But you just go ahead and keep knocking people who are better at driving than their cars, I'm sure you know better than they do.
If you can't drive an auto, you're in no position to be criticising anyone else's driving. After all, your *worst case* scenario is having to change gears like you would in a manual, just without pushing in a clutch.
That said, it still won't do anything if you're doing less than 30, but it can be surprising to hit what you think is the set button and have the cruise control suddenly floor it.
I've never seen a cruise control "floor it". Acceleration is noticable, but nothing close to the maximum possible.
While I can see employers keeping their half of the FICA taxes, it seems quite unlikely that they would try to keep the employee half, which employees can just verify from their old pay stubs.
My point is that the existence, or non-existence, of a fixed and known cost, is not going to have any meaningful impact on real wages.
This may be news to you, but employers have to compete for workers, especially in a growing economy (which we can have again when we quit punishing people for succeeding.)
It isn't news to me at all. What would be news to me, however, is how a fixed and known expense could change that.
The Swiss experience is THE argument for the classical definition of "militia" as used by the US Founders. Their government dare not become oppressive given a completely armed citizenry. Their traditions and cultural uniformity have combined with this to produce an excellent place to live.
I always have to chuckle when I Switzerland held up as "an excellent place to live" in these sorts of discussions.
The average American would find the gun laws of Switzerland to be restrictive, the laws in general to be oppressive and the culture to be conformist and boring. I can pretty much guarantee they wouldn't want to live there, even without the language barrier.
Actually, the poor are the ones most damaged by our current system. If we eliminate payroll taxes, that's 12.4% of their earnings that don't get sucked out of their pockets by the federal government for a start.
Do you seriously think it would change their take-home wage in any way ? Are you really naive enough to think their employers wouldn't just drop their wages "12.4%" ?
Furthermore, US safety standards are more stringent than EU ones. It's very difficult to sell a vehicle under around 3200lbs in the US these days -- won't meet crash standards.
That's because your crash standards have to work around the problem that a significant proportion of American drivers are too stupid to wear seatbelts. Same reason your cars need bigger, more powerful airbags.
What's the point in going to a smaller car if the engine is still big?
Because a small car with a "big" engine delivers an excellent driving experience without significantly worse fuel economy ?
The weight of the car and, more importantly, how you drive it, are vastly more significant factors than engine displacement when it comes to fuel consumption (unless you're comparing something like a 1.6L 4 cylinder to a 5L V8).
But if you live in someone else's house without paying rent, and they walk on you on the crapper, then that's kinda to be expected.
If you have someone boarding with you, and you setup a hidden camera to watch them on the toilet, I sincerely doubt the law is going to come down on your side if it goes to court based on the argument "it's my house, I can do what I want".
I am still surprised how many people (even here on our geeky slashdot group who should know better) choose something based on it being offered for free, no matter what happens to their privacy. The same people who complain about casual people using Facebook and how much information they're putting there, and not realizing how much privacy they are losing by using Google's free products and search engine.
There *is* a non-trivial difference between having certain behaviours attached to an essentially anonymous number, and throwing your whole life out on a website saying "this is me".
I can certainly see why people might have different opinions on these two things.
In case it really wasn't clear - you were the one with the one-track mind about shifting to neutral being a minimum requirement for competent driving [...]
Yes, I stated that anyone who didn't understand that neutral stops the engine from driving the wheels should not be allowed to drive. Can you come up with a single good reason why they _should_ be considered competent and ready to drive a vehicle on public roads, despite not grasping a basic and fundamental aspect of how the vehicle operates and how to react in an emergency situation ?
[...] when faced with incontrovertible evidence of your folly you started grasping for straws [...]
"Incontrovertible evidence" of what, exactly ? Since when is a particular vehicle's manual an authoritative source on how to drive safely ? Since when does "may" mean "will" ?
So much so that you just went back to trying to argue for shifting to neutral again.
And will continue to do so. Shifting to neutral will not inherently cause a car to "lose control". This is something anyone who gets behind the wheel of a vehicle should understand.
Its not an ad-hominem if it is an accurate description.
Except it's not an accurate description. I'm quite capable of "seeing beyond my own experiences". I just can't see any reason why dangerous drivers should be allowed to drive.
You've just got so little empathy you can't step outside yourself for even a second -- I mean look at youreself, still trying to argue that he should be expected to shift to neutral. The shoe fits dude.
Perhaps you should consider that you're the one insisting someone who doesn't understand a fundamental and basic driving concept should be allowed to direct tonnes of metal around at 80mph.
I'm curious. How easily do you "empathise" with the drunk driver who drives into a group of pedestrians and kills them ? Do you think we should lock him up, or do you think we should just let him drive away ?
That is silly and ridiculous. How many times do you hear of someone running a red light at 80 and smashing into another vehicle because they were on the phone?
I've been in the same car as someone who ran a red light at 45 because she was too busy discussing the nice pair of shoes she'd just found to pay attention to the road. She later said that she'd done that multiple times.
Needless to say I don't ride with that person any more.
And the cognitive dissonance sets in - live by the sword die by the sword sucka. "Loss of control of the vehicle" has nothing to do with destroying the transmission. Don't even try to change the subject to turning the engine off, you were the one requiring 100% competence and at the same time advocating a complete disregard for the instructions.
I'm not asking for 100% competence. Understanding that neutral disconnects the engine from the wheels, and realising when that might be useful, fits in at less than 10% competence. Heck, it's not even as complicated as knowing to steer into a skid, or that not locking up the wheels will stop you faster (other driving skills that fit into "incompetent without this knowledge").
Incidentally, I notice you are conveniently ignoring that the Prius manual says to turn the engine off in case of an emergency.
Your aptitude for failing to see beyond your own personal experiences is fantastic!
You asked a question, I gave an answer. Throwing around ad-hominems isn't going to change the answer. I'll say it again: anyone who doesn't understand what neutral is shouldn't be behind the wheel of a car.
Dell can't do two boards with 8 cores on each in 1U and I've got some of those a couple of years old now.
They're called blades.
The density isn't quite as high, but since you'll nearly always run out of power or cooling long before you run out of rack space, even with 1U boxes, there's not a lot of benefit from increasing density much past even a simple 1U pizza box. The benefits of blades are more in the management centralisation and reduced cabling, which you don't get in those servers you're talking about.
So, if the Prius manual said, "Do not, under any circumstances, shift the shift lever to 'R', 'N' or push the 'P' position switch while the vehicle is moving. Doing so can cause significant damage to the transmission and may result in a loss of vehicle control." you would have to fail to tolerate yourself, eh?
No, I'd observe that destroying a transmission or simply turning off the engine is still a preferable outcome to being in a couple of tons of metal that won't stop. Of course, instead of doing that I'd just turn the engine off like that manual says to do in an emergency situation.
Lol, typical smug bastard response.
After 15+ years of driving, and over half a million kilometres covered in ten different countries, I feel confident that an answer of "hundreds" is likely a gross underestimate.
Large savings! You are never going to get large savings on OS installs through dedup unless your idea of a large amount of storage is a handful of TB.
It's not (directly) about TB, it's about spindle counts.
Oh and buying that amount of storage in NetApp's would be hugely prohibative, and there is no point in saving IOPS because even our ancient DS4400 that is soon to be replaced gets no where near it's IOPS.
It's great you have enough spindles to not be IO-bound, but some of us aren't that lucky.
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But you just go ahead and keep knocking people who are better at driving than their cars, I'm sure you know better than they do.
If you can't drive an auto, you're in no position to be criticising anyone else's driving. After all, your *worst case* scenario is having to change gears like you would in a manual, just without pushing in a clutch.
It always baffles me that non-native English speakers on /. have better sentence structure/grammar/spelling than the supposed 'native' speakers.
English hasn't been taught properly in most English-speaking countries for going on two decades now, so it doesn't surprise me in the least.
That said, it still won't do anything if you're doing less than 30, but it can be surprising to hit what you think is the set button and have the cruise control suddenly floor it.
I've never seen a cruise control "floor it". Acceleration is noticable, but nothing close to the maximum possible.
What vehicle ?
While I can see employers keeping their half of the FICA taxes, it seems quite unlikely that they would try to keep the employee half, which employees can just verify from their old pay stubs.
My point is that the existence, or non-existence, of a fixed and known cost, is not going to have any meaningful impact on real wages.
This may be news to you, but employers have to compete for workers, especially in a growing economy (which we can have again when we quit punishing people for succeeding.)
It isn't news to me at all. What would be news to me, however, is how a fixed and known expense could change that.
The Swiss experience is THE argument for the classical definition of "militia" as used by the US Founders. Their government dare not become oppressive given a completely armed citizenry. Their traditions and cultural uniformity have combined with this to produce an excellent place to live.
I always have to chuckle when I Switzerland held up as "an excellent place to live" in these sorts of discussions.
The average American would find the gun laws of Switzerland to be restrictive, the laws in general to be oppressive and the culture to be conformist and boring. I can pretty much guarantee they wouldn't want to live there, even without the language barrier.
Actually, the poor are the ones most damaged by our current system. If we eliminate payroll taxes, that's 12.4% of their earnings that don't get sucked out of their pockets by the federal government for a start.
Do you seriously think it would change their take-home wage in any way ? Are you really naive enough to think their employers wouldn't just drop their wages "12.4%" ?
Furthermore, US safety standards are more stringent than EU ones. It's very difficult to sell a vehicle under around 3200lbs in the US these days -- won't meet crash standards.
That's because your crash standards have to work around the problem that a significant proportion of American drivers are too stupid to wear seatbelts. Same reason your cars need bigger, more powerful airbags.
What's the point in going to a smaller car if the engine is still big?
Because a small car with a "big" engine delivers an excellent driving experience without significantly worse fuel economy ?
The weight of the car and, more importantly, how you drive it, are vastly more significant factors than engine displacement when it comes to fuel consumption (unless you're comparing something like a 1.6L 4 cylinder to a 5L V8).
We don't have anything nearly as powerful to protect our freedoms in the rest of the world;[...]
Yes, we do, it's just implemented differently.
But if you live in someone else's house without paying rent, and they walk on you on the crapper, then that's kinda to be expected.
If you have someone boarding with you, and you setup a hidden camera to watch them on the toilet, I sincerely doubt the law is going to come down on your side if it goes to court based on the argument "it's my house, I can do what I want".
Most companies do not absolutely prohibit any personal usage, allowing some reasonable usage.
Usually right up until the point they want an excuse to get rid of you.
I am still surprised how many people (even here on our geeky slashdot group who should know better) choose something based on it being offered for free, no matter what happens to their privacy. The same people who complain about casual people using Facebook and how much information they're putting there, and not realizing how much privacy they are losing by using Google's free products and search engine.
There *is* a non-trivial difference between having certain behaviours attached to an essentially anonymous number, and throwing your whole life out on a website saying "this is me".
I can certainly see why people might have different opinions on these two things.
Hedonistic? Yes. Hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure as the goal of life. I'd say sex qualifies.
So anyone having sex for purposes other than reproduction is hedonistic ?
Are Catholics forbidden from marrying non-Catholics ?
I disagree. It is to scare all the people currently pirating into not pirating.
A pointless objective because it gains them nothing.
These are not people who are looking to buy the movies so they will just go without.
That seems a rather naive assertion.
I'm still unclear on the business benefit to the MPAA companies that comes from suing their customer base.
The objective is to scare all the people currently pirating into buying.
I would have thought that would be pretty obvious.
In case it really wasn't clear - you were the one with the one-track mind about shifting to neutral being a minimum requirement for competent driving [...]
Yes, I stated that anyone who didn't understand that neutral stops the engine from driving the wheels should not be allowed to drive. Can you come up with a single good reason why they _should_ be considered competent and ready to drive a vehicle on public roads, despite not grasping a basic and fundamental aspect of how the vehicle operates and how to react in an emergency situation ?
[...] when faced with incontrovertible evidence of your folly you started grasping for straws [...]
"Incontrovertible evidence" of what, exactly ? Since when is a particular vehicle's manual an authoritative source on how to drive safely ? Since when does "may" mean "will" ?
So much so that you just went back to trying to argue for shifting to neutral again.
And will continue to do so. Shifting to neutral will not inherently cause a car to "lose control". This is something anyone who gets behind the wheel of a vehicle should understand.
Its not an ad-hominem if it is an accurate description.
Except it's not an accurate description. I'm quite capable of "seeing beyond my own experiences". I just can't see any reason why dangerous drivers should be allowed to drive.
You've just got so little empathy you can't step outside yourself for even a second -- I mean look at youreself, still trying to argue that he should be expected to shift to neutral. The shoe fits dude.
Perhaps you should consider that you're the one insisting someone who doesn't understand a fundamental and basic driving concept should be allowed to direct tonnes of metal around at 80mph.
I'm curious. How easily do you "empathise" with the drunk driver who drives into a group of pedestrians and kills them ? Do you think we should lock him up, or do you think we should just let him drive away ?
Why would any programmer do that?
Because most of the time, when people start selecting a word, they want to select the whole word.
That is silly and ridiculous. How many times do you hear of someone running a red light at 80 and smashing into another vehicle because they were on the phone?
I've been in the same car as someone who ran a red light at 45 because she was too busy discussing the nice pair of shoes she'd just found to pay attention to the road. She later said that she'd done that multiple times.
Needless to say I don't ride with that person any more.
In a manual car there's a point to being in neutral - it's the intermediate state when shifting, especially if you double declutch.
That's not "being in neutral" any more than you're "driving at 25mph" when you pass it accelerating from a standstill to 40.
And the cognitive dissonance sets in - live by the sword die by the sword sucka. "Loss of control of the vehicle" has nothing to do with destroying the transmission. Don't even try to change the subject to turning the engine off, you were the one requiring 100% competence and at the same time advocating a complete disregard for the instructions.
I'm not asking for 100% competence. Understanding that neutral disconnects the engine from the wheels, and realising when that might be useful, fits in at less than 10% competence. Heck, it's not even as complicated as knowing to steer into a skid, or that not locking up the wheels will stop you faster (other driving skills that fit into "incompetent without this knowledge").
Incidentally, I notice you are conveniently ignoring that the Prius manual says to turn the engine off in case of an emergency.
Your aptitude for failing to see beyond your own personal experiences is fantastic!
You asked a question, I gave an answer. Throwing around ad-hominems isn't going to change the answer. I'll say it again: anyone who doesn't understand what neutral is shouldn't be behind the wheel of a car.
Dell can't do two boards with 8 cores on each in 1U and I've got some of those a couple of years old now.
They're called blades.
The density isn't quite as high, but since you'll nearly always run out of power or cooling long before you run out of rack space, even with 1U boxes, there's not a lot of benefit from increasing density much past even a simple 1U pizza box. The benefits of blades are more in the management centralisation and reduced cabling, which you don't get in those servers you're talking about.
So, if the Prius manual said, "Do not, under any circumstances, shift the shift lever to 'R', 'N' or push the 'P' position switch while the vehicle is moving. Doing so can cause significant damage to the transmission and may result in a loss of vehicle control." you would have to fail to tolerate yourself, eh?
No, I'd observe that destroying a transmission or simply turning off the engine is still a preferable outcome to being in a couple of tons of metal that won't stop. Of course, instead of doing that I'd just turn the engine off like that manual says to do in an emergency situation.
Lol, typical smug bastard response.
After 15+ years of driving, and over half a million kilometres covered in ten different countries, I feel confident that an answer of "hundreds" is likely a gross underestimate.
Large savings! You are never going to get large savings on OS installs through dedup unless your idea of a large amount of storage is a handful of TB.
It's not (directly) about TB, it's about spindle counts.
Oh and buying that amount of storage in NetApp's would be hugely prohibative, and there is no point in saving IOPS because even our ancient DS4400 that is soon to be replaced gets no where near it's IOPS.
It's great you have enough spindles to not be IO-bound, but some of us aren't that lucky.