Considering LA has the worst traffic in the country, I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say they "did it right." And the point stands that there would be more lanes for most traffic if the HOV lanes were transitioned back into general lanes.
It's unclear that HOV accomplishes anything at all, except making the commute faster for an exceptionally small minority of commuters at great expense to everyone. Oh, and HOT creates another way to monetize commuters and a disincentive for DOT to alleviate general traffic congestion. After all, if traffic was flowing smoothly in the general lanes, why would anyone pay to use the HOT lanes?
And speaking of California, Senator McClintock wrote an excellent piece on the insanity of HOV.
HOV lanes are fairly pointless as is. It's clear that people are not significantly incentivized to use the carpool lanes. Moreover, conflicting schedules (particularly after work) and the impossibility of spontaneity provide heavy disincentives toward their use. They certainly don't cut down on pollution or fuel consumption as cars spend more time stuck in traffic in the adjacent lanes, or taking longer, more circuitous routes. They don't cut down on traffic, as more cars are forced to fit in fewer lanes. People who live in Arlington or Falls Church, especially, could have to go miles out of the way to get to work, despite having a major traffic artery in their back yards.
The money spent on policing, enforcement, and, in some cases, construction and maintenance of elaborate switching mechanisms to change the direction of traffic in center lanes, could be more efficiently spent toward carbon offsets, and opening the lanes themselves to normal traffic would better accomplish the goal of reducing congestion. Or make the Metro train free to ride; it's already heavily subsidized anyway, and everyone would benefit from increased use. (Of course, capacity would likely need to be increased as well, since they're heavily used already).
Regulating the routes of traffic in an effort to decrease traffic is an exercise in futility. It merely relocates the problem; it does nothing to alleviate it. Traffic is already self-regulating, especially as the distribution of information becomes increasingly streamlined. When one route slows down, people take alternate routes. If the distribution is inequitable, it's because of poor infrastructure design in relation to the population. The cure is redesign, not banishing the overwhelming majority of vehicles from the shortest route between Point A and Point B. It would be one thing if HOV was a stopgap while more effective measures were implemented, but as it stands, it's merely contributing to the problem it claims to resolve.
Ah yes, RFC1149. What a glorious upgrade from the rock network. Basically, in the old days, you would chisel your message onto a stone, preferably a small one, then lob it at your neighbor, and he would read the address, then throw it in the direction he thought it was supposed to go, and so on until it infrequently arrived at its intended destination. There's an ugly rumor that some 80% of the lost packets can be found at the bottom of Lake Wobegon as the result of a malicious MITM attack.
Except along with Ebay aquiring Skype, we also have Google -> YouTube, Yahoo -> Flickr, NewsCorp -> MySpace, and a lot more money tied up in a lot fewer players than the free-for-all 90s.
Obviously they should have button presses for any physical attacks, and swing motions to set off bombs. Er, wait.. the oldschool TNT detonators sort of used a swing motion. Ok, bombs should be set off by a pirouette motion, preferably 3+ rotations. Stabbing should be a button press, and shooting should be controlled by eeeeh, Macarena. Aye!
Honestly, who mods this stuff up? Run on sentences, parroted market-speak, and theoretical performance figures.. the only thing missing is a bad car analogy.
Hmm.. so it comes down to large numbers of people either running around mindlessly, or running around pretending there's a higher purpose behind it. Sounds like something else I've heard of... ah, right.. life! Funny "escapes", RPGs.
Even if I cared about Halo enough to take a day off, my 360 is on the fritz. It sounds like a bad bearing in one of the fans, and death rattle aside, I have a feeling it would overheat within minutes if I even tried to play anything. One more month until GH3.
Of programmers, Thierman says, "Yes, they get to pick whatever code they want to write, but they don't tell you what the program does... All they do is implement someone else's desires.'"
Of surgeons, I say, "All they do is implement some else's desires." Overtime for surgeons!
IF they are selling the iPhone at a profit, then the ROI is only negative when you assume that lost sales will be negligible. If the number of ostracized potential customers is significant, then not testing for compatibility is actually detrimental. Losing the profit of the phone + the profit of AT&T kickbacks is worse than simply losing the kickbacks alone.
Speaking as someone who has disregarded inaccurate billing in the past, you probably want to go ahead and resolve your situation, even if you're in the wrong. It will almost definitely be far cheaper to pay than have it go to collections and show up on your credit report. Even if you're got bad credit already, the only way to improve it is to keep things like that off of your report in the present and future. Also, if you ever get a mortgage, A) they will make you pay off any collections, and B) the difference between, say, a 659 and a 660 credit score on a 200k mortgage is over $100/mo, and it's not at all difficult to dip below 660.
Slashdot Mirror
Realists fear the majority of them will end up on eBay.
That lane between the HOV and general traffic in Connecticut is for David Letterman
There. Fixed that for me.
That lane between the HOV and general traffic is for David Letterman.
Considering LA has the worst traffic in the country, I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say they "did it right." And the point stands that there would be more lanes for most traffic if the HOV lanes were transitioned back into general lanes.
It's unclear that HOV accomplishes anything at all, except making the commute faster for an exceptionally small minority of commuters at great expense to everyone. Oh, and HOT creates another way to monetize commuters and a disincentive for DOT to alleviate general traffic congestion. After all, if traffic was flowing smoothly in the general lanes, why would anyone pay to use the HOT lanes?
And speaking of California, Senator McClintock wrote an excellent piece on the insanity of HOV.
HOV lanes are fairly pointless as is. It's clear that people are not significantly incentivized to use the carpool lanes. Moreover, conflicting schedules (particularly after work) and the impossibility of spontaneity provide heavy disincentives toward their use. They certainly don't cut down on pollution or fuel consumption as cars spend more time stuck in traffic in the adjacent lanes, or taking longer, more circuitous routes. They don't cut down on traffic, as more cars are forced to fit in fewer lanes. People who live in Arlington or Falls Church, especially, could have to go miles out of the way to get to work, despite having a major traffic artery in their back yards.
The money spent on policing, enforcement, and, in some cases, construction and maintenance of elaborate switching mechanisms to change the direction of traffic in center lanes, could be more efficiently spent toward carbon offsets, and opening the lanes themselves to normal traffic would better accomplish the goal of reducing congestion. Or make the Metro train free to ride; it's already heavily subsidized anyway, and everyone would benefit from increased use. (Of course, capacity would likely need to be increased as well, since they're heavily used already).
Regulating the routes of traffic in an effort to decrease traffic is an exercise in futility. It merely relocates the problem; it does nothing to alleviate it. Traffic is already self-regulating, especially as the distribution of information becomes increasingly streamlined. When one route slows down, people take alternate routes. If the distribution is inequitable, it's because of poor infrastructure design in relation to the population. The cure is redesign, not banishing the overwhelming majority of vehicles from the shortest route between Point A and Point B. It would be one thing if HOV was a stopgap while more effective measures were implemented, but as it stands, it's merely contributing to the problem it claims to resolve.
Ah yes, RFC1149. What a glorious upgrade from the rock network. Basically, in the old days, you would chisel your message onto a stone, preferably a small one, then lob it at your neighbor, and he would read the address, then throw it in the direction he thought it was supposed to go, and so on until it infrequently arrived at its intended destination. There's an ugly rumor that some 80% of the lost packets can be found at the bottom of Lake Wobegon as the result of a malicious MITM attack.
Zank Zod!
Except along with Ebay aquiring Skype, we also have Google -> YouTube, Yahoo -> Flickr, NewsCorp -> MySpace, and a lot more money tied up in a lot fewer players than the free-for-all 90s.
I have sulfhemoglobin you insensitive clod!
Obviously they should have button presses for any physical attacks, and swing motions to set off bombs. Er, wait.. the oldschool TNT detonators sort of used a swing motion. Ok, bombs should be set off by a pirouette motion, preferably 3+ rotations. Stabbing should be a button press, and shooting should be controlled by eeeeh, Macarena. Aye!
I could care less about the speed.
Mind if I piggyback then?
That's thanks to Viagra, not Verizon.
Oh, PENNIES...
Shh... you had me at "Skulltrail."
Honestly, who mods this stuff up? Run on sentences, parroted market-speak, and theoretical performance figures.. the only thing missing is a bad car analogy.
Hmm.. so it comes down to large numbers of people either running around mindlessly, or running around pretending there's a higher purpose behind it. Sounds like something else I've heard of... ah, right.. life! Funny "escapes", RPGs.
Unfortunately, it looks Qtarded.
Sure, it's called gross incompetence, especially if he knew, or should have known, that the diagnostic equipment would fry said chip. Apple knew.
Even if I cared about Halo enough to take a day off, my 360 is on the fritz. It sounds like a bad bearing in one of the fans, and death rattle aside, I have a feeling it would overheat within minutes if I even tried to play anything. One more month until GH3.
Of programmers, Thierman says, "Yes, they get to pick whatever code they want to write, but they don't tell you what the program does ... All they do is implement someone else's desires.'"
Of surgeons, I say, "All they do is implement some else's desires." Overtime for surgeons!
Oh yeah.. no problern there.
IF they are selling the iPhone at a profit, then the ROI is only negative when you assume that lost sales will be negligible. If the number of ostracized potential customers is significant, then not testing for compatibility is actually detrimental. Losing the profit of the phone + the profit of AT&T kickbacks is worse than simply losing the kickbacks alone.
Speaking as someone who has disregarded inaccurate billing in the past, you probably want to go ahead and resolve your situation, even if you're in the wrong. It will almost definitely be far cheaper to pay than have it go to collections and show up on your credit report. Even if you're got bad credit already, the only way to improve it is to keep things like that off of your report in the present and future. Also, if you ever get a mortgage, A) they will make you pay off any collections, and B) the difference between, say, a 659 and a 660 credit score on a 200k mortgage is over $100/mo, and it's not at all difficult to dip below 660.
I'm pretty sure everyone mirroring the data knew what they were doing, and that their primary agenda was to accomplish exactly what happened.
Hilary laughs at your rumors and innuendo. "Silly interviewer, robots are asexual!" So far.