMO.
In Detroit, they even take the wire from the stop lights. And depending on the neighborhood, it won't get fixed for months.
LPS/SOX is better, really; the spectrum of LEDs is pretty intrusive to observations. LPS/SOX is also more efficient IIRC, but the bulbs don't last anywhere near as long.
Yeah, that's a bad hack. Slackware's solution: ./configure will tell you what you're missing.
Uh... sorry, but "dummy packages" just sounds like a bad hack to me.
I stuck with it. Mostly because it works for me and I haven't seen a need to change. Switched to Slackware because Mandrake 7.1 sucked.
xf86cfg? LUXURY! I remember using xf86config. Make a typo entering your monitor's scan rate? Too bad. Try again from the beginning, or edit the file with vi.
We can make it if we try, building castles in the sky; just the two of us, you and I.
Pat doesn't like PAM, which is why it isn't in Slackware.
There was. Unfortunately, I'll never have the recipe again.
We don't need them to melt in the dark when someone leaves them out in the rain.
Ah, I program at home in my spare time. http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive.php?d=19990201
By doing vb.net programming, reading books, taking classes, etc. Not too hard to learn a different language.
Turn it to off to kill the engine, then back to accessory.
I'm not an engineer, but I did pass high school physics.
Static friction is what you get when one object isn't moving relative to the other (the patch of your tire that's sitting on the ground). Kinetic friction is what you get when one object is sliding on the other. The coefficient of static friction of your car tires is a lot higher than that of the kinetic friction.
It helps on ice, dry roads, and wet roads. Snow is a bit different, because you actually want some of it to pack up under your wheels. It depends on the exact conditions; it isn't automatically 100% better for every possible condition in which you could be driving.
I'd say it's more half-and-half. But if you're already doing 80, accelerating isn't going to help much. It's more a help at lower speeds, i.e. you're in an intersection and someone is about to t-bone you. Hitting the brakes they're going to get you right in the driver's door, accelerating they either miss you totally or just clip your rear bumper.