Yes, but so do coal and oil plants, as well a nuclear. But no, they aren't quite green yet, but let technology improve and demand improve and let them get there. (If we never improved powers such as coal and oil they would not be considered a valuable source now)
Yes, but all public transportation is broken, the light rail is 1-15 minutes late at pretty much every stop, sidewalks are pretty much all closed due to construction(I'm serious, it's sad, but it'll be beautiful with all the redone skyscrapers and the new ones going up when it is all finished). The buses are atrocious, typically smelly, normally late, with very upset people driving them (always exceptions, I've run into several kind ones and neutral ones, others have yelled at me for taking too long to get on or just grumped). Downtown, sadly, is not a nice place, and it's not a traffic problem. I live right outside it so much of everything I do is there(gym, etc..) There's no sidewalks for me to have direct access to downtown, I have to either walk in the street or go around to the easy end. To get to my grocery store is literally riding a bike on feeder roads for the highway almost the entire way there(there is no other way, and again, no sidewalks to bike on). I wish it were nicer and it's always my complaint, that it is not a bike friendly or pedestrian friendly city.
Didn't read the post? There's no intersection! What cop would I hit? On the side of the road or where? It's a light, on a one way street, no intersection, and no pedestrian traffic due to construction. What was once cross streets is now, literally, dirt.
I live in Dallas currently, and let me say, these cameras are starting to go up everywhere, at just about every single light in the city. And Dallas, especially around the downtown area, lights are designed to make you want to run them. There's a set of lights on Commerce St that all match, except one, in the middle, so you can typically breeze halfway through most of them and then you have to wait, can go one, and have to wait for that one then you can finish. It's ridiculous, it's a tiny street never used by anybody, and if they are they have to turn onto Commerce(one way, 3 point intersection).
There's lots of other places, recent construction has literally removed some intersections, but not the lights, which are left running just as before(some with extended hours! Typically blink yellow after 9, but not anymore). Although, I seriously run them and they haven't put cameras up there yet and I would argue and drag it out long enough to make a police officer regret stopping me, but I have seen others stopped because of it. The lights going into downtown(mainly Elm and Main) are typically tuned so you're going to just miss each one and have to wait the full length of time to go, or buses are everywhere and because of continuing construction have to block all traffic going in a certain direction, as the bus lane is now a construction lane. It's quite aggravating and these traffic cams are an insult to everyone in Dallas, "We don't have good roads or a decent traffic system but we'll ticket you for it!" and probably an insult just about everywhere else in the country. I can see reasons, especially at dangerous lights, and I hate to defend myself, but a 3 mile trip shouldn't be 20-30 minutes because of 8 traffic lights(typically having to wait twice at two of them because of some additional not syncing up on cross streets). Fix the system first where running a light is trying to be a bastard instead of trying to go to the grocery store, then let's put them at dangerous intersections and highway/feeder type intersections, and let's go from there.
That being said, and the cameras not about to go anywhere, I find it quite fabulous that an officer is being forced to pay. We had a whole spat of police fired within the past two years because of unpaid traffic fines in different cities and counties and this just adds to the fun. Of course we're completely understaffed, have a terrible corrupt staff, and a high crime rate by police officers who will not look at anything except a speeder. I actually went to report a break in of a car(that was happening at that exact moment) and an office told me he needs to steal the car and speed or he won't care. Then they tried to beat up on our Derby Girls! C'mon! That's just low.
All emergency vehicles have, _under the law_, the ability to speed and run lights under emergency conditions(specifically, lights on). So yes, firetrucks running red lights in a non emergency situation is actually very dangerous due to the length of the vehicle, so yes, ticket them! Police are typically cleared 5-10mph for speeding and anything above that must meet a few conditions, typically either having it pre-approved over the radio, or the emergency lights must be on. Same goes for running lights.
Did 1.03 fix the camera problem? I played nwn2 for about 15 minutes and couldn't get the camera to ever look at my person or surroundings or follow or anything useful that games have been doing for years now.:( I really wanna play tho!
It's fun for us iPod people to make fun of the Zune *squirt* but after trying it out it's not really that bad. *squirt* Let there be competition *squirt* in the market! That's the whole point. That's why it's ok to have a bunch of linux distros and a couple of BSDs *squirt* and different desktop enviroments *squirt* like KDE and Gnome. Hopefully this will push Apple to innovate even more and release even better products *squirt* like bluetooth or wifi (I'd prefer bluetooth for neighbors but I know it's not the best protocol). Innovation doesn't hurt *squirt* anyone. Oh, you've got some, uhm, on your face.
Yeah, but with little other option, it's kind of a cartel, or monopoly, as they all have those steep fees. Because of the forced monopolies, perhaps there should be limits to the fees that they can charge, after all, we don't have a choice, why do they have a choice to freely set the fees? I agree, you entered the contract and have to deal with it, but we're talking lawful monopolies here.
Agreed. I switched to speakeasy DSL and I pay 2.5x what I paid for cable. I could've gone with sbc, I mean AT&T now, but I've already tried that before and just had too many problems. Why do I pay more? I need internet, I work from home, and Time Warner apparently doesn't make enough money to give me anything other than a busy signal or a "We're working on it..." answer(my net was done for over a week, I spent 4 hours on hold throughout the week, couldn't get an answer or anyone to come out, and more than 75% of my calls were given a busy signal). After this, I can have an actual T1 put in, or move into a datacenter. But speakeasy answers the phone, and I haven't had any trouble at all(despite my neighbor on DSL who is having mucho mucho trouble and borrowing my wifi now).
Are you sure? Sounds like the devs of the gpl didn't even try to contact the original module dev at all, and from Theo's reaction, it's very clear that his reaction was in response to the wide distribution of everything. While it was his right to kick and scream and cry in a public setting, is that the most mature thing to do? You can always start off a public email later with the words, "I have tried to resolve this via personal communications, but..." But not even that, not even a try, gives new meaning to the term GPL nazi's.
Powered USB hubs. That's what runs my keyboard, webcam, and scanner. In fact nothing that really requires power is hooked into the comp directly(because all that is connected directly has external power supply). The power brick is really tiny too for it. I was surprised as hell that my scanner was USB only powered.
While 3b is certainly a very high number, you're forgetting what starvation is. It isn't an instant killing disease, it's a lack of food and the body can survive on small amounts, people can be in a starvation mode for years, or most of their natural life, any many people are. While they are "alive" their growth in stunted, their development is stunted, and they can never get ahead. Of course, most countries produce enough food to feed their own citizens, but it's more profitable to turn it into feed for livestock...
lol, not to be an apple fanboy, but most of the rest of us have to *pay* for Cable/Satellite. My Daily Show + South Park subscriptions from iTunes is WAAAAAAY less than what I was paying for cable that never had anything good on. Thye're even getting more Anime now a days.
Of course, I have a mac mini for the projector, and so I can get OTA, that cost me 2 months worth of cable except I can actually watch it, and it's real HD, not compressed cable hd.
You're just thinking it's a different product than it is, not everything that has the word "TV" in it has to be a Tivo like box, hell, they already have that. It's called Tivo.:)
Bah, once Vista in the norm everyone will have at least 4 gigs. Yeah, you can run it on 2, you can also run XP on 128. How much do you have? Hell, I've got 2gb and it's not even enough for Zend + Azureus at the same time.
Well that and just plain boredom. When every light you hit is red because it's programmed that way to "slow down downtown traffic" as we have it here in Dallas, what else are you supposed to do? Play with the XM until you find a song to listen to? Mess around with the iPod, now with video?
And what about idiot drivers who don't text. Moms talking to their kids. Sitting at a green light, behind ONE CAR that refuses to move, who flips you off because your honking who doesn't even check the light because they are yelling.
Also, there's only one accident I noticed as a pedestrian, and it was because a screaming child in the back seat the parent turned around to look at the kid, ran a red light and collided with a car, thank god, because the street curved and he would have hit a burger joint's very full patio.
I say ban children from cars, that's what school buses are for. I have yet to see a text-and-hit but I've seen an accident because of a kid, heard of accidents because of kids, and been stuck at a green light because of kids. I clearly think children should either be in the trunk or not allowed at all.
Yeah, maybe the parent needs to learn how to drive with kids, but maybe people who text need to learn to do it at red lights and drop the damn thing when it goes green.
Probably California and other places who want to ban incandescents causing GE to put more money into this type of R&D. They probably were looking into it a little while CFL's were first starting to gain real marketshare, but this is probably pushing them well along.
CFL's have been doing their little turn on R&D as well, with Full Spectrum and dimmable now available, incandescents have only a few advantages left over CFL's, and CFL's have some notable advantages over incandescents as well so the choice quickly turns into either price or preference. I'd gladly pay a few extra $$$'s just to not have to replace the light bulb so often, and with the CFL's I have I haven't replaced them in years.
I just started learning it a few days ago, only just starting through the tutorials over at their Noob to Pro tutorial site, but man, am I amazed at what I've done with it so far and I'm barely at the "Make a person" tutorial. Everything should give it a shot and a chance, even if they've never done anything visual before.
Either don't answer it if your busy, or be creative, go to the mall, or a movie. Answer your email constantly and just say "Sorry you must've just missed me I stepped out" and have a personal life during work.:)
Say what you will about the political climate here(very red) but a lot of stuff is online and sped up by computers. Last year when I incorporated I used the online website, paid the $300 fee with my debit card, and the paperwork was done and I was sent everything with the seal and all the appropriate numbers within two hours via e-mail in PDF format, completely official and everything. Paying corp taxes couldn't be easier(few that there be), ditto with unemployment. If I have to do anything that affects my corp, pretty much everything is online and an option to be filed. And it's all done by the state.
Getting my federal EIN meant going through a third party company, paying a fee(only $20, so I figured might as well instead of waiting for the feds to get it to me in a few weeks by doing it on paper). It works really well. I renew my drivers license online(every other renewal only, gotta get new pics at some point) and my vehicle registration is always done online. In terms of computing it's a very progressive state. Much of it is very basic HTML so it works in whatever browser you use it with.
I just returned mine 2 weeks ago, works great and all but I cancelled cable and got Netflix. Much happier too by the way. The only reason I cancelled cable was when Time Warner became the provider here in DFW instead of Comcast my internet went down for over a week, and all their support lines were busy signals. I work from home about 90% of the time and can't really live like that. And when their excuse/remedy is "Well I'm sorry" I had to get Speakeasy. Took 3 months to install speakeasy though, ugh. But the cable internet worked well enough till it was installed.
Yes, what a terrible person, Robbing the people for electricity.
In other news, this guys money compares nothing to: "Last week, the House voted 264-163 to eliminate about $8 billion in tax breaks for the energy industry. The bill also fixes errors in leases for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that allowed some oil companies to avoid paying royalties to the federal government."
I say use the $8 billion for grants to everybody who can get one and get a solar water heater for their home. So why shouldn't Joe Average get a few thousand bucks in tax breaks for solar panels when we give multiples of tens of billions of dollars of tax breaks and rent free property to the oil companies. What's the harm? You don't want this guy stealing from you, I don't want the Oil companies stealing from me. The difference, one is a few thousand, probably over the course of a few years, whereas the other is about $50 billion yearly, with rent free property, and cries of "Oh noes we only make 8.8cents on the dollar of our expenses! Oh woe is us! I'm gonna use the corporate jet for a family vacation, oh yeah, near an oil rig so it's a business expense, as is my pay and bonuses! kthx bye!"
The government steals, that's a fact. But start with the big dogs and then get the little ones. You don't have to hate oil, you should just encourage them to compete like other industries, then get Solar to do it too(or, one beautiful massive sweeping legislation that fixes most industries).
But this does help payback times. Like the Honda Civic Hybrids early last year, $3000 for the privilege of driving a hybrid, $2500 paid towards your taxes(yes, you get a refund if you get a refund). So, basically, a net cost of $500 for driving hybrids, but no one wants to tell you that. Yes, it would be paid off in a year or two.
Of course it's a new year so we have to see where it goes.
You give your acceptance. And not accepting it means you have no legal right to use the code or have a copy of it on your machine at all barring some other agreement. Yes, the GPL is a license, but accepting it turns that into an agreement.
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Yes, but so do coal and oil plants, as well a nuclear. But no, they aren't quite green yet, but let technology improve and demand improve and let them get there. (If we never improved powers such as coal and oil they would not be considered a valuable source now)
Yes, but all public transportation is broken, the light rail is 1-15 minutes late at pretty much every stop, sidewalks are pretty much all closed due to construction(I'm serious, it's sad, but it'll be beautiful with all the redone skyscrapers and the new ones going up when it is all finished). The buses are atrocious, typically smelly, normally late, with very upset people driving them (always exceptions, I've run into several kind ones and neutral ones, others have yelled at me for taking too long to get on or just grumped). Downtown, sadly, is not a nice place, and it's not a traffic problem. I live right outside it so much of everything I do is there(gym, etc..) There's no sidewalks for me to have direct access to downtown, I have to either walk in the street or go around to the easy end. To get to my grocery store is literally riding a bike on feeder roads for the highway almost the entire way there(there is no other way, and again, no sidewalks to bike on). I wish it were nicer and it's always my complaint, that it is not a bike friendly or pedestrian friendly city.
Didn't read the post? There's no intersection! What cop would I hit? On the side of the road or where? It's a light, on a one way street, no intersection, and no pedestrian traffic due to construction. What was once cross streets is now, literally, dirt.
I live in Dallas currently, and let me say, these cameras are starting to go up everywhere, at just about every single light in the city. And Dallas, especially around the downtown area, lights are designed to make you want to run them. There's a set of lights on Commerce St that all match, except one, in the middle, so you can typically breeze halfway through most of them and then you have to wait, can go one, and have to wait for that one then you can finish. It's ridiculous, it's a tiny street never used by anybody, and if they are they have to turn onto Commerce(one way, 3 point intersection).
There's lots of other places, recent construction has literally removed some intersections, but not the lights, which are left running just as before(some with extended hours! Typically blink yellow after 9, but not anymore). Although, I seriously run them and they haven't put cameras up there yet and I would argue and drag it out long enough to make a police officer regret stopping me, but I have seen others stopped because of it. The lights going into downtown(mainly Elm and Main) are typically tuned so you're going to just miss each one and have to wait the full length of time to go, or buses are everywhere and because of continuing construction have to block all traffic going in a certain direction, as the bus lane is now a construction lane. It's quite aggravating and these traffic cams are an insult to everyone in Dallas, "We don't have good roads or a decent traffic system but we'll ticket you for it!" and probably an insult just about everywhere else in the country. I can see reasons, especially at dangerous lights, and I hate to defend myself, but a 3 mile trip shouldn't be 20-30 minutes because of 8 traffic lights(typically having to wait twice at two of them because of some additional not syncing up on cross streets). Fix the system first where running a light is trying to be a bastard instead of trying to go to the grocery store, then let's put them at dangerous intersections and highway/feeder type intersections, and let's go from there.
That being said, and the cameras not about to go anywhere, I find it quite fabulous that an officer is being forced to pay. We had a whole spat of police fired within the past two years because of unpaid traffic fines in different cities and counties and this just adds to the fun. Of course we're completely understaffed, have a terrible corrupt staff, and a high crime rate by police officers who will not look at anything except a speeder. I actually went to report a break in of a car(that was happening at that exact moment) and an office told me he needs to steal the car and speed or he won't care. Then they tried to beat up on our Derby Girls! C'mon! That's just low.
All emergency vehicles have, _under the law_, the ability to speed and run lights under emergency conditions(specifically, lights on). So yes, firetrucks running red lights in a non emergency situation is actually very dangerous due to the length of the vehicle, so yes, ticket them! Police are typically cleared 5-10mph for speeding and anything above that must meet a few conditions, typically either having it pre-approved over the radio, or the emergency lights must be on. Same goes for running lights.
Did 1.03 fix the camera problem? I played nwn2 for about 15 minutes and couldn't get the camera to ever look at my person or surroundings or follow or anything useful that games have been doing for years now. :( I really wanna play tho!
It's fun for us iPod people to make fun of the Zune *squirt* but after trying it out it's not really that bad. *squirt* Let there be competition *squirt* in the market! That's the whole point. That's why it's ok to have a bunch of linux distros and a couple of BSDs *squirt* and different desktop enviroments *squirt* like KDE and Gnome. Hopefully this will push Apple to innovate even more and release even better products *squirt* like bluetooth or wifi (I'd prefer bluetooth for neighbors but I know it's not the best protocol). Innovation doesn't hurt *squirt* anyone. Oh, you've got some, uhm, on your face.
Yeah, but with little other option, it's kind of a cartel, or monopoly, as they all have those steep fees. Because of the forced monopolies, perhaps there should be limits to the fees that they can charge, after all, we don't have a choice, why do they have a choice to freely set the fees? I agree, you entered the contract and have to deal with it, but we're talking lawful monopolies here.
Agreed. I switched to speakeasy DSL and I pay 2.5x what I paid for cable. I could've gone with sbc, I mean AT&T now, but I've already tried that before and just had too many problems. Why do I pay more? I need internet, I work from home, and Time Warner apparently doesn't make enough money to give me anything other than a busy signal or a "We're working on it..." answer(my net was done for over a week, I spent 4 hours on hold throughout the week, couldn't get an answer or anyone to come out, and more than 75% of my calls were given a busy signal). After this, I can have an actual T1 put in, or move into a datacenter. But speakeasy answers the phone, and I haven't had any trouble at all(despite my neighbor on DSL who is having mucho mucho trouble and borrowing my wifi now).
Are you sure? Sounds like the devs of the gpl didn't even try to contact the original module dev at all, and from Theo's reaction, it's very clear that his reaction was in response to the wide distribution of everything. While it was his right to kick and scream and cry in a public setting, is that the most mature thing to do? You can always start off a public email later with the words, "I have tried to resolve this via personal communications, but..." But not even that, not even a try, gives new meaning to the term GPL nazi's.
Powered USB hubs. That's what runs my keyboard, webcam, and scanner. In fact nothing that really requires power is hooked into the comp directly(because all that is connected directly has external power supply). The power brick is really tiny too for it. I was surprised as hell that my scanner was USB only powered.
While 3b is certainly a very high number, you're forgetting what starvation is. It isn't an instant killing disease, it's a lack of food and the body can survive on small amounts, people can be in a starvation mode for years, or most of their natural life, any many people are. While they are "alive" their growth in stunted, their development is stunted, and they can never get ahead. Of course, most countries produce enough food to feed their own citizens, but it's more profitable to turn it into feed for livestock...
lol, not to be an apple fanboy, but most of the rest of us have to *pay* for Cable/Satellite. My Daily Show + South Park subscriptions from iTunes is WAAAAAAY less than what I was paying for cable that never had anything good on. Thye're even getting more Anime now a days.
:)
Of course, I have a mac mini for the projector, and so I can get OTA, that cost me 2 months worth of cable except I can actually watch it, and it's real HD, not compressed cable hd.
You're just thinking it's a different product than it is, not everything that has the word "TV" in it has to be a Tivo like box, hell, they already have that. It's called Tivo.
Bah, once Vista in the norm everyone will have at least 4 gigs. Yeah, you can run it on 2, you can also run XP on 128. How much do you have? Hell, I've got 2gb and it's not even enough for Zend + Azureus at the same time.
"higher cellphone bills and the need to tell acquaintances to stop announcing what they're having for dinner"
Pass. I'll stick with myspace once a day or every cpl days. Don't need anything new.
Well that and just plain boredom. When every light you hit is red because it's programmed that way to "slow down downtown traffic" as we have it here in Dallas, what else are you supposed to do? Play with the XM until you find a song to listen to? Mess around with the iPod, now with video?
And what about idiot drivers who don't text. Moms talking to their kids. Sitting at a green light, behind ONE CAR that refuses to move, who flips you off because your honking who doesn't even check the light because they are yelling.
Also, there's only one accident I noticed as a pedestrian, and it was because a screaming child in the back seat the parent turned around to look at the kid, ran a red light and collided with a car, thank god, because the street curved and he would have hit a burger joint's very full patio.
I say ban children from cars, that's what school buses are for. I have yet to see a text-and-hit but I've seen an accident because of a kid, heard of accidents because of kids, and been stuck at a green light because of kids. I clearly think children should either be in the trunk or not allowed at all.
Yeah, maybe the parent needs to learn how to drive with kids, but maybe people who text need to learn to do it at red lights and drop the damn thing when it goes green.
Hours, eh? Knock out the hijackers, probably a few casualties, turn off the jammer, remote control reactivated. :)
Probably California and other places who want to ban incandescents causing GE to put more money into this type of R&D. They probably were looking into it a little while CFL's were first starting to gain real marketshare, but this is probably pushing them well along.
CFL's have been doing their little turn on R&D as well, with Full Spectrum and dimmable now available, incandescents have only a few advantages left over CFL's, and CFL's have some notable advantages over incandescents as well so the choice quickly turns into either price or preference. I'd gladly pay a few extra $$$'s just to not have to replace the light bulb so often, and with the CFL's I have I haven't replaced them in years.
I just started learning it a few days ago, only just starting through the tutorials over at their Noob to Pro tutorial site, but man, am I amazed at what I've done with it so far and I'm barely at the "Make a person" tutorial. Everything should give it a shot and a chance, even if they've never done anything visual before.
Either don't answer it if your busy, or be creative, go to the mall, or a movie. Answer your email constantly and just say "Sorry you must've just missed me I stepped out" and have a personal life during work. :)
Say what you will about the political climate here(very red) but a lot of stuff is online and sped up by computers. Last year when I incorporated I used the online website, paid the $300 fee with my debit card, and the paperwork was done and I was sent everything with the seal and all the appropriate numbers within two hours via e-mail in PDF format, completely official and everything. Paying corp taxes couldn't be easier(few that there be), ditto with unemployment. If I have to do anything that affects my corp, pretty much everything is online and an option to be filed. And it's all done by the state.
Getting my federal EIN meant going through a third party company, paying a fee(only $20, so I figured might as well instead of waiting for the feds to get it to me in a few weeks by doing it on paper). It works really well. I renew my drivers license online(every other renewal only, gotta get new pics at some point) and my vehicle registration is always done online. In terms of computing it's a very progressive state. Much of it is very basic HTML so it works in whatever browser you use it with.
I just returned mine 2 weeks ago, works great and all but I cancelled cable and got Netflix. Much happier too by the way. The only reason I cancelled cable was when Time Warner became the provider here in DFW instead of Comcast my internet went down for over a week, and all their support lines were busy signals. I work from home about 90% of the time and can't really live like that. And when their excuse/remedy is "Well I'm sorry" I had to get Speakeasy. Took 3 months to install speakeasy though, ugh. But the cable internet worked well enough till it was installed.
Yes, what a terrible person, Robbing the people for electricity.
In other news, this guys money compares nothing to:
"Last week, the House voted 264-163 to eliminate about $8 billion in tax breaks for the energy industry. The bill also fixes errors in leases for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that allowed some oil companies to avoid paying royalties to the federal government."
I say use the $8 billion for grants to everybody who can get one and get a solar water heater for their home. So why shouldn't Joe Average get a few thousand bucks in tax breaks for solar panels when we give multiples of tens of billions of dollars of tax breaks and rent free property to the oil companies. What's the harm? You don't want this guy stealing from you, I don't want the Oil companies stealing from me. The difference, one is a few thousand, probably over the course of a few years, whereas the other is about $50 billion yearly, with rent free property, and cries of "Oh noes we only make 8.8cents on the dollar of our expenses! Oh woe is us! I'm gonna use the corporate jet for a family vacation, oh yeah, near an oil rig so it's a business expense, as is my pay and bonuses! kthx bye!"
The government steals, that's a fact. But start with the big dogs and then get the little ones. You don't have to hate oil, you should just encourage them to compete like other industries, then get Solar to do it too(or, one beautiful massive sweeping legislation that fixes most industries).
But this does help payback times. Like the Honda Civic Hybrids early last year, $3000 for the privilege of driving a hybrid, $2500 paid towards your taxes(yes, you get a refund if you get a refund). So, basically, a net cost of $500 for driving hybrids, but no one wants to tell you that. Yes, it would be paid off in a year or two.
Of course it's a new year so we have to see where it goes.
You give your acceptance. And not accepting it means you have no legal right to use the code or have a copy of it on your machine at all barring some other agreement. Yes, the GPL is a license, but accepting it turns that into an agreement.
Yeah, because someone will do that same silly contest for a can of pringles as they would for a wii.