Unfortunately that's not how it works. You don't get to speed more freely just because I'm going to hide behind a longer [possibly] slower line of traffic.
Arguing that I'm the danger for not speeding is just loopy. Sure 20 over may be safe, but it's not the fucking limit, and frankly, I seriously question the majority of people in being to safely determine that. Often, there are other issues to consider. Sure you could bomb down a residential road at 80km/hr. But why don't you? Under your assumptions there are never any road hazards (like kids, or merging traffic or whatever). So it's safe to do whatever speed just the road will allow. But fortunately, the planning of roads doesn't follow that. Even on straight and level roads, they reduce the speed limit to accommodate potential hazards.
Prime example, I was eastbound on Carling Ave. [in Ottawa] doing 60 on cruise control. Some jerk turns right onto the road in the lane beside me and decides to cut into my lane (they were going slower than me). I couldn't go left as there was an island beside me, and I couldn't really accelerate because they would have clipped me. So I did the only thing I could do, slam on the brakes and let them fly past me (they were literally inches from hitting my car).
Because I was doing 60 and not 80, the car stopped a lot sooner (pretty much within 10-20 feet) and I avoided the accident.
Now that road is flat and level, you can see for a good km or two down the road. I could easily drive it in empty conditions at 120km/hr. But I don't? Why? Because I know jerks like to merge every which way (there are a lot of intersections on that stretch) and I need good stopping time to avoid hitting shit.
Despite whatever reasoning you may come up with, if you rear-end ANYONE who is going slower than you, you're at fault. Doesn't even matter if they were doing 10km/hr on the freeway. You just can't hit people. It's just that simple.
That's not saying doing 10km/hr on the freeway is "okay." It's wrong also. But doing the speed limit is never "too slow" or impeding traffic. The only people you could impede doing the speed limit are emergency services. And nothing you've said so far changes the fact that it's not illegal to do the speed limit in the "fast lane." Nor is it dangerous or wrong.
Re-arrange your thinking. If you think the limit should be higher, go to a city council session [or whomever is in charge] and take it up with them. Just speeding because you, mr. joe average citizen think it should be faster doesn't make it so. Speeding is illegal. Don't try to minimalize it with bullshit rationalizations like "I know better than the city engineers who designed the fucking road system anyways."
And on top of all that, it's just fun to see some jackass behind me blaring mad for having to do 60 in a 60 in the "fast lane."
I think there is a reasonable level of know-how that is between pro and newb that people should strive for. I don't call people a newb or luddite just because they can't hack their box into solving various complicated problems.
But if editing a text file to add your IP to a config is "too hard" you may want to ask questions.
Just like you don't need to know how to rebuild your car, but if you can't sort out where the air goes into your tires, or how to add windshield fluid, or say "if the car makes a funny noise go get it fixed" you shouldn't drive.
Ubuntu is a distro comprising of a linux kernel and userland tools/libraries. Why would going the "ubuntu" route would involve any changes in the kernel is beyond me. Ubuntu is nothing more than a well engineered collection of userspace tools that makes the PC useful, it relies on the Linux kernel to manage the system.
In short, you can appeal to the "mainstream" [also known as the dumbification of society] and yet keep a technically impressive kernel behind the scenes.
Depends. Raytracing works by firing a "ray" (plotting a line) and seeing where it intersects objects. In reality, this is accomplished by sorting objects and then testing likely candidates for a bounding region, then followed by a point of intersection. It'll likely always be easier to test flat planes like triangles than arbitrary objects (e.g. spheres, splines, etc).
Where did I say I drive faster than the conditions? My point was when it's clear and fine out, I drive the speed limit in the "fast lane" to remind people that speeding is not ok. If for only a second, it reminds people that they're speeding and gives them the chance to correct it. Most people just pass me speeding along, occasionally they get nabbed by the popo, but sometimes people also slow down and follow me at the speed limit.
When it's slushy/icy/snowy [y!] out i drive slower. Last year when a snow storm hit Ottawa I was driving about 20km/hr in an 80 (in the right hand lane cuz principle be damned, I didn't want to get hit by the speeders, and yes there were people trying to do 60-80 in the ice/snow).
Everyone is greedy? Speak for yourself. There is a difference between greed and profit. I profit from my work to the extent legitimately required to pay for a car, rent, insurance, food, etc. Greedy would be demanding a salary that is multiple times larger than your reasonable living expenses. That's greedy.
Rogers, like Bell and banks for that matter, profits by a hell of a lot more than a trivial percentage point. And it isn't like they distribute the profits evenly amongst employees either. Otherwise, why would they shell out for the cheapest, most incompetent tech support? Or have shitty installation service, or service outages for that matter.
The truth of the matter is the purpose of companies like them is to make a very select few, excessively rich. To them, paying dividends on stocks, or salaries to employees is just a bother, not a goal.
I've heard this argument before. Unfortunately, it's not law. It's unlawful for a civilian to drive faster than the posted speed limit under ALL circumstances [including emergencies], at least in Ontario.
Even if you can "safely" drive 20 over the limit, it's not legal. therefore there is no reason traffic should be going that fast and you can't be obstructing it. That's like arguing that I'm obstructing traffic because I'd be in the way of someone wanting to go the wrong way down the highway. Just like you're not supposed to speed, you're also not allowed driving more than [iirc] 150 meters the wrong way down a road.
And finally, if you rear-end a car just because they're going slower than you [even under the speed limit], than *you* don't know how to drive. What if, suppose, their engine failed, or they're trying to slow down because the brakes failed, or any number of reasons. It's YOUR responsibility to pay attention to the road around you, and yes, that includes the possibility of you not doing the speed you want.
It's people like you why I take so much pleasure in driving PROPERLY.
Assuming the lawsuit is successful, they'll just roll the $7 fee into the base price for ALL of their plans. So my $20/mo plan will become a $26.95/mo plan. Big whoop.
Wake me up when they stop charging $0.10 per SMS, or $0.05 per KB. I mean why is it they can afford me calling my friends after 6pm which uses roughly 9.6kbit/sec for FREE (well unlimited), but I can't send a 200 byte SMS without incurring a 10 cent charge no matter the time of day.
Cell phones are basically a license to print money. And since Rogers and Bell are basically monopolies they can charge [and do] whatever they want. If you look at Rogers previous earnings reports, the wireless division has been making tons of profit for a long time. So strictly speaking the high fees are NOT required to stay in business, they're just fucking greedy.
Because of the article [er review...] I decided to check around for quad core 775s. Found the 2.4Ghz equiv of what I have already [except mine is a dual] for like 316$ or so [CAD]. Not bad. Then I realized, wtf do I need that for? Even with all the build jobs I do, rendering music (go lilypond!) and what not, the cpu already sits idle most of the time. If the chip was $150 I'd be more willing to shell out for it on a whim just for kicks. But 316 plus tax is around $360 or so. That's nearly a car payment. Can't really see myself doing that.
Damn it, I want my fast, multi-core, and CHEAP processors already;-)
Well so far no tickets or anything. I stay out of the away of emergency vehicles and all that, but the rest can suck it. I'm so tired of "not going the right speed." Even when I do 10 over there are always people wanting to do 20. So I say fuck it. I'll do the limit and they can pass me or deal with it.
It probably doesn't help that I wave to people too... hehehe:-)
the hackers are made to be the bad guys when it's apple and AT&T who are engaging in anti-competitive behaviour. Clearly the iPhone has no technological reason to be locked to AT&T, and even if it were, why shouldn't they be allowed to modify their own damn phone.
This is like blaming the victim when they don't pay protection money. "Your store wouldn't have gotten broken into, if you had just paid them off!"
But people not using the net will be the minority and not influence the average. See where I'm going with this?
You should have said "with reference to pre-internet era testing criteria," because you can't even compare a 1980 IQ to a 2020 IQ since again, they're both average and there isn't a "score" otherwise.
A typical processor is not 100mm^2, they're more like 140mm^2 (core2duo is about 143mm^2 according to a quick google search). Do you have any idea how expensive a 1000mm^2 die would be? That would cut yields down, and also be really hard to package, not to mention that if you packed 1000mm^2 with 65nm transistors the thing would consume 300 Amps.
Sure I suppose it's possible to make a 1000mm^2 die, but it would cost $25,000 USD and probably either be a super-many-core or run really slow (think longest wire...).
Well my argument would be you can't pass someone doing the speed limit (hint: you're not supposed to speed to pass someone). In which case, you can't be obstructing legitimate traffic by speed limit.
The problem isn't that quebecers are the only ones with these driving faults. It's that you guys amplify them so darn much. I mean many ontarians cut in/out of traffic, speed, etc.
But it takes a quebecer to tailgate you 3 ft behind your car while doing 60 in a 60 (or 80 in an 80) for an entire 10 minute drive down carling... At least the ontarians either back off or pass.
I so love driving the speed limit in the "fast lane." The looks on peoples faces are priceless. When they say "fast lane" they mean for going faster than the slow-pokes in the right hand lane who aren't doing the speed limit. They didn't mean for those wanting to speed.
Oh come on indeed, piracy did cost the studios eleventy trillion billion cajillion bobillion majillion dollars last year. It's a fact!
Frankly, I'm surprised the RCMP admits the existence of computers. Thought they were all tied up getting killed storming farms [rookies] or giving tickets on the parkway...:-)
Hates local cops, not because I'm criminal, but because they drive like shit and whenever I see them I get paranoid that they'll run into my car. Frankly Ottawa would be safer without Quebecer and OPP cars on the road...
Seems to me the cover view mode looks like what I've seen from iphone commercials.
I'm not saying they didn't spend money developing the software for the new nano. But let's also not pretend they're not getting stinking rich off it either.
Um, what do you think they do when you sign in for hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc? Only use that to give you email? Frankly, why should I care if google knows I search for whatever? I mean they're providing me the results so it's kinda a moot point whether they know about it or not isn't it?
I don't see what your point though is. I never said only show ads to signed in people, I said, count clicks from users for more than cowards who are anonymous [e.g. you]. That way you can still use google sans user ID.
And as a user, they could actually make it work to my advantage, for example, by not showing me the same ad over and over. Or, personalize the ads to things I tend to search for.
Once you realize that you are submitting google requests over plaintext, and that people like your ISP and EVERY SWITCH IN BETWEEN can see your traffic anyways, you'll be less paranoid about who knows what about what you're doing.
Of course you just raised the "paranoid privacy" flag for no cause because you wanted to troll me. Well congrats sir, you managed to use a web browser DESPITE your low IQ and moral standing. I'm just so happy for you, yes I am. Next I hope to see you tie your own shoes, maybe use your crayons to draw a nice picture of me fucking your mother.
complete re-write? That seems unreasonable. Just because the codec chip has changed doesn't mean your itunes code is broken, or the UI for that matter, etc.. That's if Apple was smart and didn't code all of the Ipod in a single 100,000 line long main() function.
I'm sure they've re-couped the initial R&D costs and then some. It's not like the Nano has completely different firmware from the classic or other versions.
At this point it's basically covering retail margins, returns, and a big fat percentage of profit.
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Unfortunately that's not how it works. You don't get to speed more freely just because I'm going to hide behind a longer [possibly] slower line of traffic.
Arguing that I'm the danger for not speeding is just loopy. Sure 20 over may be safe, but it's not the fucking limit, and frankly, I seriously question the majority of people in being to safely determine that. Often, there are other issues to consider. Sure you could bomb down a residential road at 80km/hr. But why don't you? Under your assumptions there are never any road hazards (like kids, or merging traffic or whatever). So it's safe to do whatever speed just the road will allow. But fortunately, the planning of roads doesn't follow that. Even on straight and level roads, they reduce the speed limit to accommodate potential hazards.
Prime example, I was eastbound on Carling Ave. [in Ottawa] doing 60 on cruise control. Some jerk turns right onto the road in the lane beside me and decides to cut into my lane (they were going slower than me). I couldn't go left as there was an island beside me, and I couldn't really accelerate because they would have clipped me. So I did the only thing I could do, slam on the brakes and let them fly past me (they were literally inches from hitting my car).
Because I was doing 60 and not 80, the car stopped a lot sooner (pretty much within 10-20 feet) and I avoided the accident.
Now that road is flat and level, you can see for a good km or two down the road. I could easily drive it in empty conditions at 120km/hr. But I don't? Why? Because I know jerks like to merge every which way (there are a lot of intersections on that stretch) and I need good stopping time to avoid hitting shit.
Despite whatever reasoning you may come up with, if you rear-end ANYONE who is going slower than you, you're at fault. Doesn't even matter if they were doing 10km/hr on the freeway. You just can't hit people. It's just that simple.
That's not saying doing 10km/hr on the freeway is "okay." It's wrong also. But doing the speed limit is never "too slow" or impeding traffic. The only people you could impede doing the speed limit are emergency services. And nothing you've said so far changes the fact that it's not illegal to do the speed limit in the "fast lane." Nor is it dangerous or wrong.
Re-arrange your thinking. If you think the limit should be higher, go to a city council session [or whomever is in charge] and take it up with them. Just speeding because you, mr. joe average citizen think it should be faster doesn't make it so. Speeding is illegal. Don't try to minimalize it with bullshit rationalizations like "I know better than the city engineers who designed the fucking road system anyways."
And on top of all that, it's just fun to see some jackass behind me blaring mad for having to do 60 in a 60 in the "fast lane."
Tom
I think there is a reasonable level of know-how that is between pro and newb that people should strive for. I don't call people a newb or luddite just because they can't hack their box into solving various complicated problems.
But if editing a text file to add your IP to a config is "too hard" you may want to ask questions.
Just like you don't need to know how to rebuild your car, but if you can't sort out where the air goes into your tires, or how to add windshield fluid, or say "if the car makes a funny noise go get it fixed" you shouldn't drive.
Tom
LINUX IS THE KERNEL.
Ubuntu is a distro comprising of a linux kernel and userland tools/libraries. Why would going the "ubuntu" route would involve any changes in the kernel is beyond me. Ubuntu is nothing more than a well engineered collection of userspace tools that makes the PC useful, it relies on the Linux kernel to manage the system.
In short, you can appeal to the "mainstream" [also known as the dumbification of society] and yet keep a technically impressive kernel behind the scenes.
Depends. Raytracing works by firing a "ray" (plotting a line) and seeing where it intersects objects. In reality, this is accomplished by sorting objects and then testing likely candidates for a bounding region, then followed by a point of intersection. It'll likely always be easier to test flat planes like triangles than arbitrary objects (e.g. spheres, splines, etc).
:-)
That said, raytraced games on 1080p would rock
Where did I say I drive faster than the conditions? My point was when it's clear and fine out, I drive the speed limit in the "fast lane" to remind people that speeding is not ok. If for only a second, it reminds people that they're speeding and gives them the chance to correct it. Most people just pass me speeding along, occasionally they get nabbed by the popo, but sometimes people also slow down and follow me at the speed limit.
When it's slushy/icy/snowy [y!] out i drive slower. Last year when a snow storm hit Ottawa I was driving about 20km/hr in an 80 (in the right hand lane cuz principle be damned, I didn't want to get hit by the speeders, and yes there were people trying to do 60-80 in the ice/snow).
The American constitution, federal and state laws apply to non-citizens [e.g. residents] and visitors alike.
Everyone is greedy? Speak for yourself. There is a difference between greed and profit. I profit from my work to the extent legitimately required to pay for a car, rent, insurance, food, etc. Greedy would be demanding a salary that is multiple times larger than your reasonable living expenses. That's greedy.
Rogers, like Bell and banks for that matter, profits by a hell of a lot more than a trivial percentage point. And it isn't like they distribute the profits evenly amongst employees either. Otherwise, why would they shell out for the cheapest, most incompetent tech support? Or have shitty installation service, or service outages for that matter.
The truth of the matter is the purpose of companies like them is to make a very select few, excessively rich. To them, paying dividends on stocks, or salaries to employees is just a bother, not a goal.
I've heard this argument before. Unfortunately, it's not law. It's unlawful for a civilian to drive faster than the posted speed limit under ALL circumstances [including emergencies], at least in Ontario.
Even if you can "safely" drive 20 over the limit, it's not legal. therefore there is no reason traffic should be going that fast and you can't be obstructing it. That's like arguing that I'm obstructing traffic because I'd be in the way of someone wanting to go the wrong way down the highway. Just like you're not supposed to speed, you're also not allowed driving more than [iirc] 150 meters the wrong way down a road.
And finally, if you rear-end a car just because they're going slower than you [even under the speed limit], than *you* don't know how to drive. What if, suppose, their engine failed, or they're trying to slow down because the brakes failed, or any number of reasons. It's YOUR responsibility to pay attention to the road around you, and yes, that includes the possibility of you not doing the speed you want.
It's people like you why I take so much pleasure in driving PROPERLY.
Tom
Assuming the lawsuit is successful, they'll just roll the $7 fee into the base price for ALL of their plans. So my $20/mo plan will become a $26.95/mo plan. Big whoop.
Wake me up when they stop charging $0.10 per SMS, or $0.05 per KB. I mean why is it they can afford me calling my friends after 6pm which uses roughly 9.6kbit/sec for FREE (well unlimited), but I can't send a 200 byte SMS without incurring a 10 cent charge no matter the time of day.
Cell phones are basically a license to print money. And since Rogers and Bell are basically monopolies they can charge [and do] whatever they want. If you look at Rogers previous earnings reports, the wireless division has been making tons of profit for a long time. So strictly speaking the high fees are NOT required to stay in business, they're just fucking greedy.
Requires windows ... why would I buy a quad-core processor and then choose to run windows?
Odd
As I mentioned I have the E6600 [dual core 2.4Ghz 4MB L2]. It's a good CPU ... a little too good. :-)
... ).
Which is why I can't justify buying a Q6600 even though the nerd in me wants a quad at the desk (again
Because of the article [er review...] I decided to check around for quad core 775s. Found the 2.4Ghz equiv of what I have already [except mine is a dual] for like 316$ or so [CAD]. Not bad. Then I realized, wtf do I need that for? Even with all the build jobs I do, rendering music (go lilypond!) and what not, the cpu already sits idle most of the time. If the chip was $150 I'd be more willing to shell out for it on a whim just for kicks. But 316 plus tax is around $360 or so. That's nearly a car payment. Can't really see myself doing that.
;-)
Damn it, I want my fast, multi-core, and CHEAP processors already
Well so far no tickets or anything. I stay out of the away of emergency vehicles and all that, but the rest can suck it. I'm so tired of "not going the right speed." Even when I do 10 over there are always people wanting to do 20. So I say fuck it. I'll do the limit and they can pass me or deal with it.
... hehehe :-)
It probably doesn't help that I wave to people too
the hackers are made to be the bad guys when it's apple and AT&T who are engaging in anti-competitive behaviour. Clearly the iPhone has no technological reason to be locked to AT&T, and even if it were, why shouldn't they be allowed to modify their own damn phone.
This is like blaming the victim when they don't pay protection money. "Your store wouldn't have gotten broken into, if you had just paid them off!"
But people not using the net will be the minority and not influence the average. See where I'm going with this?
You should have said "with reference to pre-internet era testing criteria," because you can't even compare a 1980 IQ to a 2020 IQ since again, they're both average and there isn't a "score" otherwise.
But the IQ is the average ... so it can't halve. :-)
A typical processor is not 100mm^2, they're more like 140mm^2 (core2duo is about 143mm^2 according to a quick google search). Do you have any idea how expensive a 1000mm^2 die would be? That would cut yields down, and also be really hard to package, not to mention that if you packed 1000mm^2 with 65nm transistors the thing would consume 300 Amps.
Sure I suppose it's possible to make a 1000mm^2 die, but it would cost $25,000 USD and probably either be a super-many-core or run really slow (think longest wire...).
Well my argument would be you can't pass someone doing the speed limit (hint: you're not supposed to speed to pass someone). In which case, you can't be obstructing legitimate traffic by speed limit.
The problem isn't that quebecers are the only ones with these driving faults. It's that you guys amplify them so darn much. I mean many ontarians cut in/out of traffic, speed, etc.
... At least the ontarians either back off or pass.
But it takes a quebecer to tailgate you 3 ft behind your car while doing 60 in a 60 (or 80 in an 80) for an entire 10 minute drive down carling
I so love driving the speed limit in the "fast lane." The looks on peoples faces are priceless. When they say "fast lane" they mean for going faster than the slow-pokes in the right hand lane who aren't doing the speed limit. They didn't mean for those wanting to speed.
Oh come on indeed, piracy did cost the studios eleventy trillion billion cajillion bobillion majillion dollars last year. It's a fact!
... :-)
Frankly, I'm surprised the RCMP admits the existence of computers. Thought they were all tied up getting killed storming farms [rookies] or giving tickets on the parkway
Hates local cops, not because I'm criminal, but because they drive like shit and whenever I see them I get paranoid that they'll run into my car. Frankly Ottawa would be safer without Quebecer and OPP cars on the road...
different? or taken from the iphone?
Seems to me the cover view mode looks like what I've seen from iphone commercials.
I'm not saying they didn't spend money developing the software for the new nano. But let's also not pretend they're not getting stinking rich off it either.
Um, what do you think they do when you sign in for hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc? Only use that to give you email? Frankly, why should I care if google knows I search for whatever? I mean they're providing me the results so it's kinda a moot point whether they know about it or not isn't it?
I don't see what your point though is. I never said only show ads to signed in people, I said, count clicks from users for more than cowards who are anonymous [e.g. you]. That way you can still use google sans user ID.
And as a user, they could actually make it work to my advantage, for example, by not showing me the same ad over and over. Or, personalize the ads to things I tend to search for.
Once you realize that you are submitting google requests over plaintext, and that people like your ISP and EVERY SWITCH IN BETWEEN can see your traffic anyways, you'll be less paranoid about who knows what about what you're doing.
Of course you just raised the "paranoid privacy" flag for no cause because you wanted to troll me. Well congrats sir, you managed to use a web browser DESPITE your low IQ and moral standing. I'm just so happy for you, yes I am. Next I hope to see you tie your own shoes, maybe use your crayons to draw a nice picture of me fucking your mother.
Why not just associate ad clicks with google accounts. E.g. I sign in for gmail, then do a google search, see and ad and click on it.
Surely those must count as "real clicks" as oppose to random anonymous clicks. Why not charge more for those?
Oh and feel free to use that idea Google. Just doing my bit.
complete re-write? That seems unreasonable. Just because the codec chip has changed doesn't mean your itunes code is broken, or the UI for that matter, etc.. That's if Apple was smart and didn't code all of the Ipod in a single 100,000 line long main() function.
I'm sure they've re-couped the initial R&D costs and then some. It's not like the Nano has completely different firmware from the classic or other versions.
At this point it's basically covering retail margins, returns, and a big fat percentage of profit.