They're not my kids. For that matter, it's often not on my street (though I have seen kids in the street on my block). Their parents probably let them play in the street because the park is too dangerous.:-P
As for the obliviousness, given the driving I've seen, I wouldn't put it past some drunken idiot to miss, or rather not miss, the kids.
Those people going slow in the left lane are causing just as much of an issue. If someone behind them doesn't realize they are going 20mph below the other traffic, that is a serious accident at highway speeds and will involve many others. On a residential street, yes you are being an asshole, but it is unlikely you will get in a 10 car pileup on a residential street.
No, but you could mow down 10 pre-schoolers playing in the street.
The main purpose of my car is to get me from point A to point B. If it has tech that relates to that without distracting me, that's fine. If it doesn't relate to that, or if it's a distraction, I don't want it.
I do, however, go out with my GF, and when I do, the phone is in my pocket. I might check my email when she's getting 2nds at the buffet, and she checks hers while I'm taking a leak, but when we're eating or watching a crappy movie, we don't use our phones.
The problem is when power is in a relatively few hands. If everything is controlled by a Communist/Fascist dictator, that's a bad thing. If everything is controlled by 5 giant corporations, that is also bad.
And it happens all too often, far more often than DSL. DSL might be slow and crappy but it is more reliable than cable.
Yup! Years ago, I switched from Time Wartner to DSL. DSL was significantly slower, but it was nearly always up. I think TW was working about 50% of the time.
Well, you kill them and take their stuff, obviously. It's the final reset button wealth redistribution option if we can't come up with anything better.
And, as an extra bonus, I've heard they taste fairly good.
When I want something that can fit in my pants pocket, ebooks fail - but paperbacks deliver. When I want to throw a book in a backpack, paperback wins.
My Kindle fits as well in my pocket or backpack than most books, and it has 100+ books in the space of one. Also, on the road, I can and do read from my iPhone.
This happened when I was still in school. One of my COBOL programs worked fine at first, but then gave results that didn't make any sense at all. I looked at it until my eyes crossed, the code looked fine, but the results didn't. Finally, I was taking a crap, and something occurred to me. After I completed my important business, I took another look and realized that one of the table subscripts was getting set to 0, and writing outside the table.
I learned an important lesson that day. If I get stuck on a problem, a good long crap will fix it.
Yes, but how many of those homes have a garage? And how many of those garages are used for parking vehicles? How many garages are capable of fitting all vehicles owned by building residents?
^This! My current house has a driveway, but no garage. My previous house had no garage, no driveway, and no place to build one. The last house I lived in with a garage didn't have electricity to the garage. An electric car wouldn't have worked for any of them.
I agree, to a point. COBOL is designed to be readable, but that doesn't stop some people from writing code that nobody can make sense of. There was one group of programs, written by the same person, that everyone was afraid to work on for years, until the boss had me rewrite them from scratch (from incomplete specs:-P).
OTOH, certain languages *cough*Perl*uncough* encourage unreadability.
If you want a real world test, it has to be where kids, with or without bikes and boards, and pets dart in and out of traffic. Some of the 55 y/os might be dumb enough to do that, but they're too slow to make it a proper test.
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A language being old doesn't suddenly mean you're required to be a Math major to do something in it.
Maybe not, but my knowledge of hexadecimal sure came in handy when tracking down 0C7 errors from a memory dump.
They're not my kids. For that matter, it's often not on my street (though I have seen kids in the street on my block). Their parents probably let them play in the street because the park is too dangerous. :-P
As for the obliviousness, given the driving I've seen, I wouldn't put it past some drunken idiot to miss, or rather not miss, the kids.
Using the left hand lane for exits or entrances to interstates is dumb. D. U. M. B.
I agree, but I didn't build the damn things. I just use them.
Those people going slow in the left lane are causing just as much of an issue. If someone behind them doesn't realize they are going 20mph below the other traffic, that is a serious accident at highway speeds and will involve many others. On a residential street, yes you are being an asshole, but it is unlikely you will get in a 10 car pileup on a residential street.
No, but you could mow down 10 pre-schoolers playing in the street.
I remember it was very fast - to BSOD.
The main purpose of my car is to get me from point A to point B. If it has tech that relates to that without distracting me, that's fine. If it doesn't relate to that, or if it's a distraction, I don't want it.
I do, however, go out with my GF, and when I do, the phone is in my pocket. I might check my email when she's getting 2nds at the buffet, and she checks hers while I'm taking a leak, but when we're eating or watching a crappy movie, we don't use our phones.
The problem is when power is in a relatively few hands. If everything is controlled by a Communist/Fascist dictator, that's a bad thing. If everything is controlled by 5 giant corporations, that is also bad.
The problem is, the Cloud is correctly named. Clouds tend to leak.
And it happens all too often, far more often than DSL. DSL might be slow and crappy but it is more reliable than cable.
Yup! Years ago, I switched from Time Wartner to DSL. DSL was significantly slower, but it was nearly always up. I think TW was working about 50% of the time.
While I have no doubt that this is due to Google Fiber threats in other markets, it appears that Comcast has decided to up its game a little bit.
It's about time. Their customers have been saying "Up Yours" to Comcast for years.
Speed isn't everything. Compared to TW cable, TW was clearly faster than DSL, but only when it was working. DSL actually worked most of the time.
Well, you kill them and take their stuff, obviously. It's the final reset button wealth redistribution option if we can't come up with anything better.
And, as an extra bonus, I've heard they taste fairly good.
^This! There have been leaks in the Cloud since even before the Cloud had anything to do with computers.
When I want something that can fit in my pants pocket, ebooks fail - but paperbacks deliver.
When I want to throw a book in a backpack, paperback wins.
My Kindle fits as well in my pocket or backpack than most books, and it has 100+ books in the space of one.
Also, on the road, I can and do read from my iPhone.
Agreed. The media has blood in its eye!
My roadside service comes before Aardvark. AAA FTW!
I've heard of an Asian who is having trouble with his name on FB. They don't like "Foo Kew".
This happened when I was still in school. One of my COBOL programs worked fine at first, but then gave results that didn't make any sense at all. I looked at it until my eyes crossed, the code looked fine, but the results didn't. Finally, I was taking a crap, and something occurred to me. After I completed my important business, I took another look and realized that one of the table subscripts was getting set to 0, and writing outside the table.
I learned an important lesson that day. If I get stuck on a problem, a good long crap will fix it.
Yes, but how many of those homes have a garage? And how many of those garages are used for parking vehicles? How many garages are capable of fitting all vehicles owned by building residents?
^This! My current house has a driveway, but no garage. My previous house had no garage, no driveway, and no place to build one. The last house I lived in with a garage didn't have electricity to the garage. An electric car wouldn't have worked for any of them.
I agree, to a point. COBOL is designed to be readable, but that doesn't stop some people from writing code that nobody can make sense of. There was one group of programs, written by the same person, that everyone was afraid to work on for years, until the boss had me rewrite them from scratch (from incomplete specs :-P).
OTOH, certain languages *cough*Perl*uncough* encourage unreadability.
Nah, most of the kvetching comes when they axe something that people like.
I assume that if you butt-dial from a front pocket, it's pocket-dialing.
Aircraft have been taken out by geese. Drones are a lot harder than goose.
If you want a real world test, it has to be where kids, with or without bikes and boards, and pets dart in and out of traffic. Some of the 55 y/os might be dumb enough to do that, but they're too slow to make it a proper test.