Not that it matters much. If he doesn't see it in his inbox wherever the paperwork gets sent, too bad so sad for him. Courts routinely consider that if the notice is sufficiently displayed in a public forum where it's presumed the other party would be privy to it, then that party has been properly served and as such if they do not appear in court on the specified date then the judgement is defaulted in favor of the party who did appear.
Yeah... because you were totally in my seat and under my helmet at the moment I did all that that you can say for absolute certain what was going through my head and the actions I performed in the situation given, as well as the perfect criticism of what I should have done and how I'm a moron for not following it. Now who's full of bullshit. STFU.
#1 Have you ever handled a fully loaded Full Dresser bike before? Two saddle bags and Trunk loaded to near maximum safe limits? My guess is you've touched nothing bigger than a little Vespa Scooter because otherwise you'd know that if you break unnecessarily hard under those conditions, that tail end is going to whip around on you so fast and there's no amount of counter steer you can do to keep control; it's fish-tail and wipeout city. #2 if the wheels ever come off the ground, it's not even CLOSE to perfect form, unless you're doing stunt riding, and is a maneuver that can get one's Class M endorsement pulled even if done in an emergency situation. If a cop had seen that stunt as you stated, not only would the person who caused the situation that forced a near collision be getting a ticket, so would the biker for not keeping his wheels on the ground. Wheelies are illegal. Stoppies are illegal. No exceptions.
Next, you pull into question my rider level and training. Fuck you for assuming I'm a run of the mill Harley rider that passed a basic test at the DMV and got his Class M. When I first got my permit, I took the Motorcycle Safety Course offered by Honda. This included basic operational maneuvering as well as first level emergency avoidance. Hard breaking, Swerving, Emergency breaking in a curve, obstruction handling, weave control, Figure 8's in a box...etc. This included a minimum test that is substantially more encompassing than the standard DMV test of which I scored best in class and perfect score, after which they give the voucher to take to the DMV that exempts you from their test...because you've already exceeded what they expect out of the run-of-the-mill. I also take an advanced rider course every other year to both keep my skills up to date and keep my insurance premiums low. You know what both have stressed? If you're going to break, don't swerve. If you're going to swerve, *DON'T BRAKE* and make sure you put on the accelerator to make sure your wheel is pushing you through the maneuver, because the instant it lags and understeers, your tail is going to lose stability and increase the danger of the situation. I'll also tell you, on a loaded Yamaha Venture Royale...That's exactly what happens.
I've not once laid a bike down in 6 years riding to "avoid an accident" either (if you lay it down...that's an accident, isn't it?), and only laid a bike down twice ever from stopping where the pavement was slick (fresh rain on oily asphalt with a 1k lbs bike with high center of gravity, stopped in a dedicated turning lane, put my foot down and the boot slid on the oil slick to where the bike was more than 7 degrees off center, on those bikes there's no stopping the fall at that point, just gotta let it down gently; first ride on it too, so not yet used to the weight) or the front wheel got sucked into mud and no place for my boot to hold it up (friend's driveway on that one with an 800cc Suzuki Volusia Intruder).
Never underestimate the power of the Boardroom; or Legal for that matter. This guy can be the absolute Top go-to of his division; if the board says that nothing gets used without the legal ability to control the product, and Legal steps in and says there's not a viable way to provide Linux Support to customers without sacrificing some measure of this desired control over their Supported Product based on Licensing.
We're not talking installing Linux on a spare machine and saying "Ok, we now support Linux," as much as Barbara would have you believe Supporting Linux means developing programs and patches for Linux interoperability for their own software, which would require their licensing to coincide with Linux licensing and open sourcing...which Microsoft as a company is not quite mentally ready for it. Almost...It might get there, but Mr. Russinovich is just one strong voice among a collective of strong voices in how MS decides to go forward.
The author makes a good point: we shouldn't be treating gadgets as disposable.
Easy for me to stop (everything that's EOL in my house is re-purposed or broken down to usable components; including smart devices). Easy for me to convince *some* of my friends to stop. Other friends have the IDGAF attitude about it. Try to convince people I don't even know and in most cases it's deaf ears (those ears that aren't deaf were usually already on the way to being their own "pebble" anyway without my nudge). Everyone goes on about "pebble in a pond" methods of effecting world change. What they don't tell you is that the pond we're dealing with is actually a tar-pit. Ever throw a pebble in a tar-pit? It doesn't ripple much. Hell, you're lucky if the pebble even makes much of a dent.
Ahh, I missed the date where Leap was acquired by AT&T. It happened a month after I left RadioShack which is when I stopped keeping up so much about what was happening with the carriers as I had no reason to care anymore. Well... shit.
Name one long standing large company where I can install arbitrary software on a whim on company owned hardware without at least getting a dirty look from auditing? There's freedom, then there's being an idjit. Personally, I'd rather use the considerable income I get from following the company's rules to be able to buy all the toys I want to use in my time that's not bought and paid for by the company. Maybe sometime soon I'll have enough extra money from playing by someone else's rules that I can stop doing that and then come up with my own rules to play by.
Come on, do better than that. Of course any individual can play with Linux all they want. We're not talking individual here. We're talking a behemoth corporation with long standing corporate policies and a legal department dictating licensing on what the collective can use on a day to day basis with an auditing department to enforce them and an onsite security team to give personal escort service to those who break those policies. It's highly doubtful that they would have authorization to "play" with Linux on their systems arbitrarily without first having a policy change coming from above.
As an example I work for a company that only has Windows installed on its workstations, you think I can wipe its hard drive and put my favorite Linux Distro on it so I can "play" with it here while using it to build.NET programs for the business? Not unless I want to have a personal escort carrying me out of the building 2 minutes later. In the 3 years I've worked here, we've lost 2 employees this way.
So the engineer is right. If the customer is using Linux technologies that the Microsoft Employees cannot by corporate policy play with - and by extension provide professional support - then they can't be a customer of Microsoft... unless there's a major policy change that comes down the pipe from above.
Actually, I was wrong. Longjmp did attempt to subtly inform everyone that this is an AFJ by pointing out that the original article appeared on Nature on April 1st... but it seems that the subtlety was lost on the crowd.
Not one poster calling this out as the April Fool's day crap article it was meant to be (posted to the firehose 2 days late I might add). Now, I'm all for the meta joke that may be happening here and whatnot, but I would have thought there would have been at least one of y'all flipping their shit over this before now, calling the Slashdot Eds lazy or stupid as hell for putting the readership through a day of nothing but an overdone joke of fake sci-fi news post after fake sci-fi news post of original content; completely ignoring the firehose that had some pretty damn good joke articles, like this one, for a whole day. Then they just come back to their lazy ass routine of "Oh, this looks good, who cares about fact-checking the actual article or even THE ARTICLE DATE, looks legit, greenlight!"
Now I could be wrong and the Eds are just getting one last AFJ troll on us. Could also be that the Eds are clueless to their fuckup, and the readership is just trolling them by having the legit conversation. It could also be that they attempted to troll us, and the/. community meta-trolled them by playing along that this is supposed to be legit. Another possibility could be that Zothucla trolled every damn one of us (either accidently or on purpose) and the Eds and the community are fucking clueless (as ever). Then, all of the above could just be trolling those of us who see the joke unfolding and the first one who spouts off anything about it Loses the Game(tm)!
Well, I just lost the Game, and thus, so did everyone else reading this post. Have a great Friday!
Soulskill! Stop it! There's legitimate joke stories in the firehose and you're posting Drivel from handles that don't exist on the site (if they do, where's the profile link!) that don't even appear in the 'hose! Stop it and bring a high quality joke out of the Firehose and put it in the feed for a change! (No, Harvard researchers pinpointing the source of flatulence is not high quality.)
Just playing Devil's Advocate here...but doesn't a country having a wide publicly known motive also make that country a prime target for framing? (Not saying that China didn't do it; as the evidence is considerably against them.)
This! So Much This! I've had a Razer Lycosa Keyboard and a Lachesis Mouse. Both of them glitched so damn hard with and without the drivers installed. The keyboard would randomly stop recognizing random keys, requiring me to unplug and then re-plug the damn thing in to get it to start working again. The Anti-Windows key feature would randomly lock on and make alt-tabbing or even mousing over items in the taskbar impossible, even while not gaming. The backlighting would randomly go completely out. The touch media/backlight/Game-Lock pad was so damned touchy and both over/under sensitive to boot. It was a bleeding nightmare, and the mouse wasn't any better. Also, the rubberized..paint?... that they used on the keys to keep the light from shining through where it shouldn't be started wearing off about 5 months after I got it, leaving the lettering on the keys about useless as all there was left was the clear purple plastic on the top of the key; especially all the keys around the WASD pad.
The mouse would start skipping across the screen about every 20 minutes which could only be fixed by unplugging and re-plugging the mouse in, just uninstalling the mouse from device manager wouldn't even work. And again, that same rubberized padding on the thumb buttons didn't even last a month. Also, the left and right mouse buttons completely failed at the same time about 4 months after I bought the thing.
The mouse I threw across the room and found a $20 logitech 5 button wireless mouse to tide me over until I could find something better, which wound up being a G600 20button mouse. The keyboard I saved up for a Logitech G710 to replace the lycosa...which I also trashed. Oh...and Linux Support? What a goddamned joke that was trying to use the Razer crap on my dual boot system. And while I bought the Logitechs to feed my gaming habit, the macro and modal keys on both have turned into epic time savers when pounding out code in Visual Studio and just about anything I try to do under KDE while in Linux.
The most efficient way to get a large amount of Legos in the US is if one went with a large creative block set that's 760 pieces for $60. It would take 1667 sets to break the $100k mark which would get 1,266,920 pieces, but this does not include figurines, which even with a cast of hundreds (that JP never had) would be a relatively small chunk of that 100k (a set of 7 is $2-3). Also these sets include colors that would not necessarily be used very often in a scene, and colors that would need to be abundant in the nature scene (such as green and brown) would require a lot of sets as each set only has about 30 bricks of each color (extrudes to a total of about 50k spread per color between those 1667 sets). Also, I've not figured in any prop or themed sets that would include things like Palm Leaves (tropical Island), vehicles, or specialty blocks that wouldn't be included in the base set that would make the scenes more complete.
You do know that there are motorcycles with anti lock brakes, do you?
An '87 Venture Royale don't have em... And 60 ft. across an intersection is all I need to get up to 50mph from a dead stop without the front wheel coming off the ground once. That's 1st gear with 2k RPM left to go before redline. 2nd gear tops off at about 70. Running 65 mph in 3rd gear at 5k rpm is considered "babying the engine." I usually cruise 55 in 4th at 3k rpm and I don't touch 5th until I'm above 60 and 4k. Redline is just under 8k. The reason for all this info is just to show that dropping into third and rolling on the accellerator at 55 is right within the Torque band of the engine to give a nice 10mph / 10ft boost to speed, which increases Gyro forces, which increases the maneuverability of the bike considerably. Oh, and she squats and settles in real nice at 95. I've yet to reach her top speed, and I'm not certain what speed I did reach as the spedo only reads up to 125, which she hit at 5500, I got her up to 7k before I had to roll off for a turn in the track.
Dude...By the end of March RadioShack is dead. D-E-D - dead. They've filed chapter 11 bankruptcy and are liquidating. On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday the local RS stores near me will be having a grab-bag event where you can fill a small bag for $5, a medium bag for $15, and a large bag for $50. Anything that fits is yours. My local store has a crap ton of R-Pi's and Arduino Kits and shields left, and no one around me wants them. I'll be able to buy out the entire stock with a $15 bag or two... that's over $500 - 1,000 worth of equipment.
As far as the continued brand name: Sprint bought something like 1700 stores at auction on the 16th of this month, GameStop got a few others, the rest of the stores in the nation will be shuttered. The ones that remain will be RadioShack in brand only, and if I read correctly, it'll be something like "RadioShack by Sprint" or some crap like that. The stores GameStop bought I think are going to be losing the brand altogether.
RadioShack's new CFO was touting money in the bank numbering in tens of Billions and several tens of Billions above that worth in assets when the new CEO took over 2 or 3 years ago. Guess where RadioShack will be at the end of the week? Any RS that remains open will either be converted into a Sprint Store with an electronics section or possibly a GameStop. The rest will be gone.
Another take would be: How long does it take for depleted Star to go from stable, to Gas Super Giant to (Super)Nova? Just because they've got net worth of 700bn doesn't mean that they have the fuel to keep that from blowing up or imploding in their face.
Dumbass, in the scenario posed the danger was coming from behind. How the fuck is slowing down gonna save your ass when a Semi is barreling down on you and has no room to stop before slamming you as it is. Or I have a real-life situation where burst speed got me out of certain death.
I'm cruising down a 2 lane (one lane each direction) road with my wife on the back of my bike at 55 (posted limit). Good visibiltiy and no blind curves for about 3 miles down the road, and I could see the road for 2 miles behind me in the mirror. There's a Bar-B-Q place on the right hand side of the road that we're coming up on about 500 feet ahead, Black Ford explorer is coming at me slowing down with the left turn blinker, I instinctively roll back off the throttle and now I'm 60 ft away at 52 MPH...then she turns left. I looked her dead in the eyes and she still turned left. I have two choices here, brake hard and slam into her, or gear down, lay on the throttle to pick up Gyro Force, and go into a swerve around the back of her. When I made the commit, I had about 20 ft of space and she was still in my lane, oblivious to the havoc she just caused. Once my swerve started, I put my thumb on the red button throwing the quad Stebel Air Horns on. I made sure that I did this after the path commit was going to be guaranteed to be behind her turn just to make sure that I didn't throw her into a panic that would have made the situation worse on me. In roughly 40 ft. passed the SUV I was back in my lane and at level cruise at 72 mph, letting off the throttle to get back down to the limit and continuing my Sunday ride to the next gas station where I could figuratively change my underwear. Another biker a ways behind us saw the scene unfold and caught up with me at that gas station and asked why I didn't stop and confront the woman as I would have loved the look on her eyes after she heard the Stebel go off right behind her. I just said "I have an aversion to 20 to Life," and left it at that.
If I had followed your logic, I'd be either dead or in the hospital right now as this only happened a week and a half ago and in no case would my bike have come out of it in ridable condition. If I had hit the brakes, I would have slammed into her and that's the end of our ride. If I slowed down to initiate the swerve, my tail would have fishtailed and either my wife would have been the first one into the SUV, or we would both be flying off the other side of the road into the ditch with the bike following us, again ending our ride. If I touched on the brakes at any time just before and during the swerve, as soon as I touched into the swerve, I'd lose all maneuvering traction to the brake traction and likely the 900 lbs of sport touring bike would have bit the pavement on the front wheel and done an end over end flip down the road behind the SUV, yet again, ending our ride.
ASCAP (founded 1914) was still created after the invention of the Vinyl Record. The assorted Media Foundations were built out of a necessity for managing and facilitating widespread distribution of a new technology that was too expensive for individuals to handle on their own without a way to spread the costs to a wider group (kinda like the insurance model, the wider you disburse your costs, the cheaper a product is for all involved). You first need the recording technologies in place for that to be a viable business.
Before records the way music was reproduced and distributed was through sheet music, which was handled by the Newspaper and Book Publishing houses. Back then performances were done by local live musicians or the original wandering musician/composers. Live performance royalties at that time were paid for in the purchase of the sheet music.
Fast forward to now and distribution has become so cheap that it's easily managed and facilitated by the individual without having to rely so much on a large corporation to get a name out there. The Media Companies have outlived their usefulness, just as many newspaper publishers have had to shutter their doors with the advent of Internet News when they couldn't move to the new model fast enough. There may be one way the media corps can save themselves from complete extinction, but it would mean completely changing the model they've used since their inception over 100 years ago: Drop the need to own the music and personas and help people develop a public sellable image. Good luck with convincing them of that.
There's also the fact that she very likely was coached by her son's Lawyer/Public Defender to make that statement. Whether or not she really believes it, the public will never know...
...until she releases her book a year after the case is settled.
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Not that it matters much. If he doesn't see it in his inbox wherever the paperwork gets sent, too bad so sad for him. Courts routinely consider that if the notice is sufficiently displayed in a public forum where it's presumed the other party would be privy to it, then that party has been properly served and as such if they do not appear in court on the specified date then the judgement is defaulted in favor of the party who did appear.
All you did was repeat exactly what the AC said.
Yeah... because you were totally in my seat and under my helmet at the moment I did all that that you can say for absolute certain what was going through my head and the actions I performed in the situation given, as well as the perfect criticism of what I should have done and how I'm a moron for not following it. Now who's full of bullshit. STFU.
#1 Have you ever handled a fully loaded Full Dresser bike before? Two saddle bags and Trunk loaded to near maximum safe limits? My guess is you've touched nothing bigger than a little Vespa Scooter because otherwise you'd know that if you break unnecessarily hard under those conditions, that tail end is going to whip around on you so fast and there's no amount of counter steer you can do to keep control; it's fish-tail and wipeout city. #2 if the wheels ever come off the ground, it's not even CLOSE to perfect form, unless you're doing stunt riding, and is a maneuver that can get one's Class M endorsement pulled even if done in an emergency situation. If a cop had seen that stunt as you stated, not only would the person who caused the situation that forced a near collision be getting a ticket, so would the biker for not keeping his wheels on the ground. Wheelies are illegal. Stoppies are illegal. No exceptions.
Next, you pull into question my rider level and training. Fuck you for assuming I'm a run of the mill Harley rider that passed a basic test at the DMV and got his Class M. When I first got my permit, I took the Motorcycle Safety Course offered by Honda. This included basic operational maneuvering as well as first level emergency avoidance. Hard breaking, Swerving, Emergency breaking in a curve, obstruction handling, weave control, Figure 8's in a box...etc. This included a minimum test that is substantially more encompassing than the standard DMV test of which I scored best in class and perfect score, after which they give the voucher to take to the DMV that exempts you from their test...because you've already exceeded what they expect out of the run-of-the-mill. I also take an advanced rider course every other year to both keep my skills up to date and keep my insurance premiums low. You know what both have stressed? If you're going to break, don't swerve. If you're going to swerve, *DON'T BRAKE* and make sure you put on the accelerator to make sure your wheel is pushing you through the maneuver, because the instant it lags and understeers, your tail is going to lose stability and increase the danger of the situation. I'll also tell you, on a loaded Yamaha Venture Royale...That's exactly what happens.
I've not once laid a bike down in 6 years riding to "avoid an accident" either (if you lay it down...that's an accident, isn't it?), and only laid a bike down twice ever from stopping where the pavement was slick (fresh rain on oily asphalt with a 1k lbs bike with high center of gravity, stopped in a dedicated turning lane, put my foot down and the boot slid on the oil slick to where the bike was more than 7 degrees off center, on those bikes there's no stopping the fall at that point, just gotta let it down gently; first ride on it too, so not yet used to the weight) or the front wheel got sucked into mud and no place for my boot to hold it up (friend's driveway on that one with an 800cc Suzuki Volusia Intruder).
Never underestimate the power of the Boardroom; or Legal for that matter. This guy can be the absolute Top go-to of his division; if the board says that nothing gets used without the legal ability to control the product, and Legal steps in and says there's not a viable way to provide Linux Support to customers without sacrificing some measure of this desired control over their Supported Product based on Licensing.
We're not talking installing Linux on a spare machine and saying "Ok, we now support Linux," as much as Barbara would have you believe Supporting Linux means developing programs and patches for Linux interoperability for their own software, which would require their licensing to coincide with Linux licensing and open sourcing...which Microsoft as a company is not quite mentally ready for it. Almost...It might get there, but Mr. Russinovich is just one strong voice among a collective of strong voices in how MS decides to go forward.
Christ...I've seen Coal Ash Lakes for power plants bigger than that in the US.
The author makes a good point: we shouldn't be treating gadgets as disposable.
Easy for me to stop (everything that's EOL in my house is re-purposed or broken down to usable components; including smart devices). Easy for me to convince *some* of my friends to stop. Other friends have the IDGAF attitude about it. Try to convince people I don't even know and in most cases it's deaf ears (those ears that aren't deaf were usually already on the way to being their own "pebble" anyway without my nudge). Everyone goes on about "pebble in a pond" methods of effecting world change. What they don't tell you is that the pond we're dealing with is actually a tar-pit. Ever throw a pebble in a tar-pit? It doesn't ripple much. Hell, you're lucky if the pebble even makes much of a dent.
Ahh, I missed the date where Leap was acquired by AT&T. It happened a month after I left RadioShack which is when I stopped keeping up so much about what was happening with the carriers as I had no reason to care anymore. Well... shit.
If that were true...why did Cricket always use CDMA Phones that wouldn't work on AT&T's GSM network?
Name one long standing large company where I can install arbitrary software on a whim on company owned hardware without at least getting a dirty look from auditing? There's freedom, then there's being an idjit. Personally, I'd rather use the considerable income I get from following the company's rules to be able to buy all the toys I want to use in my time that's not bought and paid for by the company. Maybe sometime soon I'll have enough extra money from playing by someone else's rules that I can stop doing that and then come up with my own rules to play by.
Come on, do better than that. Of course any individual can play with Linux all they want. We're not talking individual here. We're talking a behemoth corporation with long standing corporate policies and a legal department dictating licensing on what the collective can use on a day to day basis with an auditing department to enforce them and an onsite security team to give personal escort service to those who break those policies. It's highly doubtful that they would have authorization to "play" with Linux on their systems arbitrarily without first having a policy change coming from above.
As an example I work for a company that only has Windows installed on its workstations, you think I can wipe its hard drive and put my favorite Linux Distro on it so I can "play" with it here while using it to build .NET programs for the business? Not unless I want to have a personal escort carrying me out of the building 2 minutes later. In the 3 years I've worked here, we've lost 2 employees this way.
So the engineer is right. If the customer is using Linux technologies that the Microsoft Employees cannot by corporate policy play with - and by extension provide professional support - then they can't be a customer of Microsoft... unless there's a major policy change that comes down the pipe from above.
Actually, I was wrong. Longjmp did attempt to subtly inform everyone that this is an AFJ by pointing out that the original article appeared on Nature on April 1st... but it seems that the subtlety was lost on the crowd.
Not one poster calling this out as the April Fool's day crap article it was meant to be (posted to the firehose 2 days late I might add). Now, I'm all for the meta joke that may be happening here and whatnot, but I would have thought there would have been at least one of y'all flipping their shit over this before now, calling the Slashdot Eds lazy or stupid as hell for putting the readership through a day of nothing but an overdone joke of fake sci-fi news post after fake sci-fi news post of original content; completely ignoring the firehose that had some pretty damn good joke articles, like this one, for a whole day. Then they just come back to their lazy ass routine of "Oh, this looks good, who cares about fact-checking the actual article or even THE ARTICLE DATE, looks legit, greenlight!"
Now I could be wrong and the Eds are just getting one last AFJ troll on us. Could also be that the Eds are clueless to their fuckup, and the readership is just trolling them by having the legit conversation. It could also be that they attempted to troll us, and the /. community meta-trolled them by playing along that this is supposed to be legit. Another possibility could be that Zothucla trolled every damn one of us (either accidently or on purpose) and the Eds and the community are fucking clueless (as ever). Then, all of the above could just be trolling those of us who see the joke unfolding and the first one who spouts off anything about it Loses the Game(tm)!
Well, I just lost the Game, and thus, so did everyone else reading this post. Have a great Friday!
Huld muh beer, Bubba! Imma fix'na push thehs 'ere rhed buht-un! Thehs oughta be a hewt-n-ollar!
Soulskill! Stop it! There's legitimate joke stories in the firehose and you're posting Drivel from handles that don't exist on the site (if they do, where's the profile link!) that don't even appear in the 'hose! Stop it and bring a high quality joke out of the Firehose and put it in the feed for a change! (No, Harvard researchers pinpointing the source of flatulence is not high quality.)
I guess Darth Vader will just have to settle for his voice becoming the second mega-star of Star Wars. (James Earl Jones)
Just playing Devil's Advocate here...but doesn't a country having a wide publicly known motive also make that country a prime target for framing? (Not saying that China didn't do it; as the evidence is considerably against them.)
I bet they deliver some bloated soliloquy at a key moment and ruin their entire plan
Not if they're being led by Veidt. Then you get the bloated soliloquy 30 minutes after the plan was executed.
This! So Much This! I've had a Razer Lycosa Keyboard and a Lachesis Mouse. Both of them glitched so damn hard with and without the drivers installed. The keyboard would randomly stop recognizing random keys, requiring me to unplug and then re-plug the damn thing in to get it to start working again. The Anti-Windows key feature would randomly lock on and make alt-tabbing or even mousing over items in the taskbar impossible, even while not gaming. The backlighting would randomly go completely out. The touch media/backlight/Game-Lock pad was so damned touchy and both over/under sensitive to boot. It was a bleeding nightmare, and the mouse wasn't any better. Also, the rubberized..paint?... that they used on the keys to keep the light from shining through where it shouldn't be started wearing off about 5 months after I got it, leaving the lettering on the keys about useless as all there was left was the clear purple plastic on the top of the key; especially all the keys around the WASD pad.
The mouse would start skipping across the screen about every 20 minutes which could only be fixed by unplugging and re-plugging the mouse in, just uninstalling the mouse from device manager wouldn't even work. And again, that same rubberized padding on the thumb buttons didn't even last a month. Also, the left and right mouse buttons completely failed at the same time about 4 months after I bought the thing.
The mouse I threw across the room and found a $20 logitech 5 button wireless mouse to tide me over until I could find something better, which wound up being a G600 20button mouse. The keyboard I saved up for a Logitech G710 to replace the lycosa...which I also trashed. Oh...and Linux Support? What a goddamned joke that was trying to use the Razer crap on my dual boot system. And while I bought the Logitechs to feed my gaming habit, the macro and modal keys on both have turned into epic time savers when pounding out code in Visual Studio and just about anything I try to do under KDE while in Linux.
The most efficient way to get a large amount of Legos in the US is if one went with a large creative block set that's 760 pieces for $60. It would take 1667 sets to break the $100k mark which would get 1,266,920 pieces, but this does not include figurines, which even with a cast of hundreds (that JP never had) would be a relatively small chunk of that 100k (a set of 7 is $2-3). Also these sets include colors that would not necessarily be used very often in a scene, and colors that would need to be abundant in the nature scene (such as green and brown) would require a lot of sets as each set only has about 30 bricks of each color (extrudes to a total of about 50k spread per color between those 1667 sets). Also, I've not figured in any prop or themed sets that would include things like Palm Leaves (tropical Island), vehicles, or specialty blocks that wouldn't be included in the base set that would make the scenes more complete.
You do know that there are motorcycles with anti lock brakes, do you?
An '87 Venture Royale don't have em... And 60 ft. across an intersection is all I need to get up to 50mph from a dead stop without the front wheel coming off the ground once. That's 1st gear with 2k RPM left to go before redline. 2nd gear tops off at about 70. Running 65 mph in 3rd gear at 5k rpm is considered "babying the engine." I usually cruise 55 in 4th at 3k rpm and I don't touch 5th until I'm above 60 and 4k. Redline is just under 8k. The reason for all this info is just to show that dropping into third and rolling on the accellerator at 55 is right within the Torque band of the engine to give a nice 10mph / 10ft boost to speed, which increases Gyro forces, which increases the maneuverability of the bike considerably. Oh, and she squats and settles in real nice at 95. I've yet to reach her top speed, and I'm not certain what speed I did reach as the spedo only reads up to 125, which she hit at 5500, I got her up to 7k before I had to roll off for a turn in the track.
Dude...By the end of March RadioShack is dead. D-E-D - dead. They've filed chapter 11 bankruptcy and are liquidating. On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday the local RS stores near me will be having a grab-bag event where you can fill a small bag for $5, a medium bag for $15, and a large bag for $50. Anything that fits is yours. My local store has a crap ton of R-Pi's and Arduino Kits and shields left, and no one around me wants them. I'll be able to buy out the entire stock with a $15 bag or two... that's over $500 - 1,000 worth of equipment.
As far as the continued brand name: Sprint bought something like 1700 stores at auction on the 16th of this month, GameStop got a few others, the rest of the stores in the nation will be shuttered. The ones that remain will be RadioShack in brand only, and if I read correctly, it'll be something like "RadioShack by Sprint" or some crap like that. The stores GameStop bought I think are going to be losing the brand altogether.
RadioShack's new CFO was touting money in the bank numbering in tens of Billions and several tens of Billions above that worth in assets when the new CEO took over 2 or 3 years ago. Guess where RadioShack will be at the end of the week? Any RS that remains open will either be converted into a Sprint Store with an electronics section or possibly a GameStop. The rest will be gone.
Another take would be: How long does it take for depleted Star to go from stable, to Gas Super Giant to (Super)Nova? Just because they've got net worth of 700bn doesn't mean that they have the fuel to keep that from blowing up or imploding in their face.
Dumbass, in the scenario posed the danger was coming from behind. How the fuck is slowing down gonna save your ass when a Semi is barreling down on you and has no room to stop before slamming you as it is. Or I have a real-life situation where burst speed got me out of certain death.
I'm cruising down a 2 lane (one lane each direction) road with my wife on the back of my bike at 55 (posted limit). Good visibiltiy and no blind curves for about 3 miles down the road, and I could see the road for 2 miles behind me in the mirror. There's a Bar-B-Q place on the right hand side of the road that we're coming up on about 500 feet ahead, Black Ford explorer is coming at me slowing down with the left turn blinker, I instinctively roll back off the throttle and now I'm 60 ft away at 52 MPH...then she turns left. I looked her dead in the eyes and she still turned left. I have two choices here, brake hard and slam into her, or gear down, lay on the throttle to pick up Gyro Force, and go into a swerve around the back of her. When I made the commit, I had about 20 ft of space and she was still in my lane, oblivious to the havoc she just caused. Once my swerve started, I put my thumb on the red button throwing the quad Stebel Air Horns on. I made sure that I did this after the path commit was going to be guaranteed to be behind her turn just to make sure that I didn't throw her into a panic that would have made the situation worse on me. In roughly 40 ft. passed the SUV I was back in my lane and at level cruise at 72 mph, letting off the throttle to get back down to the limit and continuing my Sunday ride to the next gas station where I could figuratively change my underwear. Another biker a ways behind us saw the scene unfold and caught up with me at that gas station and asked why I didn't stop and confront the woman as I would have loved the look on her eyes after she heard the Stebel go off right behind her. I just said "I have an aversion to 20 to Life," and left it at that.
If I had followed your logic, I'd be either dead or in the hospital right now as this only happened a week and a half ago and in no case would my bike have come out of it in ridable condition. If I had hit the brakes, I would have slammed into her and that's the end of our ride. If I slowed down to initiate the swerve, my tail would have fishtailed and either my wife would have been the first one into the SUV, or we would both be flying off the other side of the road into the ditch with the bike following us, again ending our ride. If I touched on the brakes at any time just before and during the swerve, as soon as I touched into the swerve, I'd lose all maneuvering traction to the brake traction and likely the 900 lbs of sport touring bike would have bit the pavement on the front wheel and done an end over end flip down the road behind the SUV, yet again, ending our ride.
ASCAP (founded 1914) was still created after the invention of the Vinyl Record. The assorted Media Foundations were built out of a necessity for managing and facilitating widespread distribution of a new technology that was too expensive for individuals to handle on their own without a way to spread the costs to a wider group (kinda like the insurance model, the wider you disburse your costs, the cheaper a product is for all involved). You first need the recording technologies in place for that to be a viable business.
Before records the way music was reproduced and distributed was through sheet music, which was handled by the Newspaper and Book Publishing houses. Back then performances were done by local live musicians or the original wandering musician/composers. Live performance royalties at that time were paid for in the purchase of the sheet music.
Fast forward to now and distribution has become so cheap that it's easily managed and facilitated by the individual without having to rely so much on a large corporation to get a name out there. The Media Companies have outlived their usefulness, just as many newspaper publishers have had to shutter their doors with the advent of Internet News when they couldn't move to the new model fast enough. There may be one way the media corps can save themselves from complete extinction, but it would mean completely changing the model they've used since their inception over 100 years ago: Drop the need to own the music and personas and help people develop a public sellable image. Good luck with convincing them of that.
There's also the fact that she very likely was coached by her son's Lawyer/Public Defender to make that statement. Whether or not she really believes it, the public will never know...
...until she releases her book a year after the case is settled.