Neither Linux nor OSX are options to anyone interested in PC Gaming, or VR at the moment. Linux has more potential there, but realistically, if you enjoy AAA games with the most powerful graphics hardware available, it's Windows or nothing. (Yes there are consoles, I said Most Powerful Available).
And the guy you're responding to IS trolling. Responding to an honest request for information with "shut up and go away" isn't productive in the slightest.
They went to FB for attention. Once they realized this was a news story, he figured it was time for their 15 minutes. A normal bad driver you would use the ratings system. Something criminal, you call the police. If you're banking on getting some cash for a TV Movie or something, you go on FB.
Same as if he had encountered a killer in any other profession on the day of the killings.
I have no idea why people defend cab companies. This would have happened just as easily there. The guy had no record, he would have passed any cab company's background check. He just would have charged the riders twice as much, taken longer routes, and been slow to show up.
This settlement has nothing to do with the individual lawsuits that VW is going to be buried in. It has to do with the specific Enviromental violations that the government has interest in sanctioning them for.
People that got screwed on this still can and will sue the living fuck out of VW.
Wake me when Company Execs can be individually held to account for the company's actions. That's when things start to get better.
That would require a Republican adminstration, which at this point woudl be Trump or Cruze. Fuck that shit. Either Hitler 2.0, or the living embodiment of Nehemiah Scudder.
"There is nothing positive about this settlement unless you are VW."
Or you're a human being that wants more electric cars on the road.
This doesn't settle things between VW and all the consumers that can and will sue the living fuck out of them, it simply offers them a solution that will increase the percentage of electric vehicles sold.
What good is building charging stations with that money going to do? It's not going to increase the number of cars on the road using electric power. It might enrich some speculative companies vested in installing charging stations that might never be used, however.
Build the vehicles, and companies will be falling over each other to build charging stations. Finance charging stations without a plan, and you're just pissing money away to shysters.
Hey, congratulations on your system that's completely useless for gaming or real work, and probably leaking information to Canonical (you are running Ubuntu, I'm guessing).
How DOES this let VW and its shareholders off the hook? Please explain. Seems like taking choice away and saying "do this or suffer" isn't letting them off the hoook.
From all accounts, VW will make things right with people who bought vehicles and were defrauded. If they ever expect to sell another vehicle, they'd fucking well better.
This is over and above that. Either become an environmentally responsible company, or perish.
Oh eat shit. They were caught breaking emissions laws. They can do the right thing or they can get fined into insolvency. Take your "Capitalism Uber Alles" apologist bullshit, fold it until it's all sharp corners, and shove it up your ass.
I play GAMES on it. that's all. I don't give a shit about various metrics or whatever. Unless I want to stay in the gaming dark ages, I run Windows 10 on my gaming box. What else am I going to run, Linux?
Your paranoia makes you look like a tin foil wearing, thermite believing, 9/11 conspiracy believing, LUNATIC.
It's not like it locks those choices down. Switch it back to Chrome or whatever. Takes all of 5 seconds.
Do you complain when mommy doesn't cut the crust off your PB&J too?
As well you should. I see so much noise from so-called "old timers" who think they're the end-all be-all of defining what/. should be. Like not reading an article that you can see from the title isn't to your taste is a fucking burden.
I can tell that you guys are trying. It's one reason I'm back after several years of not bothering to check this place at all.
As long as you guys can keep the shitposts down, I think we're good.
There's not going to be a pro-Trump story because that prick has no one's interests at heart than his own. If you're looking for "Fox News" style "fair and balanced" you can fuck right off to your fascist hacienda and die.
By your imaginary "news for nerds" filter, how would a pro-Trump story even be a thing here? You're a bit of a prat.
And I react poorly to people that think that they alone represent the filter through which "News for Nerds" should pass. There's so many of you grognard assholes. Get the fuck over it. The new ownership does seem to care. They just don't have to specifically care about YOU.
decreasing the investment made by taxi drivers in their trade
I don't give a shit about protecting their investment in their trade. There are no regulations aimed at protecting my investment in my trade. Cabbies in South Florida are indolent scumbags who jacked up fares and showed up when they want to. I once had to wait over 2 hours at 2 AM for a ride, and had to walk home at 4, resulting in severe injury to my foot. The fact that the owner of the local cab company had been bribing county commissioners for decades was a well known fact.
Fortunately citizen voices convinced the commissioners that they would not only be thrown out of office but likely investigated for corruption and a good portion of them would wind up in jail.
Regulations limiting number of cabs on the road in regions that don't have sufficient public transportation are not intended to do anything at all other than keep those obscene profit margins for the Cab OWNERS sky high. The arguement "keeps less cars on the road" is complete bullshit. If I'm not in a cab, I'm in my OWN car. It's like arguing that reducing the number of buses or light rail is HELPING traffic. It's subterfuge.
Like ONSTAR was in my Camaro, just verbal directions and arrows. I never used that once. I did have a tablet that I could mount to my dash so that it could display Navigation with a MAP so I could use my common sense to double check, in the off chance that the computer had picked an invalid route (or one through a bad neighborhood). Waze in particular saved me from a few hours-long traffic snarls that without its input I could not have gotten around, due to complete unfamiliarity with side streets in that area. Having a MAP along with advise that I could follow or ignore, along with software that was capable of working to continue to guide me despite me making a different choice, was invaluable.
There is NO WAY I would attempt to navigate in a new city or country without at least SOME positional information to go with a map. The technology is useful. I see no need to behave like a luddite simply because "machines"
The people that stubbornly obey directions without reference to even a map are at fault, not the software.
I also blame "safety experts" who think that having in-car GPS display a map in transit is "distracting and unsafe" and insist on "no screen, directions only" GPS. Useless.
... the last time I actually read a wired.com article. Given the number of autoplay video ads they use, there's no fucking way in hell I'm whitelisting them.
Used to be a interesting magazine, around 20 years ago.
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Dunno. My ~4 year old ASUS motherboard has bluetooth on board.
Neither Linux nor OSX are options to anyone interested in PC Gaming, or VR at the moment. Linux has more potential there, but realistically, if you enjoy AAA games with the most powerful graphics hardware available, it's Windows or nothing. (Yes there are consoles, I said Most Powerful Available).
And the guy you're responding to IS trolling. Responding to an honest request for information with "shut up and go away" isn't productive in the slightest.
And I won't get any of it. Pass.
Windows phone is a bigger mess, and has no apps.
They went to FB for attention. Once they realized this was a news story, he figured it was time for their 15 minutes. A normal bad driver you would use the ratings system. Something criminal, you call the police. If you're banking on getting some cash for a TV Movie or something, you go on FB.
Same as if he had encountered a killer in any other profession on the day of the killings.
I have no idea why people defend cab companies. This would have happened just as easily there. The guy had no record, he would have passed any cab company's background check. He just would have charged the riders twice as much, taken longer routes, and been slow to show up.
Why not? let's shake that trunk with pitchforks and guillotines.
That would be fantastic, but company management is usually shielded by the corporation in this case.
A nice dose of "torches, pitchforks and guillotines" might be in order though.
This settlement has nothing to do with the individual lawsuits that VW is going to be buried in. It has to do with the specific Enviromental violations that the government has interest in sanctioning them for.
People that got screwed on this still can and will sue the living fuck out of VW.
Wake me when Company Execs can be individually held to account for the company's actions. That's when things start to get better.
That would require a Republican adminstration, which at this point woudl be Trump or Cruze. Fuck that shit. Either Hitler 2.0, or the living embodiment of Nehemiah Scudder.
I wont' accept either of those results.
"There is nothing positive about this settlement unless you are VW."
Or you're a human being that wants more electric cars on the road.
This doesn't settle things between VW and all the consumers that can and will sue the living fuck out of them, it simply offers them a solution that will increase the percentage of electric vehicles sold.
What good is building charging stations with that money going to do? It's not going to increase the number of cars on the road using electric power. It might enrich some speculative companies vested in installing charging stations that might never be used, however.
Build the vehicles, and companies will be falling over each other to build charging stations. Finance charging stations without a plan, and you're just pissing money away to shysters.
Hey, congratulations on your system that's completely useless for gaming or real work, and probably leaking information to Canonical (you are running Ubuntu, I'm guessing).
How DOES this let VW and its shareholders off the hook? Please explain. Seems like taking choice away and saying "do this or suffer" isn't letting them off the hoook.
From all accounts, VW will make things right with people who bought vehicles and were defrauded. If they ever expect to sell another vehicle, they'd fucking well better.
This is over and above that. Either become an environmentally responsible company, or perish.
Oh eat shit. They were caught breaking emissions laws. They can do the right thing or they can get fined into insolvency. Take your "Capitalism Uber Alles" apologist bullshit, fold it until it's all sharp corners, and shove it up your ass.
I play GAMES on it. that's all. I don't give a shit about various metrics or whatever. Unless I want to stay in the gaming dark ages, I run Windows 10 on my gaming box. What else am I going to run, Linux?
Your paranoia makes you look like a tin foil wearing, thermite believing, 9/11 conspiracy believing, LUNATIC.
It's not like it locks those choices down. Switch it back to Chrome or whatever. Takes all of 5 seconds.
Do you complain when mommy doesn't cut the crust off your PB&J too?
No you just have to learn the customs of a sane community. Raging at "the man" without a point of reference is seldom productive.
As for 2FA there's no way I'm giving my phone number to $email_provider
Well texts are far from being the ONLY way to get 2FA but beyond that, perhaps you're too paranoid to be on the internet?
As well you should. I see so much noise from so-called "old timers" who think they're the end-all be-all of defining what /. should be. Like not reading an article that you can see from the title isn't to your taste is a fucking burden.
I can tell that you guys are trying. It's one reason I'm back after several years of not bothering to check this place at all.
As long as you guys can keep the shitposts down, I think we're good.
There's not going to be a pro-Trump story because that prick has no one's interests at heart than his own. If you're looking for "Fox News" style "fair and balanced" you can fuck right off to your fascist hacienda and die.
By your imaginary "news for nerds" filter, how would a pro-Trump story even be a thing here? You're a bit of a prat.
And I react poorly to people that think that they alone represent the filter through which "News for Nerds" should pass. There's so many of you grognard assholes. Get the fuck over it. The new ownership does seem to care. They just don't have to specifically care about YOU.
If you don't like the moderation... GO AWAY. you're not going to change the culture of this site to accommodate your imbecilry,
By all means, keep posting your nonsense, keep getting modded down, and soon no one will ever see the feces that spout from your face hole.
decreasing the investment made by taxi drivers in their trade
I don't give a shit about protecting their investment in their trade. There are no regulations aimed at protecting my investment in my trade. Cabbies in South Florida are indolent scumbags who jacked up fares and showed up when they want to. I once had to wait over 2 hours at 2 AM for a ride, and had to walk home at 4, resulting in severe injury to my foot. The fact that the owner of the local cab company had been bribing county commissioners for decades was a well known fact.
Fortunately citizen voices convinced the commissioners that they would not only be thrown out of office but likely investigated for corruption and a good portion of them would wind up in jail.
Regulations limiting number of cabs on the road in regions that don't have sufficient public transportation are not intended to do anything at all other than keep those obscene profit margins for the Cab OWNERS sky high. The arguement "keeps less cars on the road" is complete bullshit. If I'm not in a cab, I'm in my OWN car. It's like arguing that reducing the number of buses or light rail is HELPING traffic. It's subterfuge.
Then don't come here. You certainly don't need to read a story you're not interested in, never mind commenting on it.
This isn't "News for hackertourist" We all have different interests.
Limited licenses available? Protecting other drivers from clogged roads and keeping driving reasonable and safe.
Try: "Keeping availability low in an area with poor public transport, guaranteeing higher prices and shutting out any possibility of competition"
Like ONSTAR was in my Camaro, just verbal directions and arrows. I never used that once. I did have a tablet that I could mount to my dash so that it could display Navigation with a MAP so I could use my common sense to double check, in the off chance that the computer had picked an invalid route (or one through a bad neighborhood). Waze in particular saved me from a few hours-long traffic snarls that without its input I could not have gotten around, due to complete unfamiliarity with side streets in that area. Having a MAP along with advise that I could follow or ignore, along with software that was capable of working to continue to guide me despite me making a different choice, was invaluable.
There is NO WAY I would attempt to navigate in a new city or country without at least SOME positional information to go with a map. The technology is useful. I see no need to behave like a luddite simply because "machines"
The people that stubbornly obey directions without reference to even a map are at fault, not the software.
I also blame "safety experts" who think that having in-car GPS display a map in transit is "distracting and unsafe" and insist on "no screen, directions only" GPS. Useless.
... the last time I actually read a wired.com article. Given the number of autoplay video ads they use, there's no fucking way in hell I'm whitelisting them.
Used to be a interesting magazine, around 20 years ago.