Football in a nutshell: The line of scrimmage is the line around which each team lines up, facing each other, to begin a play. After the play begins, the offense tries to get the ball across the line of scrimmage, either by passing or carrying. If they succeed, then the team has gained yardage and the line of scrimmage advances to where the ball went down. Conversely, if an offensive player is tackled behind the line of scrimmage while holding the ball, then yardage is lost. The technology described in the video is used to draw a yellow line on the field, representing the current line of scrimmage, which shows up on the live broadcast. This is a convenience for viewers. There is also a white line rendered using the same method which indicates the 'first down' position. The offense only has four 'downs', or plays. Their short term goal is to get the ball across the first down line in order to reset the counter. If, after four downs they still have not passed the first down line, ball possession goes to the other team. Otherwise, the counter is reset and the team continues its advance, with the new first down line being set to ten yards past the new line of scrimmage. The game continues in this manner until the offensive team scores, possession goes to the other team for some reason, or time runs out.
Yeah, that strategy works for about 5 minutes, until the user is bombarded with UAC dialogs for stupid shit that should never be popping up a UAC dialog in the first place. I tried Vista with an open mind but quickly came to hate it because of the incessant dialogs popping up. Sometimes two or three fucking UAC dialogs would pop up for ONE action, like moving a file from point A to B. This is one of several reasons why Vista is garbage. Then there's the wireless network that for some reason, sometimes just won't fucking work, followed by an attempt to FTP files between two PCs through a crossover cable that also could not be made to work, the concerted attempt to hide important dialogs where they can't be found without hours of searching, and the baffling reasons why Microsoft decided to make certain operations and settings harder to access than they ought to be. Oh yeah, DRM too. I will try the Windows 7 beta tomorrow just out of curiosity to see what they've done. If it doesn't suck, maybe I'll even install a pirated copy one day on a gaming PC or something, but otherwise I'll be sticking with Ubuntu, or XP where Windows is needed, thanks anyway though.
Sucker. I knew better than to let any car dealer have my cell number. Sadly they have my address, so I regularly get mail from Lexus -- likely the same stuff you get on robo call.
The Ford dealer has my address since I bought my Mustang there. For several years I have been getting mailings from them urging me to come trade in my vehicle since they are "critically low" on used vehicles. My Mustang is now a custom hot rod with a big block Cadillac engine in it. Looks stock on the outside except for a cowl hood. I am tempted to come in and pretend to want to trade it in and ask how much they'd give me, or get them to do an oil change, and watch the "technicians" scratch their heads for an hour trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
I am trying to explain that most people who live in cities have taken for granted the clear evolutionary advantages of doing so, to the point that now we talk fondly about how wonderful it would be to live among nature again, which is bollocks.
By your use of the word 'bollocks' I infer that you are a Brit, and as such have probably never experienced anything other than crowded urban living. I have lived out in the countryside in Alabama and I have spent much time in big cities. I can say without a doubt, hands down, country living is way easier and far less stressful--even if you are completely cut off from civilization and have had to hunt for your food, make fires, etc.
because they can always return to society and fall back on technological conveniences when nature decides to, say, drop a blizzard on your head or have a jaguar rip your arm off.
Yeah, until said blizzard takes out the power for weeks, like the big blizzard of '93. Oops, those wonderful 'technological conveniences' are now rendered worthless. Many clueless urbanites froze to death during that one. We burnt firewood in our 'primitive' wood heater and stayed nice and cozy throughout the ordeal.
I've also spent a lot of time out in the woods here and I've yet to have the first jaguar leap out and rip my arm off. I guess that's because jaguars don't live in Alabama. I'm pretty sure they don't live in the UK either. That would be because the woodlands there (and here) are temperate forests, not tropical jungles. The only sort of dangerous creatures that live around here are pit vipers (small poisonous snakes), and they are easily avoided. I imagine the dangers of UK forests are similarly mild.
You should study anthropology some time. Most 'primitive' hunter-gatherer/agricultural cultures of the past had higher standards of living than our culture does, in many ways. They usually didn't spend all day every day worrying about where the next meal was coming from, like you assert. When they needed meat, they would hunt. They planted crops, built houses, etc. They generally had a lot of free time. How do you think these cultures were able to make technological advancements in the first place? What is civilization, if not for technological advancement? A person who is constantly hungry and struggling to survive isn't going to invent anything, and the many people who are barely getting by in NYC while living in squalor generally aren't inventing anything either. Seriously, how many of the famous inventors of the past did their work while living in a crowded row-house in Philadelphia compared to those living in big, comfortable houses out in the quiet countryside? The only reason disease and starvation is such a problem in places like Africa is because, well, it's Africa. The climate is hot and humid, and dangerous predators and insects are plentiful. The place is overcrowded in many areas and overcrowding combined with non-existent sanitation is deadly. That's why humanity did so well when it migrated northward into Europe. The predators were fewer, less deadly, and more manageable, the insects not nearly as problematic, etc.
And who gives a shit, anyhow? Military weapons are the 'killer app' of space. We're going to get absolutely nowhere by attempting to convince people to "throw away" money on boring ass research "for the good of mankind." But just convince some generals that the next big thing is building huge space weapons platforms and spacecraft to counter the Chinese threat, and suddenly you'll have billions of dollars being poured into aerospace propulsion, ship design, etc. Sure, war is bad. But here we sit on this big rock, with a rapidly growing population and diminishing resources. What happens when the population gets too big and the resources are too few? What happens when someone accidently launches an ICBM and every nation on Earth follows suit? What if a huge meteor strikes? Humans are always going to be competitive and war-like. Let's bring the war out into space, develop new technologies in the process, start getting people off this rock, and deflate tensions here on Earth.
Mostly good info but I disagree with a few points. You CAN install this yourself, and you CAN maintain it yourself. This stuff is not rocket science. If you've got the spare cash to burn, go ahead and pay someone else. But consider the benefits of knowing how to work on the thing yourself: what happens when the repair man can't be reached after some small (but disabling) failure occurs in the middle of a two week power outage? Wouldn't you like to be able to figure out the problem and fix it yourself?
Sorry, your post is flamebait. Like the grandparent I refuse to run that crap on any of my Windows PCs. It slows the computer down and it's simply not necessary if the user is somewhat clueful and takes appropriate precautions. I have never had a hole in my browser or OS exploited to install malware. The only time I got a piece of malware installed was when I was stupid and ran a suspicious EXE off a cracking site. (And yes, I have ran many EXEs off cracking sites without problems; I had a bad feeling about this one but stupidly ran it anyway.) I am not a new user; I have been using PCs since the MS-DOS 5.0 days and at no point in time have I EVER had to rely on antivirus/antimalware/etc software to keep my computer clean.
And yes, I *would* know if my PC became infected with spyware. I do pop up the task manager from time to time for various reasons and I know which exactly processes are normal and which don't belong. I don't run a bunch of bullshit programs in my system tray or background processes so I know right away when the system starts acting abnormal; I then immediately start looking for the cause. (Back in the DOS days you could just watch your hard disk activity LED for unusual activity.)
Every single 3D accelerator I have ever owned has been an NVidia, up until now. Not because I am an NVidia fan-boy, but because that's what I started with (TNT!) and (since I switched over to Linux) because NVidia has always been the best choice for Linux support. I have never considered ATI since their Linux drivers have been craptastic. But in between what I've heard of ATI drivers having improved lately, and now with these drivers being open source, I will definitely be giving ATI a look when I build my next PC in a few months. Thanks ATI!
1) Using a keyboard with poor design, and relying on your eyes to detect and correct errors. First, you make more errors. Then, if you type at any kind of reasonable rate, you usually won't detect an error until at least 3-4 keystrokes later. So then you have to either a) backspace over those letters to get to the error, correct it, then start typing again, or b) move your hands across the keyboard to use the arrow keys to correct the error. Either way is irritating and breaks your concentration.
-OR-
2) Using a keyboard that helps you make fewer errors to begin with through excellent tactile and auditory feedback, as well as longer key travel and a better resistance curve. Your hands become highly trained machines able to pound out sentences and paragraphs efficiently. When you do make the occasional error, you can FEEL it. With little need to concentrate on your screen, your eyes are free to unfocus while your mind focuses on the message you are trying to get across. When you do make an error, you know it instantly and can quickly correct it without your entire train of thought being broken.
You must have never actually used a Model M. Do yourself a favor and acquire/borrow/steal one, then use it exclusively for a couple weeks. Write code, type letters, send messages, and use your IM client--text entry is where the keyboard excels. The tactile and audio feedback enable one to type faster with far fewer errors. It is much harder to 'accidently' hit a key on the Model M; and when you do press a key, your mind knows it without you having to look at the screen and process it visually, thus allowing you to concentrate on more important things like what you are actually trying to type. It will seem difficult to use at first because your weak little fingers are not used to pressing real keys. You will quickly become acclimatized though.
Additional benefits of the Model M include durability, quality construction, etc.
Maybe the Model M is your favorite keyboard after you've used it for a while, or maybe it isn't, but either way it should earn your respect as a quality keyboard.
I think you're over-exaggerating a bit. I live in rural Alabama so I know all about the dangers of deer collisions. The chances of hitting one in broad daylight is very low, at least around here. By the time you see it and brake/swerve, you're traveling 35-40 at the most; plus most deer-vehicles collisions result in the deer hitting the corner of the vehicle and spinning off the side of the road with relatively minimal damage to the vehicle. Using a cell phone is a bit distracting, yes, but if you're even the least bit careful about paying attention to the road (which I am) then there is no way you are going to hit some stalled vehicle on the side of the road. If you flip your car into the ditch and die as a result of such circumstances then you are simply a poor driver. I agree, retards should not use cell phones and drive, but then again they shouldn't even be driving to begin with. A responsible person who is careful to pay attention to the road while talking is really not taking that big of a risk. And as far as what I drive, that depends on the situation--an 87 Chevy truck, a Mustang, a Camaro, or a Honda bike. I am big time into driving, and driving carefully is not exactly new to me.
You really think society should just toss kids the keys and let them learn on their own?
False dichotomy
How about instead teaching your kids responsibility from an early age, so that when they become teenagers they will--gasp--be responsible without having to resort to electronic nannies? (Which won't solve the underlying problem.)
Being in control of a car during rush hour traffic demands my full attention, sure. Being in control of a car while cruising down a lonesome highway at 55 MPH with no other cars in sight does not demand my full attention. Which is why I don't call or text in the former case, and frequently do in the latter.
No, the original poster had it right. The whole "treating your employees like professionals" thing doesn't just stop at the team level. If you have an employee who isn't pulling his weight, then you as a leader should have the power to do whatever it takes to correct the problem and/or have him fired. If you are having to come up with all kinds of documentation and crap to prove to someone else that he really is a problem, then the real problem is that your superiors aren't treating YOU like a professional. You are better off looking for a new company, because odds are the poor leadership qualities go all the way to to the top.
Sucks to be you. I have an Dell laptop (one of the Ubuntu models) and the suspend (and hibernate) features work perfectly every time.
I can also apparently type more than that for my comment, so here is some extra garbage to take up some space. Slashdot, can you please stop with this lame hand-holding bullshit?
You forgot to mention that in this imperfect world, we also have imperfect (and downright immoral/wrong) laws. Anonymity is a defense against bad laws, such as the criminalization of marijuana for instance, amongst many others. And in the case of women having abortions, this imperfect world also has finite resources along with a huge and continuously growing human population. While I wouldn't advocate forced abortions and such like the Chinese are known for, by choosing an abortion a woman is not only serving her own interests but those of humanity as a whole as well.
No, this study changes nothing. It's not about the car, it's about the class of people who typically drive them. Different types of cars attract different types of people.
I am from Alabama, and if I see a rusted out, primered up '72 Nova with Confederate flag and "Fear This" stickers driving down the road, I would be pretty surprised if I saw a corporate exec in a business suit driving it. If I saw a brand new BMW rolling down the street then I would be surprising to see a mulleted, tattooed redneck behind the wheel.
I guarantee you that a typical good ole boy redneck gettin 'er done in his rusted out POS does not drive in the exact same manner as a snobbish corporate exec who thinks he is hot shit in his $3,000 suit and brand new BMW. The driving society as a whole comes to understand that certain types of people tend to drive certain vehicles, so when you see that vehicle out on the road your mind automatically makes certain assumptions about the person driving it. It's an assumption, yes, but a pretty good one that is borne out by real experience.
Some cars have stronger stereotypes than others. For example, BMW, Corvette, and (new) Beetle all have certain images associated with them that some people seek out and others avoid. Mustangs (my favorite) and Camaros are the same way, but not as strong. A Camry, Accord, or something like that really doesn't have much of an image, it's more of a bland family car. Nobody sees a Camry cut someone off and thinks "yet another stupid Camry driver", but if a guy in a BMW does the same thing it just reinforces the stereotype. If you look closely, you can see a pattern here. The more expensive the car, the more likely it is to have a certain "image" associated with it. I would say that BMWs as a particular example tend to attract a lot of assholes, because it it just nice and expensive enough to be exclusive but not expensive enough to be unaffordable to the typical young hot shot exec--or those who want to be like him. I'd also bet that the typical BMW driver in Europe is not the same as in the States, because BMWs are cheaper to purchase over there.
No guy, at least here in the South, would be caught dead driving a Prius because everything about the car just screams homosexual. Sneer and jeer all you want about how this fact proves your culture (wherever it may be--California, Europe, whatever) is superior to everyone else, but the fact remains. The truth is, if the automakers want hybrids to be more widely accepted, they need to design and market them to Joe Average American and not to So.Cal. metrosexual Starbucks-inhabiting elitists. Build a hybrid with a top speed of 140+ MPH, 100+ MPH trap speed in the quarter, aggressive looks, 40+ MPG, and reasonable cost, and it will sell like crazy. Otherwise, don't be pissed when most people aren't interested.
If you are stopped at a red light and you see some retard flying up behind you not paying attention to the light, being able to stomp on the gas and get out of his way just might save your ass. Been there, done that. If you are travelling down the right lane minding your business, and somebody is pulling off a side street or something, not paying any attention to you, stomping the gas at the right time just might get you clear of a collision. Been there, done that. If you are in a merge lane trying to merge into heavy traffic, having power under the hood is wonderful, because now you can actually dart out into an open spot and merge easily instead of having to come to a complete stop and hold up traffic for an hour until you wait for an opening that your 80 horsepower engine is able to exploit.
SO? Who gives a fuck? This is Blizzard, their games are worth the fucking money. If you don't want to pay it then don't pay it, but jesus christ, could you please stop whining about it on Slashdot? I can think of 50 other games titles I wish I had just torrented and saved my money and put it towards a Blizzard game. I'm sure you can too.
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Football in a nutshell: The line of scrimmage is the line around which each team lines up, facing each other, to begin a play. After the play begins, the offense tries to get the ball across the line of scrimmage, either by passing or carrying. If they succeed, then the team has gained yardage and the line of scrimmage advances to where the ball went down. Conversely, if an offensive player is tackled behind the line of scrimmage while holding the ball, then yardage is lost. The technology described in the video is used to draw a yellow line on the field, representing the current line of scrimmage, which shows up on the live broadcast. This is a convenience for viewers. There is also a white line rendered using the same method which indicates the 'first down' position. The offense only has four 'downs', or plays. Their short term goal is to get the ball across the first down line in order to reset the counter. If, after four downs they still have not passed the first down line, ball possession goes to the other team. Otherwise, the counter is reset and the team continues its advance, with the new first down line being set to ten yards past the new line of scrimmage. The game continues in this manner until the offensive team scores, possession goes to the other team for some reason, or time runs out.
Yeah, that strategy works for about 5 minutes, until the user is bombarded with UAC dialogs for stupid shit that should never be popping up a UAC dialog in the first place. I tried Vista with an open mind but quickly came to hate it because of the incessant dialogs popping up. Sometimes two or three fucking UAC dialogs would pop up for ONE action, like moving a file from point A to B. This is one of several reasons why Vista is garbage. Then there's the wireless network that for some reason, sometimes just won't fucking work, followed by an attempt to FTP files between two PCs through a crossover cable that also could not be made to work, the concerted attempt to hide important dialogs where they can't be found without hours of searching, and the baffling reasons why Microsoft decided to make certain operations and settings harder to access than they ought to be. Oh yeah, DRM too. I will try the Windows 7 beta tomorrow just out of curiosity to see what they've done. If it doesn't suck, maybe I'll even install a pirated copy one day on a gaming PC or something, but otherwise I'll be sticking with Ubuntu, or XP where Windows is needed, thanks anyway though.
Sucker. I knew better than to let any car dealer have my cell number. Sadly they have my address, so I regularly get mail from Lexus -- likely the same stuff you get on robo call.
The Ford dealer has my address since I bought my Mustang there. For several years I have been getting mailings from them urging me to come trade in my vehicle since they are "critically low" on used vehicles. My Mustang is now a custom hot rod with a big block Cadillac engine in it. Looks stock on the outside except for a cowl hood. I am tempted to come in and pretend to want to trade it in and ask how much they'd give me, or get them to do an oil change, and watch the "technicians" scratch their heads for an hour trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
I am trying to explain that most people who live in cities have taken for granted the clear evolutionary advantages of doing so, to the point that now we talk fondly about how wonderful it would be to live among nature again, which is bollocks.
By your use of the word 'bollocks' I infer that you are a Brit, and as such have probably never experienced anything other than crowded urban living. I have lived out in the countryside in Alabama and I have spent much time in big cities. I can say without a doubt, hands down, country living is way easier and far less stressful--even if you are completely cut off from civilization and have had to hunt for your food, make fires, etc.
because they can always return to society and fall back on technological conveniences when nature decides to, say, drop a blizzard on your head or have a jaguar rip your arm off.
Yeah, until said blizzard takes out the power for weeks, like the big blizzard of '93. Oops, those wonderful 'technological conveniences' are now rendered worthless. Many clueless urbanites froze to death during that one. We burnt firewood in our 'primitive' wood heater and stayed nice and cozy throughout the ordeal.
I've also spent a lot of time out in the woods here and I've yet to have the first jaguar leap out and rip my arm off. I guess that's because jaguars don't live in Alabama. I'm pretty sure they don't live in the UK either. That would be because the woodlands there (and here) are temperate forests, not tropical jungles. The only sort of dangerous creatures that live around here are pit vipers (small poisonous snakes), and they are easily avoided. I imagine the dangers of UK forests are similarly mild.
You should study anthropology some time. Most 'primitive' hunter-gatherer/agricultural cultures of the past had higher standards of living than our culture does, in many ways. They usually didn't spend all day every day worrying about where the next meal was coming from, like you assert. When they needed meat, they would hunt. They planted crops, built houses, etc. They generally had a lot of free time. How do you think these cultures were able to make technological advancements in the first place? What is civilization, if not for technological advancement? A person who is constantly hungry and struggling to survive isn't going to invent anything, and the many people who are barely getting by in NYC while living in squalor generally aren't inventing anything either. Seriously, how many of the famous inventors of the past did their work while living in a crowded row-house in Philadelphia compared to those living in big, comfortable houses out in the quiet countryside? The only reason disease and starvation is such a problem in places like Africa is because, well, it's Africa. The climate is hot and humid, and dangerous predators and insects are plentiful. The place is overcrowded in many areas and overcrowding combined with non-existent sanitation is deadly. That's why humanity did so well when it migrated northward into Europe. The predators were fewer, less deadly, and more manageable, the insects not nearly as problematic, etc.
Personally, I plan on being dead in a time span that measures in decades, not billions of years.
Speak for yourself--I plan to live forever.
And who gives a shit, anyhow? Military weapons are the 'killer app' of space. We're going to get absolutely nowhere by attempting to convince people to "throw away" money on boring ass research "for the good of mankind." But just convince some generals that the next big thing is building huge space weapons platforms and spacecraft to counter the Chinese threat, and suddenly you'll have billions of dollars being poured into aerospace propulsion, ship design, etc. Sure, war is bad. But here we sit on this big rock, with a rapidly growing population and diminishing resources. What happens when the population gets too big and the resources are too few? What happens when someone accidently launches an ICBM and every nation on Earth follows suit? What if a huge meteor strikes? Humans are always going to be competitive and war-like. Let's bring the war out into space, develop new technologies in the process, start getting people off this rock, and deflate tensions here on Earth.
jesus christ it's a lion get in the car!!1
If you ever think you have to turn off the main breaker to prevent a backfeed, you are making an illegal connection.
Are you certain that your statement applies to every single area in every single state of the U.S.?
(I ask because it doesn't.)
Mostly good info but I disagree with a few points. You CAN install this yourself, and you CAN maintain it yourself. This stuff is not rocket science. If you've got the spare cash to burn, go ahead and pay someone else. But consider the benefits of knowing how to work on the thing yourself: what happens when the repair man can't be reached after some small (but disabling) failure occurs in the middle of a two week power outage? Wouldn't you like to be able to figure out the problem and fix it yourself?
Sorry, your post is flamebait. Like the grandparent I refuse to run that crap on any of my Windows PCs. It slows the computer down and it's simply not necessary if the user is somewhat clueful and takes appropriate precautions. I have never had a hole in my browser or OS exploited to install malware. The only time I got a piece of malware installed was when I was stupid and ran a suspicious EXE off a cracking site. (And yes, I have ran many EXEs off cracking sites without problems; I had a bad feeling about this one but stupidly ran it anyway.) I am not a new user; I have been using PCs since the MS-DOS 5.0 days and at no point in time have I EVER had to rely on antivirus/antimalware/etc software to keep my computer clean.
And yes, I *would* know if my PC became infected with spyware. I do pop up the task manager from time to time for various reasons and I know which exactly processes are normal and which don't belong. I don't run a bunch of bullshit programs in my system tray or background processes so I know right away when the system starts acting abnormal; I then immediately start looking for the cause. (Back in the DOS days you could just watch your hard disk activity LED for unusual activity.)
Every single 3D accelerator I have ever owned has been an NVidia, up until now. Not because I am an NVidia fan-boy, but because that's what I started with (TNT!) and (since I switched over to Linux) because NVidia has always been the best choice for Linux support. I have never considered ATI since their Linux drivers have been craptastic. But in between what I've heard of ATI drivers having improved lately, and now with these drivers being open source, I will definitely be giving ATI a look when I build my next PC in a few months. Thanks ATI!
Let's analyze these two scenarios:
1) Using a keyboard with poor design, and relying on your eyes to detect and correct errors. First, you make more errors. Then, if you type at any kind of reasonable rate, you usually won't detect an error until at least 3-4 keystrokes later. So then you have to either a) backspace over those letters to get to the error, correct it, then start typing again, or b) move your hands across the keyboard to use the arrow keys to correct the error. Either way is irritating and breaks your concentration.
-OR-
2) Using a keyboard that helps you make fewer errors to begin with through excellent tactile and auditory feedback, as well as longer key travel and a better resistance curve. Your hands become highly trained machines able to pound out sentences and paragraphs efficiently. When you do make the occasional error, you can FEEL it. With little need to concentrate on your screen, your eyes are free to unfocus while your mind focuses on the message you are trying to get across. When you do make an error, you know it instantly and can quickly correct it without your entire train of thought being broken.
So which one sounds like the better deal to you?
You must have never actually used a Model M. Do yourself a favor and acquire/borrow/steal one, then use it exclusively for a couple weeks. Write code, type letters, send messages, and use your IM client--text entry is where the keyboard excels. The tactile and audio feedback enable one to type faster with far fewer errors. It is much harder to 'accidently' hit a key on the Model M; and when you do press a key, your mind knows it without you having to look at the screen and process it visually, thus allowing you to concentrate on more important things like what you are actually trying to type. It will seem difficult to use at first because your weak little fingers are not used to pressing real keys. You will quickly become acclimatized though.
Additional benefits of the Model M include durability, quality construction, etc.
Maybe the Model M is your favorite keyboard after you've used it for a while, or maybe it isn't, but either way it should earn your respect as a quality keyboard.
Why should the population of the US prop up an industry which has had many many decades to compete on the world market.
Good question, and it's one we should be asking the American auto industry as well.
I think you're over-exaggerating a bit. I live in rural Alabama so I know all about the dangers of deer collisions. The chances of hitting one in broad daylight is very low, at least around here. By the time you see it and brake/swerve, you're traveling 35-40 at the most; plus most deer-vehicles collisions result in the deer hitting the corner of the vehicle and spinning off the side of the road with relatively minimal damage to the vehicle. Using a cell phone is a bit distracting, yes, but if you're even the least bit careful about paying attention to the road (which I am) then there is no way you are going to hit some stalled vehicle on the side of the road. If you flip your car into the ditch and die as a result of such circumstances then you are simply a poor driver. I agree, retards should not use cell phones and drive, but then again they shouldn't even be driving to begin with. A responsible person who is careful to pay attention to the road while talking is really not taking that big of a risk. And as far as what I drive, that depends on the situation--an 87 Chevy truck, a Mustang, a Camaro, or a Honda bike. I am big time into driving, and driving carefully is not exactly new to me.
You really think society should just toss kids the keys and let them learn on their own?
False dichotomy
How about instead teaching your kids responsibility from an early age, so that when they become teenagers they will--gasp--be responsible without having to resort to electronic nannies? (Which won't solve the underlying problem.)
Being in control of a car during rush hour traffic demands my full attention, sure. Being in control of a car while cruising down a lonesome highway at 55 MPH with no other cars in sight does not demand my full attention. Which is why I don't call or text in the former case, and frequently do in the latter.
No, the original poster had it right. The whole "treating your employees like professionals" thing doesn't just stop at the team level. If you have an employee who isn't pulling his weight, then you as a leader should have the power to do whatever it takes to correct the problem and/or have him fired. If you are having to come up with all kinds of documentation and crap to prove to someone else that he really is a problem, then the real problem is that your superiors aren't treating YOU like a professional. You are better off looking for a new company, because odds are the poor leadership qualities go all the way to to the top.
Sucks to be you. I have an Dell laptop (one of the Ubuntu models) and the suspend (and hibernate) features work perfectly every time.
I can also apparently type more than that for my comment, so here is some extra garbage to take up some space. Slashdot, can you please stop with this lame hand-holding bullshit?
You forgot to mention that in this imperfect world, we also have imperfect (and downright immoral/wrong) laws. Anonymity is a defense against bad laws, such as the criminalization of marijuana for instance, amongst many others. And in the case of women having abortions, this imperfect world also has finite resources along with a huge and continuously growing human population. While I wouldn't advocate forced abortions and such like the Chinese are known for, by choosing an abortion a woman is not only serving her own interests but those of humanity as a whole as well.
No, this study changes nothing. It's not about the car, it's about the class of people who typically drive them. Different types of cars attract different types of people.
I am from Alabama, and if I see a rusted out, primered up '72 Nova with Confederate flag and "Fear This" stickers driving down the road, I would be pretty surprised if I saw a corporate exec in a business suit driving it. If I saw a brand new BMW rolling down the street then I would be surprising to see a mulleted, tattooed redneck behind the wheel.
I guarantee you that a typical good ole boy redneck gettin 'er done in his rusted out POS does not drive in the exact same manner as a snobbish corporate exec who thinks he is hot shit in his $3,000 suit and brand new BMW. The driving society as a whole comes to understand that certain types of people tend to drive certain vehicles, so when you see that vehicle out on the road your mind automatically makes certain assumptions about the person driving it. It's an assumption, yes, but a pretty good one that is borne out by real experience.
Some cars have stronger stereotypes than others. For example, BMW, Corvette, and (new) Beetle all have certain images associated with them that some people seek out and others avoid. Mustangs (my favorite) and Camaros are the same way, but not as strong. A Camry, Accord, or something like that really doesn't have much of an image, it's more of a bland family car. Nobody sees a Camry cut someone off and thinks "yet another stupid Camry driver", but if a guy in a BMW does the same thing it just reinforces the stereotype. If you look closely, you can see a pattern here. The more expensive the car, the more likely it is to have a certain "image" associated with it. I would say that BMWs as a particular example tend to attract a lot of assholes, because it it just nice and expensive enough to be exclusive but not expensive enough to be unaffordable to the typical young hot shot exec--or those who want to be like him. I'd also bet that the typical BMW driver in Europe is not the same as in the States, because BMWs are cheaper to purchase over there.
No guy, at least here in the South, would be caught dead driving a Prius because everything about the car just screams homosexual. Sneer and jeer all you want about how this fact proves your culture (wherever it may be--California, Europe, whatever) is superior to everyone else, but the fact remains. The truth is, if the automakers want hybrids to be more widely accepted, they need to design and market them to Joe Average American and not to So.Cal. metrosexual Starbucks-inhabiting elitists. Build a hybrid with a top speed of 140+ MPH, 100+ MPH trap speed in the quarter, aggressive looks, 40+ MPG, and reasonable cost, and it will sell like crazy. Otherwise, don't be pissed when most people aren't interested.
If you are stopped at a red light and you see some retard flying up behind you not paying attention to the light, being able to stomp on the gas and get out of his way just might save your ass. Been there, done that. If you are travelling down the right lane minding your business, and somebody is pulling off a side street or something, not paying any attention to you, stomping the gas at the right time just might get you clear of a collision. Been there, done that. If you are in a merge lane trying to merge into heavy traffic, having power under the hood is wonderful, because now you can actually dart out into an open spot and merge easily instead of having to come to a complete stop and hold up traffic for an hour until you wait for an opening that your 80 horsepower engine is able to exploit.
SO? Who gives a fuck? This is Blizzard, their games are worth the fucking money. If you don't want to pay it then don't pay it, but jesus christ, could you please stop whining about it on Slashdot? I can think of 50 other games titles I wish I had just torrented and saved my money and put it towards a Blizzard game. I'm sure you can too.